International icon Hello Kitty turns 50
by editors@theworld.org (Omar Duwaji) from The World: Latest Stories on (#6RWYK)
Hello Kitty is turning 50 this week. Fans of the cartoon continue to learn more about Hello Kitty, including the revelation by the original cartoonist that she is not a cat, but a girl named Kitty White, and lives in London, not Japan. Host Carolyn Beeler unpacks Hello Kitty's origins, her marketability and the meaning of "Kawaii" style with Leslie Bow, a professor of English and Asian American Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.