Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2024/07/11/vietnam-national-university-says-it-doesnt-want-short-people-because-they-lack-confidence.html
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I wonder if VNU’s attempt was an extremely clumsy subterfuge to target one or more of Vietnam’s many ethnic groups.
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Not sure if the country’s position on the famine-to-all-the-diabetes spectrum of food access is right for this; but you might also weed some of the poors out with a height requirement.
All the money in the world won’t exempt you from hereditary shortitude; but ending up shorter than otherwise is absolutely something that a bit of childhood deprivation can sort out for you.
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1.65 m to be a manager, you say?
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It looks like another of those ridiculous rules based on some bunch of idiots’ completely unjustified prejudices. I don’t know how we keep coming up with this stuff.
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Ron DeSantis tiptoes into the conversation in lifted Luchese boots.
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I do
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Because nothing helps self-confidence likely your country declaring you’re not good enough because of arbitrary bullshit.
To the extent that taller people are more confident, I’d guess its because they’re don’t have to deal with as much shit like this
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Napoleon may need to have a word with them. What a bunch of bullshit.
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… inheriting the business from your dad isn’t good enough anymore 
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Certainly BS, but my googling suggests that he may have made the cut at somewhere between 5’6" and 5’7". (Several different answers appear; units were crazy then.)
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Was of average height for his day and age.
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Indeed, Vietnam ranks as something like the 15th-shortest-average-height-population in the world. Are these fools running the school suggesting that the country is doomed to be low-confidence and full of poor leaders forever unless they can bring up their average height?
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Yep, looks like. Seeing as it was suggested by the School of Management and Business 
I’m surprised they haven’t suggested eating more cheese to give their offspring a chance:
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There are at least two factors at play here,
(1) different units/systems for measurements
(2) propaganda from the Napoleonic wars
plus possible translation issues.
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I suspect it’s mostly the latter, possibly exploiting the former despite knowing about the differences.
People in the past lived in a world where every measuring system was local. They wouldn’t have assumed that their system was the same as a foreign one. That sort of mistake is a very modern one, which means the propaganda explanation is the more likely one.
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Apparently the leader of North Korea felt the same way, judging by his haircut.
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… somebody needs to interview Devin Nunes’s cow again 
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