WEBVTT Kind: captions Language: en 00:00:00.350 --> 00:00:02.184 - I hope to get a hundred percent, 00:00:02.184 --> 00:00:04.691 because I love doing well in school, 00:00:04.691 --> 00:00:06.357 because I was raised in an environment 00:00:06.357 --> 00:00:07.681 which valued learning. 00:00:07.681 --> 00:00:08.549 - Me too. 00:00:08.549 --> 00:00:10.065 - Yeah, privilege. 00:00:10.065 --> 00:00:11.618 - That was so bad. 00:00:11.618 --> 00:00:12.451 - So bad. 00:00:16.235 --> 00:00:18.406 - Privilege is a very loaded term. 00:00:18.406 --> 00:00:19.955 - In a word, is access. 00:00:19.955 --> 00:00:21.880 - An advantage that you're either born with, 00:00:21.880 --> 00:00:24.199 or that was handed to you. 00:00:24.199 --> 00:00:25.547 - I think it has a lot to do with 00:00:25.547 --> 00:00:29.119 how your identity benefits from a system 00:00:29.119 --> 00:00:31.856 that has been in place for a very, very long time. 00:00:31.856 --> 00:00:34.057 - Yeah, winning the birth lottery, 00:00:34.057 --> 00:00:35.557 to but it bluntly. 00:00:36.560 --> 00:00:39.727 (pensive piano music) 00:00:43.034 --> 00:00:45.619 - I have no idea how we're gonna compare to each other. 00:00:45.619 --> 00:00:47.730 I'm white, but I'm also Native American. 00:00:47.730 --> 00:00:49.622 I'm a man, but I'm also gay. 00:00:49.622 --> 00:00:52.296 I'm a Christian, but I'm also poor. 00:00:52.296 --> 00:00:54.743 - I think I'm probably gonna rank pretty low, 00:00:54.743 --> 00:00:56.523 as a person of color and as a woman. 00:00:56.523 --> 00:00:58.593 - I am a straight, white guy, 00:00:58.593 --> 00:01:00.251 went to an Ivy League school, 00:01:00.251 --> 00:01:02.929 both parents have graduate degrees. 00:01:02.929 --> 00:01:04.156 - And you wear polo tees. 00:01:04.156 --> 00:01:05.815 - I feel super privileged, 00:01:05.815 --> 00:01:08.108 and I don't know how to talk about it, 00:01:08.108 --> 00:01:10.710 which is why I'm forcing myself to be in this video. 00:01:10.710 --> 00:01:13.328 - Being a person of intersectional identities, 00:01:13.328 --> 00:01:15.632 if it's not the Asian side of me, 00:01:15.632 --> 00:01:18.226 it's the female side of me, or the queer side of me. 00:01:18.226 --> 00:01:19.800 - I'm a middle class white person, 00:01:19.800 --> 00:01:21.675 I expect to very privileged. 00:01:21.675 --> 00:01:24.111 - I don't think I'll be surprised at where I land, 00:01:24.111 --> 00:01:26.650 or what you see is not necessarily what you get with me. 00:01:26.650 --> 00:01:29.031 - I think I'd probably be in the middle upper. 00:01:29.031 --> 00:01:31.494 - Maybe in the middle, 00:01:31.494 --> 00:01:33.904 as a woman of trans experience, 00:01:33.904 --> 00:01:36.304 and as a woman of Asian American background, 00:01:36.304 --> 00:01:37.447 like 50-50. 00:01:37.447 --> 00:01:39.251 - I'm excited to play the oppression Olympics 00:01:39.251 --> 00:01:41.120 and see what medal I get. 00:01:41.120 --> 00:01:41.953 - USA 00:01:43.726 --> 00:01:46.743 - Do you think Donald Trump got like 1000% on this? 00:01:46.743 --> 00:01:48.007 - Woo, this is complicated. 00:01:48.007 --> 00:01:50.779 I am a man, because obviously I identify as a man, 00:01:50.779 --> 00:01:52.234 but a man of trans experience. 00:01:52.234 --> 00:01:53.388 - I have never been discriminated against 00:01:53.388 --> 00:01:55.531 because of my skin color. 00:01:55.531 --> 00:01:56.524 I think I have to check this. 00:01:56.524 --> 00:01:58.357 - I have never been mocked for my accent. 