Privilege, whatever the source, is always a bloody thing! 

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I think some of the worst stuff about monolingual privilege manifests at much younger ages. Bilingual kids have more languages to learn so end up being a little less good (although eventually reach same abilities) when measured only in one language (as is usually at school).
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And so are bullied because of the perceived ineptness and so on. Pretty sad.
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My favourite memory is a guy instructing his student on how to talk to me: "talk to her as you would to a kid" or something similar. Both of course, younger and junior than I and in front of me.
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And adultism.
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In this case, I suppose that my comment also reflects adultism
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In any case appalling / infuriating how they talked about you.
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It was long ago. Part of my early memories of UK life. Now, it is different, they wait until you are not present (others vote in a referendum)
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Unlike you because of my accent and skin colour I blend in enough that they relax and express their shit in my face, thinking it's "safe". 
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