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Originally posted by jaguar
Also at a 45 degree angle and flipped it's a buddhist symbol.
I've heard various dumbass tourists (usually american - what is it with american tourists???) going 'ohmygod that grave has a swastika on it!!!'
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Well, gee Jag, if I saw a 45-degree rotated flipped swastika, I'd still think it's a swastika. As juju has pointed out, most people these days don't know the history of the symbol, including myself up to 5 minutes ago.
So why do you call these tourists "dumbass"? Because they don't know the history of the symbol? Or because they don't know rotating it 45 degrees and inverting it makes it a different symbol?
Stupid fucking American tourists. I bet they go to Starbuck's too. Why don't you take a moment to enlighten them instead of calling names?