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[Opinions] never mind, you already did it
I can provide more details about the dolls, and add their modern "Girl of the Year" characters.Kaya-Aton-My: (I may have misspelld that a bit.) Nez Perce, her name supposedly means "she who arranges rocks."Felicity Merriman and Elizabeth Cole.Caroline AbbottMaria Josefina Montoya (she's of Spanish descent)Kirsten Larsen (She comes from Sweden to Minnesota.)Marie-Grace Gardner and Cecile Rey (Rey is her last name.) They are from New Orleans, Marie-Grace is white, Cecile is black.Aduke Walker is of West African descent and Aduke is after a grandmother. She's called Addy, and the family takes the name Walker after they walk north to freedom.Samantha Mary Parkington and Nellie O'Malley Nellie is an Irish immigrant, Samantha is an upper-class American.Rebecca Rubin is a Russian-born Jewish girl.Claudie Wells is a black girl from HarlemMargaret Mildred Kittredge and Ruth Ann SmithensAlice nanea Mitchell is white and Hawaiian.Molly Jean McEntire and Emily Bennett. Molly is American, Emily is a visiting British girl.Maryellen LarkinMelody Elizabeth EllisonJulie Ann Albright and Ivy Ling are from San Francisco. Julie is white, Ivy is of Chinese descent.Courtney Deborah MooreIsabelle Jane Hoffman and Nicki Pearl hoffman are Jewish twins from Seattle.Girls of the year, which began in about 2001.Lindsey Bergman is a Jewish girl from Chicago.Kailey Hopkins is a white girl from southern California.Marisol Luna is Mexican-American from Chicago.Jess Akiko McConnell is half Japanese and haf white.Nicki Fleming is a white girl from Colorado.Chrissa Marie Maxwell is a white girl from Minnesota. Two of her friends were also produced as dolls that year: Gwen Thompson, another white girl, and Sonali Matthews, who seems to be part Asian/Indian and part black, though it isn't quite clear.Lanie Holland is a white girl from Massachusetts.Kanani AKina is half-Hawaiian and half-white.McKenna Brooks is a white girl from Seattle.Saige Copeland is from New Mexico and is white.Isabelle Palmer is a white girl from Washington, DC. (And yes, there was a lot of complaints about the recycled names when the twins were released earlier this year.)Grace Thomas is a white girl from Massachusetts.Lea Clark is white, with some Brazilian ancestry.Gabriela McBride is a black girl from Philadelphia.Blaire Wilson is a white girl from New York.Luciana Vega is of Chilean descent.Jocelyn Elizabeth Kendrick is white from California. (She wears a hearing aid.)Kira Bailey is white.Mei-Ling "Corinne" Tan is Chinese-American. She has a little sister doll named Gwyn, and a half-Swedish halfbrother doll named Blix.
Kavika Sharma is Indian-American.Tennyson Evangeline Grant is a white girl from Nashville who I suspect is heavily modelled on Taylor Swift. She has a male friend who was produced as a doll too, Logan Everett, a white boy.Suzanne "Z" Yang is Korean-American.Evette Peeters is half-black, half-white.Makena Williams is of Nigerian descent?
Maritza Ochoa is of Bolivian descent.
There are also smaller, younger-looking dolls called Wellie Wishers, five girls and a boy, with no last names:Willa and Camille are white.
Emerson is Asian.
Ashlyn might be white or Hispanic, it's not really stated.
Kendall is black.
Bryant is kind of ambiguous.Before you criticize a man, walk a mile in his shoes. That way, when you criticize him, you're a mile away and you have his shoes!
Steve Martin

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