Privilidge

[eumelia]

Now, I know I'm a big privilidged bourgeois girl.

Now you all can see how much!

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04.01.08 15:50 - Edited To Add: From What Privileges Do You Have?, based on an exercise about class and privilege developed by Will Barratt, Meagan Cahill, Angie Carlen, Minnette Huck, Drew Lurker, Stacy Ploskonka at Illinois State University. If you participate in this blog game, they ask that you PLEASE acknowledge their copyright.

Father went to college
Father finished college
Mother went to college
Mother finished college
Have any relative who is an attorney, physician, or professor
Were the same or higher class than your high school teachers
Had more than 50 books in your childhood home
Had more than 500 books in your childhood home
Were read children's books by a parent
Had lessons of any kind before you turned 18
Had more than two kinds of lessons before you turned 18 (We're talking extra curricular lessons yes?)
The people in the media who dress and talk like me are portrayed positively (White? Check, Middle Class? Check... even people with my politics on Israeli shows are far more common than not)
Had a credit card with your name on it before you turned 18 (Got my first credit card when I was 20, with my own money, nyah!)
Your parents (or a trust) paid for the majority of your college costs
Your parents (or a trust) paid for all of your college costs
Went to a private high school
Went to summer camp
Had a private tutor before you turned 18 (Only with math in order to matriculate, math-anxiety is not to be laughed at)
Family vacations involved staying at hotels
Your clothing was all bought new before you turned 18
Your parents bought you a car that was not a hand-me-down from them
There was original art in your house when you were a child
Had a phone in your room before you turned 18
You and your family lived in a single family house
Your parent(s) owned their own house or apartment before you left home
You had your own room as a child
Participated in an SAT/ACT prep course (The fascist military organisation - IDF - I belonged to at the time subsidized the majority of it... does that count?)
Had your own TV in your room in High School
Owned a mutual fund or IRA in High School or College
Flew anywhere on a commercial airline before you turned 16
Went on a cruise with your family
Went on more than one cruise with your family
Your parents took you to museums and art galleries as you grew up
You were unaware of how much heating bills were for your family

Stuff missing and it is very incomplete in many ways. But memes are for the changing.

Being aware of privilige is said to be the first step, well I'm aware.
My life has been and is way better than most.

We still need a socio-economical revolution to re-disperse the wealth and power and make the privilege my parents worked very, very hard to provide for me more available to those who work just as hard and get so much less.
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Comments

[schemingreader.livejournal.com]

Cool meme!

It occurs to me that only people who are working class/poor are really aware of the class disparity between themselves and their teachers. I'm fascinated by the aspect of privilege that allows/forces people to be ignorant of what other experience.

[eumelia.livejournal.com]

Indeed. I took me a long time to be aware to my own privileged. It's a hard thing to really look honestly on your life and know that mine is one of the best.

One of my other LJ friends mentioned that he used to travel First Class on planes and used it as an analogy for the perspective of class disparity in general.
Its true, traveling coach, you see who has more money and who has even more money. In Business, you know that eventually you can get to First and in First you're the Elite.

Society is just like a commercial plane (simplified of course)