I guess we aeronuts also fit into a category similar to what somebody once said about Christianity: 800,000,000 people separated by a common belief! We're a group of a few hundred thousand separated by participation in and love of a common activity.
On one hand I rejoice that we are so diverse, but it makes me sad that sometimes we seem so divided. Although I admire the iconoclasts who try to make us think for ourselves instead of accepting herd unity or even worse, "Politically Correct" thinking. Like when trading Polish jokes with a buddy, Stanislaus, and having someone with no Polish background telling us we are being offensve to the Poles. (Stan's family is all from Poland, my mother's family is) The "Politically Correct" can't seem to understand jokes is jokes, and not offensive, and insults is insults, and something totally different (Fighten' words). If you can't laugh at yourself, you ain't got a sense of humor, because each of us is a wealth of humorous daily occupation.