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“Every culture” is an exaggeration. Many cultures don’t do tattooing, including my own. Our women do put henna on their hands and feet, but those aren’t permanent. Likewise, tattoos aren’t part of Chinese and most East Asian cultures, especially due to the influence of the Confucian school, which disapproved of it. These are basically massive cultures. The ones that do practice tattoos are usually primative tribes like the Maori peoples of New Zealand (Ta moko).
I appreciate that many people tattoo as forms of self-expression and art, but I fundamentally disagree with it from my own religious and cultural perspective. The fact that many people end up regretting getting a tattoo only serves to reinforce my perspective. In my previous posts I was trying to get to a very specific point, which is the understanding of why people get tats from a purely psychological approach, which should be an interesting study that may reveal something about feelings of inadequacy and self-loathing.
You should stick to discussing subjects that you have some knowledge of.