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Hello Kitty in space Update: What happens when you say Hello Kitty is not a cat?

It represented the quintessential idealized childhood, almost like a white picket fence. Hello Kitty in space Update: What happens when you say Hello Kitty is not a cat? Kitty chaos This year, Hello Kitty even traveled into space. So the biography was created exactly for the tastes of that time." I am talking about Hello Kitty, the adorable cultural force that began life as a character on a coin purse in Japan 1974. This image, released by Sanrio on Aug.

12, shows the character aboard the Japanese satellite Hodoyoshi-3. (Sanrio / AFP/Getty Images) Hello Kitty has special significance to Asian Americans. Produced by Sanrio, she arrived in the United States two years later. Yes, she's worldwide. Hello Kitty is not a cat.

And she's been a part of global popular culture ever since. You read that right. But Hello Kitty has had special resonance with Asians who grew up in the United States. lRelated "When Hello Kitty arrived in the U.S. in the mid-1970s, it was a commodity mainly in Asian enclaves: Chinatowns, Japantowns, etc.," explains Yano. "In talking to Japanese Americans who grew up in the 1970s, they say, 'That figure means so much to us because she was ours.' It's something they saw as an identity marker.

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Hello Kitty in space Hello Kitty is not a cat.

This year, Hello Kitty even traveled into space. But there's a lot we don't know about Hello Kitty. She is also the author of the book "Pink Globalization: Hello Kitty's Trek Across the Pacific," published by Duke University Press last year. This image, released by Sanrio on Aug.

12, shows the character aboard the Japanese satellite Hodoyoshi-3. (Sanrio / AFP/Getty Images) And, Yano, who is currently wading through hundreds of objects for the exhibition at the the Japanese American National Museum (including the famous Gaga dress), gives us the lowdown: She says that Kitty's unreadable features (she usually doesn't have a mouth), along with clever merchandising, has helped cultivate the character's following. Hello Kitty in space Hello Kitty is not a cat. "Hello Kitty works and is successful partly because of the blankness of her design," Yano says. "People see the possibility of a range of expressions. This year, Hello Kitty even traveled into space.

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