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Sunday, July 15, 2012

Nazi symbols in Japan

Being a teacher, I know how much the kids are getting into Call of Duty especially the Nazi Zombies. It's still the biggest craze and it's been out for a while. MW3 has nothing on BlackOps. So Nazi's have made a comeback, this time in the form of zombies, in America.

In Japan, Nazi things are around and displayed out in the open.
We saw an old Nazi trenchcoat in a mall.

And a rather explicit saying telling the Nazi's they aren't well liked. Thank you Dead Kennedy's.

In Shinjuku there was also a Nazi symbols frequenting the street. (Though not as often as I just made it sound).

I did a little research as to why it is so common to find these symbols all around Japan. It said that the Japanese are visual but they don't attach socio--political statutes to the visuals they see. So, for them, they just like looking at it.
...Interesting.

This place, views the world so much differently than we do. It's through their culture, religion, mentality and being that they are able to detach such emotions and move on to admiration. I am amazed and I am intrigued and I would love to learn more about it.

Americans don't know how to detach their emotions, to the point we get overly angry, overly happy, overly saddened, over sometimes nonsense things. Maybe Japan shows less emotion than us Americans are used to but maybe it's something we could learn more about and better ourselves for. You can't be controlled by your emotions if you learn how to detach them. Image how that would turn our government and media influence upside down...

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