American's like big but British like small?

I always thought it was the American stereotypes that pushed slimness as the standard for beauty.

Really? Most guys here have a complex about wanting to get "massive " and spend ages in the gym. I don't think many guys strive to be thin. Women do but I'd assume that's the same in the US as well.

Normal American citizens have no style what so ever though.. they either look sloppy or like they've been attacked by a rainbow. No co-ordination whatsoever. For women, I think both want to be skinny. Men, I would agree and say that British guys are more inclined to be slimmer than American men. I wouldn't say that men strive to be 'slim,' its just the norm here.

Absolutely this. Every time I look at American street "fashion", I want to cry. It's so bland!

Plus, the clothing lines making skinny jeans that come to mind are Abercrombie and Fitch, and Hollister. American chains. Plus, Americans you see may tend to be larger because all their food items have about 300% more sugar in it than their English counterparts. No one actually wants to be fat

I can't speak for the rest of Europe but from my time in Canada/USA and the UK, I noticed that British people want to be thinner while US people want to be larger. There is a disgusting trend in the UK to be thin both for men and women. There is some line of fashion, I don't know what it's called, which makes men in skinny jeans and that preppy look attractive. I think it looks terrible. Uggghhh....Yuck. It is like these thin guys are being controlled by their mum as they appear very weak and homosexual looking???

There is a US supermarket called Walmart which is like a British supermarket except you can buy in 'bulk' which means that items like milk and cheese are a lot bigger than they are here. I think this is because America is bigger and if you live 100 miles away from the supermarket, you want to make as few trips to it as possible to save time and gas prices. So, you'll buy food that'll last for a month?

There is a US supermarket called Walmart which is like a British supermarket except you can buy in 'bulk' which means that items like milk and cheese are a lot bigger than they are here. I think this is because America is bigger and if you live 100 miles away from the supermarket, you want to make as few trips to it as possible to save time and gas prices. So, you'll buy food that'll last for a month?

I can't speak for the rest of Europe but from my time in Canada/USA and the UK, I noticed that British people want to be thinner while US people want to be larger. There is a disgusting trend in the UK to be thin both for men and women. There is some line of fashion, I don't know what it's called, which makes men in skinny jeans and that preppy look attractive. I think it looks terrible. Uggghhh....Yuck. It is like these thin guys are being controlled by their mum as they appear very weak and homosexual looking???

And wanting to be larger isn't just as disgusting?!

Largeness is visible everywhere in the US. Roads, houses and cities are generally bigger and longer. Landscapes are homogeneous. In the UK, scenery changes every mile or so you drive which is different to the US where there is little change over vast distances.

This is polarized to the UK landscape where there are smaller houses, roads, cars, fields and forests. So, a lot of people want to be small and thin because what they see is small and thin!

This line of reasoning makes absolutely no sense.

Why not?

You're saying that the US is a big country and therefore the people are big, and the UK is a small country and therefore the people are thin? How does that make sense? What, do people have to be small to fit into the UK or something? What if they move to the US, then do they automatically get fat to fit into the big spaces? It's a load of waffle, really.

There are thin and fat people in every country, it doesn't matter what its area is.

Of course I know that but maybe people adapt to their environment by changing their appearance? If you were born in a country where everything is small then you will think in smaller terms than someone who was born in a country where everything is big. If I lived in a small house, I would want to be smaller so that my house appeared bigger.