No matter what his race, creed or financial status, the American male under 5 ft. 8 in.the height of the average American manis a victim of discrimination. That is the conclusion of a Cleveland sociologist who has begun a personal crusade against a seldom mentioned form of prejudice that, like racism and sexism, is well established in U.S. society: heightism.
So pervasive is the American bias against the short man, Saul Feldman told a recent meeting of the American Sociological Association, that no one notices itno one, that is, except the short man himself. To Sociologist Feldman of Case Western Reserve University,...
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