guitar mania over piano

One's desperation towards learning guitar is much more than looking at other instrument. I met so many people and not a single person i found who says I am gonna start learning piano. Almost everybody prefered guitar. Why so preference for guitar ? My guess, this is just my guess, is that more than a instrument we focus on personality or image exposed by having a guitar in your hand rather than a piano. If I am going to learn something, first I will visualize myself on the stage playing that instrument and then I will choose that instrument. Why don't we choose tabla or say flute. Very few from childhood or with some extreme interest are having these instruments as their choice, even if they would have started learning in adult age, they must have chosen guitar, I am 99.99% sure. I think, more than impression, we should concentrate on the music. Each instrument is unique, there is no comparision. The person who actually play one instrument never differ to play other. He will surely have interest to learn almost every other instrument.