On the other hand, I hope that white people who do go to UC don't place too much weight on their experience as a numerical minority there. Where we lived in the Bay Area, there was no one racial/ethnic group that achieved majority status, and white folks were not the largest plurality. And that was a different experience from living here, where we have more racial/ethnic diversity than people who've never visited expect, but white folks are still the majority. But I could not honestly say that I now understand The African-American Experience or The Arabic-American Experience or whatever because I lived in an area where very few people shared my ethnicity and only about a third shared my race. There was still a whole bunch of white privilege wafting around on the breeze, and lots of it blew straight into us.