Self Assignment Analysis

I feel that all of these approaches were great in raising my awareness about myself and the world around me. I found this assignment quite interesting since I never thought of myself as being “privileged” or of having “power”. However, I found after reading the assignments for this week that this was not the case. I found that I was a lot more privileged than what I once thought. I also found it interesting that they mentioned that privileged people or people of power do not know that they are privileged and have power. I found this claim to be correct in regards to myself, as I was oblivious of this up until now.

While doing this assignment I found that I am privileged because I am white, able-bodied, heterosexual, Christian, middle class and English speaking. All of which are things I did not know were considered to be “privileged”. I never viewed myself as being more privileged than anyone else. For me it does not matter if a person was gay, straight, what religion they are, their race or their income since I always treated everyone with respect. I also never saw myself as privileged I guess because I am white. Although, I come to realize after this assignment that it may be because I am white that I don’t notice these privileges and now wonder if I am treated differently in my day-to-day life than people of other races. However, what I have noticed prior to this assignment was that I am
For me people are people, nothing more or nothing less. Throughout my life I always fought for the underdog and now throughout my professional career, I advocate for all my patients no matter what they are or views that they may hold because I feel what is right is right and what is wrong is