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Hello Kitty Apparently not animals Cats

Hello Kitty Apparently not animals Cats

Who does not know a Japanese cartoon character, Hello Kitty. For 40 years, his face adorning scattered backpack, lunch box children, jewelery unique to animated television shows. Even mejeng aircraft and used as inspiration playground.


Hello Kitty pop culture has long been a very popular Japanese children, because the character is very funny and cute. Upon hearing the name Hello Kitty, each person would imagine a white cat, with a ribbon on her head.




But the surprising fact expressed by the character maker, Sanrio.
As reported by the Daily Mail, Thursday (08/28/2014), the company would like to clarify something: Hello Kitty is not a cat at all. Shocking information was delivered in the middle of space travel preparations to celebrate the 40th anniversary of Hello Kitty in Los Angeles, United States.

According to Sanrio, Hello Kitty true identity represents a little girl, human, living outside London. He has a twin brother. Sea dog lived in the backyard of the house. He will forever sit in 3rd grade.

Hello Kitty has a name that is 50 percent devoted to a term that refers to a cat, but that does not mean he is a cat.

"He never described crawl. He was a little girl, she was a friend.'s Not a cat," said Christine R. Yano, an anthropologist at the University of Hawaii as quoted by Fox News, Thursday, August 28.

Yano who also became a curator of a retrospective at the National Museum of Hello Kitty Japanese Americans, Los Angeles, tells, he knows the fact that when it was preparing for a written description of a museum exhibit, it turns out he made ​​a mistake to describe Hello Kitty as a cat.

"I firmly corrected. Was one of the corrections made Sanrio for my writing before the exhibition," said Yano.

Some other facts about Hello Kitty, according to Yano, including real name is Kitty White, Scorpio and he liked apple pie.

"Hello Kitty appeared in the 1970s, when Japanese women began to enter the UK. They love the country.'s Describe the ideal childhood classic, almost like a white picket fence. Biography Thus was created exactly to taste at the time," explained Yano to Times.

"When speaking with a Japanese woman who grew up in the 1970s, they say, 'Hello Kitty character is very meaningful because it is ours,'" he says. "This is something they see as a marker of identity.".

Previously, Wikipedia describes Hello Kitty as a Japanese cat wearing a pink ribbon, though did not explain where he came from. While at the site called Sanrio.com, the character who is now 40 years old it was created "to inspire happiness, friendship, and sharing for the whole world. '

According to Yano, regardless of whether a girl or a Hello Kitty cat, it has significance as the identity of Japanese popular culture.

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