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Tattoos Not of Your Cultural Background

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  • bigbear167
    bigbear167 Posts: 39 Member
    don't care
  • phatnotfat81
    phatnotfat81 Posts: 171
    Who cares? If it's cute, I'm getting it! :ohwell:
  • ShreddedTweet
    ShreddedTweet Posts: 1,326 Member
    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.
  • Shr3dded
    Shr3dded Posts: 232
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    Does this count? I was tripping balls when I got it.
  • RiesigJay
    RiesigJay Posts: 151 Member
    http://i.imgur.com/5yRwy9g.png

    Does this count? I was tripping balls when I got it.

    1) that's epic!

    2) If you believe man came from monkey... it's cultural

    That's probably the universal "cultural" tattoo that anyone (that believes in evolution) can get
  • BeachIron
    BeachIron Posts: 6,490 Member
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    Does this count? I was tripping balls when I got it.

    Awesome! :drinker:
  • vtmoon
    vtmoon Posts: 3,436 Member
    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.
  • ShreddedTweet
    ShreddedTweet Posts: 1,326 Member
    5yRwy9g.png

    Does this count? I was tripping balls when I got it.

    -King hell that's horrendous.
  • Mother_Superior
    Mother_Superior Posts: 1,624 Member
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  • alexadarielle21
    alexadarielle21 Posts: 6
    why would you fear other cultures? You have to get out and test the waters of the world! ;) w/ much love.
  • karl39x
    karl39x Posts: 586 Member
    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.
  • toaster6
    toaster6 Posts: 703 Member
    I wouldn't-- got my cautionary tale when my teacher found out her "love and trust" tattoo actually translated to "old fat goat". The rest of that period was awkward.
  • islandguy425
    islandguy425 Posts: 7 Member
    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.
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