Basically when your skin colour determines the opportunities and experiences you have in life (potentially without due diligence/effort/work). A woman with white privilege may also come from a higher socioeconomic position, which grants her access to various social relationships that aid in maintaining her own social status, as well as meeting others that can positively contribute to one's life course. Alternatively, someone with white privilege may lose the opportunity to obtain the various perspectives that people of colour (POC) have from lived experience(s), which can limit opportunities for POC and cause further social/economic divide between the classes. The latter of accessible resources - typically - being given/granted to those with white privilege and a higher social status/position.
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