A tattoo is a very personal choice and something that requires serious thought to do. Gives that person a deeper experience and connection to their tattoo then again their choice. If someone wants to tattoo it in a language be it Hanzi or Klingon because that If someone wants to tattoo something they find meaningful on their body it is their choice. Of course, if you would tattoo 'boxing' on yourself, or have a lovely bit of calligraphic poetry in mind (something that would be beautiful to a Chinese reader), have at it! Once we reach that point, we would see a C/J tattoo differently: as not quite as cool as it was before. in much the same way as we would see and recognize an English word. In my opinion, it would be much better to embrace the culture and learn the language to the point where we see a C/J character and recognize it as a word. So I see those tattoos as kind of hypocritical: to show that we are embracing the culture, but to maintain distance by having a cool tattoo from another culture: a symbol that would not be recognized by most of our fellow westerners. To think of C/J characters as code, to me, is to maintain our distance from those cultures. In other words, they're a kind of code, more interesting than tattooing 'boxing' or 'MMA' on ourselves. Here's my point: I think that we westerners tattoo Chinese/Japanese characters onto our bodies because they're graphic symbols and compared to writings in our native language, they're one step removed in meaning for us. Here's a question: do a lot of Chinese people tattoo Chinese words on their bodies?

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