re: How Mjnorities can gain their "privilege"

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Being able to flip on a television anywhere in this country and being able to view folks who look like you dominant in Hollywood.

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Not privilege at all. No one benefits from having people that 'look like them', and guaranteed I could do that for any minority. (I love watching Korean Comedies. :) )

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Being able to walk down the street any street and people remember "a man walked down the street" instead of "a black man walked down the street."

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This is particularly a problem that blacks have fomented.

It's never "a physicist", it's an African-American physicist. It's never "the President" it's "the first African-American President". I have not seen -any- race focus more on skin-color than contemporary blacks.

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Having anglo-saxon beauty standards be the coveted look.

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Anglo-Saxon, I take it you mean "white" (Anglos are a specific type of white, like Celts, Slavs or Mediterraneans) -- that beauty standard is shared by most of the world.

Several cultures other than European (including Japanese and Chinese) practiced "white face", black women bleach their skin to get a fairer complexion.

That has nothing to do with privilege. The standard has been set for over 4,000 years.

Do you have any more examples of privilege?