Had a visit from some Japanese college folks recently.  We all sat in small circles of chairs chatting in English and Japanese.  The morbidly obese "women" next to me commented on how "small and cute" they all were.  Took all I had not to burst out laughing.  The syllabus all but says no fat-shaming so I'm not openly shitlording... Much. One nice thing, the Japanese were all very interested in talking about outdoor hobbies, sports, and jobs.  You should have seen the faces on the fatties when the topic of food came up (we had to rotate topics to chat about).  Fatties got decidedly more animated then. A couple of Japanese women were clearly uncomfortable with the larger of our teammates.