I belong to the personnel department at a company and my colleagues and I choose who can work here with us. We don't want to be biased, but when we hire someone, we tend to avoid those who have tattoos on them. Usually, a grown-up man with a steady job doesn't have tattoos on them, right? We are not saying that having some tattoos on your body makes you incapable of doing any kinds of jobs, but I've never seen a businessman with tattoos. Well, some of the businessmen do have tattoos but they have it where they can hide it. They don't show their tattoos because they know that some people might get offended by looking at it. For example in Japan, many of the Japanese mafia have tattoos so the impression of tattoos there are really bad and there are a lot of restrictions to people who have tattoos like no swimming in public pools, no public hot baths... etc. Tattoos actually have religious meanings in some countries but most of the developed countries tend to hate it unfortunately. As a result, we don't hire a man with tattoos.
Taibi, C. (2013, September 05). Tattoos Still Reduce Chances Of Getting Hired, Study Finds. Retrieved July 06, 2017, from http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/05/tattoos-hired-job-chances-study_n_3873425.html
Taibi, C. (2013, September 05). Tattoos Still Reduce Chances Of Getting Hired, Study Finds. Retrieved July 06, 2017, from http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/05/tattoos-hired-job-chances-study_n_3873425.html
You did a good job of creating a "typical" point of view from the tendencies written about in the Huffington Post article. The opinion expressed by the member of the personnel department may show biases that are held by people in America, Japan, and perhaps other countries as well. I wonder what the main reason for the bias might be. Could it be the fact that someone has defaced their body in a permanent way? If so, the bias may, at least partially, have a religious basis.
返信削除When people want tattoos, they should carefully consider the society and circumstances they are in. If they live in America, having tattoos doesn’t matter at all but in Japan, they might be targets of prejudice. I once was asked at a job interview, that if I had any tattoos. So as long as you live in Japan, having tattoos becomes an obstacle to getting a job. However, I can totally understand the snazziness of tattoos, and I want one, actually. It’s not like because it’s cool, but I want to get the meaning of my name inked to live with it, because it means really special to me. I’ve read an article introducing a woman who lost her baby and got a butterfly tattoo, representing the memory of her baby. People have a variety of reasons for getting a tattoo so we shouldn't judge them.
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