Although I had already experiences Sociopoly with
my family, seeing the other rules to the game interested me very much and how
the rules worked were annoying to play with! I see how truly nice it is
being privileged and white, but we sadly live in a society and frankly a world
where race and privilege go hand and hand. Sociopoly taught me that this
world is ever changing not only with the rules, but also how each person
diversely unique is treated in society based on race. We live in an imperfect,
unfair, biased world, and we keep getting farther and farther away from
ourselves and what we personally dream about due to these imperfections.
I have been very fortunate to have had the opportunities I have had and every
day I grieve for those less fortunate then me. The Sociopoly game may be
a tad skewed in the sense that life is not like monopoly and your buying
houses/properties all the time, but what it does show is how everyone starts
out with a set number of incomes, or prestige based on their family or their
family’s history. In the end we all need to drink soup to survive.
No matter the race, privilege, or family we all need to eat sleep and
survive, so yes this world might be unfair, unjust, etc., but we should all be
extremely grateful we are alive and better off then some people in this world
who truly have it worse than us.
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