Discrimination against people with tattoos and piercings is common in the Dominican Republic, where they are often seen as criminal. Most people with tattoos and piercings begin getting them between ages 15-17 and come from poor families. While discrimination is most felt in workplaces, public figures with tattoos face less prejudice. Despite facing stigma, tattoos remain popular among young people who see it as a form of self-expression.
Discrimination against people with tattoos and piercings is common in the Dominican Republic, where they are often seen as criminal. Most people with tattoos and piercings begin getting them between ages 15-17 and come from poor families. While discrimination is most felt in workplaces, public figures with tattoos face less prejudice. Despite facing stigma, tattoos remain popular among young people who see it as a form of self-expression.
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Discrimination for tattoos or Piercing in the Dominican Republic
Discrimination against people with tattoos and piercings is common in the Dominican Republic, where they are often seen as criminal. Most people with tattoos and piercings begin getting them between ages 15-17 and come from poor families. While discrimination is most felt in workplaces, public figures with tattoos face less prejudice. Despite facing stigma, tattoos remain popular among young people who see it as a form of self-expression.
Discrimination against people with tattoos and piercings is common in the Dominican Republic, where they are often seen as criminal. Most people with tattoos and piercings begin getting them between ages 15-17 and come from poor families. While discrimination is most felt in workplaces, public figures with tattoos face less prejudice. Despite facing stigma, tattoos remain popular among young people who see it as a form of self-expression.
Discrimination against people with tattoos or piercings is very normalized
here in the Dominican Republic, when a person is displayed in a public
place with a tattoo or with a nose piercing, on the lower lip or anywhere is common to feel criticized, rejected or perceive that people keep some distance with him. If we ask anyone if he was treated by a doctor, a waiter or any profession; the most common answer would be: "No, I wouldn’t let myself be cared for by a criminal". 90% of people who said that were 40 to 60 years old. According to them tattoos and piercings are "Devil’s" things. Most of the young people who practice this activity in our country begin between the ages of 15 and 17, many of them from poor neighborhoods and families with limited resources. In our country, the tattoo artist is not considered an artist, and what he does is not classified as a decent job. But where discrimination is most felt in the workplace, that is why some people who wear tattoos try to keep them hidden, for fear of being fired or misjudged. Contrary to what happens in factories and offices, it is increasingly common to see sports figures, movie stars or television with tattoos. Unlike the tattooists and ordinary people who are tattooed, these public figures are the only ones treated with a lot of courtesy and even with a certain respect and there is no lack of who affirms "You see, that person if what is good". Despite the discrimination of this type of art over normal people and tattooists, it continues every day gaining more ground, when really the only thing that this type of people share with each other, is the love for art.