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Mexican laugh now cry later tattoo11/22/2023 Through suffering, living it and enjoying it as part of life, the mexican laughs in the face of those ghost, mocks on them and go ahead because the mexican is hard like a rock, believe me. The decor has a very special symbolism sometimes true stories illustrated on the skin, stories of suffering but also of joy, but a tear is always represented, without suffering the Mexican cannot complete exorcise his ghosts. Southern California, and the huge presence of the mexican community has become the home of the school tattoo in black and white. Over the years, fortunately, the art of tattooing has been cleared from these environments and has become very popular around the world, especially in USA. Tattooing was forbidden in prison but the inmates also did it on themselves and on teammates, using primitive tools such as a handle of a toothbrush in which a sharp tip wet in ink repeatedly stuck in the skin was applied to created the design. This current was actually born by mexican hand, initially in places not too pleasant, I refer to the infamous San Quentin prison and other such Folsom and Corcoran. There is a current and a particular style of tattoo called black and grey or black and white, because it uses only these colors. The figurative art on the walls, so called murales was a way to represent these episodes, always used by the famous mexicans muralists as Siqueiros, Rivera and Orozco, then this art it is also reflected in the urban street culture in large american cities and in the art of tattoo. These episodes have left an indelible mark in their generations. The mexican is very smiley person who enjoys life, but its history is full of suffering, first the spanish domination, then the spanish-american war, the revolution, immigration in the US, the struggles for affirmation of their civil rights. We’re talking about past generations, the pachuco now, at least the original ones, no longer exist, have evolved, but the motto remained, to remember a bit of their way of life made of tears and smiles, the legacy of a culture, the mexican, with very deep roots, very present even now, and handed down from father to son. This motto was and still is very popular among the “pachuco”, those ones, Mexican by birth, emigrated to Los Angeles, that created a culture mixing their native traditions to those ones of the US.
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