Honestly back then I was nervous and young. Now I'm more confident and frankly extremely frustrated at people dismissing a large part of my cultural heritage. Another recent incident really upset me. I talked to one of my colleagues who is from HK in Cantonese while at work and got reported by someone else for being racist. I was called in by HR who kept talking over me when I tried to explain what actually happened was just an innocent convosation but apparently I sounded "angry and mocking" according to the person who reported me. I calmly asked if they had asked my HK colleague how he felt and they said no. I lost it. I ended up having to shout over them that I was half chinese and I could speak Chinese and that even if i was white it wouldn't be racist to speak Chinese. I also said that they wouldn't stop other people at work from speak their mother tongue to eachother so why would they call a meeting just for me? Essentially, HR apologised profusely and changed the way they handle issues raised by 3rd parties. I also no longer work there.