Tattoos Not of Your Cultural Background

don't care

I think there's a line between appreciating another culture, and appropriating it. Don't cross that line.

This, I'm Irish, it seems like every ejit with a great great aunt who once went to Ireland considers themselves 'Irish'... Plastic Paddys we call them.
HOWEVER, our Celtic artwork is so beautiful I couldn't really object to someone wanting to decorate themselves with it.

Could care less but I do feel bad when they are messed up and don't mean what they think they mean.

Ran into a guy a couple of years ago in a indoors soccer tournament who had an Arabic tattoo, so I asked him what was the story behind it or significance. He told me that he got it in Iraq and it says freedom, so I started laughing and of course he was confused and kinda mad at me. Took me a little to stop laughing which made me look like a total a$&hole, but finally I was able to explain to him that it was misspelled and doesn't say freedom but rather says mermaid.

If you really like and appreciate the culture then do it; if not then you're a dumb piece of **** that should get stepped on.

I think it depends on the culture as for me being Samoan and Polynesian the tattoo is sacred to my family and lineage. We take it very serious so when a random person has a Polynesian tattoo and has no idea about it then there is a problem.