Thanks again for the lengthy comment! I'm gonna check the links out, I suspected already there would be at least partially the same problems and challenges, but I didn't have sources to back that up.
About the 'Turkish emigrant' part: I completely agree with you Hermione isn't that versatile we can just easily label her any minority group. I think what I meant, is that certain information on Hermione is lacking, as you perfectly point out in your original post. What drives her to run SPEW, for instance? It feels to me we have only snippets of information regarding Hermione when we assume she's a PoC. And with the snippets we have, she could be black (although problematic as for the things you and other commenters point out). She could also be Turkish in a Western European country imho, regarding the snippets, but that would indeed raise a lot of questions too, and require a lot more background too than we have now. It would give a wholly different take but an interesting one nevertheless, I guess. (the reason I chose Turkish is that where I live, we have a lot of well-educated Turkish people, especially the newer generations, whose parents came here to work, but the children went to university. At my studies, we especially had a lot of Turkish girls. I know way too little about this group to really state things, but people told me that while the boys were generally having some problems with integration in society, the girls quietly worked their way up into the universities and now become lawyers, doctors, scientists... same with Moroccan girls, or so they say. A side note, but I found it a pretty cool development nevertheless.)
And another side note, but yeah, tumblr is quite focused on the US. I find it really interesting because I'm interested in foreign politics and this is one of my ways to keep updated with what happens in the US. But sometimes I wonder if the US also covers foreign news, and if so, what exactly do they cover? I am following your presidential race for quite a few months now and I think I know a thing or two about most of the candidates. European politics aren't covered that extensively, but then again, we don't have countries so big they're that determining for Western politics as the US is. And also, I like to say I'm broadly informed, but that's not really true at all, as I'm only really keeping up with European, US, Canadian and Australian politics. So that's maybe slightly better than the average US citizen, but I'm still hugely ignoring the rest of the world, and I feel pretty bad about that, as there's so much going on in the world regarding me too, like women's rights, climate activism, human rights, the list is endless. I just don't know where to start I guess?
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About the 'Turkish emigrant' part: I completely agree with you Hermione isn't that versatile we can just easily label her any minority group. I think what I meant, is that certain information on Hermione is lacking, as you perfectly point out in your original post. What drives her to run SPEW, for instance? It feels to me we have only snippets of information regarding Hermione when we assume she's a PoC. And with the snippets we have, she could be black (although problematic as for the things you and other commenters point out). She could also be Turkish in a Western European country imho, regarding the snippets, but that would indeed raise a lot of questions too, and require a lot more background too than we have now. It would give a wholly different take but an interesting one nevertheless, I guess. (the reason I chose Turkish is that where I live, we have a lot of well-educated Turkish people, especially the newer generations, whose parents came here to work, but the children went to university. At my studies, we especially had a lot of Turkish girls. I know way too little about this group to really state things, but people told me that while the boys were generally having some problems with integration in society, the girls quietly worked their way up into the universities and now become lawyers, doctors, scientists... same with Moroccan girls, or so they say. A side note, but I found it a pretty cool development nevertheless.)
And another side note, but yeah, tumblr is quite focused on the US. I find it really interesting because I'm interested in foreign politics and this is one of my ways to keep updated with what happens in the US. But sometimes I wonder if the US also covers foreign news, and if so, what exactly do they cover? I am following your presidential race for quite a few months now and I think I know a thing or two about most of the candidates. European politics aren't covered that extensively, but then again, we don't have countries so big they're that determining for Western politics as the US is. And also, I like to say I'm broadly informed, but that's not really true at all, as I'm only really keeping up with European, US, Canadian and Australian politics. So that's maybe slightly better than the average US citizen, but I'm still hugely ignoring the rest of the world, and I feel pretty bad about that, as there's so much going on in the world regarding me too, like women's rights, climate activism, human rights, the list is endless. I just don't know where to start I guess?