Comment on LPT: Never get a tattoo in a language that you don't understand

• BarrelAgedBoredom@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  This is one of the few situations where I can say good thing I’m American lol

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  • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yep. My tattoos have no meanings to anyone but myself, and there’s no way that my 6’3" 220lb white ass would ever be confused for a Japanese person. I don’t need to “say” a damn thing. They can tell I’m ガイジン.

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    • afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I still remember my first trip to Asia and being noticed everywhere. Was telling a friend of mine later “oh that must be how minorities and attractive women feel all the time but still kinda better”. There is just no way to blend in if you are a white-arab dude in a city that is +99% a specific east Asian ethnic group. I tried dressing like a local, I put on my blank New Yorker facial expression, didn’t speak much, but nothing worked. Everyone was doing doubletakes and kids/old people were openly looking.

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• Zoidsberg@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  For real? Whats the reasoning?

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  • konodas@feddit.de ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Tatoos are associated with criminals, particularly the yakuza, afaik.

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• PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’m almost tempted to get full body art of the Jojo rumble kana to see if one of the guards starts up, “oh? You’re approaching me? You’re coming right to my admittance stand?”

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