Um, history lesson required!?
http://www.carnewschina.com/2014/05/12/jeep-patriot-is-a-very-bad-german-in-china/ :doh:
http://www.carnewschina.com/2014/05/12/jeep-patriot-is-a-very-bad-german-in-china/ :doh:
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Um, history lesson required!?
http://www.carnewschina.com/2014/05/12/jeep-patriot-is-a-very-bad-german-in-china/ :doh:
http://www.carnewschina.com/2014/05/12/jeep-patriot-is-a-very-bad-german-in-china/ :doh:
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Stupid people.
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I looked up the 21st Panzer Division, and while it actually existed, it wasn't part of the Waffen SS, which was the private army of the Nazi party, so it looks like this person is more an attention whore than actual supporter of the Nazi ideology.
None of them are really supporters of the Nazi party. The same way everything American is a source of fascination to the Japanese, the Chinese have a fascination with WWI- & WWI-era Germany. They're after a look, not an ideal. It's fashion to them.
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Yeah, but painting up a Jeep of all vehicles with stickers of the sort that we pretty much shot out of the sky, and off the face of the earth 70 years ago, is pretty dang perverted.
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Ha, I didn't notice that at first!
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Huh...well butter my butt and call me a biscuit...
This Jeep is from China. The trend of decorating cars with Nazi insignia is a Chinese thing. I doubt that they care terribly who or what the US did in WWII. Hell, do they even know? The state-run disinformation campaigns of China and N. Korea would have you believe many things that aren't true... Either way, I don't think they care about our old enemies.
Its perverse to you and me, but to them it's just cool-looking adornment for their cars. Something tells me they don't feel the same patriotism when looking at our flag.
LOL! I'll pass on the buttering, Biscuit, butt thanks anyway!
Regardless, whether or not you agree with the message all the Nazi insignia sends, it just looks tacky. It almost looks like vinyl graphics advertising for some Nazi-related business. No style, just tacky fluff.
And on the topic of swastikas, I think it's a shame that the Nazis incorporated that symbol as their own. The swastika existed in many cultures long before the Nazis used it, and it was meant to represent the cycles of the seasons, of life and death, and was most often seen as a symbol of good fortune. I can see why the Nazis used it, in that regard; just sucks that it has such a negative connotation now.
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Indeed - they did a great job of turning a symbol of peace into one of hate.
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/Swastika.html
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/Swastika.html
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True enough, guys, but while it may be owned in China, it was probably built in Illinois, same as most of ours. It may be just decoration to them, but that doesn't change the fact that it's pretty dang kinky.
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