Yeah. That's what I mean.
Here, in my world, tattoos don't mean a goddamn thing.

( he rolls up the sleeves of his comfy, ugly sweater to show the tattoos on his arms. they're cool, not totally pointless — one's a bird, the other is a wolf — but they don't have the communal aspect that this person is familiar with. )

They just sorta... look cool.

And, uh, broad strokes.

( the american education system did not teach him enough about the history of china, we're sad to say. )