As I was growing up I was exposed to people, mainly music artists, who had tattoos. I remember as a teenager I came up to my parents and asked if I could have a tattoo, the results were disappointing as expected by conservative Asian parents. From that day on this question rises, “why do most people frown upon and discriminate people who have tattoos?”.

According to anthropology, piercings and tattoos are evidence of evolution, it shows sophistication and advance in technology (by being able to sanitize the tools used to pierce and tattoo). Due to this fact, I am left wondering why people frown upon people who have tattoos or are reluctant in getting tattoos. If tattoos are forms of evolution and sophistication shouldn’t it still be in the 21st century? People who have visible tattoos are often passed over for jobs because there has been a generalization of people with tattoos being rednecks, violent, reckless and bad. I do not have an answer for these questions but I have a theory of why this is how things are. Perhaps, because humans are generally prejudice people, they get intimidated by them. To have a tattoo means that the person have gone through needle-like pain for an hour or more.

Tattoos have been looked down upon for too long. People need to realize that getting a tattoo costs a good sum of money unless they personally know a tattoo artist. I believe that people should find that people who have tattoos are more capable because of the amount of money that is needed to have one. Even though tattoos are generally on people who are violent there has been an increase of people with tattoos and these people range from middle class working people to famous actors and athletes. I believe that the prejudice on tattoos is decreasing as more and more people have them. Because of this, the future might be more accepting of people with tattoos, perhaps visible tattoos could someday be common in the workplace. Tattoos should not determine who a person is, rather, it should be accessible free information about the person.