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** And then there's [http://www.dollsfromheaven.com/ Dolls From Heaven], a line made by a Catholic family as a way for children to be closer to God through dolls patterned after saints.
** [[Maplelea Girls]] is Canada's answer to American Girl, focusing more about concerns about Americanism and to encourage patriotism among Canadian children as opposed to whether a particular doll line aligns to whichever religious views families stick to.
** As a matter of fact, the American Girl dolls ''themselves'' were conceived as a moral substitute to Barbie, whom series creator Pleasant Rowland [https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/evolution-american-girl-dolls-180977822/ expressed disdain] for being too sexualised for young girls.
* [[Barbie]] examples:
** [https://web.archive.org/web/20120728052043/http://www.islamfortoday.com/iran02.htm Dara and Sara], the officially-sanctioned Iranian Barbie doll substitute.
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