Personal Narrative: The Right Hand Of Privilege
When I was much younger, I had the opportunity to live in rural Georgia. While living there I had the assumption, since I had medical insurance everyone else does too. During this time I made some friends of which I had learned their family did not have health insurance. This raised my awareness of various topics. The first was not everyone is the same and not everyone has what you have. Looking back after reading and the live classroom, I realize having health insurance was a privilege, and in my case could be considered an unearned privilege. This is due to the fact my health insurance, which was earned by my father who was serving in the US Air Force, was given to me because I was his dependent. Listening to the live classroom, I came across some similarities as my classmates.
One item I had found similar to my classmates was what is actually considered privileged. During the Privilege Exercise, I came to learn circumstances I …show more content…
This article not only explains privilege and peoples view of it, but it’s also how our society at the systematic-level gives right handed people much more privilege than left handed people. This paper mentions how right-handed people all easily use cars, computers, guns, and even small objects like notebooks because they were designed for them. All of these are notable examples of unearned privilege because not every right-handed person in society has done anything to be given right-handed cars or notebooks. Ever since the beginning, it has been a right-handed world from the saluting, to hand shakes as his paper mentions. I think part of this is because at some point in history being left-handed was seen as bad in some cultures and religions. This is also a good example of oppression, as people during these times would be forced to use their right
One item I had found similar to my classmates was what is actually considered privileged. During the Privilege Exercise, I came to learn circumstances I …show more content…
This article not only explains privilege and peoples view of it, but it’s also how our society at the systematic-level gives right handed people much more privilege than left handed people. This paper mentions how right-handed people all easily use cars, computers, guns, and even small objects like notebooks because they were designed for them. All of these are notable examples of unearned privilege because not every right-handed person in society has done anything to be given right-handed cars or notebooks. Ever since the beginning, it has been a right-handed world from the saluting, to hand shakes as his paper mentions. I think part of this is because at some point in history being left-handed was seen as bad in some cultures and religions. This is also a good example of oppression, as people during these times would be forced to use their right