From a young age to adulthood, everyone remembers their favourite doll, Barbie. Barbie, your friend when o one else was there, your comforter. Barbie was your best friend. You got your first Barbie when you were four, from the moment you first glismped at her, you fell in love. You fell in love with her long blonde hair, skinny body and beauitful hair and makeup. 5You loved how pretty she was. She also had the perfect life, she had a boyfriend ( even though at four,boyfriends don 't mean much), her house and her bright pink car. She has all you could ever want. Your plastic idol. This is where it starts to go wrong. Barbie was so perfect but you wanted more. The average girl between four-eleven owns at least ten Barbies. You spent hours with
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When you Google Barbie, click on images, you discover that every picture is a picture of a white Barbie. To find an African-American Barbie you have to scroll down to the bottom and click on at least page 3! Mattel only released an African-American doll after they recieved many complaints. The first African-American Barbie was released in 1997 when Mattel teamed up with "Nabasico" to create a Barbie doll to encourage young children to eat Oreos. How ironic! They released a Caucasian and African-American verison of this doll. It was viewed as being extremely racist as the African-American community argued that Oreo was a derogatory term used to convey the message of "black on the outside and white on the inside" much like the cookie sandwich. One mother was appalled when her five year old 's doll was swallowed by their dog. The five year old she to her mother "she 's just the Black one" and when ther mother asked if her colour made her less important then other Barbies. The daughter replied "Yes". Families everywhere are astounded that children are learning these things.
The definition of gender stereotypes is a generalised view or preconception aboutattributes or characteristics that are or ought to be possessed by, or the roles that are or should be performed by women and men, according to Google. Gender Steroetyping takes place in many forms like boys cant ' be nurses or dance and girls cannot play football or be a
When you Google Barbie, click on images, you discover that every picture is a picture of a white Barbie. To find an African-American Barbie you have to scroll down to the bottom and click on at least page 3! Mattel only released an African-American doll after they recieved many complaints. The first African-American Barbie was released in 1997 when Mattel teamed up with "Nabasico" to create a Barbie doll to encourage young children to eat Oreos. How ironic! They released a Caucasian and African-American verison of this doll. It was viewed as being extremely racist as the African-American community argued that Oreo was a derogatory term used to convey the message of "black on the outside and white on the inside" much like the cookie sandwich. One mother was appalled when her five year old 's doll was swallowed by their dog. The five year old she to her mother "she 's just the Black one" and when ther mother asked if her colour made her less important then other Barbies. The daughter replied "Yes". Families everywhere are astounded that children are learning these things.
The definition of gender stereotypes is a generalised view or preconception aboutattributes or characteristics that are or ought to be possessed by, or the roles that are or should be performed by women and men, according to Google. Gender Steroetyping takes place in many forms like boys cant ' be nurses or dance and girls cannot play football or be a