It is good to have dolls of different races. Not only will it provide variety in your child’s collection; but it will teach her that there are people around the world that look different. Teach her that while they live in countries faraway, they are the same as the American girl doll in many ways. They feel happy sometimes, and they feel sad other times. This will initiate your child to the reality that people are different in some ways but they are the same in many ways.

It will be nice to start your child on a collection of dolls in their national costumes. You can get her a Japanese doll in a kimono, a French doll in a fashionable dress with hat and a Hawaiian doll in a hula costume. Teach her some simple history tidbits. Show her pictures of places and homes where they live. She will remember these throughout her life.