[HPforGrownups] Maturity of kids in Potterverse was Re: So, why did Snape turn on

[Olwyn]

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Ali wrote:  >>Another point I think is that British kids are still less 
sophisticated than their American counterparts. This is a 
generalisation, and one which is changing rapidly. But, in every TV 
programme I see with American High School kids, I always think that 
the kids seem much older than British children of the same age. I 
know the actors are often in their 20's, so they look older, but they 
seem older in their attitudes as well. So I think that JKR is 
painting a slightly anachronistic picture of adolescent development, 
which fits in with Harry as a late starter in the WW, but one which 
would not be that unusual in British Muggle Society.<<

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As someone who was recently declared online to be uncultured and uneducated for not being American I had to reply to this. I'm sorry, but this is incredibly insulting to anyone outside of the US.  You're judging RL British Kids by American TV Programmes?!?  Those people are actors, like you said in their 20s, yes their attitidues will seem different because they carry a chunk of themselves into the roles and that chunk isn't a teenager any more, chances are what they were like when they were a teenager is radically different from hat they actually are now.  Not only that the programmes are written by Adults, it's not accurate, it's what they'd like it to be and what suits the situation they want to create.  Dont run down British Kids on the basis of a TV Programme, it's fake and scripted, RL isn't!! 
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Olly
Who will apologise to the mods now for being off topic, but that really irked me.


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