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...celebrate Kitty’s thirtieth, the Harvard Project for Asian and International Relations sponsored a conference last Saturday to find out exactly what makes Japanese cute culture??embodied by characters such as Pokemon, Sailor Moon and of course, Kitty—such an enduring phenomenon.Co-organizer Samuel H. Lipoff ’04 says that while “cuteness is everywhere in Japan,” it has hardly been recognized as a serious subject in academia. Lipoff says that, in the West, there is a great amount of cynicism and myth surrounding Hello...
Yuichi Washida, a consumer researcher and M.I.T visiting scholar, discussed the important influence that cute culture has on technology. Young women, labeled “kogals,” are the driving force behind the Hello Kitty genre as well as cell phone culture??the market size for “chaku-melo,” or trendy ring tone services, has reached one billion dollars and is poised to compete with annual cd sales revenue.The range of conference attendees reflected Hello Kitty’s mass appeal. Among those in attendance were anthropologists and market researchers...
...cultural products. Do books, however, strike an especially sensitive nerve? Are books the one cultural medium requiring the most rigorous standards of quality preservation due to their unique place in a child’s learning environment? We’ve slowly begun to accept, if not embrace, popular culture??s place in the high school and college classroom as material that enhances critical dialogue, stirs debate on current issues and lets us contextualize academia in new ways. But what, if anything, can we make of books like basketball star Shaquille O’Neal?...
Harvard students appear to be ambivalent towards athletics because a “sports culture?? does not exist. At Michigan, whether it’s football, basketball or hockey, students get revved up for athletic contests. It is the center of social life. It is THE activity. At Harvard, the same cannot be said. For a few, athletics is king. But for the general student body, nothing could be farther from the truth...
...three panel members—faculty members teaching courses related to African culture??expressed optimism about the direction Harvard is taking...