1. The theme of xenophobia in J. K. Rowling’s fixion series ‘Harry Potter’

2. The object: xenophobia.
The purpose: to draw attention to this problem and retrace how it is revealed in the contemporary British literature.
The main tasks:
to determine the term “xenophobia”;
to study the history of this phenomena in Britain;
to study the way a modern British author tells us about this problem in her books (symbols, characters, allusions).

3. The methods of research:
the method of study of documents (educational and scientific literature, dictionaries);
literary analysis of the fiction series by J.K. Rowling “Harry Potter”;
the usage of Internet;
public opinion poll.

4. Xenophobia is a fear or contempt of that which is foreign or unknown, especially of strangers or foreign people. It comes from the Greek words ξένος (xenos), meaning "foreigner," "stranger," and φόβος (phobos), meaning "fear." The term is typically used to describe fear or dislike of foreigners or in general of people different from oneself.

5. Objects of xenophobia
Population
group
Cultural
elements

6. Extraterrestrial

7. Types of discrimination:
Race discrimination
Age discrimination
Gender discrimination
Disability discrimination
Language discrimination

8. The UK is a multicultural, multireligious and multinational country.

9. ‘The White Man’s Burden’ by Rudyard Kipling
Take up the White Man's burden
Send forth the best ye breed
Go bind your sons to exile
To serve your captives' need;
To wait in heavy harness
On fluttered folk and wild
Your new-caught, sullen peoples,
Half devil and half child.
‘The White Man’s Burden’ by Rudyard Kipling
Твой жребий – Бремя Белых!
Как в изгнанье, пошли
Своих сыновей на службу
Темным сынам земли;
На каторжную работу,
Нету ее лютей, -
Править тупой толпою
То дьяволов, то детей.
(Перевод В. Топорова)

10. J. K. Rowling is a British writer and author of the Harry Potter fantasy series.

11. Public opinion poll

12. Public opinion poll

13. Public opinion poll

14. Race, religious and national discrimination
are absent in the magical world…

15. The World of Magicians The World of Muggles
The Dursleys

16. Pureblood magicians

17. Pureblood magicians
Arthur Weasley

18. Mudblood Pureblood magicians Half-blood Death Eaters
The discrimination ideas are the bases of Death Eaters’ ideology.
The Death Eaters seek the total destruction of Muggle roots.
Prejudice and discrimination in the Wizard world in some cases
deep-rooted to the level of apartheid.

19. Squib is the term applied to a child born of magical parents but possessing no magical ability.
Squibs are encouraged to integrate into the Muggle world, which is "much kinder" than keeping them in the magical world, where they will always be "second-class" – disabled.

20. Mudblood Hermione Granger
Daughter of two British dentists.The most talented student of Hogwarts .Was brought up in the modern British society which has admitted the necessity of multicultural and national tolerance
Mudblood
She cares so much
about the exploitation of elves.
She created the Society
for the Promotion of Elfish Welfare,
or S.P.E.W.

21. Magic Races

24. Here lies
Dobby
a Free Elf

25. The Battle at Hogwarts

26. To my mind J.K. Rowling managed to express the appeal for necessity of respect to “the alien” and acknowledgement of their being unique. We can’t force people assimilate with the majority, we should value the cultural diversity of our world and cherish individuality.

27. Thank you for your attention!