Língua Inglesa – Língua e Pontos de Vista
Letícia Oliveti dos Santos
RA 00150927
Professora Vera Cabrera
Prejudice against tattooed people
Prejudice refers primarily to a prejudgment or a preconcept preconception reached before the relevant information is has been collected or examined, and therefore it is based on an inadequate or even imaginary evidence. People have prejudice against several things, but one that is not least less important than the others , is the prejudice against tattooed people. This well-known prejudice has existed for many years, and it still affects society nowadays.
The art of tattooing has been an a Eurasian practice at least since around the Neolithic timesAge/Period. In 1991 Ötzi the Iceman, …show more content…
In 1846, the very first tattoo shop was inaugurated in New York by Martin Hildebrandt, USA’s first professional tattoo artist, and he began tattooing men in the military during the Civil War.
Although tattoos were considered merely decorative and something you one did to express yourself oneself. , bBy the year of 1950, it became increasingly popular and at the same time widely associated to with criminals. It was during this time that tattoos began to get a very bad reputation.
Norman Keith Collins is an extremely important icon when it comes to tattoos, because he was the one who started tattooing. and t The prejudice this art began mainly due to his work. He was also known as Sailor Jerry, because of his profession and his tattoos on sailors. The period of the Second World War led many American men to visit a site that used to be visited by suspicios people: pubs, whorehouses and tattoo studios. So, these were the places that Sailor built his story, tattooing those soldiers and sailors that wanted to perpetuate their achievement, fear and pain in their