Cultural Significance of Ear Piercings

This Brut viewer shares her arguments for the cultural significance of piercing.

Transcript

00:00I could go on forever with the risks involved in why you should not pierce infant's ears.

00:21Maybe he has a way that he regards tattoos and other body modifications and piercings,

00:28but to assume that other people would feel the same way, and then that they are denying

00:34their kids this privilege of having piercings done to themselves, it's kind of an inappropriate

00:43assumption.

00:48I feel like, especially in black culture, and I've seen a lot in Hispanic and Latinx

00:56cultures, that people just pierce their baby's ears as a form of adornment, and my mom had

01:03my ears pierced when I was a baby.

01:14It was an educated choice.

01:15People still understand that, like, oh, if my baby's skin is overly sensitive, I'm not

01:19going to do it, or if it does get affected, I'm going to take it out.