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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DragonflyWink, post: 4012124, member: 111&quot;]My post was brief because I had to run out and pick something up, so it was unclear - personally, I&#039;m not offended by the swastika on your purse, it predates the use of the symbol by nazis.&nbsp; I&#039;m not Jewish, but when I was eight, I moved to Skokie, a Chicago &#039;burb with a very large Jewish population, many of my friends&#039; parents and grandparents were Holocaust survivors and/or lost loved ones to that horror, so I learned early, and am appalled and disgusted by anything related.&nbsp; But the swastika, fylfot, whirling log, whatever it&#039;s called, has a <i>long</i> positive history in many cultures, so in my mind, the German hakenkreuz, in the &#039;on-point&#039; orientation, is separate, and I have a few spoons and pieces of jewelry bearing a swastika, as Komo said, a good-luck symbol.&nbsp; I wouldn&#039;t wear the jewelry, but I did display the spoons, ready with a quick explanation of their origins if they caught someone&#039;s eye, so I do understand the unwillingness to offend...</p><p><br /></p><p>Native Americans have a long history of using the &#039;whirling log&#039;, but in 1940, the Navajo, Papago, Apache and Hopi people gave up part of their culture, and issued a proclamation headed by an exed-out swastika, that read, <i>&quot;Because the above ornament, which has been a symbol of friendship among our forefathers for many centuries, has been desecrated recently by another nation of peoples, therefore it is resolved that henceforth from this date on and forever more our tribes renounce the use of the emblem commonly known today as the swastika or fylfot on our blankets, baskets, art objects, sand paintings and clothing.&quot;</i>.</p><p><br /></p><p>~Cheryl[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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