Today I was in the elevator in my building and a woman dressed for the beach said to me "What a nice tallis bag!" Frankly, my tallis bag is quite plain.
What I think she was really saying was "HEY, I'M JEWISH ALSO!!" A goy generally doesn't know to identify a "tallis bag".
So I made a woman feel Jewish for a moment. Maybe it was worth it to come to America just for that...