As a Chinese American, if I wanna travel internationally, is it better to just say I'm American, or pretend to be a Chinese National (to hide from Anti-American sentinments)?

I'm talking about after going through borders and I put away the US Passport...

And the average everyday people ask me "where are you from?"

Like if the place has anti-American sentinments, could I just pretend to be... not American...

cuz you know... the US has been getting a bad rap recently due to ahem a certain person in Capitol Hill...

Like most people in the world falsely assume "American" = "White" anyways...

They'd never suspect a thing... would they?

I can speak Cantonese and Mandarin... I can try faking a Chinese person's accent when speaking English. Or pretend to be a Hong Konger (via the Cantonese). Or pretend to be Taiwanese (most people can't tell the difference between the sound of Mainland Mandarin vs Taiwan Mandarin).

I heard that there are people who hate Chinese tourists... so is this actually gonna backfire?

But then again, I might also get hit with the double-whammy of "looking Chinese" while "acting like an American".

So this is basically like code switching... but with national identity...

Is this morally okay? Or am I like crossing some ethical line here? Is this like the "cultural appropriation" thing where it's inappropriate to do?