Individual Privilege Reflection Paper

“An invitation to narrative practitioners to address privilege and dominance” is a thought provoking document that induces critical thinking about privilege. The paper pushes individuals to question their experiences with privilege in their everyday lives and the effect that privilege has on the lives of others who don’t have that same privilege. My experience with this document successfully helped me to gain insight on my privilege and the way it shapes my life through the aspects of my gender, class, culture, sexual identity and ability. This insight helped me to answer the question about what I can do to ensure that in my workplace I am respecting the values and beliefs of different people from different culture. In order to understand my individual privilege, I need to better recognize the areas in my everyday life in which I am …show more content…
Living in a diverse community I have the privilege of being able to include aspects of my culture in to my daily life without any restrictions, I have the freedom to integrate my culture into the Canadian culture without fear of alienation or acceptance. This allows me to live my everyday life as a Canadian Women but also allows me to have my Pakistani culture be a part of my Canadian identity. Unfortunately this is acceptance is not given to everyone living in Canada, the prime example being the Indigenous People of Canada. “The role of social work in the lives of Aboriginal Peoples” by C. Baskin (2015) talks about The Indian Act of 1876 which was created to assist in the cultural genocide of Aboriginals, “this act imposed White, capitalist, patriarchal governance structure on Aboriginal People and attempted to eradicate Aboriginal values through education and religion” (p.211). The creation of Residential Schools furthered the