I figure the question would work best if combined with a question of residence/citizenship -- so that effectively the two (or more?) might become a way to triangulate a person's place in local and global cultures: to determine whether the person a member of the dominant culture per their residence, and then to measure that against the global (which seems to generally be whiteness, frankly).
Frex, a white person in New York City, and a Japanese person in Tokyo ... the former would identify with major media per white-ness, while the latter would identify on a local/domestic level but per global would, to some degree, have less identification with the global emphasis on whiteness. In contrast to a white ex-pat living long-term in Hong Kong, who's part of the dominant global but on a local level would qualify as a minority.
I mean, you can't actually just ask people (not because you can't, but because the majority of people don't always critique themselves enough to see such in themselves) whether someone has local or global privilege. Even when ignorant, it still affects us in some way, so I'm trying to come up with a means to (at least on a basic level) measure that -- but without the rather simplistic view of race that comes with the US-centric approach.
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Date: 14 May 2010 08:50 pm (UTC)Frex, a white person in New York City, and a Japanese person in Tokyo ... the former would identify with major media per white-ness, while the latter would identify on a local/domestic level but per global would, to some degree, have less identification with the global emphasis on whiteness. In contrast to a white ex-pat living long-term in Hong Kong, who's part of the dominant global but on a local level would qualify as a minority.
I mean, you can't actually just ask people (not because you can't, but because the majority of people don't always critique themselves enough to see such in themselves) whether someone has local or global privilege. Even when ignorant, it still affects us in some way, so I'm trying to come up with a means to (at least on a basic level) measure that -- but without the rather simplistic view of race that comes with the US-centric approach.