Are you benefitting from majority privilege?

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Privilege Test

Please check all boxes that apply to you.

1. My dietary requirements can be a problem when eating with friends.

2. I feel like I'm limiting my friends' food choices due to my religious beliefs.

3. I've been told to dress in more secular clothing for school stuff.

4. I have been questioned for my clothing preferences.

5. I can't wear some clothes that my friends gift me because it doesn't align with my religious beliefs.

6. I don't understand the parts of orientation cheers that aren't in English.

7. I feel like I have to prove myself in studies to be better than stereotypes.

8. I've been told I'm just here to fill the race quote.

9. I've been told I'm smart for my race.

10. I can't freely and openly practice my religion at school.

11. My teachers always have difficulty pronouncing my name.

12. I've been left out of conversations due to language barriers.

13. I've had to justify why I stick to my religious beliefs to my friends.

14. My friends question my religious beliefs often.

15. I've not been told to stay away from a certain racial group by my parents.

16. I've always been a minority in my friend groups.

17. I've made friends with others on the basis of being the minority.

18. People I meet tend to have difficulty pronouncing my name.

19. I've been told i'm smelly with reference to my race.

20. I have wished to be of another race.

21. I have had to try to be less of my own race to fit int.

22. I have had to choose between my beliefs and being accepted.

23. I have had to second guess if I would be mistreated due to my race if I visited certain countries.

24. I have been told that I'm a token individual.

25. I have been told that I'm good looking for my race.

26. I have been stereotypes for my race.

27. I feel like I am very far from the dominant beauty standard.

28. I deliberately dress in a way that is deviant from stereotypes of my size.

29. I avoid places that people tend to associate with my race.

30. My tardiness is pinned to my race.

31. My hair was made fun of in school.

32. People tend to generalize me to be perform academically.

33. My race doesn't fit in the CMIO model.

34. I'm always asked to lend traditional clothes to my friends of other races for Racial harmony Day.

35. I don't see much representations of my race on local media.

36. Representations of my race on local shows tend to feed into stereotypes.

37. I appreciate when there's non-derogatory representations of my race on TC.

38. I've had to eliminate job opportunities because I don't speak the required mother tongue.

39. I've had difficulty finding jobs due to my religious attire.

40. I can't freely and openly practice my religion at work.

41. People often point out my skin colour.

42. People have made fun of my accent.

43. I've been told i'm just overly sensitive when I react to insensitive comments.

44. I've been teased for my facial features.

45. I've had to up words of another language to better fit in with those around me.

46. My friends rarely eat my culture's food.

47. My school doesn't cater sufficiently to my dietary requirements.

48. I've had someone move away from me when I sit next to them on public transport.

49. People point out my smell with reference to my race.

50. I am the O in CMIO.

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If you're curious, the scores can range from 0 to 50, and a higher score represents typically having more privilege in life.

Of course, a simple quiz is not indicative of the nuance of your lived experience, but we hope you gained a better understanding of different the experience of others can be when belonging to a majority group of anything race, religion, gender, etc.