American Girl’s has announced that its 2021 Girl of the Year is a doll who loves animals and the environment — and spends a lot of time in Australia.
In a press release today, the brand said that that the new addition comes in response to Australian bushfires and wildfires in the western US.
Ten-year-old Kira, who likes to visit her great-aunts’ wildlife sanctuary in Australia, ‘confronts critical ecological issues, such as wildlife protection and the threat of climate change, that are more relevant to our planet than ever.’
American Girl Fail: It doesn’t have to be this way.
Would you be surprised or not at all surprised if I told you that every single thing sold by American Girl is made in China? At USA Love List, we generally prefer to focus on the positive. We could keep ourselves busy all day long griping about the American companies giving their jobs to workers overseas, but we all know that story and it is not uplifting to read. But the absurdity of American Girl, and the reaction of their staff when I mentioned it, have stayed with me.
