AG conducts extensive marketing and bases their choices for dolls on what they predict will sell well. The last LE doll, Marisol, is Hispanic and she sold very well. Sadly, it's all about money in my opinion.

I imagine that many girls can only afford or want to buy 1 or 2 AG dolls. Our collector group on HB is very unusual. We buy a lot of dolls! Once you have several dolls, you want ones that looks different and the ethnic dolls are so cute. I wonder if a girl who is white and can only have one doll would choose one of a different race, however. I would be curious to see the sales figures for the non-white dolls.