My kid is privileged, and she knows it, yet is frustrated by this exercise.
On the one hand, while she (we) is (are) full pay, she knows her parents have sacrificed and worked nights and weekends to have this position. She also knows others who are fabulously multiple home wealthy. As with many kids in our county, she was born on 3rd base.
Her institution’s president is excellent at PR and effectively communicates his desire to uplift URMs and others. But she’s a bit jaded when he bypasses her in meet-the-students events. When you marginalize the white kids, how interested are you in balancing diversity or bringing people together?
Effectively she has learned that fortunate/unfortunate or privileged/underprivileged is not simply black and white (and I am not referring to race). At every step it is a continuum.
I don’t see where this sensitivity exercise builds friendships. Those would be the true measure of cross-culture-diversity learning.