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Ursprungligen postat av trewq
Ursprunget r Aryan Brotherhood, ett rasistiskt fngelsegng i USA, om man saknar allmnbildning. Och ja, sen 60-talet har spindelnt p hgra armbgen varit symbol fr misshandel/mord p frgad. S det s. Sen att en massa punkare tagit efter och tatueringen nu skulle signalera ngon sorts utanrskap r helt naturligt. Symbolik utvecklas.
Vad ursprunget r verkar det rda delade meningar om. Ls hr:
http://www.faqs.org/qa/qa-766.html
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The original meaning of the spider web on the elbow was that one is "Caught up in the system." The Aryan Brotherhood used the tattoo in the 70's as a mark that you had hit another race. Now the meaning is totally watered down, people get it because they think it looks cool.
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About the Spider Web tattoo... Actually a spider web tattoo on the outside of your elbow means nothing significant. It originated in the late 70's and early 80's with the Punk Rock crowd who saw it on ex-cons and thought it looked cool. Now a spider web tattoo on your body DID originate as a prison tattoo with 2 meanings. It was worn mostly but not solely by Arian Gang inmates who in the late 50's and early 60's basically ran every prison in the U.S. If it was worn on the right side of your neck it did infact mean that you had killed someone while in Prison and were a predetor and not prey. If it was worn on the INSIDE of your elbow it meant that you were a drug addict and was a symbol to all who sold drugs in the prison system that you were a potential customer and were always looking to be approached by drug dealers in the Prison.
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I am a correctional officer in a prison, and i have seen spider webs on all different ethnicities of convicts. Most tell me that it represents doing time. While you are locked down in prison, proverbial spider webs grow over your old life on the outside. Like an old house that nobody lives in will get covered in cobwebs and dust, so will life as you knew it when you were on the streets. Spider webs, on the elbows specificaly, have a different meaning in the military. They have been traditionally worn by snipers, or someone who has lain in wait for some time to take a shot, representing the stillness and amount of time it took to wait for the wearer's target to come into view.
