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⌈ Secret Post #3550 ⌋

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Comments

Re: Ilvermorny houses...

[(Anonymous)]

To be honest, it seemed too bad and awkward for me to pay attention to, even without engaging with the cultural appropriation, so I don't have any good answers for you.

I don't know how you feel about these issues generally, or how important it is to you. But unless you feel a need to know about the cultural appropriation for its own sake - which is totally valid, of course - I'd kind of say just ignore the whole thing as just being too frustrating for any good it's worth.

Re: Ilvermorny houses...

[caerbannog]

If it was Australian I'd probably be hopping made but since it's American I am more frowny over the concept/connotations so far but also not sure if there was any consultation or the depth of ripping of.

So, frowwwn

Re: Ilvermorny houses...

[(Anonymous)]

On one hand... yeah it's not all that great what she did there. However, I still find it a little weird that people keep bashing her about that while basically implying that the weird and faulty mixup of European folklore Rowling was absolutely alright. A lot of the mythology she used in the books was complete bullshit as well.

Re: Ilvermorny houses...

[(Anonymous)]

I think there's a pretty wide latitude that we give to people when they're using mythology and culture from a culture that they belong to. There's a certain assumption that their use of it is going to be consonant, on some level, with the source - even if it departs, it's an informed departure that fits with the dynamics of the culture.

Second, native cultures and people's have been fucked over historically, and are being fucked over now, in a way that you can't really compare to stuff JKR deals with in the original HP.

Re: Ilvermorny houses...

[(Anonymous)]

I dont know, I'd say the celts (as just one example of one of the origin cultures for a lot of the European myths) were pretty successfully fucked over into oblivion, it's just been longer.