My understandings… my thoughts

Which part of the India are you from?? This is one of the most asked questions to me since I am here in USA. This question used to irritate me when I was new here. In Nebraska and Ottumwa, people even used to speak in Spanish with me, sometime I used to reply “hola”, “Como es usted?” (These are only words I know in Spanish) and sometime used say no I am not a Mexican, then next obvious question used to be “Are you Indian then?” I used to feel like common man!! Give me a break!! Ask me “where are you from?” rather than considering me as Chinese, or Indian or Mexican.  At the first day of my work, I didn’t have cardkey of my office, and I went to building receptionist and requested to call my manager to pick me up, that receptionist was an Indian; she asked a lot of thing about me and showed quite a bit of care for me. It was no surprise that she thought me as an Indian, but the surprise is she hasn’t asked me if I am an Indian or not till now.  Then I met my manger, he was not an Indian (not American though) but he assigned me a project and asked to work me under another manager and there she was another Indian.  Then she introduced me with the group, and 60% of them were Indian and with one Nepalese.
Now these days I don’t feel irritate while someone says “which part of India are you from?” coz I am used to it and I easily reply with smile that “Actually I am from Nepal. Have you ever been to Nepal?” I realize that Indians and Chinese have already made a good impression here; especially Chinese and south Indian that is why anyone who has Asian face, people consider him as Chinese or Indian. These days I feel lucky because after I left my country and came to USA, I never had to adopt US culture. I studied in Maharishi University of Management, where there were no Indian at all to run the university but the Americans were trying to adopt our culture there, so always felt like being in home. Then after I came to Microsoft where more than 40% of the employees are Indian and Chinese and I always feel like being in home too, and I also gained confidence seeing lots of Indian guys working as a team lead and felt like I can do it too.