Dear mete:

I understand why being thought of as enjoying “white privilege” (as I understand the term) is a sore spot for you. As you wrote, historically “we (Finns) were poor peasants under Swedish or Russian rule.”

And currently, millions and millions of white people are born into disadvantage: economical and/ or emotional. The numbers of white people all over the Western World, under medication for anxiety and depression, addicted or otherwise over using drugs/ alcohol, overeating into morbid obesity etc… is astonishing. No Privilege in any of that.

The fact that statistically the average income in a particular country is or has been higher for the white population, is just that: a statistic. A low income, struggling white person does not enjoy the privilege of a statistic.

How has your family, the family you were born into, fared as far as privilege or lack of, financially and otherwise? How .. privileged or unprivileged do you personally feel?

anita