According to Muggles
What do Muggles think about? What do they do in their lives? This is a fun book that tells how Muggles see the world.
Last Updated
07/31/21
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Be Normal
Chapter 5
The society in Muggle-land is a cumulation of social norms and conformity. You don't want to be different there. In the past (and even present), being different caused you to be beaten, ridiculed, locked up, and killed. On the less extreme end of this, you'd get bullied for liking different things or not being neurotypical. The other side includes minority groups being discriminated against. You're lucky if you're a straight white male. Anything else feels like a curse. Do you know the history of slavery? What about gay conversion therapy? Maybe you've heard of concentration camps? It's all very messed up. But it's real. Those are real things that have happened. Imagine you're born a white man in America. You get everything handed to you and you never have to work for anything. You marry a white woman and have perfect children. Nice life, right? Now imagine you're born a black woman. You never felt comfortable in your female body. Not only are you hated for being black, but the availability of services for you is incredibly low. Fewer salons know how to style black hair. Doctors are already iffy about trans people, but just because of your skin color, they'll deny you everything. I'm not saying that every single person is like this. There are white men who work hard. There are white people who aren't racist or homophobic. There are people of color who don't have obstacles. But these people can be hard to find. It's tragic, no one can be happy and we can't be equal.
The worst you'll get in the Wizarding world is discrimination against your blood. Pure-bloods think they're elite. Muggle-borns are called slurs. But just like in the Muggle world, this isn't everyone. There are pure-bloods who don't have a problem with people being half-bloods or less. But here, people are a lot more accepting. You're not trying to be crammed into a social norm. Really, we're different for being able to do magic. It's not strange when we're all together, it actually feels normal. For people with Muggle families, you feel like a freak. When you're with Muggles, you are different. I'd like to know how being different was decided to be a bad thing. Do people seriously want to be just like everyone else? Wouldn't it get boring, everyone being the same? We're individuals. We're not the same. And that's okay.