I'm from Kansas and have moved to Boston, I deal with questions like yours more than I want to. Truth is, in most of the mostly white mid-west, its being treated as special because you are different more than being treated badly.

For most small towns you'll have to deal with assine questions that people mean as harmless that people who grew up around asians would never ask. If you respect their culture doesn't know yours and are polite, you'll find the same from most of them.

That being said, don't get yourself in trouble by the exception to the rule and blame me, be careful always.