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The Importance Of Privilege In Society

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What is privilege? Privilege, is a right or benefit that is given to some people but not others. The word privilege is generally taught at a very young age. Privilege is thought of something that is earned, not something that is just a given to you in everyday life. White privilege is an advantage that the white people have in our society. Most of our privileges are unearned and unnoticed in our daily life’s. In our daily life it is consisted of privileges that are always not recognized because they are just our everyday life. We just become norm to these privileges that we don’t even realize they exist. This privilege diary has made me re think my preconceptions of racism and race. I honestly thought I knew a lot about race, but come to …show more content…

You do not see a lot of blacks on toys. Some blacks or Hispanics may not pay certain toys because of the race and ethnicity. I think the main form of privilege I found whole finding privileges for a week was the expectation that my general appearance and sexual orientation would be reflected in my everyday life and decisions. In today’s day in age, we are becoming more accepting of different sexualities and gender identities. I can remember when I was younger gays, homosexual, and transgender were all very unaccepted. Everyone has their own opinions on it. Now we see states legalizing gay marriage. Many people believe that by having different sexual orientation is a decision that I really frowned upon. We normally think of gender as something that is developed at birth and is normally set in stone. Recently, people are now starting to express that their gender is different from the sex they were given at birth. I can’t even fathom how much things have changed in the last ten years. Between race and sexual orientation has changed a lot. The racism will keep continue if not get worse. And the sexual orientation is continuing to be expressed more and more. I feel as if our society has been changed with all of our race, ethnicity, gender, and sexual orientation has changed. Sexual orientations have a big effect on our society. Some people are judged by our sex or sexual orientation. Sexual orientation is a person's sexual

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