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Interesting documentary. It's a real shame about those children saying one doll is "bad" and one is "pretty" but the one that looks like them is the unfavorable one. I totally disagree on a completely superficial level. I dislike babies, but I find European looking babies to be the most hideous.

As for the girls not knowing where they came from, That is a shame, but I don't think a lot of white American people know specifically where they came from either. Some people do a lot of research in genealogy but I don't think they are the majority.

In my case my mother was adopted and my father's family is clueless so we have determined through some research that I might be Irish, German, Native American, English or Welsh. That's the information we have been able to gather, which is useless. Unfortunately it's the same as the people in the film saying they're from "Africa". I'm from somewhere in Europe and possible elsewhere. How many here know exactly where their ancestors came from I wonder?

On skin bleaching, it happens with Asians as well and I'm not sure why. As a self-conscious olive-skinned teenager I always envied girls of color because they didn't have to bother trying to get a tan for prom, they didn't have to worry about spider veins showing in their legs, and some of them even tended to have a more muscular physique naturally with less cellulite.

I think that the grass is always greener on the other side no matter what side of the fence you're on, but the key is to learn to accept yourself and your personal strengths no matter what they are.