Diversity Honored

The push toward honoring diversity may be beneficial to Mennonite women like myself. I think people are nicer to me than they would be otherwise.
My status as "baby" of my vet school class may also generate increased kindness towards myself, as well as mercy on my immature/strange aspects. In a way it would be nice to be thought of as older and taken more seriously - but then I'd have to play the part of the older, staid individual and that might be less than ideal.

I wonder how it'd be if I was neither Mennonite nor young; or if I was a Mennonite longer ago when people had less tolerance for the unusual.