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The Bruuman Monitor
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In Kai Fa tattoo culture is booming
 
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In Kai Fa’s history, tattoo were worn by two categories of people, both of whom seek to estrange themselves from society: criminals and monks. After the Communist regime rose to power, tattooing was officially banned  as an “anti-social behaviour”. Still, the imprisoned criminals and the few remaining monks carried on, in secrecy, the trade. After the reforms of the Nineties, the restriction was gradually relaxed and then formally abolished in 2002, as the new generations rediscovered tattoos both through the foreign capitalist countries and their national Buddhist tradition. While still shunned by the elderly and in the countryside, young urban folks in Tom Yam and other cities now sports inked skin in increasing numbers, and some monasteries now support themselves by drawing the traditional, geometric religious tattoos on the skin of both locals and tourists.
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