Care to explain how? Is tattooing not a longstanding tradition in New Zealand, Polynesia, North Africa, West Africa, Thailand, etc.?
…Egypt, China, the Philippines, Indonesia, Siberia, Taiwan, Greece, Rome, Persia, Great Britain, Romania, Yugoslavia, Russia, Denmark, North America, Central America…
It wasn’t only brown people, and it wasn’t only poor or disreputable people.
Hardly “huge chunks of the the world”, more like small isolated outposts.
Is this “good idea of the history” anything like your mistaken ideas on the history of the overthrow of the Hawaiian monarchy?
well since I proved you wrong- yes.
Who are you, Rudyard Kipling?
Point and set to sven.
Well, in fairness to DrDeth, tattoos are quite unpopular amongst the English upper crust of a certain age.
So he’s got that going for him. 
OTOH
I think **joyfool **was projecting a bit when she asserted that since tattoos are popular in mainstream western culture today that they will necessarily remain so forever going forward. Fashion doesn’t work that way.
Bluenoseness (bluenososity?) is generally on the wane today, but IMO that’s always temporary. What *will *change is what future bluenoses are bluenosed about. Maybe tattoos will escape the bluenoses’ baleful glare. Maybe they won’t.
I doubt it’s concern - it’s just people being people. I don’t really get the whole “I did this for me, I don’t care what anyone thinks” crowd getting bent out of shape about unwelcome opinions - you’re free to do what you want, and no one’s allowed to comment? That’s delusional, and naïve. Part of choosing to wear tattoos, piercings, mohawks, neon nail polish or getting you hair done at Supercuts using a coupon is accepting that people are going to comment. Be nice if people didn’t, but to quote Pushing Daisies “that would be a different universe, and something else would probably suck.”
Of course, grousing about people grousing about your life choices is also part of the human experience, so please, continue. 
Exactly. And one hopes the uncool people will first try something reversible like a new hairstyle or the leather jacket before the realization hits them. But they will not fool the actual cool people. (And IMO the really cool people, at the same time, will not feel they have to stop doing something they truly like just because now lame poseurs are getting into it, too.)
What may fade away perhaps will be the opinion itself that people are doing it “to be cool”.
Bodymods are not for me, but if you feel they are for you, knock yourself out. If others tell you they don’t like it you can just disregard their opinion but they can still tell you so.
However I’d rather look forward to people becoming more discriminating about the quality of the ink they get and rather going without than doing it badly.