Why Was Hello Kitty so Popular for so Long and Why Is It Losing Popularity Now?

u30cfu30edu30fcu30adu30c6u30a3 (HALLOu2192Hello Kitty) was born in Japan almost 50 years ago. It was used as a character for commodities such as pencil cases or bento boxes to be used by elementary/mid school girls and was extremely popular. I am unable to fully explain the WHY, but as for the HOW, it can only be described as u201csubtleu201d.

At least it was not exposed physically over a size of 10cm square or so. The items were small accents to the school uniform set up.Like any other similar commodity, it gradually decreased its popularity.

Popularity decrease has a pattern. In the 1970s mid school or even high school girls used Hello Kitty stuff. In the 1980s the high school clients were gone.

The fashion magazine u201cJJu201d used to be the bible for young office girls and university students in the 1980s. By the 2000s, u201cJJu201d became the magazine for u201cuptownu201d high school girls. Here is where we come back to Hello Kitty.

Magazines like u201cJJu201d carried stories about American celebritiesu2019 liking of the character. Domestic popularity returned, thanks to the Hello Kitty popularity to u201cadultsu201d abroad. In other words the productu2019s u201clife cycle managementu201d was given a bonus boost from abroad.

On the other hand, to many of us, the extent of presence of the character, especially in other Asian countries, is just another source of mixed feelings. A part of the mind is a little happy for the appreciation of a Japanese product. Another part is appalled by the almost simple-minded piracy.

When one sees a inaccurate copies of Doraemon, Pikachu, Hello Kitty at department stores outside Japan, the stuffed toys look even u201csad and tiredu201d. Sanrio has to keep on u201clicensingu201d just to fight these copies.Round Table Discussions

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What will be the output of following c code?

The statement std::cout

Observe that the value of variable a is being accessed more than once without an intervening sequence point, regarding this standard says that:Between the previous and next sequence point a scalar object shall have its stored value modified at most once by the evaluation of an expression. Furthermore, the prior value shall be accessed only to determine the value to be storedYour program modifies variable a more than once without intervening sequence point and it is not being accessed to determine the value of the stored object. so the behavior of this program is undefined as per C standard.

Consider following program:#include int main()tint i5;tstd::cout

If it gives you warning then there is possibility that something might went wrong in your program. So, never ignore compile warnings & keep your compile warning level highest all the times. When it is compiled on gcc 5.

3.0 it gives 6 5 as an output (See live demo here Wandboxu4e09u3078( u3078u055eu0a0a u055e)u3078 uff8auff6fuff8auff6f ) but when it is compiled on clang compiler it gives 5 5 as an output. (See live demo here Wandboxu4e09u3078( u3078u055eu0a0a u055e)u3078 uff8auff6fuff8auff6f ) So, the output might be this way with one compiler, and change with another, change with a new compiler version, with each new compilation.

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Why do Albanians and Serbians dislike each other?

To be really honest,we dont dislike eachother or atleast most of Serbs dont have a problem with Albaninans but the percentage of brainwashed people do hate Albania just because the politicians suggest so in an indirect manner.People listen to them and they grow the hate to eventually fully hate eachother which is truly sad.

Maybe i am 15 years old and i dont know much about history with Albania but i am pretty sure we shouldnt look at the past and focus on the future?A great example would be that Turkey but then called Ottoman Empire seized Serbia and didnt let go for 500 YEARS!Thats alot.

Also,an event played during the capture of Serbia and we call it Danak u krvi.Keep it short,they took Serbian kids to train them to be their army.Train them to forget about Serbia because they are now citizens and people of the Ottoman Empire.

People were so desperate that they actually broke their sons fingers or legs just so that Ottomans wouldnt take them.And now,this sounds horrible.But,if we follow the logic that is us hating on Albania or vice versa,then we should hate Turkey too!

But we dont.And that is the point of what i am trying to say. Albania had a rough history and we had it too.

That is the thing that connects us.We should be friends and just peacefully take care of the problem we have.I had some mistakes in my writing or telling the story and i am sorry about that but my english is not perfect.

Anyway,it took about 15 minutes to write this and i poured my heart and soul into this so i hope you can agree with this and i really hope that we will get along in the near future because we dont need another war

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What exactly do you do in Hell?

The focus of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints has never been on Hell. It has been on helping people to reunite with God in the Third or Celestial Kingdom of Heaven.

As such we dont really know much about Hell past what is said in the scriptures. Hell is not one unified concept in the scriptures. Hell is often called Outer Darkness and it is used for remoteness from Gods presence.

The contexts in the New Testament in which this phrase are used are God casting someone who didnt do as they were supposed to have done in the parables of Jesus. These people are described as weeping and wailing and gnashing their teeth. Sheol is a Hebrew word sometimes translated as Hell which means a hole or pit, specifically the grave.

We know that in the spirit world immediately after death and before the resurrection the righteous teach the wicked the principals they should have learned in this life. And spirits wait for people to do Temple Ordinances in their names. The state of waiting could be termed a kind of Hell.

For Hell proper, the word Gehenna was used by the Hebrew Prophets. This would be where people are punished for unrepented sins and plagued with guilt. Some people like Alma in the Book of Mormon, and some people who have had near-death experiences, Hell is opened to them to scare them straight.

So, these would be the people to read about or to ask. But, it would seem that all the legitimate accounts are merely torture of the soul due to guilt and Christ somehow occurring to them as the only way out. Like I said the focus of the Church isnt Hell, so it is used to scare and rehabilitate those who are able to be saved after knowing that it is real.

Or to imprison those who would not be saved.

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Christians, how do you respond if someone asks if Christianity is true?

It doesnt need to be true.

There may be no true anyway. It shouldnt make any difference.Several things:There is no catechism for being Christian, no one decides who passes the whiff test of who gets to be Christian or call themselves such.

You can jockey for the pole position along with everyone else.There is such a wide range of beliefs that it is safe to say, that each person has their very own version of Christianity. If we all think our subjective version of Christianity is the true one, we cannot all be right.

Christianity isnt about the rightness or wrongness of things, but about living our life, in Christ. If your interpretation of this is before the Letters of Paul were written and based strictly on the words of Jesus, then you take care of the sick, the hungry, and the poor. You respect and help each other and try to be the change that needs to happen in the world.

This is Christianity before it was urbanized by Paul and his followers. Paul and his letters gave rise to the beginnings of Christianity as an official church and it laws, creeds and decrees have given rise to what we now see as the church and the shift in the normative from being a good person to being legalistic. Just my opinion.

Dualism: things being right or wrong, body, mind and spirit, good or bad, when the question should be how do things relate to each other. Perhaps we should avoid the tendency to reduce things and then deciding which reduction is correct, when it isnt about correct, or true. Maybe it isnt any of our business?

So when someone asks me if Christianity is true, I say it is true for me, in as far as truth needs to be true, or if it is true at all. I am not doing word salad, or avoiding the issue, but this is my Buddhist training. Why worry about stuff you dont need to worry about?

Works for me