Privleges meme

[professionalhenchman]

Grabbed from klellingson:

From What Privileges Do You Have?, based on an exercise about class and privilege developed by Will Barratt, Meagan Cahill, Angie Carlen, Minnette Huck, Drew Lurker, Stacy Ploskonka at Illinois State University. If you participate in this blog game, they ask that you PLEASE acknowledge their copyright.



1. Father went to college.
2. Father finished college.
3. Mother went to college.
4. Mother finished college.
5. Have any relative who is an attorney, physician, or professor.
6. Were the same or higher class than your high school teachers.
7. Had more than 50 books in your childhood home.
8. Had more than 500 books in your childhood home. Mom wouldn’t let me build up this many due to my uncle’s example taking over grandma’s house with books
9. Were read children's books by a parent.
10. Had lessons of any kind before you turned 18.
11. Had more than two kinds of lessons before you turned 18.

      12. The people in the media who dress and talk like me are portrayed positively.
13. Had a credit card with your name on it before you turned 18.
14. Your parents (or a trust) paid for the majority of your college costs.
15. Your parents (or a trust) paid for all of your college costs. No, I got a scholarship that did though.

16. Went to a private high school.
17. Went to summer camp.  The same camp my Dad & his brothers went to as kids
18. Had a private tutor before you turned 18.
19. Family vacations involved staying at hotels.  Heck no, we liked to camp.  Except for the time we went to Washington DC.
20. Your clothing was all bought new before you turned 18.
21. Your parents bought you a car that was not a hand-me-down from them.
22. There was original art in your house when you were a child.  Mom’s an artist, so of course we did, the walls were covered with her work.
23. You and your family lived in a single family house.
24. Your parent(s) owned their own house or apartment before you left home.
25. You had your own room as a child.
26. You had a phone in your room before you turned 18. Not a separate phone line, but Dad helped me run an extension into my room, as long as I was willing to climb under the crawl space and do much of the work.

27. Participated in an SAT/ACT prep course.
28. Had your own TV in your room in High School.  Only because I fixed up a broken one I got from a friend.
29. Owned a mutual fund or IRA in High School or College.  That’s where Mom & Dad kept the money they’d saved for our college education, mutual funds in our names.
30. Flew anywhere on a commercial airline before you turned 16.  Once.
32. Went on more than one cruise with your family.
33. Your parents took you to museums and art galleries as you grew up.
34. You were unaware of how much heating bills were for your family.

                20/34, getting up there, I suppose, though some of it was from do-it-yourself solutions.

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[klellingson.livejournal.com]

I managed to accidentally edit out Item No. 31. Here it is:

31. Went on a cruise with your family