Barbie Indian Doll (styles may vary)

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My parents had immigrated from India in the 1980s and shortly after my birth, the family moved to a small town in southern Illinois of around 14,000 people. But like Barbies everywhere, she is controversial because of skin tone and the fact that not every kid can afford her. In 2012, the Dolls of the World® line is all about inspiring girls to travel the world through Barbie®. On Rajasingh's 14th birthday, her parents painted her room bright pink and hired artists to draw her favorite Barbie dolls on the walls.

Barbie doll maker Mattel has created a Barbie doll featuring an Indian business woman for the first time. We’re seeing more brown faces on mainstream television, and even better, storylines featuring lead characters with decidedly south Asian themes and actors of south Asian origin.PRODUCT FEATURES ​Just like big sister Barbiedoll, Stacie doll has a diverse group of friends who support each other in their goals -- Team Stacie are the best of friends! Rajasingh saw Barbie as an aspirational figure — and grew up admiring the doll's freedom, confidence, globe-trotting lifestyle and even her arched feet in sassy stilettos. 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.

She wrote a poem that she posted on Instagram, not to shame anyone who is privileged enough to own a Barbie but to comfort those who, like her, may have felt left out. We also have a series of career-focused dolls like the Barbie career scientist doll as well as options that portray her as a dentist, veterinarian, teacher, builder, chef, hairdresser, and lots more. The material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached or otherwise used, except with the prior written permission of Condé Nast.Made of soft shimmering materials, this extraordinary pink sari features golden accents and is draped around her body and over her head in an intricate style.

In 1998, when Mattel produced a Happy Holidays Barbie for the Hindu festival of Diwali, some Indians feared that Mattel would begin to exploit other religious high holidays in India while some felt that the doll‘s fair skin and blue eyes reinforced racial stereotypes. From me being tokenized as the Brown Girl in beauty campaigns, which I leaned into, to now getting so many accolades and awards.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. They go on adventures with their dolls and enter into make-believe worlds filled with dragons and fairies.

Living in a small town at a time when there wasn't much entertainment, she says Barbie was a source of limitless imagination. This is the next step towards our mission of creating a more inclusive world for the next generation. But I really do believe that seeing those faces in the media, holding the dolls in your hand that look like you, those are the things that change entire generations and the way that they function and how the world works,” says Deepica Mutyala, founder and CEO of Live Tinted, the community and brand that has put brown skin make-up on the map, and now the inspiration behind 2022’s Indian Barbie doll.Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page.