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Exposing shallowness

15 mins | Oct 21, 2017
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Tattoos and class identity. The middle-classes are getting tattoos. Is this a sign of individual rebellion or shallow bourgeois appropriation? In The New Criterion, Theodore Dalrymple critiques "Bodies of Inscription: A Cultural History of the Modern Tattoo Community" by Margo DeMello.

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