On Fri, 23 May 1997 11:34:22 -1000 Daniel L Krashin wrote:
through most of human life on
> Earth, a fat person would have been a thing of wonder... I know that
until
> contact and colonization here in Hawaii, the only fat people were
the chiefs
> and their wives, and fatness was greatly admired. Technological
> civilization, and the millenia-long drop in food prices that
accompanied it,
> are responsible for making fatness an option for everybody in the
developed
> world and thus making *thinness* the marker for high status...
In much of the world fatness is still a way of identifying the wealthy. It
means (sorry) that they are Americans.
Farah
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