Ask questions if you are curious without an air of disapproval in your voice. People have asked me whom I am trying to impress with my tattoos. I certainly wasn't trying to impress them. Conversations get shut down before anything is ever learned because people choose to be offensive. Believe it or not, people who have dreadlocks take showers.
Tattoo artists love their mothers.
People who enjoy four-wheeling and big trucks aren't cowpokes. People who deviate are simply creative and yearn for their own identity. We all want to be different. Imagine what a boring world this would be if generation after generation simply followed directly in their parents' footsteps or dressed the way Cosmopolitan told them to. Don't step on other people in your quest to find out who you are.