Having privileges is having the advantage of many things, in a way having more exits and options than many people around you. having privileges can come at least as your skin color even for a last name. having privileges is having the advantage of many things, in a way having more exits and options than many people around you. having privileges can come at least as your skin color even for a last name. The fact of being Latin or African American in the US leads us to suffer from many things, including having privileges. As minorities, we lack certain privileges that are very important like when we talk about health care, or just going to any school and not worry about any type of discrimination just by being different. On the other hand, if we compare the few things we have as privilege with what white people has then we have nothing, they do not have to worry about things like not have a good insurance and healthcare wherever they go, or lack of education because they can freely go anywhere and not having to worry about discrimination, they do not have to work as hard as we do to get what they want.
Macroaggression is commonly defined as typical daily behavior, in spite of the fact that verbal communication seems to be inoffensive, macroaggressions are known as ways of everyday discrimination or covert racism. An example is how a person tries to “flirt” by saying things offensively because of the way it sounds to a woman passing by. While reading An introduction to gender in Social Institutions when it says “Even when it comes to gender/sex identity, to assume you act completely independent of external influence is to ignore the larger elephant in the room.” This explains that being a man, in this case gives you the benefit of expressing yourself freely and not worry about how things might sound and affect the other.
