Groups we identify ourselves in

In class this week we had to create a list of groups we belonged to and get with a partner to discuss what we have in common and more importantly, what we don't have in common.

My list looked like this:

Woman, Chilean, American, sister, daughter, activist, friend, leader, student, generation Y.

My partner and I checked all the things we had in common (even if we hadn't originally written them down.) Then we discussed our differences.

One of the first things we did not have in common is that she is Catholic and I'm agnostic.
Two things really hit me because of this conversation. First, I hadn't written down "agnostic" on my list because it's not a religion, I am not a devout follower of "agnosticism", but it was natural for her to write down "Catholic".
Secondly, she did not know what "agnostic" was. She hadn't even heard the word, which really reminded me how closed off people are. We only hang out with people who think like us quite often.
My friends all know what agnosticism is, I had never before had to explain the basic definition to somebody, while she had never had a conversation where agnosticism had been brought up.
Human interaction is so weird and interesting.

After our conversation I realized there were a lot of things that we would have not had in common but I did not put down, like that I'm a vegetarian, and a Spanish-speaker (I just assumed that because I wrote down I was Chilean it would be understood that I speak spanish, but it wasn't.)
Being a vegetarian is something I'm don't often think about unless I'm eating with my family or at a restaurant with no veggie options.

I'm a lot of things that I'm not constantly aware of.