My great niece - who is part Vietnames (her father) and parts Puerto Rican (my brother's ex wife) and part Black/Irish/German/French/Cherokee Indian (my brothers genetic ancestry) . . .
Saw a Corolle(sp?) Asian baby Doll (she's 2.5 - but speaks very well) and begged her Papa (my brother) to get it for her. He gave me that 'tip' for Christmas. 
I bought it for her . . . because I think she needs to be supported in her belief that the 'prettiest' baby doll should reflect the shape of her eyes and face. Looks focused? Maybe.
But I have distinctly Native American shaped eyes - with my ancestry (european and african mixed in there) - I always wanted a doll that 'looked like me' as a kid. My one great grandmother spent BIG bugs hunting down dolls that looked 'like me' - because she - even though she could count back 10 generations in Germany and was born at the turn of the last century . . . she 'got it' in the 1970's.
Eh? But she and my mom's other grandmother were the daughters of suffragists so what else would one expect. 
Their 'feminism' was different than ours is today - but they also both became young women in the early 1920's when the clothing got daring, the hemlines shorter, the boobs flattened, the hair cut, and the shoulders revealed.
Once upon a time - feminism had a 'piece' to it that included women being able to show off thier bodies, paint their lips, and do whatever they wanted.
I'm kind of rambling here - forgive me. . .but when did we give up the power of our sexuality and self-image to Hugh Hefner and Bob Guccione?
Was it forced out of the hands of grandmothers in the 1940's? Was it the return to sexual liberation in the 1970's by our mothers? Where is the balance from owning our 'It' and being a tool for a societal perception of what 'beauty' entails? My maternal Great Grandmother's owned their 'it'.
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