Decades ago, as an earnest freshman in college I participated in the 'multicultural awareness group' ... during one of the meetings I recall one young woman tak

Decades ago, as an earnest freshman in college I participated in the 'multicultural awareness group' ... during one of the meetings I recall one young woman taking the floor and complaining, in a rather exasperated tone, about how she was sick and tired of people making all kinds of stereotypical assumptions about her background and interests due to her being Jewish, and finished by saying that what made this even more outrageous for her was that she wasn't Jewish. Decades later, two points that I'd like to make are that 2) teaching people about the perspectives of others is important and valuable to the people being taught and 1) while privileged groups do exist not everyone that could be sloppily assigned to that group is in fact privileged (there are many people that have been and will be disadvantaged despite being born 'white').