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She walks and sits like a two-legged creature.

She is a friend. Hello Kitty Con runs for four days starting Oct. 30 at the Museum of Contemporary Art, 152 N. Christine R. Central Ave., downtown Los Angeles, sanrio.com. But she is not a cat. Yano is an anthropologist from the University of Hawaii (and currently a visiting professor at Harvard) who has spent years studying the phenomenon that is Hello Kitty.

She's never depicted on all fours. She is also the author of the book "Pink Globalization: Hello Kitty's Trek Across the Pacific," published by Duke University Press last year.

Hello Kitty (ハローキティ Harōkiti?)[3] (full name Kitty White (キティ・ホワイト Kiti Howaito?))[2] is a fictional character produced by the Japanese company Sanrio, created by Yuko Shimizu and currently designed by Yuko Yamaguchi. She walks and sits like a two-legged creature. 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.

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She loves apple pie.

This is why the exhibition is being held at the Japanese American National Museum. I grew up with Hello Kitty everything and all I have to say is, MIND BLOWN. Since debuting in 1974, Hello Kitty has become a global phenomenon. (Denis Poroy / Invision / Associated Press) Hello Kitty is British. It's about reconnecting her to this community.

Christine R. Kitty is actually named Kitty White and she has a full back story. It gives the whole thing a certain poignancy and power." Yano is an anthropologist from the University of Hawaii (and currently a visiting professor at Harvard) who has spent years studying the phenomenon that is Hello Kitty. She is a Scorpio. "Hello!

Exploring the Supercute World of Hello Kitty," opens Oct. 11 at the Japanese American National Museum, 100 N. She is also the author of the book "Pink Globalization: Hello Kitty's Trek Across the Pacific," published by Duke University Press last year. Central Ave., downtown Los Angeles, janm.org.

She loves apple pie.

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People see the possibility of a range of expressions.

But it's interesting because Hello Kitty emerged in the 1970s, when the Japanese and Japanese women were into Britain. Hello Kitty is British. "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. They loved the idea of Britain.

Kitty is actually named Kitty White and she has a full back story. You can give her a guitar, you can put her on stage, you can portray her as is. It represented the quintessential idealized childhood, almost like a white picket fence. She is a Scorpio.

That blankness gives her an appeal to so many types of people." So the biography was created exactly for the tastes of that time." She loves apple pie. That also makes her more than just another fabrication of Japan's culture of cute, known as kawaii. And she is the daughter of George and Mary White.

Hello Kitty has special significance to Asian Americans. cComments "She has a twin sister," adds Yano. "She's a perpetual third-grader.