There's a reason I don't express it as "I want to share my privilege". It's "I think those are things everyone should have." I posted about (http://sonnlich.livejournal.com/947357.html) that very article, by the way, a while back.
See, I don't think that we should be making everyone's experiences identical. I like diversity - on equal terms, like, let's trade Shakespeare for Shosholoza and everybody can enjoy the fruits of one another's cultures.
But if something is a part of the white experience that non-whites don't want, because it's a cultural distinction they would prefer not to have subsume their own?
That's not privilege! It's a cultural difference! The privilege, perhaps, is one being seen as superior to the other, if such applies, which it often does, and that's something that we need to jettison.
The idea that !culture is Good is one of those elements of white privilege that I just think should be things everyone has. Stay-at-home mothers should be valued - as should stay-at-home-fathers - but that's not to imply that making the choice to work the fifty-hour-a-week job and go for Partner needs to be devalued.
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See, I don't think that we should be making everyone's experiences identical. I like diversity - on equal terms, like, let's trade Shakespeare for Shosholoza and everybody can enjoy the fruits of one another's cultures.
But if something is a part of the white experience that non-whites don't want, because it's a cultural distinction they would prefer not to have subsume their own?
That's not privilege! It's a cultural difference! The privilege, perhaps, is one being seen as superior to the other, if such applies, which it often does, and that's something that we need to jettison.
The idea that !culture is Good is one of those elements of white privilege that I just think should be things everyone has. Stay-at-home mothers should be valued - as should stay-at-home-fathers - but that's not to imply that making the choice to work the fifty-hour-a-week job and go for Partner needs to be devalued.