ng in sight. The human body is just the nearest and most intimate canvas. There is no known culture in which people do not paint, pierce, tattoo, reshape or simply adorn their body ( Lemonick 76). While teenagers use pierced tongues and the like to set themselves apart, some 20s to 30s have latched on to the neotribal look an amalgam of facial tattoos, piercing and native hairdos, and jewelry that barrows from culture from the South Pacific to the Amazon. Much of this serves the same counterculture function that long hair did in the 60s, observes Rufus Camphausen, an author based in the Netherlands who has written extensively on tribal customs. He says These symbols are a way of saying , I do not belong to the supermarket society.Tattooing and body piercing are getting out of hand. They symbolize something the first one or two a person gets. Then their are those people who have piercing and tattoos all over their bodies. A few tattoos or piercings are fine . The tattoos that show that a person loves someone or the piercing that symbolizes bravery in a person is fine. Tattooing and body piercing help and hurt a person in communication. While some people might know the symbols or piercing they might not know what they stand for. They might not know the true meaning a person is wanting them to get out of this. To make people more aware of symbols and piercing out there, there should be an educational path to rely on for this....
