I like Bill Marr's joke: "Just because you have some Asian characters tattooed on you doesn't make you spiritual. It probably says beef and broccoli anyway." And you know what, this is true. I saw a girl on a show and she was from Asia and she was translating peoples tattoos and she said they just had the vaguest similarity to what they were supposed to say. It is not like a tattoo artist is a linguist from MIT or something.
2006-12-04 03:23:05
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answered by Anonymous
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Well, I'm Chinese and live in Singapore. Only have 2 tats so far. One's the Chinese character of my surname: 'Chen' You can wiki that to see what it looks like. I got the traditional one instead of the mordern chinese character. I felt it had more meaning. I also had my current Secondary 2 class name tattooed too. Yea, the moment I turn 16, I'm gonna get a back piece probably a chinese character too. Does that answer your question? lol
I also don't mind learning to tattoo and moving to some foreign country to tattoo chinese characters since they seem to be in demand in the west. I saw this episode once of Miami Ink where a woman insisted Yoji tattoo a Jap character her even though it would be his first. And just coz he's japanese! I'm not sure what the meaning of that was in Japanese, but in Chinese, the character is 'ren' which means person or people... and I was just thinking that it has totally no meaning.
2006-12-04 05:26:53
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answered by Anonymous
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yea, i know plenty of asians (japanese, mostly) who either live in america or did, and a few who never did, who have some english tattoos. i, personally, have grown up knowing many asians and even learned chinese. i am now trying to learn japanese. i want to get japanese script tattooed on me some day, but i'm not sure what it will say yet...
2006-12-04 03:01:02
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answered by answer away 3
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Americans who get any kind of foreign tattoo (unless they have part of that heritage in them) generally looks completely ridiculous.
I would hope that Asians are smarter than that.
And anyone who gets their OWN NAME tattooed on themselves...
Do you often forget your name, and you need this to remind you??
2006-12-04 01:58:36
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answered by *MissNic 4
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Yes. Asians who are english educated.
2006-12-03 22:28:34
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answered by emy 2
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i'm going to guess yes. they do. i'm 1/4 asian. so should 1/4 of my tattoos be asian influenced? i think so! why... i think i'll go out and get an asian tattoo in a week or so... no really, i am! thanks for the inspiration!
2006-12-04 13:10:06
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answered by somebody's a mom!! 7
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Of course some do,but that doesn't mean every Asian does it.Do all Non-asians eat hamburgers?No right
2006-12-03 22:27:21
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answered by len l 2
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uuumm.... yea.... alot of us get tattoos of our english names on us..... lol... im planning to get mine on myself!! =]
2006-12-03 23:38:20
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answered by Anonymous
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