thomblake comments on Shortness is now a treatable condition - Less Wrong

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Comment author: thomblake 21 October 2009 02:15:36PM 1 point [-]

Note that this happened with, for instance, Italian immigrants to the US. There was a huge industry in teaching immigrants to look/act/talk more like Americans. This probably resulted from anti-Italian discrimination, especially during WWII.