Here is my son Zachary prancing (prancing, mind you) in front of seven women and girls outside the terracotta warriors exhibit in Xi’an:
I'm too sexy for my extremely small shirt.
This wasn’t the only time something like this happened on this trip. It was just the most photogenic. He got dragged into other people’s family photos and whatnot with some regularity. Beijing is positively infested with mixed race kids (or at least my neighborhood is), so nobody looks twice. He was a little more exotic in Xi’an it seems.
A set of photos from the trip is here. Only one terracotta warriors shot because, let’s face it, you’ve seen them before. I’ll address the whole terracotta warrior thing in a video in the next week or two, but not in the way you think.
So cute. In fact to this day I can’t remember seeing a Eurasian (Is that what we can call them?) kid who isn’t adorably cute.
PS: Just realised you might not be European but you get my point.
Thanks! “Eurasian” is appropriate under the circumstances. Sounds better than “Amerasian” at any rate.
“He got dragged into other people’s family photos and whatnot with some regularity.” — that must be an Asian thing: Last year, Mrs. Hose-B took the kids to San Francisco to visit their great-grand mother. While there, the Mrs. took the kids to Fisherman’s Wharf. While she was snapping pictures of the kids, an Asian woman runs into the shot, grabs my daughter and starts posing for pictures for HER family. It seems they thought my daughter was beautiful (she is) and wanted to take a picture with her. Needless to say, there was some confusion/fear on my wife’s part, not to mention my daughter getting kind of freaked out. Once things were explained, my daughter posed with the whole group, really hammed it up and a laughs were shared by all.
Happens all the time here. And not just with kids — anyone who looks exotic to them. If it’s Chinese tourists, my advice is just to go with it and have a good time. Get them to return the favor by making them pose in *your* goofy shots.
Jeez…I have pics just like this from 40 years ago at the lawn of the Palace Museum in Taipei!! Getting chased about by older girls in school uniforms fascinated with this freak of nature. Some things never change ;^)
After a while the tables turned and I ended up chasing a few younger skirts in China & Taiwan. Sweet revenge…
Wow, that big already. He’s so much better looking than you, Will. Thank the heavens.
Happens to my kid all the time, we have lots of Chinese volunteers at our radio station, and sometimes Lawrence (who is 5 now) comes after school and everyone goes ga-ga over him… makes me envious!
But when he goes to China then it gets worse, he has much blonder hair than Zachary, and his eyes are 单眼皮 but olive green (depends on the light actually) so when he goes around Shashi (small town on the Yangtse) he has to wear a hat.