The Power of Symbols

Imagine you're walking through the quad at lunch and you walk by a student with a swastika arm band. You'd probably freak out, but why? The swastika is an ancient symbol that dates back around 11,000 years, and used in ancient India, China, and some countries in Europe. It symbolizes auspiciousness(success), luck, or existing. But now we see this symbol as a sign of hate, Nazism, and death. Even though this symbol was used more than 70 years ago for the Nazi's, to this day it isn't socially acceptable to use/wear this symbol.