JK Rowling on CBC Newsworld tonight

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--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "bdclark0423" 
<bdclark0423 at ...> wrote:
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> bdclark0423:
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> Funny, but not sure if it's true about being English and the money 
being
> spent on shoes rather than therapy, but you've just contradicted
> yourself by making generalization about a group of people right 
after
> admonishing  Tonks for doing the same thing.
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Alla:

It IS of course generalisation as well, but generalisation I can see 
much easier than another one.

Let me explain. I have no idea whether Janette meant the same thing, 
but for example if JKR were by ethnicity ukrainian jew as I am or 
actually person who was born and raised in the soviet union, I would 
probably made the same generalisation, while totally realising that 
it IS generalisation.

When I was growing up, people did not go to psychotherapist, people 
just did not. Why you ask me? First of all I am not even sure if such 
profession existed. I mean it probably did, just was not well known 
to general population and maybe some tiny numbers of people did use 
it.

Psychiatrists existed obviously, but you see it was a stigma that 
either only "crasy" people go to psychiatrist, or what's even worse 
people who were opposing communist regime and get caught, were 
declared crasy, given some antipsychotic medications sometimes. 
HORRIBLE.

One did not use psychotherapist to get something of one's chest. One 
used friends to talk things out, you know?

What I am trying to say is that if many people do not use the 
therapy, I think generalisation can be valid enough.

Alla