Sexism/feminism: what's your reaction to this song?

[Rev. Rye]

Surely there must also be "black" privilege in Africa, "yellow" privilege in China and "whiter than everyone" privilege in Japan?

I don't know. I've never been to those places. I'm not in the habit of generalizing from particulars. I regard such a practice as sloppy thinking and avoid it. You should, too.

Odds are, privilege would be based more on the various ethnic groups that most of us can barely tell the difference between (and which ones got the guns, see the Rwandan genocide) than on the largely arbitrary racial aggregates we Westerners decided to use.

* Africa has over 3000 different ethnic groups (not even including the white people who decided to jump in) and some have more power in different parts than others.
* I remember reading in a sociology class that China has 55 different major ethnic groups, and the average Chinese person can tell the difference between them with as much accuracy as we do for our handful of racial aggregates.
* Japan seems to be remarkably ethnically homogenous, with 98.5% being Japanese (it should be noted that Japan does not really see much of a difference between nationality, ethnicity, and race). There's still quite a few immigrants, and I don't have a lot of information on what they suffer, though I do know that the people tend to not be very big on immigration. It's also worth mentioning the Ainu: the indigenous people of Hokkaido, who had a non-negligible amount of Siberian ancestry (and looking at the beards of some of their men, it really shows. I have to admit, I have not seen beards that impressive on any other Asian men). They might not pass for white in America, but they're a lot whiter than the average Japanese; and given that their history has a remarkable parallel with those of the American Indian, it's safe to say Japan doesn't have "whiter than everyone else" privilege.

Ethnic Privilege in situations where we haven't decided beforehand who belongs in what arbitrary aggregate and who gets what can get extremely complicated is all I'm saying.