"Relationship between reading of Fergusonand Schaefer"

Tattooing is an important subject in regard of subculture. As it first started in the United States tattooing was looked on something that only bikers did. As it developed through the beginning of the 90’s you will find that the tattoo business was one of the six fastest businesses growing in the United States. Tattooing can be looked very differently today that it had been before. Today getting a tattoo is considered to be a very cool thing to do for teenagers. There are people like me would never want to get any scars on their skin of any kind. The American culture may look at the tattooing now as a very normal thing to do, but in my culture it is different. I come from the Middle East and society over there and their culture is kind of governed by our religion. As in Islam tattooing is forbidden. People will look at it as a cultural value. As I continued on reading I realized the relationship between the tattooed and the tattooists. For example, tattooists often impressed upon their clients that they were artistic, friendly, and most of all technically competent and sterile.

         The Hawaiian culture, which was discussed in the Ferguson book. Has been brought upon as a very important subject of how a culture can be lost. This story proposes how American imperialism has destroyed the culture of the Hawaiian people. In the Hawaiian culture people have a special relationship with their land. All they have is care and love of the land. Hawaii became a territory of the United States. All schools, government operations, and official transactions, were all conducted by English, although most people spoke Hawaiian. In the 1970’s has gone a tremendous revival. They were schools teaching people to speak Hawaiian, until Hawaiian and English became the two main languages of the state. The speaker goes on speaking about tourism and how much it had stolen from their culture. It still continues on saying that Hawaii has become the place of building hotels as in Hawaiian culture hotels are found to be formal cultural values which are broken. At the end the writer describes that his people hates tourists and they really do not care that much about the industry, but what they care about more is their culture, and they want everyone to know it.

        One of the connections I saw between the two books was effects development does have on culture. For the Hawaiian culture which was changed due to the development made in the state. The development of state lead to the breaking of its cultural values. As I have mentioned above that tourism in the state of Hawaii brought in a lot of development. They simply traded their cultural values to catch on with the development of tourism.

Another one of the connections that I saw between the two books was the tattoos and how it is considered a more in my culture. Simple because people over there in the Middle East just do not accept it as part of their society and look at it in a very shameful thing to have in the family.