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Perceptions on People with Tattoos and Piercing
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“Perceptions on People with Tattoos and
Piercing”
The goal of this study is to understand
societys perception towards people with
tattoos and piercing. People sometimes
misjudge other people because of their
appearance and we want to know why. We
think that piercing and tattoos can be art
for the body and there should not be any
judgment just because someone has a
drawing in his or her body or a hole for an
earring. Through this study we can inform
other people how a person with tattoos
and piercing feel. Here in the University of
Puerto Rico there are a big number of
people with different kinds of drawings in
their body and different kinds of piercing,
and we intend to find whether they feel
discriminated or if they can live a normal
life.
There are different kinds of opinions; some
people think that a tattoo makes them look
“cool” while others even use it to mark
themselves as part of a group or gang.
According to a survey made by Daniel
Judelson; “from 446 college students
interviewed 51% had piercing and 24%
were tattooed.” Robin Benton has pointed
out that, nowadays tattoos are very
famous, but simply having a tattoo in your
body may cause effect on the work area,
like for example big companies only allow
tattoos that support the corporate image
and those that do not support the
corporate image are restricted, and for an
employer that works on public companies
the rules are more stringent, having a
tattoo may cause the person to lose his
job. In similar topics, there are various
texts that describe the situation of
adolescents with body art and jewelry at
their jobs. One of these citations is from
Phyllis Hartman. Which explains that “he
thinks companies are finding it very difficult
to find a young person who does not have
a (body art or jewelry)”,and according to a
study published in the journal of American
Academy of Dermatology last year, ” 30% of
people ages eighteen to twenty nine are
tattooed.” Further in the same text,
Patterson Pope, a charlotte-base company
that sells and installs mobile shelving to
place such as law firms and doctors offices,
instituted a tattoo and piercing policy about
a month ago. Employees who work outside
the office must now cover tattoos and
remove facial piercing. In 2005, Jonathan W.
Roberti and Eric A. Storch declared that
“tattooing and body piercing represent a
specific example of behavior that has
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