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Privileged And Underprivileged Written By Edet Edem Akpan by edet19892015(m): 6:17pm On Nov 15, 2021
Oxford advanced learner's dictionary 8th edition defined PRIVILEGED as having special rights or advantages that most people do not have.
The same dictionary defined UNDERPRIVILEGED as having less money and fewer opportunities than most people in society.

In the same vein, A Nigerian Sociologist argue that PRIVILEGED is when you are free from fear and harm while UNDERPRIVILEGED is when you are not free from fear and harm.

Today most people sees themselves as more privileged than others, I want us to know that everyone in the society are at some point in time privileged and underprivileged.

If you walk on the street, drive on the road without armed security guards, you are privileged.
If you go about your daily routine with armed security guards, you are underprivileged.

If you got ill and treated in your local health facility, you are privileged.
If you got ill and have no confidence in your local health facility then you travel overseas for treatment, you are underprivileged.

If your kids are schooling in your locality without being kidnapped or killed, you are privileged.
If you send your children to schools aboard for fear of kidnapping and killing, Sir or Ma'am you are underprivileged.

If you do not depend on aid, you are privileged but if you depend on aid, you are underprivileged.
Hence, irrespective of the class you belong to in the society, you are at some point in time PRIVILEGED and UNDERPRIVILEGED.

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