unless you look like a bantu, what does it matter how they percieve you in their minds before they meet you.
would you rather everyone associate pirates, terrorist, and all sort of violence by just the site of you?
think of it like this, Hindus/sikhs and other brown people are synonymous with terrorism for the simple reason that majority of the time, actors who play those roles are Indian. they made their likeness associated with terrorism.
i wouldn't want my likeness to be synonymous with anything negative.