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Define privilege and explain how it differs from human rights?

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Answer: a special right, advantage, or immunity granted or available only to a particular person or group.


Example: White privilege, or white skin privilege, is the societal privilege that benefits white people over non-white people in some societies, particularly if they are otherwise under the same social, political, or economic circumstances. With roots in European colonialism and imperialism,and the Atlantic slave trade, white privilege has developed in circumstances that have broadly sought to protect white racial privileges,various national citizenships and other rights or special benefits.

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Answer:

A privilege is a certain entitlement to immunity granted by the state or another authority to a restricted group, either by birth or on a conditional basis. By contrast, a right is an inherent, irrevocable entitlement held by all citizens or all human beings from the moment of birth.

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