Tall, blond Japanese?

(Boo-hoo my comic's ugly even when Timmy helps me...)

Another long quotation from an article (sorries, sorries...):

"Yoshoku [European-ish food in Japan] was born during Japan’s Meiji Restoration, the period that followed this isolationist country’s forced opening by America’s so-called Black Ships in 1854 [Commander Perry, Commander Perry!] . Japanese were dispatched to Europe and America to learn about Western laws, weapons and industry. They also brought back the cuisine. Shocked to discover how much shorter they were than Westerners [Bwahahahaha!!!], Japanese determined that they would catch up not only economically and militarily but also physically, by eating their food.

"That desire survived at least until the 1970’s, when a businessman named Den Fujita established McDonald’s in Japan and claimed that its menu would make Japanese as tall and attractive as Americans.

“'Japanese are poorly built because they eat rice,' he said at the time. 'We’ll change that with hamburgers. After eating hamburgers for a thousand years, Japanese will even have blond hair.'"

Has it worked? Are the Japanese tall and blonde yet? Sort of. The Japanese are becoming taller on average, especially children, and are nearly as tall as Americans (in comparison to pre-WWII, where the average Japanese soldier was 5'3"...). But the Japanese are still shorter than Americans, and I think it's a while yet before they turn blond, but ya never know... :P I hope not, or we may be seeing more of this and this, and it ain't perty. (If you were made with black hair, don't make it yeller!!) With the Japanese trying to become Americans, and the Americans trying to become Japanese, you only wonder what is going to result...