History on Sesame Street: 52 years since it aired, today (Monday) the veteran American children’s show introduced a new doll in the form of an Asian-American girl. The character, named Ji-jong, represents a 7-year-old girl of Korean-American descent.
In addition, the show’s production announced a special television broadcaster that would salute the diversity of the American community of Asia and the Pacific, which will air on Thanksgiving next week. According to the production announcement, the star of the movie “Shang Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings” by Marvel, the film actor Simo-Lu, the host of the reality show “Top Chef” Padma Lakshmi, the Japanese tennis player Naomi Osaka and more will participate in the broadcast.
The long-running program, which is broadcast on the educational television of the United States PBS and is produced by HBO, is known for combining different and varied characters. In 2017 she was featured in a puppet show called Julia, a girl on the autism spectrum. In 2002, a doll named Cami, an AIDS carrier girl, was featured in the South African version of the show.