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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2018-08-16 06:45 pm

[ SECRET POST #4243 ]


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I think making Hermione and Harry not white is ethnocentric

(Anonymous) 2018-08-17 02:58 am (UTC)(link)
It's mostly Americans who do this. It's Americans who make Hermione black and Harry Indian. They don't seem to understand that prejudge is not always linked to skin color. JK Rowling is from the UK, a place where it's the ethnic differences between people that divide them. Both Irish people and English people are the same shade of human but there is a lot of divides between those peoples. There's also the fact that the book was in part a World War II allegory having Muggleborns be a stand in for the Jews and a lot of Jews are very pale people. There's an uncomfortable habit of folks from the "woke" lot who conveniently forget about Jewish people and their history of oppression, but that's another topic for another day.

"Hermione and Harry face opposition from their societies or their home lives, they must be not white!" It's so narrow minded and speaks to the mind set of an American who nothing about other cultures.

Re: I think making Hermione and Harry not white is ethnocentric

(Anonymous) 2018-08-17 04:45 am (UTC)(link)
I mean some of the people getting the most racist shit in Britain are people of Polish and Eastern European ethnicities and they tend to be quite the opposite of dark skinned.

Re: I think making Hermione and Harry not white is ethnocentric

(Anonymous) 2018-08-18 08:01 am (UTC)(link)
Yep absolutely this.