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Stuff That Really 'Grinds My Gears...'

I just had to invoke my non-white heritage. My great-great-grandfather on my mother’s side was Burmese. So, since it is not a) my culture and b) I am white enough / enough generations removed that few people even guess anything other than white. I am not ashamed of it (though my great-grandfather was, enough to tell my grandmother that his parents were dead, when they were very much alive), but I get all the privilege a white woman gets handed, and normally, trying to claim that heritage feels …