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In harder countries, like Iraq, Afghanistan, etc, ive noticed that the fat kids are always the top of the pecking order. The fat kids in these countries are the bullies, the leaders, the alpha dog in the pack.
If there was a pack of kids around our patrol and we were handing out food or candy, the fat kid was always the first to take it and then usually take it away from anyone else we gave it to!
And it wasn't like the other kids would resist! In some cases the skinny kids would actually wait patiently to hand over their candy to the fat kid. Sometimes the fat kid sort out the candy, take the best for himself and dump the rest on the ground for the other kids to fight over. Sometimes the fat kid just took it all and walked away with the other kids following like ducks in a row.
But the fat kid was always aggressive and ready to hand out beatings to the ones too young to know better than to challenge his authority. They had to learn fast or get beat up.
...now look at first world countries, its almost always the opposite.
The fat kid is the outcast, introverted, scared, quiet and non aggressive, at least in real life encounters.
So i was thinking there must be something to this and maybe philosophy would help to sort it out.
Anyone have a theory?
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