I absolutely did not mean to pity you, I was just saying that you...


Oh, well okay then.

how about you don't talk to me anymore? be a good boy now

I won't make any promises.

I'm sure no one will be surprised about this:

54%

You’re quite privileged. You’ve had a few struggles, but overall your life has been far easier than most. This is not a bad thing, nor is it something to be ashamed of. But you should be aware of your advantages and work to help others who don’t have them. Thank you for checking your privilege.

Response: thank you Buzzfeed.

I may not have faced anything to do with sexuality, gender or race but there are many other things I've gone through that are not all covered by the quiz. I'm definitely aware of my privilege and consider myself very lucky. At the same time I'm not a rich girl from LA who's had everything paid for (college included).

I took it and ended up with 43%

hehe If butthead was around this whole thread would rustle his jimmies.

You got about the same as me! I agree, there are lots of aspects of privilege that the test does not take into account and some statements are very simplified. I answered the test very honestly and only unticked a statement when I know it would not be true for most case scenarios in my life.

I think the reason I got a fairly high privilege rating was that I could tick "yes" for all of the healthcare options, thanks to Australia's public healthcare. So feeling very 'privileged' so to speak to have those options available to me.

It's strange though to think that so many people here on this forum (obviously educated, literate, opinionated and free) scored such low scores when you compare to obvious disadvantage as experienced in third world countries - would they then get MINUS scores?!

Anyway, just thought it was interesting nonetheless!

I was also surprised too how low most people's scores were. You're right about being poor in a third world country being minus. It didn't really cover the type of country you were in, what your socioeconomic status is, whether you've gone through a disaster (for example in my case, earthquakes which devastated the city I was living in), whether you've gone through PTSD (only mentions depression and mental disorders but I feel that one should be included.

Very good point! I wouldn't have even thought of those factors but they are definitely able to dictate someone's privilege against others. It also got me thinking about the refugees who I work with who, as well as sometimes being overtly discriminated against for their race, have a lot of other factors that affect their state of "privilege" in terms of language and bureaucracy that prevents them from various societal privileges such as having a job. Plus also PTSD like you mentioned, having come from war-torn countries (as only one example).

Also, I ticked the box for "I don't have any student loans" because when I was at university and in my first few years of teaching I saved up all of my money to pay off my fees while all my classmates and colleagues were out partying spending it all on booze. Given, university education in Australia is fairly inexpensive but this doesn't mean I am any more privileged than them, it means I was just more careful with my money!

So yeah, basically a very simplified survey on what it means to be privileged, the more I think about it!

It touches on different forms of privilege. It isn't so much only about income. There were very few ticks related to income.

The privilege criterias were basically broken down into heterosexual privilege, male privilege, cisgender, very few touched on class and able bodied privilege. If I looked over the list again. I think there were a few more. Oh religion as well.

Definitely. So really, there were too few criteria in the whole scheme of things. For example, the criteria relating to race did not specify things like language or background. Two people from two very different racial "minority" groups could still be very different in terms of how they are privileged or not. I work with immigrant families from India who are EXTREMELY different from the immigrant families from Vietnam and Cambodia in terms of their "privilege," even though going by this survey's statements they would have answered basically the same.

Good point in that there are different types of privilege. I guess this survey tries to lump them all into one when rather, it's a lot more complicated than that.