I find it quite interesting to see how Americans are perceived in other countries. For example, here, are a couple of well meant homages to the American Woman. Exhibit A is on Shamian Island, Guangdong Province, PRC. This portrayal, although well meant, is clearly incorrect. In the traveling adoptive families, Dad carried the new baby while mom carried the money to pay for whatever it was and a third party was pressed into service to carry the camcorder. In fact, it seems to be an unwritten rule that it must be so and the Dads in our group, being quite an advanced and well educated bunch, even devised a manner to contort themselves to pee while still having their new child strapped on to their chest in the carrier. Just wouldn't be appropriate to post a photo of that but it involved learning to aim while leaning over backwards in an arc while also making sure not to fall over in to who knows what. I'm not sure if they awarded a gold medal for the best aim or not. All I know is that my darling husband didn't mention his winning any such award, which, of course, could be for a number of reasons that it would be best not for me to ponder. "Peeing while having a child strapped to your chest" would make an amusing Olympic Sport and should have been debuted in Bejing. 
Next, is Exhibit B, Costa Rica. Not much to be said here other than that sure is a lot of bronze and it is nice to see that we are appreciated for our many, many assets. And, damn, I feel like an midget athlete by comparison and that feels good.
Clear to me - the rest of the world has the perception that N American woman can't find a good bra to save her soul.
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Being a stay-at-home dad, the whole rest room thing with a little daughter is a bit of a head scratcher.
On the issue of perception of North American women - I had to look at how I perceive women of other cultures. I'm German, so I used the women in my family in pondering German women - you don't want to know......
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