Changing society as a whole sounds about as ambitious as attempting to change people's morality, insofar as I can see. I am, however, still new to this world and to its' norms as a whole.

[He winces and his cheeks color slightly. With a self-deprecating sigh, he tries to come up with some other phrase he might use, but they all seem wrong, possibly offensive or even condescending, none of which is how he wants to conduct himself with anyone, even someone who... is that way. (He really needs to figure out common parlance about these things more.)]

Yes, well, there's a bit of a time gap between myself and most other people. Overly vague and formal might be the best I am able to manage, sometimes. Though the idea of these things having an 'intersection' intrigues me, given back in my era things were viewed in rather forcibly simplified ways. People might look at me as Jewish or as part Azeri and thus 'mixed race', though I have no idea if that term is still used in polite society, but they never seemed capable of seeing both of those things existing in myself at the same time. [Racial politics and Russia: a maelstrom of headache-inducing madness, to be sure, but one he'd learned to live with.]