ravensrandoms:slightlypsychic:mademoiselleseraph:I’d hate to be a party pooper, but as a Native woma
ravensrandoms:slightlypsychic:mademoiselleseraph:I’d hate to be a party pooper, but as a Native woman, this all makes me seriously uncomfortable.If the Hogwarts mascots were a lion, a snake, a badger, and a raven, all real animals, why do these new ones have to be religious creatures? Also, the Hogwarts houses all had fanciful made up names but these are legitimate names of creatures Indigenous peoples believed in. Doesn’t that seem a little ethnocentric to anyone?And the whole “indigenous magic but i can’t say which tribe” bullshit? Seriously? No, it’s not like we aren’t all thrown into a cultural stereotype by white people all the damn time.So glad I never got into Harry Potter, or this could have been heartbreaking.If you ever wondered what cultural appropriation looks like, it looks kinda like this.I don’t have any energy left to rant more about this entire shitbundle of “no, leave your hands outta my culture” that is Rowling’s new venture. So I’ll just second what other Native folks are saying.I won’t be participating in any of the new sorting/Harry Potter material for this reason. Like, especially after reading the history of Ilvermorny– it just smacks of colonialist, ethnocentric and racist assumptions. JK tries to include smidgens of Native accomplishments to the school but that’s all they are, tidbits, and there is no attempt to make actual Native characters central to her lore. It’s a gross blend of cultural appropriation and historical revisionism and I want none of it in the media I consume. -- source link