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
The Korean Manja
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.
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.
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uhmmm……… mirror that image, then you will get the typical western Swastika of Nazi you think!
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