When you are a privileged individual you never really think of your privilege. It is just something that you are born with. Certain things just aren’t your problem or don’t affect you, this is no fault of your own. How could you know you are privileges if oppressions were never placed on you or people who look like you. I myself am very grateful that I can say I was privileged growing up. Because I did not grow up on the continental US, I didn’t have to deal with what typical people of color in this country go through. I didn’t experience racism until I was an adult and I always felt safe in my environment. My skin color, thank goodness, was never a problem for me.\u00a0Micro-aggression, however, is a different story. I couldn’t count on all my fingers and toes how many times I have been micro-assaulted or micro- insulted. As a women I can recount anytime that I have been cat called or someone is talking to my boobs instead of to my face. There have been times where I’m told it doesn’t matter if I’m smart because I’m pretty or they are surprised that I am smart. Being from a Caribbean island also seems to be a trigger for people. They assume English wasn’t my first language, they talk to me slowly as if I don’t understand. I’ve been told that the homes in the US must be amazing compared to where I come from because they assume I lived in a hut. People have come up with the craziest theories.<\/p>\n
To keep my sanity I just chop it up to ignorance. I try to inform people on how their words can be offensive.\u00a0Education seems to be the best way to fix this problem. Teaching people to break their set stereotypes and gender norms. Information and knowledge are the best tools against ignorance. Besides educating others on what is offensive to me I try to brake every stereotype a person might have prescribed to me. I don’t want to fit any of their boxes. It helps, shocking people into having open mind.<\/p>\n
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