Happy national day UAE

In this day UAE celebrates their 40th national day with many festivals. They celebrate this with drawing on their face decorations and their cars, music and poems. They dress up and perform the youlah. Not only do they celebrate, Qatar also joins the celebrations by doing a 'masera' (cruising around Doha city together with flags) highlighting their happiness and joy. One of our famous local radio channels (sout al khaleej) dedicated a whole day just for UAE. Even the people in Doha are all celebrating the event by putting a status and profile picture to resemble the unity between Qatar and UAE. This conveys socialization between the two cultures.

 UAE was first colonized by the British, and gained independence in 1971. They are 7 emirates with one leader, sheik Khalifa Bin Zayid. Even though sheikh Zayid passed away, people of the UAE still relive his existence, as he was the one who changed the country. 
Both our culture are similar, however theirs a slight difference in accents. Also in the old days, we both had the same currency. Our clothing’s are similar; the males wear the traditional ‘thoub’ and the female wear the traditional ‘abaya’. We share the same norms. Our societies developed in a wider range. We are both more globalized countries but we still hold on to our past and celebrate every year. 
  

Tattoos

A "behavior" is a very specific word that is unique to each and every person. People’s behaviors differ from one culture to another, within a similar culture, from one family to another and even within the same family, that is called Deviance.

Throughout generations groups of people with rebellious thoughts and ideas about what they like were founded, these were expressed in visual forms that distinguished them from others. Some of these are groups were beneficial rock roll groups, punk, rock, groups of people who like piercings, tattoos and so on.

Concentrating on tattoos, people have different opinions about why tattoos are good or bad and how they started. Some just do it for the fun of it not really knowing the history behind and whether it makes a difference having it.

Here’s a brief history about Tattoo.

It started with the Egyptians more specifically on Egyptian women. Women’s legs were tattooed as a preventive action to avoid dangers on childbirth. It was then spread through Asia, Africa and pacific islands. Other cultures had different interpretations for it such as spirituality, strength, protection, narrative purposes and marking criminals. It was then banned in the 787 AD, then the eruption happened in the 1960’s, after that tattoos were considered a symbol of rebellion, gangs, and dirty sailors. Such ideas create segregation in society, for some it is a positive http://www.thefreedictionary.com/sanction, such as having people joining this type art, for others it is a negative sanction where they get people giving them weird looks or weird comments.

In the religious point of view the bible banned tattooing as it falsifies and fabricates what GOD has given us. It is banned to touch and manipulate with one’s own body.

I don’t see the point of having tattoos whether they were obvious or viewed by others or not and more importantly because it is banned by GOD and clearly written. Moreover, it is a lifelong print that someone may regret with age but can never do anything to change it. From a non-religious point of view, if it was apparent, it can damage ones look, (imagine wearing a wedding dress with big tattoo on your arm), and if it wasn’t apparent it has no reason other than self-satisfaction and that is also not convincing in my opinion.

In some cases deviance enhances unity and a sense of community, but in other cases it strengthens wrong paths that should not be courage.