I'm with Keebler on this one. A congee tattoo basically says "hey, I am worldly and wise even though I grew up in the suburbs and stayed there but I watched a lot of travel shows on TV so I know what exotic is!"
Nothing says myopic view of the world louder than a tattoo of something you got at a mall.
lol!
Yeah I agree with that one. It really doesn't bother me if someone has an asian character tattoo. The characters look artistic, and can make even words that have no relevance as a tattoo (like the word "horse" for example) look cool. And yes I think white girls in Canada get Chinese character tattoos for two reasons 1) to appear to look worldy and socially evolved, and 2) out of sheer ignorance and inexperience with the culture, in that twilight stage where everything Chinese appears to be cooler and more evolved. However, those who know the culture well, know just how much bullshit is within that culture, to know that getting a Chinese tattoo is more of a sign of trying to look cool rather than any real awareness of the culture. When I see a white girl with a Chinese tattoo, what rings true
isn't that she's worldly and socially evolved. It's an indication that her life was probably highly sheltered from people of color, and she thinks she's cool and doing her part just because she's got an Chinese symbol that says "horse".
It's the same old thing. White girls trying to accessorize their life with parts from other cultures (such as Chinese tattoos, eating different cuisines, taking Yoga), but at the end of the day having no real connection with cultures from which they are accessorizing their life with, and absolutely no desire to date or marry a person of color. You know, the same ones who who never look at a Black man, Indian guy, or Spanish guy here in Canada, but the moment they travel to Mexico or the Carribean, they can't drop their panties fast enough. Then they come back from Spring Break after fucking Edwardo, or Dalton and the minute they land at a Canadian airport, they won't even look at a person of color, unless it's kept on the downlow. Fucking these guys on the side while their white boyfriends pay their bills, and on dates to keep them, while the guys also do the same with women of color. Just not in public.
The people in this country are full of so much shit.