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My great niece is all of my heritage, plus my brother's ex wife (Puerto Rican), plus her father - Vietnamese and Mexican.
I was thrilled to find her a doll at Christmas, dressed like any other baby doll -that was 'Asian'.
My mom's paternal grandmother really had to search high and low for dolls that looked like me in the 1970's. She was sensitive to my situation - as she was Jewish . . . My great grandfather was not - and she knew what her children (My grandfather included) went through growing up Jewish in Western PA in the 1920's and 1930's.
She had a sensitivity chip - that's for sure. She couldn't put herself in my shoes, or the shoes of any racial minority little girl - but she 'got it' just the same.
Her heart would break if she saw the 'contemporary' video footage.
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