The Oscar winner reflected on raising her famous children from different backgrounds.

It has always been an international upbringing for Angelina Jolie’s famous kids. 

In addition to their Oscar-winning parents’ globetrotting careers, Jolie and Brad Pitt’s six children have also experienced the world through each other’s eyes given their various backgrounds. 

In a new interview with Justin Webb of BBC Radio 4 Today, Jolie reflected on the way her kids have faced their differences together. 

“I think my children have learned the most about these issues simply from each other, from experiencing each other.

 They are from different backgrounds, they don’t deny the difference—they celebrate the difference,” Jolie said. 

Considering the former couple adopted three of their children internationally—13-year-old Zahara from Ethiopia, 15-year-old Pax from Vietnam and 17-year-old Maddox from Cambodia—the family made every effort to assimilate to their kids’ individual cultures. “I’ve had to learn from them,” the proud mom acknowledged. “We go to their countries, spend time in their countries, but also they’re American, they’re American Ethiopian, they’re American Cambodian, so they have their countries and that’s a piece of who they are.”

As siblings, they also took an interest in each other’s cultures. “Shiloh, for example, is the one that’s learning Mad’s country’s language, and Vivienne wants to live in Zahara’s country. So just because they’re from a place doesn’t mean that that’s everything that defines them,” the star noted. 

During the interview, Jolie recalled Shiloh and Zahara’s reactions when she gave them baby dolls with different skin tones. “I got Zizi a little black doll and I got Shi a little white doll, and they switched dolls,” she remembered. “And I had that immediate reaction of one of them not liking the way they are and wanting the other color…and you know I thought maybe something was…and then I realized that’s just who they see every day. They see the other, so to them family wasn’t the one that looked like them, it was the other.”

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