00:01:58.357 --> 00:02:00.895 My family has southern roots, and I grew up really poor, 00:02:00.895 --> 00:02:02.797 so I definitely didn't grow up 00:02:02.797 --> 00:02:04.904 speaking the way that I'm speaking now. 00:02:04.904 --> 00:02:08.535 - I am not nervous in airport security lines. 00:02:08.535 --> 00:02:10.124 I'm always nervous. 00:02:10.124 --> 00:02:11.412 - I've been pulled aside before 00:02:11.412 --> 00:02:14.050 where they're like umm, we see something in like this, 00:02:14.050 --> 00:02:15.312 pointing to the junk area. 00:02:15.312 --> 00:02:16.516 - See, I've never even thought about 00:02:16.516 --> 00:02:19.016 the way trans people experience airport security. 00:02:19.016 --> 00:02:19.904 - Oh, yeah. 00:02:19.904 --> 00:02:21.226 - I have lied about my sexuality. 00:02:21.226 --> 00:02:22.554 I have had to come out, 00:02:22.554 --> 00:02:26.047 and I have doubted my parents' acceptance of my sexuality, 00:02:26.047 --> 00:02:27.503 so huh. 00:02:27.503 --> 00:02:30.122 - I fortunately have not had to do that. 00:02:30.122 --> 00:02:31.633 - I have never pretended to be just friends 00:02:31.633 --> 00:02:32.951 with my significant other. 00:02:32.951 --> 00:02:33.969 - Oof, I have. 00:02:33.969 --> 00:02:35.023 - That one just got me. 00:02:35.023 --> 00:02:37.207 Having dated women, and also having been 00:02:37.207 --> 00:02:39.678 in interracial relationships with men, 00:02:39.678 --> 00:02:40.995 I've definitely had those moments. 00:02:40.995 --> 00:02:43.103 - I have lied about my religion, I guess. 00:02:43.103 --> 00:02:45.020 I feel like I need to take a shower. 00:02:45.020 --> 00:02:46.238 - I've never been told I am 00:02:46.238 --> 00:02:47.672 attractive for my race. 00:02:47.672 --> 00:02:48.684 Does that happen? 00:02:48.684 --> 00:02:49.517 - Yeah. 00:02:49.517 --> 00:02:50.505 - Oh man. 00:02:50.505 --> 00:02:52.585 - I have never felt unsafe because of my gender, 00:02:52.585 --> 00:02:53.753 I have never been catcalled, 00:02:53.753 --> 00:02:56.096 I have never been sexually harassed or assaulted. 00:02:56.096 --> 00:02:57.591 Not checking any of those. 00:02:57.591 --> 00:02:59.657 - Never been called a fag. 00:02:59.657 --> 00:03:00.747 I actually have. 00:03:00.747 --> 00:03:02.348 - This question's a slap in the face. 00:03:02.348 --> 00:03:05.151 My family and I have never lived below the poverty line. 00:03:05.151 --> 00:03:06.765 Way to just rub it in. 00:03:06.765 --> 00:03:08.950 - I don't know how I expected this to go, but, 00:03:08.950 --> 00:03:10.539 uh, it's a lot of check marks. 00:03:10.539 --> 00:03:12.088 - I have worked as a waiter, barista, 00:03:12.088 --> 00:03:13.906 bartender or salesperson, in fact, 00:03:13.906 --> 00:03:15.704 I've worked all four of those jobs. 00:03:15.704 --> 00:03:16.658 - I was a barista. 00:03:16.658 --> 00:03:21.180 - I worked at my aunt's restaurant for one weekend. 00:03:21.180 --> 00:03:22.550 - I have never attempted suicide. 00:03:22.550 --> 00:03:23.599 I've never been depressed. 00:03:23.599 --> 00:03:26.287 All that hits a little too close to home. 00:03:26.287 --> 00:03:27.786 - Not having student loans is 00:03:27.786 --> 00:03:30.370 the thing I feel luckiest about my life. 00:03:30.370 --> 00:03:31.308 - Thanks mom and dad. 00:03:31.308 --> 00:03:32.563 - Thanks, mom and dad. 00:03:32.563 --> 00:03:34.163 - I do not rely on public transportation. 00:03:34.163 --> 00:03:35.768 See, you don't think about public transportation 00:03:35.768 --> 00:03:37.368 when you think about privilege. 00:03:37.368 --> 00:03:39.181 - I knew that I was privileged, 00:03:39.181 --> 00:03:41.992 but this survey is making me think 00:03:41.992 --> 00:03:43.604 about a lot of things that I don't actually 00:03:43.604 --> 00:03:45.137 think about on a daily basis. 