The rest of the questions are designed to emphasize how that whiteness manifests in different ways, but it’s not quite accurate and doesn’t take varied life experiences into account.įor instance, I can’t add on to “I’m white” because I can’t say “I’ve never been the only person of my race in a room.” My in-laws are Chinese and I have many times been the only white person in a room while conversations go on in a language I don’t know. For every statement you check off, you get a point so when I check off “I am white” it gives me one point. This quiz is a useful tool for helping people to analyze their privilege, but it gives every type of privilege the same weight and that’s a problem. Privilege is not a point system and different types of privilege outweigh others. Excuse me? The thing is, I very much AM privileged and I don’t need a quiz to tell me that. I took it and it turns out that I, a white, middle-class woman with a graduate degree … am not privileged. Last night, my Twitter feed was abuzz (pun fully intended) with the latest quiz from Buzzfeed that helped users determine how privileged they are.
