Store uses NAZI symbols - was unaware it would cause offense!

[GePap]

The guys in this store are dense, but as far as Hong Kong goes, the swastika is not a universally offensive symbol: very popular with Native Americans, Hindus, and other parts of the East.

[Sprayber]

Looks like someone needs to go back to advertising school.

[Dr Strangelove]

Are high school level courses in the history of western civilization required in Hong Kong?

[Sprayber]

I wonder if they will use the rising sun for their next line of clothes.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Originally posted by JohnT
Further on, it notes:

In April, soft drink giant Coca-Cola pulled a promotional robot figurine adorned with what appeared to be Nazi swastikas following criticism from a Jewish leader in Hong Kong.

Have a Coke and a smile... plus a swastika-adorned robot? What the hell is wrong with these people?

On the other hand, "Nazi Cola Cyborgs" is an excellent name for a band...

[Dr Strangelove]

On the subject of odd symbolism: In Grenada, during the short-lived rule of the left-leaning, pro-Castro government (the one that Reagan invaded in 1983) the socialist "New Jewel Party" chose a large solid red dot on a field of white as their as their party symbol. It represented the near-bloodless revolution, there was only one fatality. When Castro visited the island in 1980 they put flags with this symbol on every power pole on the island. it was soooooo bizarre. We were all half-expecting a visit from General Tojo or some other Imperial Japanese leader.

Numerous bus drivers on the island chose another unofficial symbol of rebelliousness, one that could easily be imported from Miami International Airport. Dozens of these bus drivers sported stickers of the good ole Stars and Bars on their vehicles. So strange. You'd have thought the place to be a hotbed of KKK activity.

[Giant_Squid]

[troll] The REAL Nazis are the PC thugs who won't let them keep up perfectly good decorations [/troll]

[Kropotkin]

I've heard about a similar thing a couple of years ago with japanese teenagers dressing up in SS-uniform-like outfits.

It might not mean that much to the brats at all but if I was walking down a Tokyo steet and bump into a teenager with a SS-symbol I'd probably knock him/her down on the spot.

[Proteus_MST]

Originally posted by GePap
The guys in this store are dense, but as far as Hong Kong goes, the swastika is not a universally offensive symbol: very popular with Native Americans, Hindus, and other parts of the East.

The Swastika alone for sure. You can see it also in India a lot. I´ve seen a Documentation about some religious feast there someday, and almost all of the Priests wore hats with the Swastika on it.

But the Combination with the SS-Runes and the Reichskriegsadler (the Wareagle of the Third Reich above the Swastika) of course directly points out that those Decorations are not being meant as some kind of Hinduistic Symbol for Luck and Prosperity, but to be meant to resemble the Symbols or the Third Reich.

[st_swithin]

That's why we should pity the Red Men - they didn't have a spiffy flag when the Europeans arrived, and that was the cause of the decline of the Native Americans.

Stupid flagg.

[Inverse Icarus]

Originally posted by Giant_Squid
[troll] The REAL Nazis are the PC thugs who won't let them keep up perfectly good decorations [/troll]

here! here!

[FrustratedPoet]

What business is it of German and Israeli diplomats what a private company in Hong Kong chooses as it's advertising symbol?

[JCG]

It may not be exactly their business, but those advertising symbols are surely an easy way to piss a lot of people off (not necessarily Germans and Israelis), with no real gain.

[Nubclear]

[:) Smiley]

SS-Runes and the Swastika together with the Reichskriegsadler and they didn´t think it could be offensive for some people

They must have lived in another world if they didn´t know that there are people around, who don´t like those Symbols a bit, espescially in Combination

There may be people around that would take severe offense, but very few outside of the Western world, where the Nazis never got to in their conquests, and where other ideologies and leaders have been far more prominent.