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The first Asian-American Muppet arrived at the ‘Sesame Street’

New York: Sesame Street “Welcoming his first Asian Asian Muppet to the environment.
Ji-young, a 7-year-old Korean child who likes to play electric guitar and skateboard, will make his debut next week.
Ji-Young will not only share his love for rock music and tteokbokki, or Korean rice cake, on the show To support the Heritage Family of the Asian and Pacific Islands as part of his racial justice initiative, together has aired for 52 years, but Ji-Young is his first Asian American Muppet.
This event has human character and Guest of Asian descent.
Nancy Wang Yuen, a professor of sociology from California and an expert racial and racism in Hollywood, said that when he first immigrated to the US from Taiwan at the age of 5 years and learned more English from English as a second language in his school.
This event is more diverse than the programming of most children at the time, but Yuen said losing the character that looked like him when he grew up in the 1980s and early 1990s.
“I think it has this muppet, especially in the current time of anti-Asian hatred, is very important for representation,” he said.
Ji-young made a TV debut on NBC on Monday.
“You know what’s really cool about ‘Sesame Street’ is no matter what your appearance is, or how you play or from where you come from, yours, and it’s really cool,” Ji-Young said.
He will be introduced in “Sesame Street” during a special episode on Thanksgiving Day.

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