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Originally Posted by mani
i posted this story before else where
i was workin with an indian girl at the hotel a few months ago and on the page she'd drawn swastika's all over the page - i knew she'd done it cause of her hindu culture etc but i took the paper to a manager and pretended to be serious saying soemoen had left this race hate paper around and he got into a real lather about it. i bought the situation back down told him who'd done it and why and he left it there. i went to the girl and as she was on work experience from india she had no idea who hitler was who nazi's were or why the swastika was seen as a negative symbol. mis-education and coming from abroad were her valid reasons
whats ur alex apart from ruffling a few feathers?
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I dont think what you did was a good way to prove a point, and I dont understand quite what the aim of that was, but what I do find sad is that u refer to her as 'mis-educated'.
If she had even been educated on the matter of the nazi's, why should she then feel like she cant draw a religious symbol on a piece of paper for fear of looking like a nazi?
I dont think your example was a very good one, but Aleks has no religious excuse for that swastika, because anyone with knowledge of the swastikas origins would know that the naziswastika was practically ALWAYS at a 45 degree angle, where as in religious they are normally straight and often flipped the other way round.
Theyre used in all sorts of religions, i think universally they signify peace in most of the religions that use them, which clearly is irony when used by the nazis. One religion, raelianism or something like that (not a religion expert) combines the swastika with the star of david, and i think the religion is a cult, though im not too sure what they believe in but something 'out of this world' seems to come to mind.
My favourite period of history is nazi germany, but I researched the swastika as I had seen it on an old image somewhere on the internet (possibly an egyptian one) and thought it must go back alot further than the 1930's.
Aleks is clearly young and I think you should lay off him a little bit. Nazi germany was took off the school syllabus not so long ago and everyone knows that when your young and you see something being taken away from your view you always want to look at it more and find out about it. I'm sure his interest in the subject isn't merely to just annoy everyone.