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        "Indigenous",
        "Latinx",
        "Asian",
        "Arab"
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        "Transgender",
        "non-binary"
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        "Neurodivergent",
        "Imunocompromised"
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        "Disabled"
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        "Transgender"
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        "Jewish",
        "Indigenous"
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      "name": "American",
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        "non US-citizens"
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      "name": "White Supremacy",
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    }
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      "sentence": "I have never been told I 'sound white.'",
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      "sentence": "A stranger has never asked to touch my hair, or asked if it is real.",
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      "sentence": "My name is rarely mispronounced.",
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      "sentence": "I never had to 'come out.'",
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      "sentence": "I never doubted my parents’ acceptance of my sexuality.",
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      "sentence": "I have never been called a 'fag', 'dyke', 'fairy', or any other derogatory slur for homosexuals.",
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      "sentence": "I am always comfortable with P.D.A. with my partner in public.",
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      "sentence": "I have never pretended to be 'just friends' with my significant other.",
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      "sentence": "I have never been told I would “burn in hell” for my sexual orientation.",
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      "sentence": "I have never been told that my sexuality is 'just a phase.'",
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      "sentence": "I have never been violently threatened because of my sexuality.",
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      "sentence": "I am a man.",
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      "sentence": "Others do not question my gender.",
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      "sentence": "I have never been catcalled.",
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      "sentence": "I have never gone to bed hungry.",
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      "sentence": "My parents pay some, or all of my bills.",
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      "sentence": "I don’t rely on public transportation.",
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      "sentence": "I have never done my taxes myself.",
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      "sentence": "If something happens where I require a Lawyer, I have someone to call.",
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      "sentence": "I've/my family had the same doctor since I was young.",
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      "sentence": "I have had one or multiple unpaid internships.",
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      "sentence": "I went to summer camp.",
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      "sentence": "I went to private school.",
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      "sentence": "I graduated high school.",
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      "sentence": "I went to an elite college.",
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      "sentence": "I graduated college.",
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      "sentence": "My parents paid (at least some of) my tuition.",
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      "sentence": "I had a car in high school.",
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      "sentence": "I’ve never had a roommate.",
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      "sentence": "I've always had cable.",
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      "sentence": "I have traveled internationally.",
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      "sentence": "I travel internationally at least once a year.",
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      "sentence": "I studied abroad.",
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      "sentence": "I’ve never skipped a meal to save money.",
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      "sentence": "I don’t know what 'Sallie Mae' is.",
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      "sentence": "I have frequent flier miles.",
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      "sentence": "My parents are heterosexual.",
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      "sentence": "My parents are both alive.",
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      "sentence": "My parents are still married.",
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      "sentence": "I do not have any physical disabilities.",
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      "sentence": "I do not have any social disabilities.",
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      "sentence": "I do not have any learning disabilities.",
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      "sentence": "I have never had an eating disorder.",
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      "sentence": "I have never been depressed.",
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      "sentence": "I have never considered suicide.",
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      "sentence": "I have never attempted suicide.",
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      "sentence": "I have never taken medication for my mental health.",
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      "sentence": "I can afford medication if/when I need it.",
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      "sentence": "I have never been told I’m overweight or 'too skinny.'",
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      "sentence": "I have never felt overweight or underweight or 'too skinny.'",
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      "sentence": "I have never been shamed for my body type.",
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      "sentence": "I consider myself to be physically attractive.",
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      "sentence": "I can afford a therapist.",
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      "sentence": "I’ve used prescription drugs recreationally.",
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      "sentence": "I have never had an addiction.",
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      "sentence": "I have never been violently threatened or attacked for my religious beliefs.",
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      "sentence": "There is a place of worship for my religion in my town.",
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      "sentence": "I have never lied about my religion as self-defense.",
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      "sentence": "I have never lied about my ethnicity as self-defense.",
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      "sentence": "All my jobs have been accommodating of my religious practices.",
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      "sentence": "I am not nervous in airport security lines.",
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      "sentence": "I have never heard this statement: 'You have been randomly selected for secondary passport control.'",
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      "sentence": "I have never been called a terrorist.",
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      "sentence": "Nobody has ever tried to 'save' me for my religious beliefs.",
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      "sentence": "I have never been cyber-bullied for any of my identities.",
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      "sentence": "I have never tried to distance myself from any of my identities.",
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      "sentence": "I have never been self-conscious about any of my identities.",
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      "sentence": "I have never questioned any of my identities.",
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      "sentence": "I feel privileged because of the identities I was born with.",
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      "sentence": "The internet is easily accessible from multiple sources.",
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      "sentence": "I have never been questioned of my presence at a store or other public location.",
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      "sentence": "I can if I wish arrange to be in the company of people of my race most of the time.",
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      "sentence": "I can avoid spending time with people whom I was trained to mistrust and who have learned to mistrust my kind or me.",
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      "sentence": "If I should need to move, I can be pretty sure of renting or purchasing housing in an area which I can afford and in which I would want to live.",
