Talking to people from ex colonies vs people from ex colonial counties often highlights some important things that are missed.
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People from counties who are or were world powers, often have no idea how much of what they take for granted we had to die for. And how much
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the lives of people from ex colonies is different exactly because we were/are seen as inherently lesser.
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Western privilege thrown in my face every day for a decade and I'm only recently realising how much Western privilege intersects with white
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privilege. Western plus white privilege means not being afraid of the police and army of your own country, not worrying that lightning
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striking the huge conductor at night is a bomb or not, not worry about a war breaking out again, etc.
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When I first moved to the UK, the first question a stranger asked me was: are you Muslim or not?
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And I have white skin, you all. Imagine how fucked my school friends are who had all the above plus brown skin.
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My best friend from high-school constantly is asked in UK where she's from, if she's Indian, or adopted, cos she's "too brown", for example.
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I'm exhausted. I had to write this. OK. Done.
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