[HPforGrownups] Re: ethnic minority students

[Neil Ward]

No: HPFGUIDX 4019

At 20:52 10/18/2000 +0100, Jinx wrote:

>I believe someone (Ebony?) mentioned why we're not getting worked up about
>the lack of ethnic minorities in there.  Truth is, the UK is 90% white, so
>all in all, you wouldn't expect there to be that many non-whites around.

In fact about 6% of the UK population is from non-white ethnic minorities,
according to the 1991 census, and if we are to believe JKR's figure of a
1,000 students, there would be about 60 students from this sector at
Hogwarts.  I'd say that's quite a few.  There are quite a few students and
teachers who have not been described in that much detail, but if we're
getting into demographics, I would have expected mention of more Asian
students (who are easily identified by their names) than the Patil twins.

In essence, this is more evidence for the '1,000 students is impossible'
camp, but let's not get into that...

Neil 

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