I think privilege is when you have things that others do not have, which makes me feel that it depends also on how people value the things that they have. For example, I do think I experienced a lot of privilege in my life especially looking at those who don’t even have clothes or food to eat when I can have it easily. In my religion, they taught us to always look behind us and see how lucky we are to have things that others have to fight for in order to get them. I grew up in a poor country and wasn’t raised by my parents because they had to travel to a better country with better job opportunities to provide for us and at least for their kids to have the bare minimum. I was never mad that I didn’t have the chance to grow up with my parents because they lived in a poor country. My siblings and I were able to have the bare minimum for a living. And I also do think that I had the privilege to have healthy parents. Most of the friends that I grew up with had one parent and it was very hard for them so I was always grateful. I believe you experience oppression when you are being treated differently than others with injustice. I dealt with some oppression when I was younger due to the fact that I wasn’t raised by my parents and would get laughed at when my parents doesn’t show up to school events It didn’t really upset me since I was okay with the way I was living but it gets annoying sometimes and would instead to participate in any school activities that included parents so I would sometimes miss school and stay home, but I was so glad that mine was not as bad as other because some people would get pick a lot just because they were poor or didn’t have much clothes to wear which was very mean because some people do not choose to be the way they are and some others might even be okay with the way they are. After watching the video it makes me think that privilege comes from a lot of angles such as an advantage that they only can access due to their gender, race, age, religion, and social status. Oppression means a group of people that belittle people by using their power or what they have better than them, making them feel like they are better in a cruel way.
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