That "racist" Harry Potter

[jorgealcontreras]

No: HPFGUIDX 31515

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "coriolan_cmc2001" <coriolan at w...> wrote:
> Just so you know that all the anti-Harry nut cases aren't limited
to 
> the Christian fundamentalists, here's an oped from the Sydney 
morning 
> Herald decrying both JKR - and that malefactor Tolkien - as racist 
> screeds (not to mention pro-globolization).
> 
> http://www.smh.com.au/news/0112/13/opinion/opinion3.html
> 
> BTW, a Google search of "Tolkein" and "White supremacist" turned up 
> only 58 hits.
> 
>   - CMC

I´ve heard something before about Tolkien, and well, we must 
understand his work from his context: he was born in South Africa at 
the end of Victorian age, the british imperialism was at it´s
summit 
and he is talking about a northern mythology, so is not surprise to 
see that all Tolkien heroes were white, blonde and blue-eyed, and
live 
in the WESTERN side of Middle Earth, altough the men from the east
and 
south: asiatic, semithic and negroes,(kingdom of Harad) accepted the 
influence from Morgoth at first, in Silmarillion and from Sauron in 
the Lord of the Rings and Fought under his flag.

I think he was a little racist, but I think that this was 
unintentional from his part, he only reproduced the view of the world 
in wich he grown up and lived.

In the case of Harry Potter, I don´t see the racism, at last some 
black boys and girls are mentioned, and a secondary character and 
couple of Harry in the Christmas Party: Parvati Patil is from India, 
and his platonic love: Cho Chang is chinese.

"jorgealcontreras"