As I was walking tonight to the internet cafe, I spotted a bright red neon swastika in the sky. I remember when I first started spotting them pretty much everywhere I went here. I finally walked into school one day and just had to ask Matt. "What's up with all the swastikas everywhere?" I somehow knew that there couldn't possibly be nazis everywhere around Corea. Well....he informed me that they're a symbol for Buddism, for those that may not have known. They precede anywhere where there is a temple around. I just got done looking up the word a few min. ago on the webster website too. Before the definitions, it read as follows:

Etymology: Skt svastika, from svasti well-being, from su- well + as- to be; akin to Sanskrit asti he is, Old English is; from its being regarded as a good luck symbol

Good luck, huh? Makes sense when you think of the peacefullness of Buddism. But....how in the world did Hitler choose this particular symbol as his own? Luck I can understand, but did he have any idea that it was a Buddist symbol when he adopted it?