We all have one, generally speaking. We all at least have had one at one point in our life. It's something we expect to see if we see someone's exposed midriff. In fact, it is one of those things we don't much notice normally, but I am pretty sure if someone didn't have one we would be likely to do a double take. I back this statement up by the fact that the model Karolina Kurkova's lack of traditional belly button has been the subject of much speculation. On top of that they have actually had to photoshop a belly button onto her belly in fashion shoot photos (to avoid some people being horrified, I assume). Recently they have also published a study concerning Belly Button Biodiversity. This study found that there is a whole new world to explore in our belly buttons. So to speak. Not to mention the discussions on whether an inny or an outy is better, if cropped tops exposing our navels are indecent, belly piercings or belly dancing. There is much more to the belly button than meets the eye.
Some of us tend to do too much navel gazing, some of us probably don't do enough of it. The fact remains that no matter what colour, religion, cultural background or race you represent, at one point in your life you have had - and chances are you still have - a belly button. And this is just one, relatively insignificant part of your body which didn't serve any real purpose after your birth. At least it was quite insignificant until they found a whole zoo of interesting new bacteria living there.
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