It seems like almost everyone automatically assumes I'm a Muslim as soon as they learn where I'm from. This angers me sometimes, even though I try to not give a fuck about what others think of me.

The other day I was eating dinner at a restaurant at the holiday party at my company, and I order pork chops (said it loud on purpose). I noticed my co-workers looked surprised.

I also remember my first dinner with my ex's Jewish parents, I ordered pork on purpose, and they were like "WTF, aren't you a Muslim?".

When I was a teenager, I always had this dumb idea of getting sleeve tattoos, piercings, and maybe a Mohawk. "Muslims don't look like that", I thought. Nowadays, I think the bullshit religious talk is the inevitable part of meeting a new person.

Does anybody else feel this way? Do you have any techniques to bypass/change these assumptions? Or you just don't give a shit?