White Privilege

Something I´m beginning to experience and will definitely experience in the future is the concept of white privilege. The Nicaraguans will listen and respect white people just because. I have an advantage when giving my charlas because I´m white and am different from the Nicaraguan nurses and doctors who give the charlas. And because I´m white, they assume that I know things.

This will be a challenge in the future when I try to train other people in giving charlas and presentations. People will listen to me and respect me a lot of the time just because. It´ll be difficult to create something sustainable when I carry so much power myself. Right now, it´s encouraging. My host mom keeps telling me how everyone at the health center will listen to what I say when I give my charlas because I´m the new white girl. But this isn´t going to be helpful when Í want to establish a group of health promoters and people won´t listen to the Nicaraguans I train in the future. It´s just an interesting topic that came up at our cultural adaptation talk last week. Something to keep in mind.