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Americans are puny compared to males from the Netherlands and Dinaric Alps who come in at 6 ft and 6ft 1 on average.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_height
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Fail to note that America is much more of a melting pot than the Netherlands. Millions of Hispanic and Asians live here, which keeps the average height of an American lower than a country full of Northern-European white people.
Mind boggling.
The average white and black Americans are probably more like 5'11" to 6'0".
EDIT: To add, my girlfriend is 5'9" and very skinny so she already feels like an out of place Amazon woman around all the 5'2" girls with fat asses. She told me she probably would never date a guy shorter than her because it would make her feel even more weird. When she has heels on, I'm still at least an inch taller than her.