Apparently Senator McCain wants this case to be treated as a "terror case":
"Under the Law of War we can hold this suspect as a potential enemy combatant not entitled to Miranda warnings or the appointment of counsel."

Sorry for the late response. Yes, magical names are generally associated with the pureblood, ancient-wizard-bloodline stuff. I'm going to consider several situations possible for the Patil twins and Cho's ethnic history.

Haha, no I'm not a PhD <3 just a ComputerScience/Biology double major. So nothing related to any literature stuff. But it is extremely noticeable in books and movies.

Yes! Thank you :)
That's what I was getting at. It's nice to have weak Asian characters-everybody's human. But it's a problem when strong (particularly love-interest) ones are so very rare.

Yes, that's another good point. There is subtle, implicit racism in literature, BECAUSE of the fact that too many people just ASSUME characters are white, unless explicitly stated otherwise.

But she was intended to be stronger and "better" than Cho. Do you deny that?

It shouldn't BE awkward though. She doesn't describe a lot of characters until much later after they were introduced, and it wasn't awkward for them. It's sad when you have people thinking characters in stories are automatically white. Remember the Hunger Games stuff? Remember when Cinna was cast as black? Remember…

OK, yes. You CAN have weak Women of Color characters. Because everybody's just human. BUT why is it that the weak characters are CONSISTENTLY people of color? Why is it that characters who are people of color are consistently shallow (in terms of characterization) and one-dimensional?
If you argue that JK Rowling made…

To me, Cho's, and the Patil twins' names were ridiculous because they were so obviously Asian. Like you couldn't write in good British names for people of color. Or, if they were from wizarding families, good "magic" names for them. Because it's so obvious that Asians have to have Asian names.

OK, can we not focus on the name/country? The fact remains that there IS implicit racism in books (not just JK Rowling's).

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"wolf made of wolf"

The other day I sustained great injury when trying to get that pack of thin-sliced turkey breast open. Goddamn those plastic traps of death.

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*joins you 20 minutes late*

Fuck that. We need a fucking Batman in our world. Batman, where are you???????????

I didn't mind having a healthy actress because at least JLaw was GOOD.

No, it's not just you! I've never heard anybody refer to their bun in the oven as "daughter" or "son", just "baby"...

-__-' I think GeorgiaBurner was agreeing with you.....