The Trouble We Re In Summary

The point is, we are all different. Yet the differences that we have between us can be used to strengthen society as we know it. Diversity enables us to have the opportunity to learn, develop, and understand different ways of living, and experience our lives to the fullest. Without diversity, we are closed or boarded off in our own worlds. But with it, we expand our knowledge and we are no longer ignorant. When you are aware of the differences and embrace them, then you have taken the blind fold off to living differently and you are a better person for it. The key is exposure and using what you learned to increase more tolerance and decrease things such as racism.

Privileges are things that a person receives that gives them an advantage over most people (Merriam-Webster). These are benefits that only certain people receive for being in a certain group or discourse. Peggy McIntosh, director of the Wellesley College Center for Research on Women, wrote “White Privilege and Male Privilege” and states “I think whites are carefully taught not to recognize white privileges, as males are taught not to recognize male privilege” (605). She argues that whites and males receive certain privileges, yet they do not even notice them. This shows that different races and women are still put at a disadvantage, but the people who receive the benefits are blind to the problem. Many people will argue that she is correct

In conclusion, Peggy McIntosh pointed in her article, white privileges don’t come from an individual person or flaw of a person. White privileges arise from the flaw of the system placed in a society. Therefore, if we want to change the society and equalize the privilege amongst whites and colors, then change must happen within the system. It is the system that influences individuals to act upon in the society. A great way, we can demise

In the Peculiar Benefits Roxane Gay talks about privilege how it work in the real world. How others don’t have the same privilege as an individual thus making people viewing the world in a spectrum. Privilege is a special right, advance or immunity granted or available only to one person or group of people. We have all these privilege race, gender, heterosexuality and etc…. all give us the frame work of our society that we live today. The WordPress page stated that people are classified by those who encounter them and since this viewer are so influences by the constructed norm. On this page the discus of privilege is still in progress because it widely topic in our society. In Peculiar Benefit Roxane Gay use ethos, pathos and logos to discuss that everyone don’t have the same privilege but we tend to think privilege is not an issue and everyone have the privilege.

An alumni group, Check Your Privilege organized by Dr. Ja’Nina Walker, works to raise student and faculty awareness about privilege on a San Francisco campus and increase social equality. The group defines privilege as “unearned access to social power based on membership in a dominant social group.” The group desires to increase consciousness about privilege, especially in the among social justice influences. They work to bring privilege into regular public discussion and urge those with privilege to use it for public benefit.

Privilege or (advantage) is simply the opposite of oppression or (disadvantage) and it is often easier to notice our disadvantages over our advantages. Why is this the case? Being mistreated is more likely to leave a bigger impression on us than when we are treated fairly. It is weird how this works but it is true that we tend to notice the oppression we personally experience than the privileges we experience. Every individual in society is oppressed in completely different ways and it is important to consider all the possibilities in which we are oppressed. For me, being a young woman in this world is just one oppression that I experience every day and unfortunately being a woman alone makes my life difficult at times. Oppression is

To be a person, requires intersectionality. Intersectionality is the idea that people do not function on only one aspect of their being, but instead, function on every aspect. Aspects that include race, gender, ability, etc. With this intersectionality comes innumerable categories that lie on the scale of privileged, oppressed, or somewhere in between. To be privileged is to have advantages that are not necessarily earned, and instead come with a specific, usually uncontrollable feature, such as race, gender, class, and ability. To be oppressed is to have disadvantages that are not earned, but instead come with the same uncontrollable categories as privilege. Even cis-gendered, heterosexual, white, men have aspects of their intersectionality that might not place them at the top of the privilege hierarchy. And it is in these complications where people start to place doubts on their own privileges. It is important to realize that it is nearly impossible to have privilege in every single way or oppression in every single way, yet, this is not an excuse to deny privileges. Even with some oppressions, some are still granted more advantages than others. To delve into this deeper, analyzing writings from established writers, such as Peggy McIntosh and Devon Carbado become necessary.

In Peggy McIntosh’s, “White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack” she introduces the topic of privilege from the point of view of a women in a world designed to favor men. She sees that men acknowledge the fact that women are disadvantaged but are unable to admit that they themselves have higher power. This denial of power is what creates the gap between men and women and is a clear stepping stone to her primary point of white privilege. The problem does not lie in the existence of white privilege but more so in the validation that is given to it. To be oblivious to this privilege is what gives it power to aid the white population, while simultaneously crippling other minority groups. She goes on to state that realizing there is hierarchy is the first step to systematically taking it down. This however has to start by finding where the problem originates.

Privilege is an unfair distribution in which a particular group, goods, services and equity ratio is higher than another group.

According to McIntosh, 1988; White Privilege is defined as an expression of power and social dominance of white European Americans over racial and ethnic minorities through the attainment of unearned immunities and benefits. These benefits are individual experiences, institutional benefits, and using things representative to the culture and being able to disregard culture contributions of other groups by racial and ethnic. According to McIntosh 1988; racial privileges are like having “invisible weightless knapsack of special provisions, assurances, tools, maps, guides, codebooks, emergency gear, and blank checks (p.77). Racial privileges are benefits that are not earned based but received because someone is white. Having benefits that are unearned

In the excerpt of Peggy McIntosh, she talks about how white people are privileged. She says that women’s disadvantages are men’s advantages. She explains that by her being a white person, she was taught about racism as something that puts other people at a disadvantage. McIntosh also says that white people are taught not to recognize white privilege like in the same way men are taught not to recognize male privilege. In the excerpt, she describes white privilege as a knapsack, where it’s invisible and weightless.

The Merriam-Webster defines privilege as “a right to benefit that is given to some people and not to others” or “a right or immunity granted as a peculiar benefit, advantage, or favor”. Peggy McIntosh talks specifically of white privilege describing it as “an invisible package of unearned assets that I can count in cashing in each day” (1). White people are taught to think of themselves as “morally neutral, normative and average and also ideal,” it is never emphasized to us that what we experience on a daily basis and take for granite, is not any kind of social norm, but a privilege. Such simple and trivial ideas such as turning on “the television or open[ing] to the front page of the paper and see people of [white] race widely and positively represented” or the idea that swearing or “dress[ing] in secondhand clothes, or not answer[ing] letters, without having people attribute these choices or the bad morals, the poverty, or the illiteracy of my race” (3).

As a Behavioral Neuroscience major I can tell you 9 out of 10 people will agree that privilege applies to them when they are in a group discussion. It’s a term called group mentality; you agree with the group, or the most politically correct idea, in fear of being the only one who dissents and as a result becoming ostracized by the group. However, if you took everyone individually and asked them if privilege was the force behind their success, people in today’s society will still adamantly tell you how they worked “their ass off” to get where they are

Privilege and entitlement is identified as “the accrual of benefits solely because of membership in a dominant group” ( (Lindsey, Robins, & Terrell, 2009) as identified by race, gender, language, social class and physical ability. The acknowledgement of power and entitlement is considered to be the first step in being able to bring about changes in equalizing the power struggle between the dominant and non-dominant members of an educational institution and further in society.

Chapter Three introduces Gretel, Bruno's older sister by three years, whom he refers to as "Trouble From Day One" (21). Bruno runs into Gretel's room and discovers her arranging her dolls around her room. She agrees with Bruno that their new living situation is horrible and tells him that the place is called "Out-With." Bruno shows Gretel the scene from his bedroom window: There are boys, men, and elderly men living together on the opposite side of a fence that extends farther than they can see into the distance. After Gretel returns to her room, Bruno continues to watch the people out his bedroom window and notices that they're all wearing the same thing: "a pair of grey striped pajamas with a grey striped cap on their heads"