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Dalai Lama told cameraman, 'you're fat, you need to go on a diet' (www.telegraph.co.uk)

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[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 12 points 4 months ago

I don't know about unique, but you're right, it's not universal. In some cultures it's not seen as a bad thing, either, because there's recent memory of famine being a regular thing.