Yes you are right.

[pangaia]

Now, I am pretty darn white.. BOORING...

Why, my goodness, I even dated a Jewish woman in college.
I dated a black woman in Memphis.
My first marriage was to a white woman from Little Rock.
My second marriage was to a Chinese woman.

When I was a kid the crowd I hung with (back then it was 'hung out with')-
included-
1- Jewish guy
1- Black guy
1- red-headed Catholic
1- dark haired Catholic
1- Native American from OK whose dad was a 'chief.' They called him CHIEF.
1- A guy whose name was actually Bill Shakespeare
1-Chinese guy,..maybe he was from Taiwan, I forget
1-and me, the WASP

Maybe that had some influence on me-