In todays DN.se there is an aricle about that Swedish children´s book have few dark children, many of the children are blond and blue eyed. A person is wondering why there are so few titles with dark children in the libraries. She is asking if it´s censor, just like TinTin had at Kulturhuset.
I have tried to find dark skinned Barbie for a while now. There was one in another town that I wanted, however the store didn´t have them after it had been checked. So instead of Barbie I had to buy a brat. There was 2 sorts of dark Barbie in the store I visited, but I didn´t like their looks. I really wanted another beautiful black Barbie. But I couldn´t find any of those that I wanted. It isn´t so that Barbie hasn´t got black Barbies, they do have that. But not for the Swedish market. I think it´s sad, since many girls want Barbies. I want to be able to by a Barbie that looks a like to the child I had in mind. She is not Afrian, but her skin is dark. I have a Barbie that I bought in Asia, but I haven´t given it to her, since that is a Barbie for older children than this one. She first has to get older. Then maybe she can have the Barbie that looks like her native people. I just wish I could buy those foregin looking Barbies in Sweden too. But I cannot. I have tried to find it, but it has been difficult to find. Harder than I thought. So she has to have a black Bratz doll instead. Bratz had a lot of black dolls actually. I am wondering why Bratz has a lot and Barbie collections in the stores has very few black representatives?
Source 20121002:
http://www.dn.se/kultur-noje/debatt-essa/barnboksbarnen-ar-blonda-blaogda-och-bor-pa-landet
