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'Sesame Street' makes history as it adds first Asian American Muppet to cast

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    JXM
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    This is fantastic. More representation is always a good thing. I always love how the actors on Sesame Street talk about the Muppet characters as if they are real people. I've talked to a few...

    This is fantastic. More representation is always a good thing.

    Like many Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders, her identity will straddle two cultures, says Alan Muraoka, who plays the owner of Hooper’s Store on the show and is also Asian American.

    “She’s a musician, she plays electric guitar, she’s a girl of the very modern American fabric,” he told NBC Asian America. “She recognizes the culture through her relatives — her grandmother, through her mother — and through the food she eats and loves.”

    I always love how the actors on Sesame Street talk about the Muppet characters as if they are real people.

    I've talked to a few friends about it and we all agreed that while we always knew cartoons and weren't real, we always felt like the characters (both human and Muppet) on Sesame Street were real people.

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    1. hamstergeddon
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      They've done a good job with that concept in the past. One song I've seen pop up a few times when I put Sesame Street on for the kids is "Spanish Me, English Me" where a little boy muppet sings...

      They've done a good job with that concept in the past. One song I've seen pop up a few times when I put Sesame Street on for the kids is "Spanish Me, English Me" where a little boy muppet sings about how his life is a mix of Hispanic and American culture and celebrates his bilingualism.

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