They had an African American ...American Girl doll twenty years ago and Josefina a Mexican American ..American girl doll twenty years ago and I bought both of them for our granddaughter who is now 27.

No big deal. They mirror our life and are American Girls. It is fun to have them have a little life story. I can see the OP has never been a girl and probably never had a mother, a wife, or a daughter who loved dolls.

Grace Gantner