Your mother certainly is a reason that you three siblings are tall. But, more important is diet and the nutritions one keeps on taking since childhood. However, it is also true that some of the children will grow taller than some others although they take similar or same type of foods. This is why an average growth is taken into consideration for a group of people with identical genes.I'm 6ft; my twin sisters are 5"5 and 5"6. We're only this height because my mom's side of the family has some tall people. I was born in Canada, but my parents are having a hard time finding a North American born and brought up Bangladeshi girl that's at least 5"5I'm assuming all these girls that did not make my cut, have had a nutritionally fulfilling diet.
I see Chinese people everyday, they are for the most part still as tiny as Bangladeshis are.
Note one point. US people became 6" taller in average in the first one hundred years after their forefathers migrated there from the hunger in Europe. The same thing may be happening to you in the first generation. However, this thing may happen to other migrants from BD in the next few generations only if they change their dietary habits.
Diet certainly plays a role in the development of physical structure. In case of Indian Sub-continent the wheat-eating north and west (invcluding Pakistan & Afghanistan) people are much taller than the rice-eating south and east Indians (including BD). It is same with China. Historically, the wheat-consuming northern Chinese are taller than the rice-eating southern Chinese (including Singapore).
I think, staple food is important. The dietary value is upgraded when good qualntity of protein and milk are also consumed with it. In case of BD, our diet consists of rice, vegetables, and a little quantity of fish/meat as well as milk. I have noted the people in Bd are getting a little taller (at least 2") than they were before 1971. It shows their intake of calories and living styles are higher than before.
Althogh the BD people are not as tall as the Punjabi, Pathan or a north Indian is, but it should not prohibit them from engaging in sports that needs physical strength. Even if we are a little short, but look at those BDR (BGB) troops. They are certainly not from another Planet. They are quite tall than the average people. It means physically strong youngsters are already available in the country. It is not that all the 160 million people will be playing at the World Cup.
Thing is how to motivate the would-be players, how to organize their training, etc. Take the example of the Japanese football teams. It was not as popular as Baseball. But, once the Japanese took it as a sports to challenge the world, the shorter physic could not inhibit their ambition. Like their technolgy and economy they wanted to become the top football playing country.
So, I believe that motivation and dedication are two important things that we may be lacking. Once we overcome these, it may be possible to become one of the best football countries. No training, no gaining!!!
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...just one that busy naming everything after her papa that got killed by BD ppl too....and the other one is overpowdered hag that puts bhoot-pisach to shame.
