Social Pressures

How have you responded to social pressures to conform by adopting an appearance that relates to the categories that you feel you have placed in or have chosen?
To be honest I don't really care what others think about me when they first see me. I choose to be more educated so when someone comes up to me and begins to socialize I can hold a steady conversation about anything. So the social pressures others think of when they first see me as an uneducated native goon I can surprise them with who I really am.