Just call it &quot;<i>tribal privilege</i>&quot;.  That pretty much covers all the &quot;soft&quot; prejudicial discrimination that happens everywhere around the world.<p>If the tribe currently in power in your locale believes you are a member, your life is easier than it otherwise would be.  If it believes you are a <i>xeno</i>, or even an <i>enemy</i> of the tribe, then it will be more difficult, whether it is by intentional impediment or by withholding assistance.<p>This is why Jews are privileged in modern Israel, but unprivileged in Tsarist Russia.  It is why Mexico had a disgustingly detailed race hierarchy imposed by Spain.  It is why Rwandans massacred each other after Germany and Belgium explicitly favored one subtribe over another.  It is why Shi&#x27;ite Muslims find it easier to live in Iran than in Saudi Arabia.  It is why Chicago city government is corrupt to the core.  Skin color is <i>not</i> the only possible tribal indicator.<p>I would guess that the ruling tribe in the U.S. has not imputed membership to strangers based on their skin color for a long, long time--at least since Irish, Italians, Greeks, Iberians, Ashkenazi Jews, and Eastern Europeans were not considered members.  Non-whites may see it as &quot;white privilege&quot;, but that is only because the tribe in power is so incredibly bigoted that they have multiple, ranked categories of <i>xeno</i>, such that if you were on fire, they would have to ask you what you looked like before ignition in order to decide whether they would spit on you, piss on you, or just let you burn.<p>I recall entering a Walgreens in New Orleans.  As I watched, someone walked in with a backpack, indiscriminately shoveled several items from a shelf into it, and walked right back out.  I glanced to the checkout, where an employee who had also seen the same thing shrugged at me.  Tribal privilege.  The clerk chose to favor the people of her city&#x2F;neighborhood over her corporate employer.  And you know what?  Neither Walgreens nor the NOPD are in my tribe, either, so I shrugged right back.  I wouldn&#x27;t exactly let that guy into my house, but I&#x27;m not about to flip him to the cops over one measly bag of deodorant sticks, either.  I am too well aware of how certain cities treat their poor people to wish one of them into a jail cell.