Ok. I don't think I claimed that nobody knew/most people didn't? I was just interested to learn it myself and thought there might be one or two others who'd be interested too. Sorry to trouble you.
If you're objecting to me associating it to being British-born post-Nazism.. well, I spent a lot more time in school learning about the war and war-adjacent topics than I did Hinduism. And I don't recall the svastika from what I did learn about Hinduism at all. (I'm aware of it through film and reading.)
If I saw it in the street or as a tattoo (which I never have, aside from that depicted in American film and television) I would assume Nazism, unless it had dots or perhaps if it wasn't at an angle (or in film, obviously not if it's Bollywood). And the connotation of that isn't 'well-being' to me; I don't doubt (now, knowing the common origin) that's why they chose it, I'm simply explaining how I'd failed to make the connection.
> my association for 'swastika' are just not anything to do with well-being at all
Or if this is being misinterpreted - to be absolutely clear, I mean the word, as rendered in the English alphabet. I have absolutely no problem with it being used as a positive symbol, a स्वस्तिका, all I meant was that I didn't realise there was any connection at all! I thought there was one with positive associations, and one with negative, and they just looked similar but that was that.
If you're objecting to me associating it to being British-born post-Nazism.. well, I spent a lot more time in school learning about the war and war-adjacent topics than I did Hinduism. And I don't recall the svastika from what I did learn about Hinduism at all. (I'm aware of it through film and reading.)
If I saw it in the street or as a tattoo (which I never have, aside from that depicted in American film and television) I would assume Nazism, unless it had dots or perhaps if it wasn't at an angle (or in film, obviously not if it's Bollywood). And the connotation of that isn't 'well-being' to me; I don't doubt (now, knowing the common origin) that's why they chose it, I'm simply explaining how I'd failed to make the connection.
> my association for 'swastika' are just not anything to do with well-being at all
Or if this is being misinterpreted - to be absolutely clear, I mean the word, as rendered in the English alphabet. I have absolutely no problem with it being used as a positive symbol, a स्वस्तिका, all I meant was that I didn't realise there was any connection at all! I thought there was one with positive associations, and one with negative, and they just looked similar but that was that.