I found it extremely annoying when I went to the doctor in the UK and they asked what my race was. First because my racial background is nobody’s business and i

I found it extremely annoying when I went to the doctor in the UK and they asked what my race was. First because my racial background is nobody’s business and it’s an information that historically has only be used against me. Second because, if it is a scientific and relevant fact, a doctor should be able determine it without my uneducated opinion. After more than 10 years, I came to accept it as an almost innocuous quirk of the English-speaking mind, something akin to the Italians complaining about pineapple pizza.