Is it OK for people to ask me where I am from?
Or for a southerner to make a derogortary remark about scousers?
Or when in SE Asia to be be grilled as to where I am from and and assume that I know Bruce Willis?
I'd dare to suggest you have been took in by a seasoned race baiting grifter. In my opinion.
Well if you're white British, the context is obviously completely different. There is not s continued campaign, by large sections of the right wing media/establishment to deny white people Englishness, as there is with people from other ethnicities.
I still remember the "ain't no black in the union jack" filth from political organisations in this country.
Its accompanied with violence, both structural and interpersonal. Its wholly different to the experience of white englishmen on Asia.
The scouser thing is out of order, and annoying too. Imagine you went to a party, for a recognition for the work you do, and people just kept with snide scouse stereotypes, over and over. Then when you highlight it, you get called as someone who is there to bait the knobhead winding you up...
Anyway, maybe I've been taken in by a "professional race baiter" (is this how you view black people??) but I personally just think it's inappropriate to share racist right wing dog whistles, 17 times, to attempt to make people of colour feel unwelcome. I'd politely suggest the race baiter is the bigot who worked for the Queen for 60 years.