Essay On Privilege

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What is privilege? This is an exceptional right, advantage, or immunity granted or available only to a particular person or group of people. Privilege can be defined if one person or a group of people has one or more right or value that others people or set of people are deprived of just because of the groups they belong to or for whom they are, or rather than because of anything they’ve done or failed to do. Right to privilege doesn’t control one’s results, but this is absolutely a benefit that makes it more likely that whatever endowment, ability, and aspirations a person or group with privilege has will result in something positive for them. There many different types of privileges such as white’s privilege over blacks in America, men privilege over women mostly in the muslin countries, in the church and mosque, men privilege in the corporate world, entertainment industries and more areas where women are discriminated because of the …show more content…

• State laws prohibited non-citizen immigrants from owning land. This means that only European (white) immigrants could own land, and, had greater means to accumulate family wealth and opportunity for descendants. • All European (white) immigrants are allowed the right to marry either before or after they came to the U.S., while most Chinese and Filipino immigrants were not allowed to bring families or to marry in the U.S. • In the late 19th century, white children, children of European immigrants, were given the right to an elementary school public education. Children of color, namely children of African, Asian, and Chicano or indigenous parents, were not. • White women won the right to vote in 1920 after 100 years of struggle. In the South, however, black women and men were not legally able to vote until the 1965 Voting Rights Act was

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