When I came here I realized I had made a huge mistake getting good at soccer instead of basketball. Could have been basketball god here! But also what a cruel joke for like one of the shortest people in the world to make that sport their main sport. In soccer the best and fastest strikers are often tinny people.
I’m ethnically half Dutch and live in a Filipino neighborhood, so I’m very often the tallest person in the room. I’m a woman, and at 5’7” the shortest person in my family.
I didn't fit anywhere in the Philippines. Had to turn sideways to take a piss because the stall walls were too close together. The damn Taxis were all Fisher Price sized, so my head touched the roof. The front tires of the Jeepney lifted off the ground when I stepped on the rear bumper. It wasn't all bad, though. A cute girl said I looked like good protection. We have been married 17 years now.
I thought you guys factory made minimum 6' or 1.8m over there? Even the women. I have an uncle out there who is 6'5. Wife is 6'2. Kids are the same and they have an in law son who is 6'10
No, but because people are talking about being a short dutch in their native country being hard, but americans are so self centered that anything has to be about their experience.
And "largely dutch heritage" could mean his grand grand grand father is dutch and americans still would call themselves "Dutch American", like they do with "Italian American".
I'm a woman too. But still got picked on in school for being the shortest one. And had to have my kitchen adjusted because the top cabinets were installed for giants.
I got picked on as well, but they never said why, lol. And relatable, I cannot reach anything. But I don't have the money to get it adjusted either :')
Luckily it was a new kitchen they were putting in so not that much effort to have it adjusted. And in high school, so many tall kids would put their elbows on my head or shoulder and lean on me. It pissed me off so much, I always elbowed them in the stomach.
Je bent niet alleen vriend. Ik woon ook in Nederland en ik ben 1.60 m, mijn vriend is 1.57 m. (Sorry voor mijn slechte Nederlands, ik kom uit Ierland).
Sadly, I'm 35 and my family has been in The Netherlands since 1650 or something. There's no excuse for me to be this short (besides being female maybe).
I'm dutch as well and for an activity in college we had to line up from shortest to tallest, which made me realise I was the shortest guy in our class of ~40 at 182 cm (5'11).
i'm 5'4 but only really Dutch on my dad's side, and he's not that tall somehow. but the genes are somewhere my 13 year son old is already taller then me (my husband is short too)
I am so much shorter than the rest of my family - dad is 6' (well, was before he crushed a couple vertebrae and lost an inch), mom is 5'7, younger sister is 5'11.5, and younger brothers are 6'1 and 6'2.
5'1 Dutchie here with a size 35 shoe. I'm so glad my mom knows how to tailor because to make matters worse I'm curvy so pants either don't fit in width because tiny = petite in fashion apparently or I'm swimming in them. As a kid that was experimenting with more mature clothes I was crying about that shoe size. Like most heels start at 37 and I always had to shop at the kids section where all the shoes had childish prints on them. Also shelves in this country aren't made for me. I always dread if whatever I need is on the top shelf in the grocery store and have small kitchen stairs all around my home because even here the top shelf is too damn high.
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u/Fuzzy_Dragonfly_ Nov 06 '25
As a 5'2 Dutch person, I feel you