In my personal experience, I have been privileged in many things, one being the most obvious in having a roof over my head and being able to have food over my table. After watching the video, it is very eye opening to see that many might not be as privileged as yourself and in a way that exercise helps one acknowledge to be grateful for what you have. I think the education I have is an example of a privilege, being able to receive help with my tuition and having support from your school with housing or meals when a student needs it. A privilege many heterosexuals have is people do not constantly ask us why we made our choice to be public about our sexual orientation. I feel like the basic decency that everyone deserves is being able to be checked by a doctor and not have it based on whether they have health insurance or not. I for example feel like that is a privilege a lot of people do not have, the opportunity to be attended to by a doctor. Overall, it is hard to look at your own privileged and identify it until you hear that many do not have it.  

I rarely consider that I am oppressed or have even difficulty thinking of examples when it comes to sharing. I am Mexican- American and I feel like my nationally sometimes rub the people the wrong way, especially when it is whites. Before working as a medical assistant in my current office I used to work at an urgent care, and it was my first job out of school, so I was super excited to my distaste and was treated horribly by an administrator. It had me second guessing my career goal because during my time there I thought everyone was like that I did have a lot of conversation with other medical assistants there, so I was basing it on that. Later, after I quit because of her lack of respect I found out that it was because I was Mexican, this was the first time I had ever live through something like that. I thought back to the many discriminations my parents had to go through because they were immigrants and did not speak the language. Immigrants and many children of immigrants are oppressed because they belong to a group that labels them as illegal and aliens. 

After reading and watching the video, it helped me define the concepts of privilege and oppression because I was able to visualize it with the examples and exercise provided. Even though I knew most of the privileged a white person gets I focused so much on that, that I did not realize the I am privileged as well. Marilyn Frye definition of oppression added to my knowledge of what I already knew of oppression, in fact what she stated about how it is misused and sometimes not innocently is why she decided to clear that she did not want to undertake that woman are oppressed but that men are not but in fact wants to be clear about what is meant when we say women are oppressed (pg. 11). These readings and video did not change on what I know of oppression, but it did change my thoughts on what I considered to be privileged and being able to acknowledge it.