I've had a long day, and so am hitting the sack soon, but I won't be able to sleep until I get this off my chest.
I had lunch today with a blonde chick, because I was curious about her recent weekend trip to Oklahoma.
She was not appreciative of the physical qualities of Oklahomans; she had never been down there before, and was harshly startled at how unaesthetic they appeared to her.
I've never been to Oklahoma myself, but of course in college met lots and lots of Oklahomans, not finding anything especially unappealing about them, other than that the women, like women from Texas, tend to wear their hair too high up in the front, and it's a turn-off, at least to me.
I reminded her that, actually, our judgement is distorted, because people from the upper Great Plains states--North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, and Kansas--tend to be the most normal-looking people in America, the standard against which all others are compared.
I've had quite a few more worldly experiences, and seen more of the world, than she has seen thus far, and I think I'm being eminently fair in saying that.
We here are the most normal-looking people in the world.
Yeah, sure, we have our human grotesquities and monstrosities, a few Fat Ches grossly obese, a few Lil Avas chin-challenged, a few subway cats cleanliness-absent, a few Bostonian Drunkards flaccid and flabby and boryborygmous, a few dwarves and hunchbacks, things like that, but not many.
When I lived in Pennsylvania and New Jersey, I couldn't help but notice the discrepancies, discrepancies in just about every aspect of appearance, are considerably greater, wider, than they are of we normal-looking people.
And of course I've spent much time in the states of New England.
A much greater variation.
It's sort of difficult to describe "normal-looking;" I guess a close one would be "where all parts are in neat proportion to all other parts." Legs and arms the right length, heads the right size, those sorts of things.
Not much variation between us, in the Upper Great Plains states.
And this of course includes Hispanics, circa 15% of the population, and blacks, circa 2% of the population. Even those of Vietnamese or Azerbaijani derivation are normal-looking, nothing askew or distorted.
It must be the molding effects of the climate.
This is why we're legendary--there's always been plenty of newspaper stories about the phenomenon--for recognizing each other in blue-city crowds or faraway places, such as the top of Mount Everest or in the middle of the Amazon jungle, even if we haven't ever met each other before.
Essentially, if some stranger looks normal, the odds are pretty good he's from North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, or Kansas.
This is not to disparage physical characteristics of other people--no way--but simply to point out something.
