in china i quickly learned that pink and blue have no special meaning for boys and girls. boys are always wearing pink, purple and pastels. girls wear everything under the sun. when samantha goes out in her pink parade of clothes, it always confuses me when people ask me if she is a girl or boy. i kinda look at them with a stupid face and say, "of course she's a girl, that's why she has all the pink." obviously it's not obvious to them that colors help tell people the gender of the child. but then i realized that the kids all wear split pants, so it kinda takes the guessing out of the picture; with the split pants it's pretty obvious if it's a girl or boy. maybe we're the stupid ones, with all our colors and stuff.
here's a picture of a pink jeep with a robot and a machine gun. now in america, i'd say this was for a girl (just based on the color), but in china, i'm not sure, it could go both ways. either way it's pretty sweet! guess what sam is getting for her birthday?
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That's so funny!!!
Yep, when we were in China adopting our daughter, I was amazed at the amount of locals who asked if she was a boy or girl. Um, she's in a DRESS?? And it's PINK?? And she has a BOW in her hair?? Really!
My husband would love to get our daughter the jeep with the gun turret on top! If I'd let him dress her in pink camo, he'd be thrilled.
The whole gender color thing has had an interesting twist in our family. We have two boys adopted from China (and one girl). Our oldest, loves the color pink. When he was 5, he wanted the pink Dora the Explorer lunch box. He wore pink Eskimo Joe's t-shirts. He LOVED pink. And he was mercilessly teased.
However I showed him lots of pictures of men in China wearing pink. So now he says, "I just tell people that I am Chinese and boys wear pink in China."
:) Both my sons and my daughter would love that Jeep!
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