She had the kind that went way up, as in this illustration. I know that the condition is repairable. I just hope the family had the resources to do so, and that she was treated.
You haven’t changed a bit! 
I live in a very ethnically diverse neighbourhood and my little blue eyed girl gets attention from people of all sorts of races.
My white baby looked just like General Hammond.
Babies are cute, period.
I’m no longer blond. 
I bet you’re getting blonder all the time; I know I am. 
Physically, or mentally? 
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I personally believe that U.S. Americans are unable to do so because, uh, some people out there in our nation don’t have dye and, uh, I believe that our, uh, brown-hair people like such as in, uh, South Africa and, uh, the Iraq and everywhere like such as, and I believe that they should, uh, our hair over here in the U.S. should help the U.S., uh, should help South Africa and should help Iraq and the Asian countries, so we will be able to build up our hair for our children.
This has been my experience. We visited my brother in Toronto when my son was about three months old. We went to a dim sum place somewhere in which we were, I think, the only white people out of about 300. I saw an Indian family as well, but it was otherwise wall to wall Chinese. My husband took the baby to the bathroom to change his diaper, and when he came back he said he’d had to stop at about every other table to let the women admire the baby, which they did very enthusiastically.
The next day, my sister and I went to the Kensington Market area to visit a shop I wanted to see and caught the streetcar in Chinatown. The Chinese women waiting for the same streetcar nearly died of the cuteness of my son. And managed to convey, without a common language, that they particularly admired his ears. (My own mother could not stop talking about his ears for months after he was born. Apparently, the kid has great ears.)
Now, my kid is cute (duh) and has always had big eyes and been very interactive, even when he was really little. But seriously. I’ve never seen a response quite like that anywhere else.
I used to babysit a couple white babies every day. My black friends (along with everyone else as a group) thought they were cute. One did say one of the babies was the cutest white baby he’d ever seen. So…make of that what you will.
Cute is cute. I know a lot of people of different races, but I’ve never known anyone who (to my knowledge) thought babies of other races weren’t cute. But a lot of people have features we especially like. Personally one of the things I love is hair that sticks straight up, which a lot of Asian babies have. Of course, I also love curly hair. Bald can be cute too! I just love babies.
Naturally, mine was the cutest baby ever, and as a young baby her hair was stick straight and laid down flat (now it’s curly as all hell and sometimes in the mornings I can’t help but envy parents of straight-haired kids).
I will say that everyone exclaimed over my baby. While I would be tempted to think that’s just because she was the cutest baby ever, I think a large part of it was because as a newborn/young infant her race was ambiguous, and that was drawing to people of all races. All the candy stripers and everyone were all “OMG what a beautiful skin tone your baby has!” in the hospital, and I was thinking that they wouldn’t have said that if they hadn’t seen me and her dad and known from THAT that our daughter was biracial. Because even as pale-as-hell as I am now, judging from pictures and my then-nickname of “Papoose”, I think that as a newborn my skintone was about the same as my daughter’s was then. (Of course, I’ve since gotten lighter and she’s gotten darker, but babies’ skintone can be misleading.)
Anyone who thinks that just hasn’t seen enough babies. The ugly ones ARE out there. Just watching America’s Funniest Home Videos reruns for a week or two should provide enough of a cite.
I disagree. I’ve seen lots of not so cute babies.
And it’s not the slightest bit racist to find, as I do, that black babies are consistently the cutest babies in the world. I’ve never in my life seen a not-cute black baby.
Noticing differences between races, most especially physical differences, is not racist. Assuming things about a person based on their race, especially negative things, is racist.
And for the record, there are only three true “races”: caucasoid, negroid, and mongoloid. (white, black and, in keeping with the theme of color, yellow. Which, by the way, is actually sorta true. My ex is pure Japanese, and I was surprised to note that the tonality of his skin has a truly yellow aspect. Nicely so, he has very delicious skin that looks a bit mocha-ish at first in certain spots, but in the light there’s no question about it, sorta yellow.)
I find babies cute.
A favorite memory: Visiting a married couple whom I had been friends with for several years, the wife pulled out a photo album showing pictures of Young Sprout as a baby. The father’s red hair was quite evident.
Mom: “Doesn’t he look like a baby orangutan?”
She laughed. I almost peed myself.
Walt
I have very-very curly hair. Two friends of my mother’s, both of whom had lived in Japan for extended periods, both independently stated that the Japanese would go NUTS over me for my curly locks, even to the point that they thought my folks could make a bit of side money having me model for advertisements. I was a cu-u-ute kid. (What happened, right?)
I also have two little cousins of mixed race: his mother is mainland Chinese, while his father is Anglo – tall, skinny, and very very red-haired. The youngest of the sons looks like an anime character or, more appropriately, a cosplayer: Chinese features with a bright shock of red hair. That kid will be popular.
Vice magazine had a whole feature devoted to this. I think Asian babies won.
Oh here we go, though the printed version had tons of photos.
I’m asian and I don’t think any babies are cute. Do not like them at all
Ok, you’re quick.
I know farangs (Westerners) who have brought their children here, and the Thais simply cannot keep their hands off of them. Extra points if they’re blond and blue-eyed.
I bring my 8-week-old to work with me, and IME, people of every race are likely to coo over a cute little baby, even if she is white (and kind of funny looking. Not “newborn squished” looking, but not Gerber baby pretty - very serious-looking, except when she unleashes a big silly toothless grin that makes her look a little demented.) Oddly, the people most likely to stop for a few minutes and talk to her are men between the ages of about 45 and 70, of all races.
Question, though, for those posters with more experience with Eastern cultures: Y’all have made the case for blonde babies, but how do those same groups react to redheads? (I ask because I remember my cousin’s Filipino ex-wife always playing with my hair when I was a little kid. I don’t know whether she liked the color, or the fact that it was curly, or both; and I don’t know whether this was an individual preference, or whether there was some learned cultural basis.) I know that some cultures have viewed red hair as either a really, really good thing, or a really, really bad thing.