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I think sometimes it’s easy to forget that the word we proudly place beside society is “multicultural”, not “multicoloured”. So when I read the briefest mentions of Indian Parvati Patel in Harry Potter (which is a series, I should note, I adore) or Asian Marika (Ringer) from The Fifth Wave series by Rick Yancey, I see characters virtually identical to everybody else, with no differentiated culture attached.

This, in itself, is not necessarily a bad thing. There are people from ethnic or religious minority backgrounds whose lifestyles are very similar to mainstream culture, and their representation is just as important as anybody else’s. But the people who do have different lifestyles, who eat and dress and speak and think and live differently, need representation too.

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- Why do so many children’s books treat diversity as a black and white issue?
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Jan 09, 2016
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