OUCH!

[cornflower_o_shea]

--- In HPFGU-Movie at y..., "irene_mikhlin" <irene_mikhlin at y...> wrote:

> Yes to what question? :-) I am Jewish myself, so yes to that. But 
no 
> to the second part.  The only thing that jumped to the front of my 
> mind when I saw Gringotts was "God, I hope the media does not 
start 
> that stupidity about racist stereotypes that surrounded certain 
> flying creature with big nose in the Phantom Menace". And 
mercifully, 
> it did not. :-)
> 

But the fact the stereotype was there did cross your mind? I'm just 
curious about where these visual stereotypes come from, and to what 
extent they are still recognized. As I said, I missed it completely, 
but my husband commented to me on the bankers right away. I thought 
more of Ebenezer Scrooge and those Dickensian type bankers, 
barristers-at-law, etc. So my question is, I guess, who thought 
about that stereotype at all? 

-Cornflower O'Shea