Again, I do not see this having anything to do with privilege. I believe that people of all colors and ethnicities expect to receive acceptance and respect wherever they go. Are Guatemalans experiencing Guatemalan privilege when they visit Poland and people stare at them because they look different?
You're focusing on the
external setting and situation where I had the personal epiphany, not my
internal setting and experience.
I recognized my subjective sense of entitlement and privilege based on being white, not the objective experience of standing out in a non-white culture. It was revelatory. Travel is often revelatory, whether visiting a different neighborhood or a different country.
What Guatemalans experience depends on their own internal subjectivity -- their perceptions and how they interpret them. They could experience standing out when they didn't in their own culture and interpret that in a variety of subjective or ostensibly objective ways, including offended superiority, cowed-down inferiority, pure objectivity, or any number of things I can't predict about another's internal experience.
I'm talking about what
I myself as a white person internally experienced when
I stood out in a non-white culture: I realized I had unrealistic expectations for how I would (
should)be perceived and treated. Should implies a perspective of privilege or denial of privilege.
If you don't get what I'm saying, or insist I am wrong about it, I'm not going to continue to defend it. If you disagree with my perspective about my own experience and subsequent understanding of white privilege, okay.