Although sometimes tattoos are generally increasing in Western countries and the east and asia, they still carry a heavy stigma among upper and upper middle-class social groups. Because members of these groups tend to be more conservative and modest tastes when it comes to culture and fashion, they often see the practice of tattooing is more decorative as flashy or vulgar themselves and make their own norms for the group. Classism also play a role, such as the tattoo is associated with negative stereotypes of the working class as white trash or Guido stereotypes, and stereotypes of immigrants and racial minorities, but that tattoo art in light of their own means.