I certainly haven't been overtly discriminitated against for being Jewish, either, but there is this undercurrent, this "I didn't know you were Jewish?" because of course everyone is Christian until proven otherwise. Once you're proven otherwise, there isn't any prejudice that I've experienced or seen in any of the places I've lived/studied/worked. But there's something about being assumed to be a member of the majority which I find very off-putting. I got it about disability before I started using a cane in September - "I didn't know you had a disability" as though disability has a certain "look" and no one without the look could be a member. And I see it at my school where there isn't overt homophobia, but the assumption is that everyone is straight except for the 2 or 3 people who have declared they aren't.

But I do think we should talk about all these things. The Jewish experience, the Muslim experience, the queer experience, and yes, the Scottish experience and white male experience too. My dean of diversity calls it a Salad Bowl (improvement on a melting pot because each piece retains it's own characteristics.) It's a nice premisce - pride in your own group and healthy curiousity and sharing with other groups. But it only works if we all talk about all of it.