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Author: TwinBird

Mar 20th 2012 at 8:39:37 PM

*A ''{{Cracked}}'' video in which a man is forced by his bosses to shave off his toothbrush moustache in 1939 ends with him asking if he can still wear his "manji shirt - it's Buddhist, means luck" (but when he shows it, it's right-facing and tilted).

Although while on the subject - there's no "Buddhist direction" and "Nazi direction."  Buddhists nowadays often have swastikas facing left, but that's pretty much only Buddhists.  Hindus and Jains nearly always have it facing right, and I think at least  ''historically'' most other religions that have used it as well.  For Hindus and Jains, it's usually dotted, and for a number of peoples it's curved, though, for the obvious reason.  I think tilting it is pretty much just a Nazi thing, but don't quote me on that.  It seems like a very dangerous thing to promote the idea that there's a "Nazi direction," or anything else unique to them that isn't, though, again for obvious reasons.

I know "sauwastika" is another word for it facing left, but I don't know of another word for the right-facing symbol, even dotted, that's not just some other language's name for it - sometimes "shakti" is incorrectly used, but that's an associated concept, I'm pretty sure, not the symbol itself.