I once read that the teddy bear is named after Teddy Rooseveld who was for sure not European. Are teddy bears made in your country? I did not even have one except for a kind of light blue polar bear. I remember a tall one at my grandmother's home no one played with. It was about 1 meter or 1.50 meters tall and filled with hay or sea grass. It had a typical smell and wasn't huggable and extremely heavy.