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Do Americans   disbelieve   in privilege for purely ideological reasons, or is it due to a basic misunderstanding? Photo by   Arseny Togulev   on  Unsplash . . Originally Published on Medium . . Privilege seems to be most fiercely denied, or downplayed when it comes to skin-color, and somewhat less so, gender. Yet, Americans, who seem to discount the prevalence of privilege in every way, surely cannot believe there is no such thing as privilege, except conceding that a person with considerably more wealth than another person is privileged. To that end,   what other areas of life do we see privilege playing out on a daily basis? . Most of these other categories of privilege are not politically or ideologically challenged. Particularly, if I mentioned these categories in a one-on-one conversation, without mentioning skin color or gender privilege. While you, and I are not in a face-to-face venue now, I hope to provide some context about how privilege seeps in...

Photo by   Debra Fisher   on  Unsplash . First published on Medium . . I knew a guy who had the most excellent Australian accent ever. He was the   Crocodile Dundee   of SCSU in the mid 1990s, where I went to complete my degree after two years of college in the early 1980s. He was boisterous, funny, and always animated.   Do you have a picture in your head as to what Nick looked like?   Tannish skin, slim, great smile, handsome, and half Chinese and half Thai. . Strangely his parents were not given a friendly welcome when they arrived Down Under with too many of   their kind  overrunning the continent.   Why does “their kind” sound so familiar? Could it be that Aussies seem to have a problem with too many immigrants at their doorstep?…   Or near their shores, I guess. It is as if white Australians are an arrogant, selfish, horde as well as a forgetful lot about their history. They   kinda   were the first interlopers, and ...