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Tuesday, January 11, 2011
Prejudices
In the Chamber of Secrets, we discover that Slytherin had wanted Hogwarts to be a school only for full bloods, with no 'mudbloods' admitted. His prejudice against anyone different from himself creates all sorts of problems. How does this attitude compare with real prejudices people have had throughout history, for example against people of 'mixed blood' regarded as inferior?
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Also one of my favorite books as a kid was one called 'The Family Nobody Wanted'. In it, a young minister and his wife end up adopting a bunch of kids (they were kind of the Brad Pitt and Angelia Jolie of the sixties/seventies!) and most of them ended up being children that were at least two different races because one side wouldn't want him/her because of the other side and vice versa. They each thought it was bad blood.
That is just weird.
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