Rock it like Barbie

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I really enjoy how the author of this book opens up every chapter with an extremely interesting topic. The author does a good job making the reader start thinking about their opinion, on just the first paragraph. The start of chapter 24 speaks on a topic that I would have never thought that would be in a college text book which is Barbie. When one thinks about Barbie the first image that comes to one’s mind is a white very attractive doll with the perfect everything. However some parents in the United States do not see what a perfect doll can do to their child development. Children today mostly very young girls start to playing with Barbie’s at the age 5. They keep on playing with these toys until they grow out of them.  Even though they grow out of playing with these dolls these young girls’ even boys want to grow up and be as perfect as Barbie. One can say that the Barbie doll may affect little girls more because they  have the same features as a Barbie doll. Children being exposed to these dolls that have outrageous bodies can make a child want to have a perfect body just like their dolls or even dress up with very revealing clothing like their dolls. This issue continues with the fact that the Mac makeup Company started a line with the Barbie Company.  The makeup makes one look just like a Barbie which is what little girls today might really want to grow up to be a perfect Barbie.  The United States can influence a lot of countries but however some of those other countries see our influence very negative. For example in Iran they have to dolls called Sara and Dara which are suppose to replace Barbie. They started these dolls so that they can have a more positive influence on children on like Barbie.