8/16/2019 Mini Tema Ebgleza Tatuaje

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University of Bucharest

Badescu Eliza, S1, Advanced

Showing your true color 

Ooooo tats….. Love the!

"or e tattoos ean e#$ressing yourself, showing your %elieves, the things you love,

the things that a&es you s$ecial, different fro the others.

' also have a tattoo on y right ar (ust %elow y hand with the $eace sy%ol. "or 

y faily wasn)t a %ig i$act that ' wanted to do the tattoo %ecause they also have soe. '

grew u$ with y grand$a)s old style tattoo of a na&ed $in*u$ on his ar so y faily doesn)t

have anyore that conce$tion where tattooed $eo$le are consider dangerous, e#*$risoners or 

 %eing $art of a infaous gang.

But this way of thin&ing e#isted in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, 

 %ecause

 %efore %eing fashion accessories and used to enhance the %ody, tattoos were associated with

outcast and criinality. +articularly, in orth Aerica, tattoos have %een associated with

stereoty$es and racis. -any $risoners and criinal gangs use distinctive tattoos to indicate

facts a%out their criinal %ehavior, $rison sentences, and organizational affiliation, &nown %y

us es$ecially fro ollywood ovies. "or e#a$le a teardro$ tattooed, on the face is usuallyassociated with how any $eo$le a $erson has urdered. /at tattoo0 a career as thief.0 single

cat eans the %earer wor&ed alone several cats ean the %earer was $art of a gang.

-adonna and %a%y 2esus indicates the $erson has %een a thief since childhood and a dagger0

se# offender. ' also found out fro y uncle that five dots tattooed on the hand re$resents the

 $risoner %etween the four walls of the cell.

 3ou can also have a tattoo in order to show your e%ershi$ to different su%cultures

4he %est e#a$le in y o$inion is the ya&uza tattoos which re$resents the su%culture of the

 (a$anese afia. 4he e%ers are covered in tattoos naed full %ody tattoos or %ody suit,

fro their nec& to the hands and foot. 4he tattoos are realized in the (a$anese traditional way

naed irezui and they $icture &oy fish, saurai, cherry %losso, waves 5 traditional

 (a$anese sy%ols.Another negative association is with the azi, the olocaust $eriod. Bac& then the

inates of the concentrations ca$s were forci%ly tattooed with a nu%er, code for the

identification syste, taging $risoners.

3ou can tattoo everything you want fro flowers to usicians, fro $ets to faous

 $aintings, fro onster to egy$tian letters, anything you ay iagine can %ecoe a tattoo.

4hey re$resent $ure wor& of arts 6of course not every aateur tattoo is art7 ade %y talented

tattoo artist in grays or color. +ersonally ' $refer %lac& and white tattoo, %ecause the colored

ones are too flashy for e the colored in&s are &ind of neon and %right.

 owadays $eo$le oved on fro the negative association %ut ' &now that there are

still $eo$le thin&ing in that way. But this is it, you have to let it get %y and e#$ress yourself 

the way you want. -ore and ore $ersons get tattooed and statistics show it also. 'nSe$te%er 899:, the +ew ;esearch /enter found that <:= of Aericans ages 1>58?, @9= of 

those 8:*@9 and 19= of those @1*:@ had a tattoo. 'n ;oania, ' thin& that the two shows fro

iscovery channel 0 -iai 'n& and L.A. 'n& had a huge i$act 0 tones of tattoo sho$s

o$ened, the nu%er of in&ed $eo$le increase and the thin&ing is no longer in stereoty$e ters.

ith the wave of e%racing tattoos also cae odern ethods to tattoo, they got

u$graded 0 you find ore easily electric tattoo achines, %etter in&s with car%on %ased

 $igents, ore hygienic wor& stations and s$ecial created creas for the aftercare.

Even ore, in recent years, also tattoos received a new shade 0 you can have an eye

tattoo. 4he tattooing of the sclera, it)s an e#tree $ractice which consists in in(ecting dye into

the sclera, the white $art of the eye. 3ou can now transfor your eyes 0 have %lue, yellow, red

or %lac& eyes li&e deons, %ut the $rocedure is very ris&y and co$lications li&e %lindnessay a$$ear. So tattoos are in constant evolution so you never &now what ight $o$ out in the

future.