"... Do you feel you would harbor resentment? Fair questions? ..."   {shrug}  Well, as a youngster in school (and clear through to getting a bachelor's degree) I commonly felt like an "odd man out" amongst my schoolmates because I came from a background that was poor, ragged, and unsophisticated.  Gee, the World wasn't a Fair Place.  Boo hoo.

I managed to work through it.  ;-)

An interesting experiment to run for yourself, Gary, is to keep a little notebook and jot down every time you experience some slight, odd look, snide comment, diffident service, or hostile attitude that you could claim was racist or sexist or homophobic persecution, if you were a member of the appropriate "victim" group.   In this modern age of the "microaggression", I bet you can come up with dozens of things that would be complaint-worthy, if you weren't white, male, and hetero.  ;-)

I started this experiment for myself on the occasion of being pulled over by a traffic cop who was not of my ethnicity - a ...