| Jan. 5th, 2008 @ 09:48 am Privilege Meme . . . |
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From What Privileges Do You Have? - Based on an exercise about class and privilege developed by Will Barratt, Meagan Cahill, Angie Carlen, Minnette Huck, Drew Lurker, Stacy Ploskonka at Illinois State University. If you participate in this blog game, they ask that you please acknowledge their copyright.
(my personal comments in italics)
Bold the true statements.
1. Father went to college
2. Father finished college
3. Mother went to college
4. Mother finished college
(neither graduated from high school-but that is another whole post. These first four statements sent me on a long binge of thought about education and priviledge vs. other intelligences)
5. Have any relative who is an attorney, physician, or professor
6. Were the same or higher class than your high school teachers.
(I am not sure what this means. Where we lived? Income? Whether we picked food out of our teeth at the dinner table?)
7. Had more than 50 books in your childhood home
8. Had more than 500 books in your childhood home.
9. Were read children's books by a parent
10. Had lessons of any kind before you turned 18.
(do swim lessons at the local Y count when I was six?)
11. Had more than two kinds of lessons before you turned 18
12. The people in the media who dress and talk like me are portrayed positively
13. Had a credit card with your name on it before you turned 18.
14. Your parents (or a trust) paid for the majority of your college costs
(but that was when the CA state colleges were a bargain. That's not the case anymore.)
15. Your parents (or a trust) paid for all of your college costs
16. Went to a private high school
17. Went to summer camp
(church camp for one week that I paid for out of my allowance. I don't think that is what they meant)
18. Had a private tutor before you turned 18
(my older sister taught me a lot)
19. Family vacations involved staying at hotels
(only the kind with wheels attached and beds converted out of tables)
20. Your clothing was all bought new before you turned 18
(there were five years between me and my sister and I was a shrimp to boot so no chance of her clothes fitting me)
21. Your parents bought you a car that was not a hand-me-down from them
(a used VW. I was the last child and by then my brother and sister were gone so they could afford it.)
22. There was original art in your house when you were a child
(there was a paint by numbers Mary and Joseph that hung in my parent's room, and some original art painted by my mother in our livingroom)
23. You and your family lived in a single-family house
24. Your parent(s) owned their own house or apartment before you left home
(owned but with a mortgage they were still paying. Their house cost them 8K. Yep, you read that right. Their monthly mortgage payment was $35. Last I saw, that house is going in the 500K plus range. All 1,100 square feet of it. Close to LA. It's all about location I guess)
25. You had your own room as a child
( Sort of. I shared with my sister until my brother moved out and I got his room. I was about 14 then. Joy!)
26. You had a phone in your room before you turned 18
(inherited from my brother and it was also the second family phone which meant anyone could come in my room and use it. My dad worked for the phone company so it was a freebie.)
27. Participated in a SAT/ACT prep course
28. Had your own TV in your room in high school
29. Owned a mutual fund or IRA in high school or college
30. Flew anywhere on a commercial airline before you turned 16
(I thought flying was only for the rich)
31. Went on a cruise with your family
32. Went on more than one cruise with your family
33. Your parents took you to museums and art galleries as you grew up
(Well, not exactly, but I visited every lake and campground in California. My dad loved to fish. Lots of beauties and wonders to see and ponder outdoors.)
34. You were unaware of how much heating bills were for your family
(in CA it isn't a big deal)
Hm. That's 13 give or take a little fudging on interpretations. |
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