political organizing

[Joywitch]

No: HPFGUIDX 3961

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, Amanda Lewanski <editor at t...> wrote:
> But to take our values to other cultures and tell them
> their own are wrong without a meticulous understanding of the 
cultural,
> mythological, and ideological underpinnings of that culture is as
> double-edged as what that Bible institute out of North Carolina (I 
think)
> does, developing alphabets and writing systems for illiterate 
languages so
> that the Bible may be translated and taught. With one hand they 
give them a
> wonderful tool for preserving their cultural traditions, with the 
other they
> begin to undermine those traditions

Good point, Amanda, and just to bring this thread back to HP, I think 
that this is EXACTLY the point JKR was trying to make with the whole 
Hermione/SPEW thing.  While it points out Hermiones compassion and 
budding political awareness, as a political movement it is hopeless.  
You cant come in from the outside and tell people (or elves) that 
they are oppressed and change their lives for them.  It is up to them 
to decide if there are aspects of their culture which need to change 
and how and when to change them, and fight for their own freedom. 
Otherwise they are substituting one form of dependence for another 
(albeit a more benign one in some cases).

-- Joywitch