I've watched your children, playing in the sand, <br />Pretty little girls with a yellow hair-band, <br />Cheeky little boys with their snub-nosed faces, <br />Kicking and a-tripping over dragging shoe-laces, <br />Little brown eyes, and stubby little hands, <br />They laugh and delight, these children of the Han. <br />So why do their Ma ma's buy them little dolls <br />With blond hair and blue eyes from western malls? <br /> <br />Kan kan woman if you can can see, <br />Look in the mirror at your rare beauty; <br />Who's got the hair that would steal men's glances, <br />Coal black and straight, that your face enhances, <br />High cheek-bones, and your almond eyes <br />Now look at your child, be proud, be wise, <br />Why make them think they're less than they are <br />Than a blond haired bimbo in a western bar? <br /> <br />Sons of the dragon, and little princesses, <br />Need to be loved, to be held - caresses! <br />They should be playing with a doll just like them <br />Not something borrowed from a Disney production, <br />Toss all the Barbies and the blue-eyed babies, <br />Revel in the glow of your eastern features, <br />I'm just a westerner, wandering the place, <br />But I can't find a doll with a Chinese face!<br /><br />David Lewis Paget<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/i-can-t-find-a-doll-with-a-chinese-face/
