Josue Vasquez Discussion Board #4

In some ways I feel I experience privilege by having water and food ,a roof over my head even school is a privilege. I feel privileged because I was born in the United States where I can truly achieve anything I put my mind to with of course some sort of struggle but still attainable. I say this because many people around the world do not have access to the things we do: food, water, school, even resources. I also have a supporting family even without a father figure. My mom did a great job raising us. In some ways that I feel I experience is that I am Hispanic and i come from a one parent household my mother worked day and night to provide for me my twin brother and two sisters. I also feel oppression do to me and my family living in the south Bronx in a three bedroom apartment with my mom, my grandmother and my siblings i sometimes never invited some of my friends over because i always felt that it was just a dirty area where my apartment building is i only invited over some of my friends that lived in the same area as me over because they went through the same thighs. After watching the video and doing the readings helps me define the concepts of privilege and oppression. My current definition of privilege is having easy access to things that other people don’t have easy access or just don’t have access to at all. Then the oppression definition that I believe is racism, sexism, hetero sexism lacking housing, education and healthcare. This is my definition of both privilege and oppression and I feel these both definitions that I gave also apply from the video and the readings that these are both very similar definitions.

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  1. Hollis F. Glaser

    This is good Josue. It’s so important to recognize your privilege and that you don’t take for granted that you have food and water and shelter. And it’s equally important to see where you are oppressed because of your position in society.

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