It's always interesting to see how super-mainstream media conveys international adoption. Click here for the new Cheerios commercial.
http://www.cheerios.com/stories/default.aspx
No way is this scene representative of how the adoption occurs. The parents in the commercial are relaxed, well-dressed and very very reserved (they don't even hug the kids). The reality is that at the moment of adoption, parents are jet-lagged, harried, frazzled, being driven around in a crowded van with other parents. And even the most reserved person when they see the little person that has ended up as their child, practically clobbers the child in a sea of hugs and tears (and relief, the process having been long and emotional). Jeeze. The Mom doesn't even hug the kids in the commercial. Nor do the parents go into the orphanage. IRL, parents are all over the orphanage, bringing gifts and taking pictures.
I wonder why Cheerios wanted such a sterile scene. I look back on the video of my Mom and me entering into a dirty, crowded orphanage in the middle of nowhere, our hair matted and crazy, and collapsing in tears of happiness on a wooden bed with a bunch of caretakers and of course Vietbabe and other babies and I wonder why Cheerios thinks that type of stuff is not cool to show. Since China is still number one they might have also gone with a China adoption.
But that's just my opinion.
