Privilege Paradox

There's an interesting exercise in my office training, called Privilege Walk. 

How to play: 

There are 2 lines standing facing each other. 

There will be lines of conditions read by the host. 

When it's a positive one, such as:

• Both your parents were university graduate, 
• Your house has at least a house assistant, 
• You have a dominant right hand, etc

Then you move one step forward. 

When it's a negative one, such as:

• You feel unsafe when walking at night, 
• You had a sexual or physical abuse,
• Your mother tongue is not the national language, etc.

Then you move one step backward. 

Lines by lines are read. 

Some move fast to front, others move one step forward and three steps back. 

At the end of the exercise, the host asks, "Look at your surrounding, how do you feel?" 

That time, standing in my middle position, I saw some of the high titles have moved ahead to front. 

But I noticed, those who apparently comes from the not-so privileged ones are performing well and have significant influence in the office. 

So  I wonder, who is actually the real privileged one? 

Those who were born in comfortable house and reached their high status, 

or actually those who were born in struggling house and somehow reach their high status? 

I actually feel my privilege to stand in the same room, play and work with those who are more privileged than I am. 

After all, we all eat the same food, breath the same air, and stand in the same ground. 

Whether a Nepo Baby, a blue white collar worker, I guess we all are privileged in our own way.