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18 Dec 2013, 3:17 pm

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After all, this is the symbol of the Indian religion of Jainism, the most pacifist religion in the world:

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Actually, you might be interested in this BBC documentary that was on some time ago here:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_reuMKpgow[/youtube]



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18 Dec 2013, 4:15 pm

Asian Indians, and American Indians, used the swastika symbol for thousands of years before Hitler latched on to it. So its not like this restaurant. In fact the Buddhist/Jain/Hindu swastikas are generally clockwise, and the Nazi ones are counterclockwise.



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18 Dec 2013, 4:36 pm

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Asian Indians, and American Indians, used the swastika symbol for thousands of years before Hitler latched on to it. So its not like this restaurant. In fact the Buddhist/Jain/Hindu swastikas are generally clockwise, and the Nazi ones are counterclockwise.


Actually, there is no real standard that is set for swastikas in the Indian religions. Which is why people can get awfully confused/upset when they see swastikas in certain places!



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18 Dec 2013, 5:12 pm

Tequila wrote:
Mukherjee80 wrote:
I know in Britain we have restaurants named after Genghis Khan, Tamerlane and Chairman Mao (among others), which would probably seem strange to certain people in Asia, although perhaps not especially newsworthy.


For what it's worth, I find the Communist-styled vodka bars pretty disgusting too.


In that case, if you ever return to Bangor, you will probably want to stay clear of this establishment for your chinese food needs.

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When I lived in England, there was a vodka bar called 'revolution' that proudly adorned the iconography with hammers and sickles.

Initially I found it rather a novelty and enjoyed their extensive range of 'flavoured' shots. I would like to think they paid their staff wages in accordance with Marxist theory, sadly I suspect that wasn't the case.


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18 Dec 2013, 5:25 pm

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I can't find the source material, but i remember reading about an Indian woman during the war who was some sort of weird metaphysicist that sympathised with the nazis and hitler specifically. She believed that if the nazis succeeded in finishing the holocaust it would bring some sort of 'karmic harmony' to the Earth. Apparently she worked for the Germans as an agent in India.


I think you mean Savitri Devi (wiki link)? Except she was actually ethnically Greek or French or British, take your pick. Her Indian moniker was as much a nom de plume as it was anything else.


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