History of Tattoos in Oceanic Culture

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"Hi, my name is Shotsie Gorman, I am here as a tattoo artist, an professional tattoo artist for Expert Village. So what you have really is all these culture reference and language use that are related to tattooing. None of which can be firmly proven except for the writings and the the written of the crovatians. Other historians of the roman period. The entire migration of the oceanic cultures, of course unknown to the western world was completely tied directly to their identity through tattooing. It wasn't until Capitan Cook went on his south sea voyages, that he began to uncovered microians, Tahitian, Samoans, and New Zealander's who were covered with tattoos. The irony is that upon bring back with him the aristocrat of these cultures, be brought back melre of the aborigines of New Zealand with him back to Europe. They show up in England covered with their faces with mocho their facial tattoo. And they rekindle and give rebirth to a tattoo movement in Europe. From that point on all of the aristocracy of Europe began to get tattoo. People with position with power, wealthy families, military people, all began getting tattoos because they saw tattooing as an act of aristocrats from another culture. So where the Britons were covered with tattoos and painted blue earlier in their history and they evolved out of that because of the influence of Christianity it was brought back to them by the oceanic culture and re-stimulated it. Even Winston Churchill wife had a tattoo so she was an American though maybe they can excuse her from that."