Akab News 1 Apr 2017.<\/p>\n
A Protest against Sanrio over Western Cultural Appropriation of Japanese culture, concerning Hello Kitty, stopped when Sanrio revealed Hello Kitty is British and not Japanese.<\/p>\n
The protest began at 9:00am at Sanrio USA, El Segundo corporate offices. Latter that morning, a spokesperson from Sanrio agreed to meet with the protesters. \u00a0The protest went silent when the spokesperson \u00a0\u00a0told about Hello Kitty\u2019s background being that she was in London England.\u00a0 \u201cFirst Hello Kitty is not a cat and now this\u201d said one protester who goes by the name Red. The leaders of the protest talked among themselves about this new revelation. Some wanted to continue but others felt the protest is not valid anymore.<\/p>\n
The leaders were going to retreat for further dialog when a group of transgender protesters demanded they should continue the protest until their demands were heard. They demanded that Sanrio allows Hello Kitty to self identify \u00a0as a gender fluid non binary, noting\u00a0 Hello Kitty doesn\u2019t have any visible genitalia, therefore biological genitalia is not required to identify oneself as a women. At that statement, the transgender protesters got into a shouting match with the Feminist faction of the protest over the definition of gender. The Police had to intervene and separate both groups until the protesters decide to break up and disperse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Akab News 1 Apr 2017. A Protest against Sanrio over Western Cultural Appropriation of Japanese culture, concerning Hello Kitty, stopped when Sanrio revealed Hello Kitty is British and not Japanese. The protest began at 9:00am at Sanrio USA, El Segundo … Continue reading