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** The word tatto o is derived from the Tahitian word 'tatau', which means to mark something. People have marked their bodies with for over 5000 years. These personal and permanent designs have served as status symbols, affirmations of love, signs of spiritual values, adornments and even forms of retribution. In 1991, hikers discoverd a frozen body in the ** ** Austrian Alps that had been tattooed. The man, later named Otzi, was estimated to have been ali **** ve i **** n 3300 BCE. Otzi had 57 tattoos in all! Scientists believed these tattoos were used as a therapeutic way of possibly treat #|osteoarthritis. In 2800 BCE Egyptians popularized tattoos as a form of art. In the early 1600's, India **** priest were punished for unlawful intercourse by receiving a tattoo on their forehead. In the 1700's, **** Middle-class Japanese covered themselves with full-body tattoos when they are told that ornate clothing could only be worn by royals. Captain Cook returned from a voyage in 1790 with a **  **tattooed Polynesian named Omai. Omai became an immediate sensation and started a tattooing trend among upper-class poseurs. Omai also introduced the word "tattoo" into Western societies. In 1802, tattooing became increasingly popular within the navy. In 1891, by altering Thomas Edison's perforating pen, a man by the name of Samuel O'Reilly patented the first tattoo gun. His design is still in use today. In 1955, after the movie"Night of Hunter," popularity of tattoos skyrocketed because of Robert Mitchum's tattooed knuckles. In 1961, tattoo popularity plummeted after a hepatitis B outbreak in the tattoo parlor in New York City. Parlors were outlawed in New York shortly after. In 2005, popular culture helps make tattoos popular in the West again. In 2006, tattoos where legalized in all 50 states.**

** ﻿Nazi History of Tattoos ** **﻿During the Holocaust, concentration camp prisoners received tattoos only at one location, the Auschwitz concentration camp complex, which consisted of Auschwitz I (Main Camp), Auschwitz II (Auschwitz-Birkenau), and Auschwitz III (Monowitz and the subcamps). Incoming prisoners were assigned a camp serial number which was sewn to their prison uniforms. Only those prisoners selected for work were issued serial numbers; those prisoners sent directly to the gas chambers were not registered and received no tattoos. Ethnicity plays a huge role in the history of the nazi's,as the book states; One of the most significant problems that stem from attempts to classify people by racial or ethnic type is the tendency to discriminate and unfairly, inaccurately, or inappropiately ascribe stereotypes to racial or ethnic groups. Discrimination is the unfair or inappropriate treatment of other people based on their group #|membership. So with that, the groups that were NOT choosen to work were sent to gas chambers to die. As a result of interpersonal #|communication strategies, this is not being done in the current day society.**