Sesame Street Adds its First Asian-American Puppet to the Cast

[frejasface]

'Sesame Street' debuts first Asian-American puppet to fight race hate https://t.co/olkjLw8bG7 pic.twitter.com/qPWe1iURAy
- Page Six (@PageSix) November 15, 2021

There's a new bitch in town! And on Sesame Street, it's an Asian-American puppet named Ji-Young. She is a 7-year-old Korean-American girl who loves to play soccer, learn guitar, and share

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[pciam]

When I was a kid, for some reason Oscar the Grouch was my fav. I have an Oscar funko that says “Scram” that I used to have on my office desk back before I began working from home due to covid lol

[melancolour]

I loved Grover & Cookie Monster & Kermit (as a news caster & detective)

[silverstarry]

Kermit (as a news caster & detective)

Was it because you loved the hat and the coat?

[jellycar]

he was mine too!

[martymcfly85]

I always thought sesame street and the muppets were revivals. I didn't realize they were both from Jim Henson.

I should say this was when I was younger.

[melancolour]

really??? how?? the muppets are what made Jim Henson, and Sesame Street was like his #2 passion project

[martymcfly85]

I don't know 🤣

I just thought someone else made sesame street to copy the muppets. Even when I saw The Muppet Movie and it had sesame street characters in it, I thought oh they worked on it together.

[melancolour]

Well to be fair Jim Henson did produce a shocking amount lol

[wowthatisminty]

This is wonderful and I love her design, but somehow I don't think the people they need to reach with her character (in terms of combating racial hate) are letting their kids watch Sesame Street these days because it teaches anti-conservative concepts like tolerance and spelling.

[frejasface]

yeah, they're the people who think that PBS is socialist propaganda or something.

[toomuchtimelol]

This is so true. It's fucking frustrating though. Kids seeing diversity onscreen is so so so so crucial for them not to grow up and turn into assholes. Smh.

[itsme_eloise]

I think that's okay. it's impossible to reach everyone and socialization with peers supersedes socialization with parents right around the age that kids are watching sesame street (5? 6? idk children). if some kids are exposed to new ideas of what is and isn't acceptable they can spread through osmosis even if they're not reaching the child directly.

[genbu_no_miko24]

I'm relatively surprised it took this long for an Asian character to show up. Especially when Sesame Street is NY-based in universe lol.

Aww she's a cutie!

[melancolour]

she's so cute