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      "sentence": "I can be pretty sure that my neighbors in such a location will be neutral or pleasant to me.",
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      "sentence": "I can go shopping alone most of the time, pretty well assured that I will not be followed or harassed.",
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      "sentence": "I can turn on the television or open to the front page of the paper and see people of my race widely represented.",
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      "sentence": "When I am told about our national heritage or about \"civilization,\" I am shown that people of my color made it what it is.",
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      "sentence": "I can be sure that my children will be given curricular materials that testify to the existence of their race.",
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      "privilege_type": "whiteness"
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      "sentence": "If I want to, I can be pretty sure of finding a publisher for this piece on white privilege.",
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      "sentence": "I can be pretty sure of having my voice heard in a group in which I am the only member of my race.",
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      "privilege_type": "whiteness"
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      "sentence": "I can be casual about whether or not to listen to another person's voice in a group in which they are the only member of their race.",
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      "sentence": "I can go into a music shop and count on finding the music of my race represented, into a supermarket and find the staple foods which fit with my cultural traditions, into a hairdresser's shop and find someone who can cut my hair.",
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      "sentence": "Whether I use checks, credit cards or cash, I can count on my skin color not to work against the appearance of financial reliability.",
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      "sentence": "I can arrange to protect my children most of the time from people who might not like them.",
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      "privilege_type": "whiteness"
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      "sentence": "I do not have to educate my children to be aware of systemic racism for their own daily physical protection.",
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      "sentence": "I can be pretty sure that my children's teachers and employers will tolerate them if they fit school and workplace norms; my chief worries about them do not concern others' attitudes toward their race.",
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      "sentence": "I can talk with my mouth full and not have people put this down to my color.",
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      "sentence": "I can swear, or dress in second hand clothes, or not answer letters, without having people attribute these choices to the bad morals, the poverty or the illiteracy of my race.",
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      "privilege_type": "whiteness"
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      "sentence": "I can speak in public to a powerful male group without putting my race on trial.",
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      "privilege_type": "whiteness"
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      "sentence": "I can do well in a challenging situation without being called a credit to my race.",
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      "sentence": "I am never asked to speak for all the people of my racial group.",
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      "sentence": "I can remain oblivious of the language and customs of persons of color who constitute the world's majority without feeling in my culture any penalty for such oblivion.",
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      "sentence": "I can criticize our government and talk about how much I fear its policies and behavior without being seen as a cultural outsider.",
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      "sentence": "I can be pretty sure that if I ask to talk to the \"person in charge\", I will be facing a person of my race.",
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      "sentence": "If a traffic cop pulls me over or if the IRS audits my tax return, I can be sure I haven't been singled out because of my race.",
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      "sentence": "I can easily buy posters, post-cards, picture books, greeting cards, dolls, toys and children's magazines featuring people of my race.",
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      "sentence": "I can go home from most meetings of organizations I belong to, feeling somewhat tied in, rather than isolated, out-of-place, outnumbered, unheard, held at a distance or feared.",
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      "sentence": "28. I can be pretty sure that an argument with a colleague of another race is more likely to jeopardize their chances for advancement than to jeopardize mine.",
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      "sentence": "29. I can be pretty sure that if I argue for the promotion of a person of another race, or a program centering on race, this is not likely to cost me heavily within my present setting, even if my colleagues disagree with me.",
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      "sentence": "30. If I declare there is a racial issue at hand, or there isn't a racial issue at hand, my race will lend me more credibility for either position than a person of color will have.",
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      "sentence": "31. I can choose to ignore developments in minority writing and minority activist programs, or disparage them, or learn from them, but in any case, I can find ways to be more or less protected from negative consequences of any of these choices.",
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      "sentence": "32. My culture gives me little fear about ignoring the perspectives and powers of people of other races.",
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      "sentence": "33. I am not made acutely aware that my shape, bearing or body odor will be taken as a reflection on my race.",
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      "sentence": "34. I can worry about racism without being seen as self-interested or self-seeking.",
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      "sentence": "35. I can take a job with an affirmative action employer without having my co-workers on the job suspect that I got it because of my race.",
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      "sentence": "36. If my day, week or year is going badly, I need not ask of each negative episode or situation whether it had racial overtones.",
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      "sentence": "37. I can be pretty sure of finding people who would be willing to talk with me and advise me about my next steps, professionally.",
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      "sentence": "38. I can think over many options, social, political, imaginative or professional, without asking whether a person of my race would be accepted or allowed to do what I want to do.",
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      "sentence": "39. I can be late to a meeting without having the lateness reflect on my race.",
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      "sentence": "40. I can choose public accommodation without fearing that people of my race cannot get in or will be mistreated in the places I have chosen.",
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      "sentence": "41. I can be sure that if I need legal or medical help, my race will not work against me.",
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      "sentence": "42. I can arrange my activities so that I will never have to experience feelings of rejection owing to my race.",
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      "sentence": "43. If I have low credibility as a leader I can be sure that my race is not the problem.",
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      "sentence": "44. I can easily find academic courses and institutions which give attention only to people of my race.",
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      "sentence": "45. I can expect figurative language and imagery in all of the arts to testify to experiences of my race.",
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      "privilege_type": "whiteness"
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      "sentence": "46. I can chose blemish cover or bandages in \"flesh\" color and have them more or less match my skin.",
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      "sentence": "47. I can travel alone or with my spouse without expecting embarrassment or hostility in those who deal with us.",
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      "sentence": "48. I have no difficulty finding neighborhoods where people approve of our household.",
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      "sentence": "49. My children are given texts and classes which implicitly support our kind of family unit and do not turn them against my choice of domestic partnership.",
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