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Message: <blockquote data-quote="nofearfactor" data-source="post: 780386" data-attributes="member: 1535">'trend'? Maybe it just meant something to the person. I have some on me that is related to the martial arts I study,and is there out of respect,not because of a 'trend'. I do it on other people on about a weekly basis. Britney Spears getting the wrong kanji on the back of her neck though is funny. I know its hard to believe but alot of people come into our shop for their very first tattoo and just dont know what type of tattoo they want to get. We do great custom work,but alot of them end up going to the flash books any way and about 1 out 10 people get some type of kanji. We try to study and then show the meaning of the characters. But I'm not Asian and while we do try to study and recreate the original brush stroke to make sure the meaning gets shown right some times people pick out characters just because they like the shape. When they pick out random characters then the meaning changes. So who knows what some of it means until an Asian person laughs at it or yells at them. Thats all on them if Asians get offended by what they picked out. Try to explain that 'trendy' bit of tattooing. IMO it shows their stupidity. The comediene Margaret Cho does a funny routine about non Asians getting chinese characters or kanji on them and not knowing what the hell it means.</blockquote>