Marked Vs. Unmarked

A lot of times people who don't know me very well or society, in general, will mark me as Asian or even chinese---even though im not even chinese. Because I look a certain way, people "mark" me by my race. Even though I am asian, I never try to go out of my way to differeniate myself from other people. I was born and raised in America my whole life, so if anything I am no different from any other American. But people tend to associate Americans as looking a certain way---and b/c I don't look that certain way---I have become marked.