For us Westerners the swastika's connection to fascism overwhelms its other religious connotations found in Hinduism and Buddhism (among others). Known as the "万字," (manji in Japan; manja in Korean) it has no such connections in Asia, and has only become a taboo symbol in the West within the past 100 years.
Being the Westerner I am, it still surprises me to see it (like when Kindergarten students flick me off), though the shock value of it seems to have faded.
Monday, November 29, 2004
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uhmmm……… mirror that image, then you will get the typical western Swastika of Nazi you think!
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