I’ve heard that in Japan it is a cultural taboo to have tattoos because only Yakuza members have tattoos, especially full body tattoos. They said that many bathhouses would deny you admission if they found that you have tattoos.
Does the Taiwanese feel the same way about tattoos?
[quote=“Taiwan Luthiers”]I’ve heard that in Japan it is a cultural taboo to have tattoos because only Yakuza members have tattoos, especially full body tattoos. They said that many bathhouses would deny you admission if they found that you have tattoos.
Does the Taiwanese feel the same way about tattoos?[/quote]
Yes.
Tattoos are very fashionable in Taiwan right now. Every other person seems to have one these days.
I am looking for a good artist with decent hygienic standards… care to recommend one?
Any idea how much should I save up if I want to do a detailed black/white tattoo on my arm?
My wife has one from a place called Needle No. 8 which is near Zhongxiao Dunhua, in one of the alleys behind the gym. I don’t know the exact contact details or prices though.
Tattoos are in style now. I see people with them (20’s and 30’s) with them all the time.
Its a taboo for the OLDER generation who associate them with organized crime, like the older generation in Japan.
It used to be so in the West also. Even when I was growing up, tattoos were associated with criminals, bikies and sailors. I know I will come off as very much against the grain of Western culture here, but I still find them ugly and distasteful, and the move to acceptance of them is part of the greater cultural malaise in the West regarding the glorification of low/street/gangster culture. Yet I also recognise similar themes that I have accepted and adopted.
I think it also speaks volumes about Taiwanese culture that of all the cultural hurdles people could overcome, and of all the things they could “accept” from the West, it would be this rather than the many positive things they could have adopted.
In any other cultures I have come across when accepting the Western culture, they always accept the greed and ambition of the West, but never their virtues.
Tatoos here these days are like in the West. Get 'em at the mall, along with your new Nikes. They’re run-of-the-mill. Standard kid-apparel. There’s one on Roosevelt Rd, just past the Roosevelt/Keelung intersection, on your right going out of town, next to a heavy bike store and a rollerblade store. You should get one, so you can look like everyone else. 
I thought people got them to look unique.
They get them to fit in. Soldiers did it, sailors did it, tribal people did it. These days, they are the mark of the mall-stroller. Vans? Check. Hair extensions? Check. Tattoo? No? Oh, SHIT! What can I do? Everyone will laugh at me! (Are Vans still cool? who knows? But if they’re not, you can always just take 'em off and shove 'em the closet.) God! Imagine if you had to get your purple crushed velvet loon pants melded to your legs back in the day? Boy! Would I be looking silly right now! 
How do u guys feel about senior citizens with tats? Ill behonest, when i see a gramma grampa with a tat or ten, i think criminal, rough army life, prostitution, drugs, etc.
I think in east asia, senior citizens with colorful full back, arm, leg tats are connected to their past triad family life.
Wrist, arm, finger tats seem popular among the younger crowd here. I havent seen a tramp stamp yet.
Ok, I’ll bite. If you wanna get a tattoo, get this one:
Looks cool to me 
[quote=“914”]How do u guys feel about senior citizens with tats? Ill behonest, when i see a gramma grampa with a tat or ten, i think criminal, rough army life, prostitution, drugs, etc.
I think in east asia, senior citizens with colorful full back, arm, leg tats are connected to their past triad family life.
Wrist, arm, finger tats seem popular among the younger crowd here. I havent seen a tramp stamp yet.[/quote]
You’re not a senior citizen, 914. Yet. YET!
[quote=“sandman”][quote=“914”]How do u guys feel about senior citizens with tats? Ill behonest, when i see a gramma grampa with a tat or ten, I think criminal, rough army life, prostitution, drugs, etc.
I think in east asia, senior citizens with colorful full back, arm, leg tats are connected to their past triad family life.
Wrist, arm, finger tats seem popular among the younger crowd here. I havent seen a tramp stamp yet.[/quote]
You’re not a senior citizen, 914. Yet. YET![/quote]
Ill have it removed before i turn 50, hopefully. Thats senior age, right? 
By the time the younger age turned senior, everyone who believed that tattoos mean gangster will have died off.
Nonono grammas should all be tat free, smell like vanilla, and bake cookies. No tats of scary dead animal skull.
I want one too. Let me know where are you planning to get yours and how the place turn out to be.
So are you saying that they should also stop listening to Hip pop or Heavy Metal, but only listen to Oldies and Jazz?
You do realize that that’s what the grandmom of today listen to back when they were young right?
Right. So the only ones left will be the ones laughing at the mallrats. That’s even WORSE, dude!