Not many U.S. Wizards

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No: HPFGUIDX 27213

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., fourfuries at a... wrote:
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Americans, 
> having little sense of or use for tradition, prefer technology, 
> science, motor cars and such. They have no use for things that can 
> not be taken apart.  It is exactly why we continue to parse thiese 
> books.


Americans? Little sense of or use for tradition? Surely that can't be 
true. I think you might be confusing the pejorative sense of "ritual" 
with "tradition" here, because there are plenty of traditions being 
adhered to, even being *invented*, all around us every day. Heck, 
Americans are proud of their traditions!


> The British, on the other hand, have magic as a part of their 
> national history.


I see what you mean, but although in a concrete way almost all 
Americans are newcomers, having arrived here not too long ago, they 
did come from all those old countries in Europe and the rest of the 
world that surely had and still "have" strong and continuous 
indigenous magical cultures. If ethnic languages, clothes, foods, 
manners continue to live on among second- and third-generation 
Americans, why not magical traditions among, say, Nigerian-Americans? 
Being a newcomer doesn't mean being literally "new."

And plee-hee-HEEase don't make our sad Muggular exclusion from the 
Potterverse worse by saying that even less of us have magical 
abilities... it's almost unbearable already! Aargh.