Politics of Location

Privilege is defined as “a special advantage or authority possessed by a particular person or group” in the Cambridge Dictionary. Globally, white individuals are often granted privileges than minority groups do not receive. While white privilege often goes unnoticed by white individuals, it causes many disadvantages for people of color and effects how they see themselves. Furthermore, Affirmative Action attempts to equal the playing field for minorities but is faced with contention by many white people.

White privilege is a new term that has been classified by academia, but has been experienced for millennia. The course of history is told through the eyes of European Caucasian white males, whilst capturing, infecting or enslaving many ethnicities. Laws in the United States were at some point designed to limit the number of people that were granted freedom, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Even though they have been abolished, in current society, major companies and workplaces have found loopholes to still discriminate as much as possible. To be a white male in this society can be compared to winning the “genetic lottery”, because they have little obstacles in the real world.

Are you privileged , are you only successful because of the color of your skin , was everything in your life handed to you ?

After thousands of years fighting, killing and arguing with one another, we as a human race still cannot live in harmony. We live in a society where skin color determines what advantages and disadvantages you have. The issue of White privilege in our society is real. It is a topic that many people are afraid or uncomfortable talking about. I consider myself privileged, in my education, my good neighborhood, and my light skin. I recognize the privilege I have. White privilege refers to the immunities granted as a particular benefit or favor for being of a certain wealth, gender, or race. White privilege affects minority populations and society in many ways. White privilege can come in many forms, such as never having to speak up for all the people of your race, having a positive relationship with the police, escaping violent stereotypes, and seeing people of your race widely represented in the media. These are sources that offer concrete evidence on how white privilege affects our society.

Growing up white, I never fell victim to racism or segregation, and sadly, I believe I was ignorant regarding these issues until I reached college. My sister and I were raised in the lower-middle-class by a single mom; But, we were fortunate to be born into a large family that has always supported each other in times of need. Being raised in the middle-class society, I never went without. My mother raised me in a nurturing way, but also believed in tough love in order to create a resilient young woman ready to tackle the world. Through my college education, I have recognized that I was born with white privileges that were given to me rather than something I earned. Coming from a large, tight-knit family, one of the most

Congratulations for those of you who have won the fictitious genetic lottery imposed by society, the government, and first world countries for being born white. The prize: the white privileges granted to us every single day; set by the racist, the profiteers, and the selfish individuals allowed to prevail for centuries through the silence of our own fears and thinking that this was and is not our problem. The topic of white privilege has unsettled many. Have you ever stopped to think what privileges you may take for granted everyday for having a certain shade of skin? To have a generally “positive relationship with the police,” the ‘nude color’ matching your own skin tone, the hotel shampoo matching your hair type and texture, seeing people of your own race celebrated in monuments, textbooks, currency, not being followed by security personnel in stores, and to be not perceived as a danger to the community in the media (Greenberg and Holladay). It's easy to overlook our white advantages when it's not you who is being directly confronted, violated, and unjustly prejudiced for simply having a different colored skin. If you had a different skin tone, would these everyday inconveniences to downright discrimination become more apparent?

Moreover, the Law of the Father played a significant role in Rich’s life. Rich was affected by PSTD, Post Dramatic Stress Disorder as a result of her father being in the war. She took this and used it to her benefit. She allowed this experience to structure her life and shape it in a way that would help her grow and learn, and bring others along either to experience it, or relate to her experience. Rich will never know what exactly happened to her father during war.

From the moment a person is born, they enter the world with an ascribed status. An ascribed status is an inborn status and is usually difficult or impossible to change (116). My ascribed status is that I am a white/caucasian female. Because I come from a white/caucasian family, we would be considered more “privileged” than others. However, because this system is not based on race or ethnicity, our assigned class in society had everything to do with how my parents worked and lived their lives. When I was younger, my family’s social class status was considered to be the working/lower-middle

In high school, I thought of myself as being more privileged than most of my classmates. Most of the students that I attended class with came from a relatively low socioeconomic background. Diversity was present at our high school but privilege was scant. In the activity that we participated in during class, I was surprised to find out that many students were not very close to the front of the group

However, I don’t think it is as simple as claiming privileged or unprivileged. In some ways, such as that I am white and was born into a decently well-off family, I am privileged, but in other ways, such as that I am a woman and live with disabilities, I am unprivileged. As far as what put me where I ended up, I think the fact that my parents were both successful in their careers and that I am white contributed greatly to my being farther along in the exercise. Questions such as the bullying and disability and mental health questions hit on multiple aspects of my identity and seemed to be worded effectively as far as accounting for

In a political geography overlap, most land properties can be governed by several governmental agencies. Initially, Mid-America Christian University is an organization part of a government agency, MACU main campus located at 3500 SW 119th Street, Oklahoma City, OK 73170 is an accredited business and set to professional standards. The University could be considered as a government agency that has primary domain over the land because the organization is the owner of the land. The second government agency that sovereigns is the Oklahoma City government. This form of government has a Council manager for each ward in Oklahoma City. MACU is the eighth ward of Oklahoma City. The city laws circumvents the MACU policies which could cause issues

Jose Antonio Vergas and MTV did a documentary about white privilege in America. He visited Rapid City, South Dakota; Bellingham, Washington; and Phoenix, Arizona. After listening to some of the responses of the youth from those different locations, I noticed that Caucasians are uncomfortable with race relations. Most of the youth that participated in the project came from conservative households. The students mentioned how uncomfortable their parents would get if they tried to ask them a question about certain things they have heard in the media or about the things they have learned through history about white people. Their parents felt like their children were "bashing" white people or felt attacked just because they were asking questions. Various universities offer white privilege seminars. These seminars are taught by young Caucasian men that come from

Exemplification Outline Luck or Privilege? I. Introduction: Can someone be born lucky or unlucky? Maybe they were just born privileged. Thesis Statement: Depending on ethnicity, nationality, and gender you can very well be more privileged than others. II.Topic Sentence: People who happened to not be born white are typically less privileged, that’s some pretty bad luck.

As I was completing the exercise, I kept checking the privilege box over and over, nine times in a row in fact; ten total checked in the privilege column. As I continued to check the boxes, I thought to myself; “am I really this privileged?”. To other people, I am extremely privileged. I am a white woman, who is currently pursuing a college education, and my body and face matches society’s standards. So in a way, I am very lucky. On the other hand, I was raised by my mother, who was a single parent; ever since the fourth grade when my parents divorced. The years before and after the divorce, was full of my parents fighting constantly with myself in the middle every single time. As a young child, this is no easy ritual to be apart of. On this side of things, I was not lucky enough to have been raised by two parents with a successful, compassionate

Political geography and corporate political strategy of Murad Antia, Incheol Kim and Christos Pantzalis discusses the implication of corporate lobbying. This article studies the purpose of corporate lobbying, who uses corporate lobbying and the implication of corporate lobbying based on the constant changes in the political map (mid-term and presidential elections). Political geography and corporate political strategy also examines “the relationship between political geography and corporate political strategy as measured by lobbying expenditures”. M. Antia, I. Kim and C. Pantzalis found that firms tend to increase lobbying expenditures when a shift in the political map puts them further away from the president, in other terms, companies tend to increase lobbying intensity when they lose access to political power. They also found that the primary goal of lobbying is to build political capital to take advantage of short-term opportunities. And finally, they identified that when their ties to the center of political power diminish, increasing lobbying intensity can increase valuation. This article discusses why firms engaged in corporate lobbying and how firms engaged in corporate lobbying tend to out-perform non-lobbying firms.