Pre-Reading Week 4: Privilege

• Privilege for me is when you get to do something while some other people can't in your society and your community. For example, someone that has a VIP pass in a concert can get to visit the artist backstage whereas people that didn't purchase a VIP pass can't. Some examples in the society is when you're free to do your own will like practicing your own culture or beliefs or owning and managing your own business freely.
• White privilege means whites always comes first and they all have the access to anything while other people of color goes last on the hierarchy. It's like being white has its own disadvantage without earning them unlike people of color they had to work hard to earn what they can or they can't do. It also construct racial inequalities between white and people of color. Structural inequality I think refers to the white privilege; how the societal racial inequalities were in the past. Whites get all the privilege while the other race doesn't get most of the privilege like the white privilege. Structural inequality can also mean unequal opportunities and jobs in the society, where white gets to own their own business while people of color struggles to work in the farms owned by white rich people. The Advantage of having the white privilege is they are free to do whatever they want in their own country. Also, the whites can get to vote, have an education, and to own business while people of color and other race other than white only can work for the whites and can't contain educational background. The disadvantages of white privilege for the white is nothing I guess? but for the people of color all the disadvantages lies on their back. 
• Racism for me is about people of different races wanting a separation form different races and inequality amongst people of color. I think racism ties with the white privilege because of the social construct that white are on the highest level of hierarchy while blacks/people with color are on the bottom of the social hierarchy. Racism can be linked to the definition of privilege because by separation of race and the inequality of opportunities and roles between the white and the people of color. 
• I'm not sure about people of color being racist because I've never encountered that question before so I think they can be racist because they are their own race like the white people. They can be separated with the whites also if they wanted to be separated with them. 
• Whites have some advantages in the U.S. because they thought that they have been here before other racial groups and they controlled the U.S. before so because of that they are free to do whatever they wish and have an advantage than other minorities living and migrating in the U.S.
• Racism is not stable or permanent like race and it changes over time with the influences of the society as a whole. In Colonial America, separation and racism is a big issue with white being able to control and have the power while minorities doesn't. At the beginning of the 20th century, people started to become more equal as we approach democracy. 

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