ethnic minority students

[milz]

No: HPFGUIDX 4025

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, Neil Ward <neilward at d...> wrote:
> 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 


Dean Thomas and Angelina are both identified as "black" in the 
American versions. Lee Jordan is described as having dreadlocks (but 
there are some caucasian kids with dreads).

But Neil is correct, other students and teachers haven't been 
physically described. In a way, I like that. So then I can imagine
how 
these scantily described characters look.

:-) Milz