What Is The Power Of Privilege At Youtube

The Privilege activity is so impressive to me. Because I have never pay attention to my privilege and think I have any privilege. So, I think I will stand at the back of the line, but I turn out standing at the middle of the line. Some classmates, I think they would stand at the front of me because their first language is English and I think they have better privilege than me, but they actually stand behind me because of social problems like family. I watched a video named “The Power of Privilege at YouTube”, the speaker is Tiffany Jana. She said she is a black woman but her appearance doesn’t look like it because her family history. She mentioned she doesn’t notice Martin Luther King Jr. in the center of her family picture but only her grandfather.
She asked what we are missing and why we would ignore things like that? She said she only focused on the privilege she doesn’t have, but she never noticed and concern the privileges she already has such as her mother and father are high educated, and she is bilingual and so on. Privilege does not guarantee success, and we need to be uncomfortable to be realized the fact of privilege. Race and gender still matter; privilege has a huge impact on job opportunity and our life (Talks, 2014).
Blind for privileges most people already have is common, but we need to change the frame of how we see things, because we miss the fact and ignore what we have. Some don’t realize they have privileges such as ability to go to college, citizenship, language and that can change social problems by using their privilege. Some people don’t have opportunities to go to college, become citizen or able to speak a language neither foreign language. I think we should use our privileges to help people who lack of those privileges.