content/posts/on-privilege.md

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   2 title: "On Privilege"
   3 date: 2019-07-15T17:40:09+05:30
   4 lastmod: 2019-07-15T17:40:09+05:30
   5 tags : [ "society" ]
   6 categories : [ "political" ]
   7 layout: post
   8 type:  "post"
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  12 A number of things we take for granted are actually privileges.
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  14 The following are a few things I've recently identified as privileges through personal experience:
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  16 - mental health
  17 - being born without birth defects
  18 - being cis gender
  19 - being accepted by society
  20 - place of birth
  21 - color of skin
  22 - supportive parents
  23 - clean water
  24 - affordable healthy food
  25 - electricity
  26 - internet access
  27 - technical knowledge
  28 - free time for hobbies
  29 - disposable income
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  31 The following are more relevant in the Indian context:
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  33 - being born in a higher caste
  34 - being a follower of the majority religion
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  36 I probably wouldn't have thought of a lot of the above as privileges 5 years ago. I might identify some more things as privileges in the coming years.