International icon Hello Kitty turns 50

Hello Kitty is turning 50 this week. Fans of the cartoon continue to learn more about Hello Kitty, including the revelation by the original cartoonist that she is not a cat, but a girl named Kitty White, and lives in London, not Japan. Host Carolyn Beeler unpacks Hello Kitty’s origins, her marketability and the meaning of “Kawaii” style with Leslie Bow, a professor of English and Asian American Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.