In the past twenty years, there has been a massive increase in the number of people who get tattoos. An article in The Atlantic cites statistics which show that around 20% of Americans today have tattoos, and 40% of them come from the ranks of the millennials. According to Anne Velliquette, a professor at the University of Arkansas, the world we live in now has become fragmented partly because of popular culture. It is no accident that one-third of the millennial generation are inked (or have been). Contrary to popular belief, these people didn’t get inked because they wanted to look cool, or become “rebels”; a huge factor behind the decision for many is to resolve and to affirm their identities. The current generation is now exposed to pop culture, multiculturalism, and of course the Internet – which, experts say, have somehow made the millennial generation more “detached”.
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