Because they think it is fashionable.
The Maori are an indigenous people from New Zealand. They were considered a ferocious warrior tribe who tattooed their faces and bodies to enhance their appearance.
Tattoos of names on the left wrist mean that someone was important. Names that are tattooed on the body are very important names to these people.
People were tattooed because it was a number that Jews were forced to wear under Hitler's rule.
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No the Shaolin never got their bodies branded, tattooed, or pierced (short of a weapon). They are not allowed to tarnish their bodies. This is part of the Zen Buddhist ways.
They go to a special store that put tattose on.
They mutilated their bodies, exiled them, forced them to work, tattooed their faces and hands, and forced some to join the military.
Numbers were tattooed on people who were in the concentration camps, so they could be identified by numbers instead of names. It was a way of depersonalizing them, making them seem more like just a number, not like a real person, which psychologically would have made it easier for those who killed them to view the people as not real human beings.
Because they have no creativity and want to look spiritual.
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Rabbits are tattooed in their left ear.
The Tattooed Widow was created in 1998.