“Cute” as in “Kawaii”
02/28/2007 @ 10:00 am
An academic group is soliciting papers about “cute”. One of the organizers writes:
“Cute,” as we now commonly conceive of it, originated in the U.S. in
the late 19th century. Japanese “kawaii” is a quite recent import
altering and adding to “cute” in a variety of ways.
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