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  • This pop-culture term is often times shown with big-eyed mascots, but the term is also used to describe mundane things such as a car, plane, or even a doughnut in Japan.
  • this word didn’t always have such a sweet definition; in fact, it was typically used to look down upon someone.
  • It was a term that was used to describe people who were thought to be beneath the other in stature.
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  • in the mid-80’s when girls would be called kawaii instead of pretty or beautiful.
  • Rune Naito, who helped to popularize the word kawaii through his drawings that embellish the “cute” features of his subjects.
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