Where are you from?

In one of the scenes from last year's hit movie Chak De India, SRK asks the girls in his team to introduce themselves. Everyone come forward and starts saying their names and states they are from. SRK gets angry with this and kicks them out of team. His point is to make everyone feel that they are representing India and he does not care about the state they come from.
I get the same feeling whenever anyone asks me this question. Whenever I join a new team or meet new people, second or third question of my intro is - Where are you from?
In my introduction, I always skip the 'place' part. Because I believe it does not matter if I come from Maharashtra or Kerala. There the only thing which matters is your qualification, skills and experience. This is particularly true at workplace.
India has a diverse social background with different languages and cultures followed in every state. The moment you tell anyone about your place, people start making judgements about you. They have a vague idea about personality of people from a specific region, (This comes mostly from somone they have met from same region) and they start behaving with you based on that. This definitely affects the concept of teamwork and gives rise to groups within a team. This really struck me when I worked in Trivandrum for a month and I am more determined to break my regional mindset.