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Originally Posted by PepsiFree
This has already been explained. Being a white, straight male gave you advantages over those in similar circumstances in terms of education, economics, etc.
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In those days in Calgary, schools were 90-95 per cent white. The non-white students were mostly Asian, and over-represented on the honour roll. So I'm struggling to think of how my race advantaged me in my education.
Economically, I was in the lower half of household income among my fellow students in high school. Again, the numbers of non-white students was marginal, and did not seem to be economically disadvantaged. The poorest students (both economically and academically) were virtually all white and from broken homes. While the school (Wise Wood) had a lot of students from affluent families, it was middling academically.
As for gender, girls were already doing better than boys at every stage of school by the 70s and 80s, including university admission. The class of 30 in the journalism program I completed in the early 90s had 21 women.