Images of Americans

Some of the most frequent questions you get here are about what Americans look like. From what I gather, Americans are fat, hairy, blond, beautiful, big nosed, big feet, tall people. I learned this though questions like, " You're American? But you're not fat (actually they say you have a normal body size)?" or " You're American? But you're not blond, I thought all Americans were blond?." Occasionally, people will ask me, " In American, you cannot do fire cupping (on the back) because people are too hairy." And of course, we get the " In America, are all the women beautiful?" sometimes followed by the " I heard in American, the women can weight 400KG?" with the occasional "in Yellow women skin is better than White women, that is why White men want to marry yellow women."

It's amazing how seeing many Americans with different looks here, because there are quite a few English teachers, but they still think everybody is a fat, hairy, beautiful, ogre.

By the way, those of you who read about the Paparazzi, I found out how to say it in Chinese, the Go dai dui or the Team who chases the dogs.