Negative Effects Of Tattoos On Society

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Getting Tattoo is a bad thing?
Tattoo is a permanent art on body since the past time. It still exists in the present time. Generally, it is free for people to get the tattoo to. However, the stereotype of tattoo is negative to the world’s eyes, mostly middle aged to old people. Some of them even call it ‘a sign of bad people’. These make people who want tattoo afraid of getting it. Though tattoo is more common in today’s world, there are always conflicts between the old generation and new generation when speaking of tattoo. It looks like the old generation cannot accept tattoo at all whereas the new generation sees tattoo as a fine body art. As a result, getting tattoo contains both negative and positive views. First, getting tattoo is like getting rapidly impaled by a needle. It can create painful wounds. Moreover, if it is not
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It is said that tattoo is not appropriate when other people see it. Even some careers do not allow getting tattoo. As a result, it is harder for tattooed people to apply for work. However, if there are the problems to get the opportunities, there are always the ways to solve them. For example, if getting tattoo in the exposed parts is the problem, getting tattoo in the unexposed parts or covering the tattoo by wearing long costume or makeup solves this problem easily. If there is a career that does not allow the tattooed people to apply for, that career is an old school thought so looking for another career is a better choice. When one opportunity is lost, there is a new opportunity. Some careers even support tattooed people because these careers do not care about physical appearance. They care more about the ability of the candidates. Some careers even give higher salary than those old school thought careers. Therefore, there are always the solutions for solving the career opportunity problem for tattooed

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