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Titre: Privilege
Posté par: PlumeVerte le 04 Décembre 2014 à 20:13:11

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Hello everyone. So recently my english teacher gave me this essay of 50 words to do. She also gave me this question to answer to :
"How does it make you feel to know that in our society there is privilege attached to white skin ?"
You might think that this is a delicate question to answer to, but I wanted to share the text I wrote to have other people's point of view.


I think that there is not a privilege attached to being white skinned but if we look closer to our society there are a lot of examples that can prove that there is.
People are just taught indirectly to ignore them in some way.
For example : The bandaids people use when they have cuts are white/flesh colour and the shampoo in hotels is never for ethnic hair types.
We don't notice this because we are used to them.
White skin privilege does exist, if we want it to.

Titre: Re : Privilege
Posté par: Abbigails le 02 Janvier 2015 à 18:17:59

Hello,
I think that you're kind of right. But you also forget loads of examples. 50 words might not be enough thought. But did you ever take the tube ? or went to the police in Paris suburbs ?
I think that most of the time we don't see the privilege but on the other hand if you go in some places it is every where.
It would be interesting to look for the opposite : privilege for black skinned people. It does exist as well but in different places and order. We don't see it as much as "white privilege" but it's so real at the same time ...

The real problem in your answer is that you don't have enough words to say every thing and that you forget about oppening the  subject at the end (I guess).
It would be nice of you to tell us what your teacher said. If it's ok with you. :)