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Tattoos and Body Modifications

 

The government should issue a law against this discrimination in order to give fair advantage to those who fit the bill. .
             Body modifications has existed in different cultures around the world since the beginning of time. The Greeks, for example, wore earrings shaped like demigods or revered birds that were reserved for nobility. While the Native Americans, Aztecs, and Mayans wore gold septum rings for adornment to symbolize wealth and sexual fertility. Women of the Kayan Tribe use the practice of wearing heavy brass coils around their neck at a very young age. As they would grow, the more coils are added to their necks compressing their collarbones and upper ribs creating a long and slender neck that is considered very beautiful in the Kayan culture.
             No one has the right to tell you what you can and cannot do with the presentation of your own body. Cultures across the globe have been using body modifications for thousands of years, and society even finds time to judge them without first educating themselves. Tattoos, nose rings, septum rings, earrings, lip rings, tongue rings, navel rings, gauged piercings and genital piercings span the globe in every cultural back ground you can conjure up.
             In America, society has been shaped to believe that no measure is too much for beauty. Subtle propaganda and advertisements often make us question our own beauty. Millions of ads are posted a day to show people how they should look and act attacking everyone on a daily bases with most of these attacks directed towards women. Cosmetic surgery in any form has always been a more accepted idea then tattoos, though they are still considered a body modification. To say tattoos and piercings are more common is a true statement but, they are not necessarily more accepted. People don't even need to know you have certain physical enhancements, where as a tattoo or piercing is not always a secret. Moreover, just because something is ubiquitous doesn't mean it is not judged and frowned upon from certain perspectives.


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