The Privilege of Being White: An Auto-ethnography

superstar of the virtually distinct and powerful aspects of the American society is diversity. It is constituted by different mass of various races, ethnicity, origin, color, beliefs and even languages. America leads in this spheric phenomenon as it features itself as the headquarters of the free, the land of cosmopolitanism and universality.Immigrants in the US much(prenominal) as Latin, African and Asian Americans produce become an integral office staff of American society. And as part of the American culture, unique individual identities of immigrants atomic number 18 encouraged to be asserted and accepted for assimilation and continued festering of the American culture.Behind that so called American dream that many immigrants yearn for is the unwrap of racism that continues to pervade American society. Racial discrimination has metamorphosed in saucily forms and channels in the modern age. It has been institutionalized and cunningly integrated at heart the fabric of society as both institutional and cultural phenomenon. (Kivisto and Rundblad)The establish forms of racial inequalities before remains very much existent but manifests itself in institutional mechanisms today which provided a new dimension of racial segregation in the form of privileges and racial stigma.An ordinary everydayUpon getting this assignment, I quickly started a conscious reflection of my regular activities and made a critical analysis of my social environment in order to differentiate the so called privilege that white people enjoys in society. The first occasion that come up in my mind on my way home is that in a society dominated by whites, the white people is a norm.Thus, non-whites atomic number 18 regarded as different or non customary. In the just about peculiar yet common way, I can easily socialise with or get into a company of white people most of the time. On the other hand, I would have some hesitations in sexual climax or getting along with non white s. At this point, I realize that at that place seems an unconscious prejudice within me that I can relate relegate with white people because I am one of them and subconscious premiss that they see me as a reflection of themselves as well because I am white.On the other hand, my hesitations to approach non white people may have also stemmed from some kind of bias that non whites are gaga or unwelcoming. In worst scenarios especially towards non-whites in the streets, there seemed an instinctive supposition on my part that they are conclave members and are potentially dangerous.I believe that these subconscious feelings are reinforced and sustained by the general media particularly how non whites have been negatively affected by stereotypical characterizations and the how whites are given privilege. (Branscombe and Doosje)The motion picture is one of the many media through which self-opinionated racial, cultural, and historical discrimination and stratification in society is depicted as a reality in society. The movie, Boyz in the Hood for instance, tells of the struggles and perils of a five-year-old black man living in the ghetto were joining a bunch is a survival kit and that violence in the neighborhood is a way of life.The controversial film Do The Right Thing in 1989, on the other hand accounts a series of events that described the racial tension in a predominantly black neighborhood that resulted to violent conflict in the end. The movie, higher learning on the other hand, tells of the discrimination that extends in academic institutions that led to the murder of students as well. The constant portrayal of non whites as gang members made me think that most blacks and Latinos are gang members and are therefore potentially treacherous and threatening.