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Natalia talks about privilege in relation to social rights and the BLM movement.
In this second video this week, I want to talk about privilege.
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The definition of privilege is social advantages or benefits that certain people hold based on their locations in a social hierarchy, so in levels of social privilege.
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For example, I have certain benefits or privileges based on my identities.
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so I am white I come from a family with enough money to be comfortable growing up I have
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graduated from university and I'm also from the United States I have a United States passport
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and that makes it very easy for me to travel places I also speak English fluently and that
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is something that really has helped me get ahead in the world as well the thing about privilege
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is it's something that we're usually unaware of until it's pointed out to us. And it can
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sometimes be uncomfortable to talk about the privileges that we hold. I know when I first
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heard about privilege and had friends and professors talk with me about privilege in
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university, I felt this sense of guilt and I felt immediately like I wanted to justify myself. I
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wanted to say, you know, maybe I have privilege, but I've earned what I have. I have worked hard
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for the things I have. And I think it's important to point out that privilege, saying that I have
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privilege doesn't mean that I haven't worked for what I have. And it also doesn't mean that I
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haven't struggled or faced any difficulty in my life, because I definitely have faced difficulty.
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I've had some really hard times in my life. But what privilege does mean, and the concept of
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privilege points out is the reality of the system in which we live. The system in which we are
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living, the societal structure, doesn't give everyone the same opportunities that I've had.
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I do have benefits that I've done nothing to earn just by virtue of the fact, again, that I am white,
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that I grew up in a middle-class family, that I am from the United States. I did nothing to be
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born in the United States and yet because I was born in the United States I had so many benefits
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that were given to me almost automatically. Something that it's important to talk about
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when it comes to privilege in my opinion is intersectionality. So intersectionality is a
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theory that was originally come up with by a woman named Kimberly Crenshaw and what intersectionality
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says is that we must look at combined experiences of privilege and oppression. So intersectionality
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says that everyone's experience of privilege and oppression is unique. It's unique from person to
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person. For example, a gay Latino man's experience of oppression is going to be different and unique
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to a straight black woman's experience of oppression. And that's not to say that one is
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more difficult or easier than the other, intersectionality says that it is not a
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simple addition and subtraction. It's not a math equation. It just means that we have to take into
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account all of someone's identity and experiences before we can say how they've been affected by
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privilege and oppression. You may be asking, why is this important? This is important because
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it's important to understand the realities of the world that we live in, of the system that we are
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living under, right? We live and work in a society and in order to break down these injustices
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and really fight to create a more fair future and society, it's important that we are completely
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aware of the ways in which our society is affecting both ourselves and others who are
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similar to or different from us.
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- Idioma/s:
- Autor/es:
- Natalia Caprile
- Subido por:
- Sandra G.
- Licencia:
- Reconocimiento - No comercial - Sin obra derivada
- Visualizaciones:
- 84
- Fecha:
- 7 de junio de 2020 - 16:26
- Visibilidad:
- Público
- Centro:
- IES SAN JUAN BAUTISTA
- Duración:
- 03′ 56″
- Relación de aspecto:
- 1.78:1
- Resolución:
- 960x540 píxeles
- Tamaño:
- 134.47 MBytes