# Boobies!! **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [December 6, 2001, 11:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boobies/97206 "2001-12-06T11:17:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Silentgoldfish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@Silentgoldfish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silentgoldfish)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2001, 11:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boobies/97206/1 "2001-12-06T11:17:01Z")
I’ve been trying to ask this in a way that won’t cause anyone to get upset, but gave up. So here goes: Asian women, by and large, have small chests. Yes, there are exceptions to the rule, I’ve known a few, but the majority I see aren’t well endowed. So which race (which is the wrong word, but I’m having a mental block) has the opposite? A friend suggested Swedish (middle European?) but that was just a guess. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2001, 11:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boobies/97206/2 "2001-12-06T11:37:06Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Silentgoldfish \* > \*\*A friend suggested Swedish (middle European?) but that was just a guess. \*\* I wonder what sort of television programs he has been watching… 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Silentgoldfish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@Silentgoldfish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silentgoldfish)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2001, 11:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boobies/97206/3 "2001-12-06T11:46:35Z")
She, and that went totally over my head 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2001, 11:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boobies/97206/4 "2001-12-06T11:53:01Z")
Sorry, The Swedes are rather well known in Europe for their ‘adult’ entertainment industry. As regards your question; I’m not sure that it’s going to be easy to get a definitive answer as there are so many factors involved (your observation about Asian women will be the result of genetic, dietary and cultural factors, not to mention that it won’t be based on a random sample). Still, if there is an answer, then somebody here will find it for you (even if they have to do the research themselves by painstakingly submitting to hours of intensive study of breasts). ---
**Author:** ![Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/50afbb/32.png) [@Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duck_Duck_Goose)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2001, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boobies/97206/5 "2001-12-06T13:58:29Z")
Hey, I guess if we can discuss the racial basis for penis and clitoris size, I guess we can discuss the racial basis for breast size. Oh, wait… ---
**Author:** ![Silentgoldfish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@Silentgoldfish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silentgoldfish)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2001, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boobies/97206/6 "2001-12-06T15:02:02Z")
Well it’s a bit easier to see a difference… ---
**Author:** ![handy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5a626/32.png) [@handy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handy)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2001, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boobies/97206/7 "2001-12-06T15:35:39Z")
I see the most large breasts in Los Angeles area women. ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2001, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boobies/97206/8 "2001-12-06T16:13:02Z")
**handy,** would that be the result of after-market modification? If so, I don’t think LA qualifies… likewise Vegas and Reno… ---
**Author:** ![pennystheman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/d78d45/32.png) [@pennystheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pennystheman)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2001, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boobies/97206/9 "2001-12-06T18:27:10Z")
I don’t have a cite, but I read somewhere once that Sweedish women had the highest percentage of women at C cup or above. (24% maybe?) ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Zambezi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7cd45c/32.png) [@Mr.Zambezi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Zambezi)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2001, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boobies/97206/10 "2001-12-06T19:22:04Z")
I am thinking that one answer is fat women. But that is nto what you asked. My guess would be black women, just from observation. ---
**Author:** ![regnad\_kcin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85f322/32.png) [@regnad\_kcin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/regnad_kcin)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2001, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boobies/97206/11 "2001-12-07T02:44:48Z")
An ex-roommate, a German, told me he thought Americans had the largest breasts, and he guessed it was the growth hormones we jam down the mouths of beef cattle and then consume at McDonalds. Sounds plausible… ---
**Author:** ![Johanna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johanna/32/8318_2.png) [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2001, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boobies/97206/12 "2001-12-07T02:52:20Z")
Mrs. M is convinced that Indian women have cornered the market on big breasts, while European women are skinny and flat-chested. Whenever she sees a big-breasted American woman, she says: “She looks Indian.” ---
**Author:** ![robinh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b77776/32.png) [@robinh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robinh)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2001, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boobies/97206/13 "2001-12-07T03:04:42Z")
**Doing my part to fight ignorance…** > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by regnad kcin \* > \*\*…he thought Americans had the largest breasts, and he guessed it was the growth hormones we jam down the mouths of beef cattle and then consume at McDonalds. > > Sounds plausible… \*\* As someone who is concerned about such things (I buy organic milk and garden organically myself) I can tell you that, according to every study I can find, it just ain’t so. The growth hormones do have horrible side effect for the cows (far greater rates of infection and illness) but don’t have any effect on humans. Apparently, the hormones that cows produce are differently sized than those produces by us, so they pass through without being used. ---
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2001, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boobies/97206/14 "2001-12-07T03:55:02Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by robinh \* > \*\* > The growth hormones do have horrible side effect for the cows (far greater rates of infection and illness)… \*\* cite? ---
**Author:** ![PhiloVance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e19adc/32.png) [@PhiloVance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PhiloVance)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2001, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boobies/97206/15 "2001-12-07T04:02:08Z")
I don’t know some just sounds wrong; emphasis mine. > [@](#): > > Asian women, by and **large** , have **small** chests 😃 😃 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Mofo\_Rising](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/85f322/32.png) [@Mofo\_Rising](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mofo_Rising)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2001, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boobies/97206/16 "2001-12-07T04:56:22Z")
Well, through painstaking, ah, research, I have seen quite a few “medical” photographs of Asian women with rather large chests. Actually, in most cases I’ve always seen most women as having breasts that most fit their frame. With rare exceptions, petite women have petite breasts, and full-figured women have, well, full figures. If there were any racial thing going on, it would probably be that Asian people are more “compact” than most. But I really don’t think that has much to do with anything. I don’t think it’s even that true. Besides, if one race had the market cornered in the breast department, wouldn’t they have spread their genes and conquered the world by now? ---
**Author:** ![Barking\_Spider](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9dc877/32.png) [@Barking\_Spider](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barking_Spider)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2001, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boobies/97206/17 "2001-12-07T05:17:41Z")
White women have the tits. Black women have the butts. Asian women have the …brains? Said tongue in cheek, of course! ---
**Author:** ![Silentgoldfish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@Silentgoldfish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silentgoldfish)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2001, 7:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boobies/97206/18 "2001-12-07T07:53:17Z")
… the loud voices. Ever dealt with a Filipino accountant? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![caveman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/caveman/32/7242_2.png) [@caveman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/caveman)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2002, 6:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boobies/97206/19 "2002-03-11T06:14:24Z")
Hooray for Boobies! My take: American woman seem the most likey candidates for the best-endowed title. I arrive at this theory based on the assumptions that A) the measurement in consideration is cup size,not absolute bust measurment, B) American women have the most ready access to adequate (and, indeed, excessive) nutritional resources, enabling development to run its fullest course, and C) despite years of puritanical cultural mores, large busts have nontheless been selected for over other body types at a higher rate than in Europe, Africa, South America, and Asia. However… This does not speak to ethnic-bust diversity. Based on the above assumptions, though, the portion of society with the most access to nutrition, and with the strongest and/or longest standing prediliction towards large breasts (among the likey suitors) would seem to be the best candidate. If wealth is assumed to be the best indicator of nutritional plenty, and the preferences are filled in with cultural stereotypes, then the American Caucasian Woman would seem to hold the title, especially those in wealthy families. Now to test the hypothesis with some hands-on research… ---
**Author:** ![LadyMack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4491bb/32.png) [@LadyMack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LadyMack)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2002, 6:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boobies/97206/20 "2002-03-11T06:34:41Z")
☹ Okay. WHO got Mine?? I wanna know. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boobies/97206.md?page=2)