Does the rest of the world call America a fatty fat country?
While growing up in Nigeria, a relatively small country in Africa, I never focused on people’s weight. Weight was not a topic in class among my Nigerian classmates. Girls and boys who were considered too skinny were more likely to be targeted by bullies than were the overweight ones. Last time I checked, slim people still outnumber overweight people by a large amount in Nigeria. In June of 2008, I watched my mother enter a taxi headed for the Philadelphia International Airport. She was going to Nigeria to visit friends, and had gained a lot of stomach fat while in America. Three months later, she returned with a “flat tummy.” The person who returned looked healthier than the person who left. Although I had been in America for about four years and had always been careful with food, my body was nothing like hers when she returned. Yet, she confessed that she drank bottles of coke back home. By coke, I mean the soda drink and not the illegal drug. Therefore, is it justifiable to associate