00:03:45.137 --> 00:03:47.358 - I have never lied about my ethnicity in self-defense. 00:03:47.358 --> 00:03:49.054 I absolutely have, and I get away with it 00:03:49.054 --> 00:03:50.321 because I'm biracial. 00:03:50.321 --> 00:03:52.426 - I consider myself to be physically attractive. 00:03:52.426 --> 00:03:54.549 Is that something that is easy to check? 00:03:54.549 --> 00:03:55.970 - I checked that easily. 00:03:55.970 --> 00:03:56.803 - Really? 00:03:56.803 --> 00:03:57.636 - Yeah. 00:03:57.636 --> 00:03:58.469 - I didn't check it. 00:03:58.469 --> 00:03:59.302 - Really? 00:03:59.302 --> 00:04:00.823 - I consider myself to be physically attractive. 00:04:00.823 --> 00:04:01.656 - Yeah. 00:04:02.959 --> 00:04:04.349 - I have never been violently threatened 00:04:04.349 --> 00:04:05.810 for my religious beliefs. 00:04:05.810 --> 00:04:07.613 I never had, and it immediately made me 00:04:07.613 --> 00:04:09.110 like, want to crack, because it's like, 00:04:09.110 --> 00:04:10.898 as I speak this sentence, 00:04:10.898 --> 00:04:12.348 that's happening to people. 00:04:12.348 --> 00:04:13.547 - I was not bullied as a child 00:04:13.547 --> 00:04:15.022 for any of my identities. 00:04:15.022 --> 00:04:16.605 I mean, yes, I was. 00:04:17.472 --> 00:04:18.305 - For what? 00:04:18.305 --> 00:04:20.079 - Being smaller. 00:04:20.079 --> 00:04:21.325 - Whoo. 00:04:21.325 --> 00:04:22.842 - Does anyone have some joints for after this, 00:04:22.842 --> 00:04:27.009 because like, or a good pillow that I can hold and cry? 00:04:35.276 --> 00:04:38.526 - I feel a little sad, all of a sudden, 00:04:41.879 --> 00:04:44.355 because there were just so many things 00:04:44.355 --> 00:04:45.772 I couldn't check. 00:04:49.121 --> 00:04:50.594 - I came into this thinking that 00:04:50.594 --> 00:04:52.851 I was pretty privileged, 00:04:52.851 --> 00:04:55.806 and I left feeling even more privileged. 00:04:55.806 --> 00:04:57.312 - Recognizing your own privilege 00:04:57.312 --> 00:04:59.449 is definitely a step in the right direction. 00:04:59.449 --> 00:05:00.863 - Every day I'm obviously very inundated 00:05:00.863 --> 00:05:03.397 with the fact that I don't have a whole lot of privileges, 00:05:03.397 --> 00:05:05.098 but I think that I often forget the ones 00:05:05.098 --> 00:05:07.041 that I do benefit from. 00:05:07.041 --> 00:05:09.248 - It's worth it to look into learning 00:05:09.248 --> 00:05:11.160 about the privilege that you have, 00:05:11.160 --> 00:05:13.208 because it lets you use it better, 00:05:13.208 --> 00:05:15.346 to like, better the lives of the people around you. 00:05:15.346 --> 00:05:17.231 - I encourage everyone to take a look 00:05:17.231 --> 00:05:18.982 at their own privilege, 00:05:18.982 --> 00:05:20.486 even if you consider yourself to be 00:05:20.486 --> 00:05:22.368 someone who is at a disadvantage. 00:05:22.368 --> 00:05:24.368 You're probably more privileged than someone else. 00:05:24.368 --> 00:05:25.920 - Going into this test, 00:05:25.920 --> 00:05:28.154 the advice that I would give is to 00:05:28.154 --> 00:05:30.474 know that it's not gonna define who you are, 00:05:30.474 --> 00:05:32.109 it's not gonna define your character, 00:05:32.109 --> 00:05:35.835 and it's not gonna define your space in life. 00:05:35.835 --> 00:05:37.196 Those are things that you can create 00:05:37.196 --> 00:05:39.418 on your own, outside of privileges, 00:05:39.418 --> 00:05:43.585 it just depends on how you create a path to get there.