Question

How does power and privilege serve to maintain
existing inequalities? Provide an example to
support your response.

Answer 1

Power and privilege are two things that have some capacity to serve in maintaining existing inequalities. Inequalities can be of many things like racial matters, sexism, gender related issues etc. One's power in the society depends on his/her wealth and fortune. If that person is wealthy then his children will get the privilege of handling all those fortunes and they will be rich by birth. There the racism factor doesn't work because a wealthy African American can get all the possible opportunities due to his high societal status and he will be respected by people. But mostly migrants belong to some other places use to have less privileges. Power is neutral and if a person doesn't know how to use the power in good ways to inspire people then that is of no use. One must not be greedy or selfish and they should take care of the fact that no community is being treated in a disrespectful way. Campaigners also should be mindful to recognise their own power. The collective advantages one gets through privilege that are executed by the society. Some believe that white people do injustice to black people by not offering them job facilities in an equal level because they don't find similarities in them and in movies they see such discriminations but that's not wholly true because black people also get such extra privileges due to the color thing that others don't get, like- african american scholarship facility for students and their in work places also they have their support groups and organisations . It is important we make an awareness in people about how to use power and we can bring changes in power structure.

There are examples like in many cases some good powerful men really want women to climb the ladder of success and in order to help them they admit that some facilities to men are quite stopping women to walk in the right direction. By having team-wide conversations, research and by following procedures given by powerful people the imbalance can be controlled. We need to just listen to others problems so that we can work on it carefully.