They tend to distrust all politicians, and when they hear someone say, "I am from the government, and I am here to help, " they tend to laugh uproariously.
Instead of seeing, primarily, short stature, I saw that one was exceptionally beautiful, that one was unusually short even for a dwarf, that one laughed uproariously and often, that one had an especially intelligent face and so I began to recognize how generically I had responded to little people until then.