Foreigners & Tattoos

[GoodPeoples]

How would you say the average Chinese citizen feels about foreigners with Chinese character tattoos ? In a positive or negative light? Maybe nether ?

[liuzhou]

In my experience, Chinese people are fairly negative about tattoos in general.

However, they are even more negative about Chinese characters on foreigners. Mainly because most of them are either totally wrong or very badly written.

[kdavid]

I ran into a guy not too long ago who had supposedly gotten his name tattooed on his arm. In reality it worked out to say "Man who beats his wife".

But, to answer the original question: I agree with the above poster. The typical Chinese attitude towards tattoos is negative. Add in bad/incorrect translations and you''re likely to get more negativity.

[GoodPeoples]

"Man who beats his wife"

Seems so sad yet funny at the same time. Poor guy.

[Lu]

In reality it worked out to say "Man who beats his wife".

What were the characters?

[Hofmann]

I think of it as punishment for not either learning Chinese or asking enough knowledgeable people before permanently inking something in one's skin.

[Shadowdh]

I have a tattoo on my shoulder and it has Chinese characters... I designed the tattoo myself and provided the characters (with help from some here I think, memory could be getting vague though, its been a while) to the tattooist and when I was it showed to some Chinese (my tutors for example or when I was in the gym (summer time) when it was on show for everyone to see) I had no negative feedback (not that they would really) or looks, but did get some positive comments... probably because the three characters I used were 身，意，神 for body, mind, spirit (closest I could think of at the time) and have the bagua with yin yang and a couple of dragons... its not big but for me it has meaning...

[guest1234]

I have a tattoo and have never had any problems and its a little bigger that some others. I think its the context and the subject that make the difference. If I knew how I would post a pick. I will look it up.

phil

morning darren

[guest1234]

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[anonymoose]

Interesting. Did that hurt?

[gougou]

Interesting. Did that hurt?

How would you feel if a blue dragon dug its teeth into your back?

[adrianlondon]

I feel sorry for the two dragons that were flattened in the process.

[Shadowdh]

Morning Phil... that is a nice piece of work... will have to get the number of your chap off you when I get my next one done.. speak with you soon mate...