Kimbos_Egg posted...
Its kinda ironic too, seeing as nazi germany and their lack of coke is the reason we have fanta
Was literally coming into this topic to point this out.
adjl posted...
Yeah, that's a symbol that nobody's really in a rush to reclaim.
Debatable. There's a fair few Asians who still use it in its original religious context and get a bit pissy when people complain about it. Sort of a "I think our thousands of years of symbolic meaning outweigh what those German assholes did with it" attitude.
It's mostly Westerners who get uptight about it (for obvious reasons).
It'll actually be interesting to see what happens with it over the next few centuries, honestly. It's still a raw wound in the West because it's relatively recent, but time has a way of erasing all context and wariness.
Or to put it another way, the atrocities of the previous century are always going to sting a lot worse than atrocities from more than a millennium ago. Most people today don't really give much of a shit what the Romans were up to or who they were killing. Or the ancient Greeks. Or... etc etc.
I think we're already getting to the point where WWII is barely "real" to most of the younger generations. A few more generations and we might see a shift in how things are perceived overall.
Well, "we" won't see it. We'll all be dead. But you know what I mean.