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It means that the terms black and white are artificial. Hispanics are the largest minority group. There are lots of other groups and cultures and none gets accounted for when you decide to do you black vs. white discussion.
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Good point. Especially considering here in the US, we lump Hispanics all into one category - even though there are "white" and "black" Hispanics, including those that are a "mixed" (not mixed as in one parent is this and the other parent is that, but from years of continuous "race mixing" so to speak).
I would be curious to know what the case mix is though.
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I always heard the cry of "reverse discrimination" at the mouths of mediocre white males; never from anyone who was very succesful in their fields, and in turned blamed it on affirmative action. It used to be that if you were just an white male of average intelligence/social standing/income, that you were set for life. Due to the women's and civil rights movements, that's not so true anymore. It just so happens that white males today have to prove themselves just as much as women and persons of color did in the past and still have to.
To answer the original question, I think there is white privilege AS WELL AS white skin privilege (in some ways, I have benefitted from that myself). There is a whole exercise, "Unpacking the knapsack of white privilege," that addresses the issue. I had to do it plenty of times during undergrad, I'm sure some people here have heard of it.
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Good point as well and since I agree with you, I'll just piggyback off your post.
