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Barbie Indian Doll (styles may vary)

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Barbie’s body indirectly offended India’s Indecent Representation of Women (Prohibition) Act of 1986 which stated that one cultural standard in India for the physicality of how women are depicted in popular culture. To enable personalized advertising (like interest-based ads), we may share your data with our marketing and advertising partners using cookies and other technologies. We are seeing this level of government control over women’s bodies in the United States up close at the moment. Combined with the sweeping wave of south Asian faces on our TV screens, it’s not hard to assume that a permanent change (for the better) is on the horizon.

Turning off the personalised advertising setting won’t stop you from seeing Etsy ads, but it may make the ads you see less relevant or more repetitive. The original blond Barbie sells well in India but an Indian version with dark hair and Indian-style garments did not catch on. She bakes six or seven Barbie-themed cakes a week, with an actual doll at the center of a cake that serves as her frothy dress, constructed around her in a swirl of sugar and cream. I'm not sure if I want to spend my consumer dollars on a product that has yet to embrace the unique beauty of every single child. The one-of-its-kind Barbie doll has been created in collaboration with Deepica Mutiyala, founder and CEO of makeup brand Live Tinted.

These 4 or 5-star reviews represent the opinions of the individuals who posted them and do not reflect the views of Etsy. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. The dozen or so South Asian families in our neighbourhood had created a community of love and I spent a summer in 2008 as an intern with South Asian Americans Leading Together, a not-for-profit that advocated for South Asian Americans.

These worries are valid in the opinion of ElsaMarie DSilva, a social entrepreneur from India and an Aspen fellow. I was already an outsider to many of my classmates at my all-white grade school and Barbie--perhaps because of the tone of her ceramic skin or her miniscule waist or her bright blue eyes--made me feel like an outsider at home. Personalized advertising may be considered a “sale” or “sharing” of information under California and other state privacy laws, and you may have a right to opt out. In the summertime, most parts of the country are very hot and people prefer to wear light, loose fitting cotton clothes.This kit allows your child to make fashionable mermaid tails for Barbie, while our emoji-inspired sets offer your young fashion designer a chance to design Barbie’s apparel using stickers. But like Barbies everywhere, she is controversial because of skin tone and the fact that not every kid can afford her. The careers Barbie doll comes with a makeup palette and brush accessories to complete her clients' looks!

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