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Old 04-07-2018, 07:34 AM   #1
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Randomly and out of curiousity, I checked out the Indian racing from Mumbai and saw this. I could only imagine the furor that this would create if our Jockey Club approved such a thing.

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Old 04-07-2018, 12:37 PM   #2
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I believe that symbol is a good luck symbol in Japan and China. It was sppropriated by the Germans in WWII.
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Old 04-07-2018, 12:52 PM   #3
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Symbol has significant spiritual meaning in Hinduism, where in India is the dominant religion.

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Old 04-07-2018, 01:27 PM   #4
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Thanks for the clarification. I knew that the swastika has religious meaning in other parts of the world, yet was still surprising to see on jockey colors, especially since it is widely viewed as a hate symbol on this side of the world.
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Old 04-07-2018, 01:34 PM   #5
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Jeeb, it unfortunate such a sacred symbol had to be associated with such evil. Hope this clarified for you "From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia"


A swastika is a symbol found in many cultures, with different meanings, drawn in different styles. The swastika (as a character 卐 or 卍) is an ancient religious icon used in the Indian subcontinent, East Asia and Southeast Asia, where it has been and remains a sacred symbol of spiritual principles in Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism.[1][2][3][4]

The name swastika comes from Sanskrit (Devanagari: स्वस्तिक), and denotes "conducive to well being or auspicious".[5][6] In Hinduism, the clockwise symbol is called swastika symbolizing surya (sun), prosperity, and good luck, while the counterclockwise symbol is called sauvastika symbolizing night or tantric aspects of Kali.[6]

In Jainism, a swastika is the symbol for Suparshvanatha – the 7th of 24 Tirthankaras (spiritual teachers and saviours), while in Buddhism it symbolizes the auspicious footprints of the Buddha.[6][7][8]

The swastika is an icon widely found in human history and the modern world.[4][6] It is alternatively known in various European languages as the Hakenkreuz, gammadion, cross cramponnée, croix gammée, fylfot, or tetraskelion, and in Japan as the Manji. A swastika generally takes the form of a rotationally symmetrical arrangement (a wheel) with four equally spaced legs of identical length each bent at 90 degrees in a uniform direction to create a pattern akin to a four-armed spiral.[9][10] It is found in the archeological remains of the Indus Valley Civilization and Mesopotamia, as well as in early Byzantine and Christian artwork.[4][6]

The swastika was adopted by several organizations in pre–World War I Europe and later, and most notably, by the Nazi Party and Nazi Germany prior to World War II. It was used by the Nazi Party to symbolize German nationalistic pride, but to Jews and the enemies of Nazi Germany, it became a symbol of antisemitism and terror.[11] In many Western countries, the swastika is viewed as a symbol of racial supremacy and intimidation because of its association with Nazism.[12][13][14]

In the Western world, it was historically a symbol of auspiciousness and good luck.[11] In the 1930s, it became the main feature of Nazi symbolism as an emblem of Aryan race identity, and as a result, it has become stigmatized in the West by association with ideas of racism, hatred, and mass murder.[11][12]

The reverence for the swastika symbol in some cultures, in contrast to the stigma in others, has led to misinterpretations, misunderstandings, and mutual accusations.[15][16]
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