“The world is divided into two kinds of people: those who have tattoos, and those who are afraid of people with tattoos- anon.” I recently conducted an interview with Tyreque Young, a Georgia Southern University student. Tyreque is an eighteen year old African American male. He grew up always moving around until recently settling in Statesboro Georgia. He is a broad shouldered man who was casually attired with basketball shorts and a long sleeve shirt. He is also an intellectual and confident man from what I gathered from talking to him. With Tyreque’s experiences with having tattoos for a few years I found him to give a great amount of detail about the culture, language, and purpose that surrounds people with tattoos. While researching this subculture (People with …show more content…
They have this age limit to keep younger people from getting something on their body that they very likely would regret later in life. This in my opinion is a good idea because children and teenagers change their minds daily about what they like and dislike. They are still figuring out who they are as people and as a result they will follow in other people’s footsteps. This minimum age requirement prevents people from being peer pressured to get tattoos. If we allowed middle school children to get tattoos we would see a lot of Justin Biebers and girls from Playboy magazines. “Tyreque what do you think about the law that you have to be eighteen to legally get a tattoo?” Tyreque responded with, “I think that it is a good idea so that children do not get tattoos they will regret but I also think it is unfair to some people that matured earlier on in life and can pick a tattoo that they will want on them forever. I think people should be able to get tattoos once they are sixteen years old because a lot of people have matured more by then and usually the tattoos you want at sixteen you will want in two more