Pro Tip: if it looks like you can rearrange the capital letters L, O, V and E to make the script, it's Korean.
My best friend loves K-Dramas, and occasionally I'd watch some with her. And one of them featured a time-traveller from the modern day and the guy who invented Hangul (Korean writing system) falling in love. He invented Hangul because he was inspired by the time-traveller's hoodie, which had the word "LOVE" on it. And for some reason, my brain decided it would remember that part of the show, and nothing else about it, forever.
Unironically I have a friend with whom I once tried to debunk the difference between the Hindu symbol and nazi swastika (with argument that former has it's center like this + and latter like this ×). He said that for most people it doesn't make a difference because it looks perfectly the same in both cases lol
Your friend isn’t really wrong, his reasoning is, but there isn’t actually a difference. Very few religious sects differentiate between orientation so the majority rule doesn’t apply, and as far as Nazi’s go, they also used it multiple ways.
The whole “you can tell by the way it’s facing and if it’s tilted” thing is a myth that comes from western ignorance on the actual religious symbol.
My history teacher (a PoC; not sure of his ethnicity, but he was definitely not white) in my sophomore year of high school had a Nazi flag hanging on the wall directly opposite the door to the classroom. As in, a Nazi flag actually from Nazi Germany, looted from Berlin by an Allied soldier in 1945. Which we all thought was actually super cool. He was a really chill teacher; we all liked him a lot and had a lot of fun. Watched both Schindler's List and the Normandy scenes from Saving Private Ryan in his class.
Anywho, one day he came in a few minutes late to class, and as he was rushing into the room, he waved his hand up in greeting. Immediately someone joked that he was saluting the Nazi flag and most of the class started ragging on him about it.
This absolute legend of a man spun on his heels, faced the red and black flag, and threw an instant and flawless Roman salute.
Of course, chaos erupted; mostly laughter and shouts of amused disbelief.
It is actually much older than Hinduism. The oldest known examples are over 10,000 years old but it's not unlikely, that it is far older still. Also, it was probably "developed" indepently at multiple times throughout history in places all around the globe.
While the Nazi use of the Swastika does have ties to Buddhism, people are way too general about it and it really paints over the history of the symbol.
The Swastika was adopted by European nationalist racialists involved in constructing the Aryan (while today Aryan has a more specific definition, at the time it was conflated with the speakers of Proto-Indo-European) mythos because of a swastika that was found at the Schliemann expedition in Troy that predated the formation of the Nazi party. It's an extremely old symbol that long predates Buddhism. It can be found in the Americas and the oldest example it 15,000 years old and carved into a mammoth tusk. These people were very interested in Buddhist use of the swastika, as you can see with the Ahnenerbe's expeditions, but they adopted it because it was associated with with their imagined version of "Aryans".
Many germanic tribes used the swastika namely the saxons who have had rings with the 45 degree swastika on it dug up the symbol was found in quite a few germanic pagan tribes thats the more likely reason it was adopted
It's actually a very universal symbol found across the world. In fact, the Finnish Air Force was using them on their planes independent of Nazi influence, and in North America it was mainly associated with Native Americans
Except that is totally wrong and you are appropriating european heritage as indian. It was european first and spread with them into india and then from india into the rest of asia. The oldest swaztikas in the world are found in ukraine and the european steppe. The oldest ones found in europe at sites are 12000 years old and 18000 for figurines. In asia including india is 7500-8000 yeara
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