So we have all heard about the white privilege but I think there is something called the Brown Privilege, this young Pakistani girl approached me for referrals for mortgages and just based on her being a Pakistani I decided to give her a chance. I invited her to sit in my show home with us. After she left I asked my staff what they thought of her and they said she talks too loud, too fast and too much and despite that I want to help her out. I asked her to chill out a bit and don’t act so desperate and she listened. Today I gave her two referrals and I hope she can get them.
When my boy was working as a dishwasher for Boston Pizza all the brown staff would look after him, if the dishes piled up high they would help him out and also make him special meals. I was trying to pry him away from the Mutta suggesting Abbas and other brownies at UNI and he was saying that they are all so warm, supporting, kind and helpful towards him.
So what are your experiences with Brown Privilege?
I wouldn’t call it brown privilege but more so connecting with and feeling drawn to people of your “own kind”. Own kind can be various things like: other muslims, other pakistanis, other brown people, other people from your hometown, people who speak the same language as you, etc.
I think it’s human tendency to be drawn to something that is known. We fear change and unfamiliarity thus, gravitate to others where we know we can fit in. Also, people who have it together want to help others of their ethnicity because they may have been in their place in the past or they would rather help their own kind succeed.
It’s not only in brown people, I’ve seen East Asians giving preference to other East Asians or Caucasians giving preference to other Caucasians and so on.
Bobby uncle in no way shape or form, can you compare white privilege with “brown privilege”. I don’t even know where to begin or where to end on how two different these things are. Yea, a lot of times people will help out or be warm to people of similar background but they do not go and deliberately try to make it difficult for all other races in any kind of economical, political, or social construct, based on the concept that their skin color makes them superior or more deserving.
Now that it is established that they are two completely different things, For me personally, I had once mentioned that I was interested in biomedical engineering few yrs ago and a family friend worked in a biomedical company, he invited me and my friends, gave us a personal tour of the whole building. We met up with everybody on his team and were given a formal presentation and were offered internships. In another example, quite a few times at different Pakistani restaurants, we have been given free food from the chef either because he made some for himself and wanted to share or just on the house because of sweet owners.
I am working in a new community which is teeming with new professional immigrants from India and most of these people are giving their mortgage business, banking, auto purchases etc to fellow desis, I am sure they have desi doctors, dentists etc too. My kids used to see our family friend dentist Dr. Davinder and I am sure 99 percent of his clients were desis, although Dr. Davinder is born and raised here.
I just chanced going to see a doctor in Shifa clinic and these guys were so amazing with me. The Sikh community is thriving so amazingly only because of support from fellow Sikhs. Most of my desi mortgage brokers or realtors dont have a single white client. One mortgage broker is top in the country for a major bank and he cant speak proper English.
People are definitely reeping benefit of browness and for sure that is a privilege baita.
That’s not brown privilege, it’s common for ethnic people to help out people in their communities. One of my professors even got scholarship from some italian american heritage foundation just cause of his italian roots loool and italians are white. I remember when I was in high school and I used to work at a mexican establishment and the guy told me that hispanics look out for one another when they’re “with their people” lool, they had my back too cause i can pass as one easily.
Feeling kinship with your ethnicity isn’t a bad thing, I remember a friend telling me he hated Trump but still voted for him just cause of his German ancestry. White people do the same thing.
Let me get this right, If white people prefer dealing with whites it is frowned upon as white privilege and when browns do that it is just human nature, kinsmanship etc?
Honestly, though most of my desi mortgage brokers haven’t a hope in hell surviving in the mainstream due to lack of professionalism and are only successful due to support from fellow desis. I thought many Indians supported Trump.
We had this beautiful brown girl Deepika in our head office she had a Masters in Architecture from NY I think, she was very cultured, hard-working, structured and well dressed. She was working under a Diploma holder who didn’t dress that well, seemed like she enjoyed her beverages a bit too much. That my dear is my understanding of white privilege.
I do tell my children that they have to be head and shoulder above the whites to get equal rewards.
