What is your race?!

Our new topic that we started in class was race, race is really confusing to define. race is a group of persons related by common descent or heredity. The topic of race is really confusing and to me seems very hurtful to some people. Here in America it seems that we all identify people as white, black, asian, european. However, in those countries race is much more identified and complicated it goes farther than being white, black, asian or european. In Asia they identify people as Chinese, Taiwanese, Korean, Japanese, Malaysian, Thai etc. The category splits up into so many more categories than just being described and labeled as "Asian."
I am Asian but technically I am more than just being labeled as "Asian," I am Chinese, Taiwanese, Shanghainese and I am also Szechuan. I am Chinese because I am from Hong Kong, I am Taiwanese because I am from Taiwan, I am Shanghainese because I am from Shanghai, and I am also Szechuan because I am also from the city of Szechuan. Sometimes it is very annoying that I am just labeled as being Asian I am much more than that, and sometimes it is also annoying when people say "You ALL look alike, what's the difference?" or "Your all fom the same place, it doesn't matter." The truth is we all don't look alike, we all don't speak the same dialects or languages so how does that make ALL ASIAN people look alike. I speak four different dialects out of like the some odd 150 to about 200 other different dialects and languages from Asia. We are not all alike and race is more than just being labeled as Asian, White, Black, or European etc. It is who you are.