Why don't people respect the Jews?

Today, I was driving around looking for parking. Finally I found parking at a place which I wasn't allowed to park at for another 15 minutes, so that meant some waiting in the car. It was in more of a risqué area in Brooklyn. Well, I thought what better way to wait then listen to some good Jewish music. As a proud Jew, there was no better way to listen to Jewish music than to share it with the world, to show the world the greatness of G-d. So, I turned the bass all the way up and then the volume and I rolled the windows down.
Now a certain type of Jew (either a "yeshiva type Jew" or a Jew who was "educated" in YU) would have told me that in doing so, I will cause antisemitism; that I will make the goyim hate us. Needless to say, this most certainly did not happen. What did happen was quite amazing (and not very surprising).
I started blasting the song Am Yisrael by Yaakov Shwekey (which is quite a good song by the way). The car was rocking from the bass (I guess there was a good sub-woofer in the car because it was pretty powerful) and the locals started to look in. All the sudden, they all start dancing to it. And there was a bunch of them and they were loving it. They were all pulling off dance moves to "עם ישראל לא מפחד, השם אלקינו השם אחד". They obviously realized this was Jewish music and that I was a Jew. And they were having a blast.
Now, who do you think they have more respect for at this point? Me, or YU guy who is unsure why he is Jewish or even what Judaism means, but is certainly not showing it any more than necessary. When they saw me blasting the Jewish music, they thought "well I guess Jews can be cool too!". This is the reason people blast their music, they respect themselves and are proud of their culture, and when they saw me, a Jew doing the same, being proud of his culture, they had an automatic respect for me.
When the music changed to Ani Ma'amin from Oif Simches (another good song, also talking about faith in Hashem and Moshiach) the dancing continued. When I got out of the car, it was clear that they had a lot of respect for me evidenced by their nods and how their general demeanor towards me.
For thousands of years we were stuck in the ghetto, afraid to show our Judaism, let alone be proud of it. The Lubavitcher Rebbe broke this terrible mentality with mitzvah tanks and parades featuring blaring Jewish music. When he did that, all sorts of criticisms poured from YU-goers or very yeshivish guys in telling him that he was making too much noise or that he was making them hate us. He did not listen. It it clearly THEY who have the problem, not those who are proud of their Yiddishkeit!