Unpack Your Knapsack Analysis

Following McIntosh's work, unpack your knapsack. The privileges that I take for granted daily is being a woman and being Hispanic. Here in the US, there are so many Spanish people, that a lot of job sites are now looking for a Spanish speaking individual. I would say that Spanish is the 2nd important language to know besides the 1st, which is English. I take being Hispanic has a privilege because a lot of people take classes to learn how to speak it, but I was given that advantage and was born by Latin American parents. I grew up with them talking to me in Spanish, so I can understand and speak it fluently. Now a day, you would be surprised with who can speak and understand Spanish. For example, my boyfriend who is Caucasian and Greek, didn’t have to take classes, he learned by his co-worker talking, he’s been working with them for 8 years now. …show more content…
The longer he stays working with them, the more he will be exposed to it and it’ll become like his second nature. Now, being a woman can also be a privilege, sometimes we get free dinner, open doors, aren’t pressured to provide for their family unlike men, more likely to win child custody, guys aren’t supposed to put their hands-on girls, were accept as emotional beings (“men don’t cry”, “man up”) and many more. Ways in which I have seen social, economic, political, and / or cultural apartheids in my community is where I live. Where I live, I am surround by “rich/middle class” people and right in the middle is where my small community is placed, and in my neighborhood, it’s a minority of black people and there’s only 3 Hispanic families, including my family. When a spot gets open for rent and a white family comes to look around, they don’t end up taking up the home. Many times, I believe they don’t because of the social