I am also noticing that it seems all the more important to speak up for the bits of diversity that we do have sometimes. There was a conversation about pronunciation the other day that left me quite at a loss because someone was (unbeknownst to her--she'd just met me) making light of a problem of name pronunciation that has been a serious question to me and caused me a large amount of angst. That is, when your name is not properly pronounced in your native language, do you bastardize the name to suit the language you're speaking, or do you insert a jarringly accented name into otherwise unmarked language?

Anyway, back in NYC, I might not have said anything because those sorts of questions come up all the time for lots of people, but here I had to say something because I might be (and I think at that table I was) the only representative of someone in that boat. (or off that boat?)