Thank you very much for your advice of use of words.

Yes, it makes more sense to use the word  ’typical’.

Thanks again.

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About hair as something not suitable for little children to touch, it is just my instinct that hair is not like a toy which children play with.

Of course, in the case with the little boy who wanted to know whether Obama’s hair felt the same as his, there is no better way to get the answer than letting him touch the hair himself.

Obama’s immediate response to the little child’s request was to let the little boy find out the answer directly.

He had the best method.

In fact, we don’t know whether he had ordered the little boy to clean his hands after feeling the hair.

According to a publication by University of Georgia College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences entitled ‘Food, hands and bacteria’, hair has a lot of bacteria even if you have just washed it.

It says: 

“Well-kept hair is attractive, but let’s keep it out of our food. Nobody likes to see hair in what he or she is about to eat. It’s a good sign that someone didn’t follow sanitation rule when the food was processed or prepared. So always wear a hair net or a hat when you work with food.

To demonstrate the importance of this, we placed some human hair on an agar plate and incubated it for 24 hours. Look at the number of bacteria that grew around the hair.

Like hands, completely removing bacteria from your hair is impossible. Although you may have just washed it, it still contains many bacteria”.

Thanks for a good question.

Betty

Thank you dear Dc. Lucy, the picture is really talking to us.

Do u think that all the children can have a chance like him especially the muslim children in Minamar?

Children are innocent.

Ziba- Iran

All in All , it is a smart move.

I guess tyical is correct, or better average.

It’s strange, all the thinghs that come to my mind looking at that photo, never I would have thought that thing about the hair.
Besides, I guess anything can be unhygenic. Why the hair? I did not know that.
Where and when have you learned that? I am curious. Is that linked, maybe, to the fact that in the past Cinese people did not wash the hair? I am just guessing.

The first thing that caught my eye was Mr. Obama at 90 degree like that.

Thanks Betty, always a pleasure.

” I do not like the idea of letting children touch people’s hair due to hygienic reason”.

I mean people’s hair can be unhygienic?not the other way round.

Instead of saying
“His parents are unique American who tried not to interfere with the children’s thinking”.

I probably should have said:
“His parents were typical American who tried not to interfere with the children’s thinking”.

What is your opinion?  ”Unique” or “typical”?

Much appreciated.

His parents are unique American who tried not to interfere with the children’s thinking.  I think if I were the little boy asking the same question, my father might thought that I was rude.

There are many different interpretation of the picture.  It sends out a message that Obama was the same as anyone who is not a US president.  And, anyone can become the president of the US if they work for it.  Anything is possible in the US. 

Although it is good to encourage children to be creative and courageous, I do not like the idea of letting children touch people’s hair due to hygienic reason.

Obama liked children so much that he did not think about that.

Thanks again for this good story plus some new words for me to learn.

Betty

I’m on it

Yours