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Thai Mobile Phone with Nazi symbols |
axxxr
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I-Mobile,a wireless communications company in Thailand has launched two mobile phones (609i and 609) with Nazi symbols and insignias printed on them.
The phones are designed with three penguins dressed in striped inmate uniforms and helmets saluting to a swastika.
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Winger
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That is really out of order! how can you have a design like that?! |
Kwiksta
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Probably get sued sooner or later...
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axxxr
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or bombed! 
I'm really surprised and shocked that some phone manufacturer would actually do this...I mean is their a market for such in korea?..however its all in incredibly bad taste.
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bart
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i don't see the problem?
many people before hitler did much crueler things. julius Caeser murderd and slaved thousands of people. Napolean wasn't that kind. Stalin murderd everybody in its way, even famely.
what happend in WO2 was a very sad and dramatic thing, but we have learnd from it.
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Vein
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Is this the right or left facing swastika? The left facing one was the one in which the Nazis did not use.
Rudyard Kipling used the left facing swastika in his books up until 1936.
But the salutations towards the symbol give it away
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Berry
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@ Vein - Do you read encyclopedia all day long? You always come up with bits of information
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amnesia
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lol you can't get sued for that. It's just a wallpaper.
Isn't that freedom of expression or something the US calls?
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BobaFett
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but why penguins?
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madzanta
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Budhism is the biggest religion in Thailand and the Swastika is a symbol that the Budhists (among other religions) have been using for ages. You can see it all around asia and it have NOTHING TO TO WITH NAZISM. But that doesnt explain the penguins though.
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amnesia
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penguins are commonly used in China and Thailand as cute characters.
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ofiaich
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Hi!
here is`a small part of a map of Nara in Japan,
You can see the Swastika symbol clearly.
It was also used on the war flag of the lord Tsugaru Nobuhiro
1586-1631
but you can see the symbol is reversed...
Also about the Japanese symbol..
A folk dance troupe from Tokushima Prefecture modifed the designs of their kimono's to eliminate the Buddhist swastika when they performed their dance in Germany as part of the World Cup soccer festivities.
The Buddhist swastika was the family emblem of the feudal lord who ruled the area that includes Tokushima.
I also heard that Children light lamps that are laid out in the shape of Swastika, on the eve of Diwali. This is on the eve of Hindu new year, a major Hindu festival.
Off to look for Penguins now....!
Ofiaich
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madzanta
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On 2006-09-20 14:29:57, amnesia wrote:
penguins are commonly used in China and Thailand as cute characters.
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Well everything thats cute is commonly used in asia. BUT its not common that the characters hail!
And I have in mind that the Swastika on japanese maps are used to mark a shrine/temple. And OT, have been to Nara 
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ofiaich
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Hi !
" And I have in mind that the Swastika on japanese maps are used to mark a shrine/temple. "
I think a temple is marked with a small Torii gate symbol!
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amnesia
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"Well everything thats cute is commonly used in asia. BUT its not common that the characters hail! "
Lol yes, but he asked why the Penguin was used, not what are they doing.
I think the wallpaper is a play on different things.
Thai have a high Budhist pop I think?
Plus the Heil came from Heil Ceasar.
It's just that Hitler made the Swastika symbol and the Heil bad things.
We should look at the positive side.
So when you see a swastika next time, think of Buddha and next someone Heil's, think of the Roman Empire
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