Even Ancient Cultures Thought Tattoos Were Cool If you have a tattoo today, chances are that someone told you that you were making a mistake putting the ink on your body forever. Tattoos can be seen as; a fashion trend, a commitment to an organized group (such as a military branch or a street gang), a symbolic act of remembrance, a rebellious act by a teenager trying to prove a point to their parents, etc. The lesser known fact behind tattooing however, is that is an art that has been practiced since the neolithic period. Tattoos can be found in nearly every culture across the globe, and many cultures have thousand-plus year histories with the art.…
Tattoos and Piercings Bias Tattoos and piercings have become more and more popular fashion statements as artists continue to create new ideas, as well as the acceptance of the ink and jewelry. Although it may seem that there is an approval towards this style, many are put into stereotypical categories based on their appearance. Regardless of who the person truly is, the bias associated with tattoos and piercings often leads him/her to be percieved as less intelligent, fraudulent, and less spiritual.…
Harper Lee once said “You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view… until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.” This problem still happens today, everyone judges a person without evening knowing them. When someone judges someone with tattoos and piercings they automatically think he is a bad guy but that isn’t always true. Their point of view can be totally wrong but they would never know. They will never get to truly know the person because their point of view shows them as bad people.…
The media tends to stereotype people with tattoos and piercings as an untrustworthy group of people. Media believes that a person should look clean and respectable. A person with tattoos and piercings gets criticized over not meeting the media’s standard way of looking. The media judges a person with any sort of body modification before the said person has a chance to prove their self. Media portrays people with tattoos and piercings as unprofessional, bad parents, and criminals.…
In Barrie Gross’ article “Tattoos in the Workplace: What’s an Employer to Do?” he explains how times have changed and people should not be judged for what they have done with their bodies. I agree with Gross’ opinion because tattoos are art to some people. Gross’ view on tattoos are much like my own. People with tattoos work in all levels of each work place.…
Many people conform judgments on a person, based on tattoos. Some of those people who have tattoos are images representing something meaningful, while others are drunken mistakes. Tattoos can be seen as a symbol of manhood; with…
Tattoos are a huge problem in the world today. Everyone I know has tattoos. In the world today, specifically the job world, we do not accept tattoos. Tattoos do not and cannot get you a job because they look “unprofessional” to people. I have two tattoos of my own.…
Although the younger generation have grown appreciative of tattoos it is still the older generation who dominates the choices of our society. Therefore, society as a whole needs the accept this form of expression. The older generation chooses…
Tattoos are widely stereotyped, not in a positive way. 80% believe that all tattoos are bad or the same. The other 20% believe they are evil and people should not be marked. 38% of Americans between 18 to 29 years old have tattoos. People have negative reactions against tattoos because adults believe teenagers are too young to make decisions for themselves and should not be allowed to be marked.…
However if we keep searching in the history of the world we can notice that in almost every century and country there were a different fashion of tattoos. For example in XIX you could go to the circus and found women covered in ink, in the 20's all the soldiers and marines got tattoos to remember their families and lovers, in almost all of the tribes of the amazon, Asia and what's more the most known, the soldiers of the Polynesia, who got tattoos even in their faces. We can…
Like most aesthetic trends, tattooing didn’t make its way to rural America quickly. Small-town introductions to body ink came via the circus, where those with body art were billed as bizarre attractions” (Crum). People covered head to toe in body art were occasionally hired as a sideshow act for circuses. These exhibits provided employment for those completely tattooed. “Tattoos are one of the only things you take to the grave.…
You hold a certain amount of respect in the society and your ideas for tattoos should not, in any way, bestow an incorrect impression of…
I joined the military right out of high school with some battle scars from my adolescent years. But that was it; no tattoos. I was a minor and didn’t have a say about what I wanted. I wasn’t even out of technical school when I received my first tattoo.…
Till World War II tattoos were the realm of outcasts from society like sailors and circus freaks. The…
Seeing and understand the evolution of social viewpoints on tattoo culture is fascinating, and I believe is essential to understand. 4. (Preview Main Points = Thesis Statement) a. In this presentation, I will inform you on the change in perspective of tattoo culture over time, from the Ancient Era, to the Modern Era, and finally, to the Postmodern Era.…