Brown is IN...Just ask Hawaiian Hello Kitty at Schema : more than ethnic

Brown is IN...Just ask Hawaiian Hello Kitty

TV isn't the only place where it's hard to find a diversity of skin colour. The universe of toys can be just as out-of-touch with the real world; and often oversimplifying the world to black and white, literally. Well what about brown? Brown means many things to many people, but in Hawai'i it means everybody -- partly because there is no majority in Hawai'i. With close to 20% of the population claiming to be of mixed ethnicity, it's a full range of brown possibilities: the golden brown of "mixed" hapa Hawaiian (which includes many half-Filipinos, half-Japanese and half-Chinese), and Hawaiians of Chinese and Japanese ancestry (57% of the population is Asian), the orange-brown-beige tans of white American and European tourists, the Japanese and Chinese tourists that have overcome their fear of being darker, and of course the darker Latinos, Pinoys and the indigenous peoples of Hawaiian Islands (at the point of contact there were 600,000 inhabitants in Hawai'i). Exclusive to ABC Stores - a tourist mecca - is the bronzed ("tanned") Hello Kitty. So if you've been looking for brown in the pristine white universe of this huge Japanese icon, it's here in Hawai'i.

More:
Ethnicities in Hawaii
Hello Kitty Phone Strap- Pink MuuMuu
Hello Kitty Sticky Tabs

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