Much like the “Maslow hierarchy of needs study,” this paper (it’s not research since it literally is a product of the author’s imagination) is biased, narrow minded and distinctly from a colonized Western Point of View, which makes it at best amusing and at worst useless to the billions of non-Western, non-white, decolonized minded people of the world. Studying what makes white privileged people successful is probably the least useful study there is.
It’s kind of like studying what made Steve Jobs and Bill Gates successful—pretty useless for 99 percent of the world since these two whites men had a slew of white privilege to guide them to greatness (hard work is a euphemism for centuries of educational, economic and political privilege and advantage inherited because of your gender and skin tone…)
Now studying what makes people who are the antithesis of white, male privilege, and from colonized cultures and who are successful (a relative term of course) would be a tad more relevant and interesting. Miss me with more “dead white male authors, inventors, politicians…” whom we call successful are to be emulated. Look what such atrocities that philosophy has wrought around the world. Enough. Let’s move on to study others who haven’t destroyed economies, families, communities etc., we have much to learn from them.
Much like the “Maslow hierarchy of needs study,” this paper (it’s not research since it literally is a product of the author’s imagination) is biased, narrow minded and distinctly from a colonized Western Point of View, which makes it at best amusing and at worst useless to the billions of non-Western, non-white, decolonized minded people of the world. Studying what makes white privileged people successful is probably the least useful study there is. It’s kind of like studying what made Steve Jobs and Bill Gates successful—pretty useless for 99 percent of the world since these two whites men had a slew of white privilege to guide them to greatness (hard work is a euphemism for centuries of educational, economic and political privilege and advantage inherited because of your gender and skin tone…) Now studying what makes people who are the antithesis of white, male privilege, and from colonized cultures and who are successful (a relative term of course) would be a tad more relevant and interesting. Miss me with more “dead white male authors, inventors, politicians…” whom we call successful are to be emulated. Look what such atrocities that philosophy has wrought around the world. Enough. Let’s move on to study others who haven’t destroyed economies, families, communities etc., we have much to learn from them.