"If you consider India, Pakistan, and Bangledish you are dealing with nearly 1.3 billion more Asians. I doubt these billions of Asian men see tallness as a necessity to manliness."

Categorically, the inhabitants of the countries you list are in the Caucasian group if you indeed believe in the three group system as opposed to the earlier seven group system.

The issue of tallness is relative. Do you really think that Asian women have no preference for height in their mates?