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Name: "Swastika Bears.
Date: 2004.
Country of Origin: China
Holiday crackers reveal swastika-bearing toys
(Alberta, Canada) CTV News Staff --
Miniature panda bears, all marked with swastikas, have been found in a number of Christmas crackers in Alberta, shocking the families who have found them.
Christmas crackers usually contain a party hat, a joke and a surprise novelty.
The toy inside the Alberta crackers was a small panda bear wearing a military cap with a swastika-like emblem on it. The bear appears to be raising his hand in a Nazi salute and appears to have a military medal painted on his chest.
Lynda Tomilin from Calgary saw one of the figurines come out of a cracker as she was sitting down for Christmas dinner. She says she was disgusted. Families in Olds, Edmonton and northern Alberta have also found the panda in their Christmas crackers.
"We couldn't believe that was was the toy that came out of one of these Christmas crackers. Of course the girls were saying, 'Can I have that one?' But we said no," she says.
The Christmas cracker maker in Lachine, Quebec, says it's all a misunderstanding.
Martin Walper, president of Walpert Industries Inc., says while in the West, the swastika is linked to Adolf Hitler's Nazi Germany, the symbol is widely used in several major religions, including Buddhism. In China, where Walpert's crackers are made, the swastika denotes, among other things, prosperity.
Laurence Nixon, chairman of the religion department at Montreal's Dawson College, says in Hinduism and Buddhism, the swastika has absolutely no connotation of nationalism, socialism, much less anti-Semitism. In fact, the word swastika comes from the sanskrit word for wellbeing.
Nixon adds that the symbol has been found in almost every ancient and primitive culture all over the world, turning up among the Hindus, the Celts, the Germanic peoples and in central Asia as well as in pre-Columbus America.
Walpert thinks that no more than 10 swastika-bearing pandas got into the crackers at the Chinese factory. He says he intends to ensure it doesn't happen again.
Date: 2004.
Country of Origin: China
Holiday crackers reveal swastika-bearing toys
(Alberta, Canada) CTV News Staff --
Miniature panda bears, all marked with swastikas, have been found in a number of Christmas crackers in Alberta, shocking the families who have found them.
Christmas crackers usually contain a party hat, a joke and a surprise novelty.
The toy inside the Alberta crackers was a small panda bear wearing a military cap with a swastika-like emblem on it. The bear appears to be raising his hand in a Nazi salute and appears to have a military medal painted on his chest.
Lynda Tomilin from Calgary saw one of the figurines come out of a cracker as she was sitting down for Christmas dinner. She says she was disgusted. Families in Olds, Edmonton and northern Alberta have also found the panda in their Christmas crackers.
"We couldn't believe that was was the toy that came out of one of these Christmas crackers. Of course the girls were saying, 'Can I have that one?' But we said no," she says.
The Christmas cracker maker in Lachine, Quebec, says it's all a misunderstanding.
Martin Walper, president of Walpert Industries Inc., says while in the West, the swastika is linked to Adolf Hitler's Nazi Germany, the symbol is widely used in several major religions, including Buddhism. In China, where Walpert's crackers are made, the swastika denotes, among other things, prosperity.
Laurence Nixon, chairman of the religion department at Montreal's Dawson College, says in Hinduism and Buddhism, the swastika has absolutely no connotation of nationalism, socialism, much less anti-Semitism. In fact, the word swastika comes from the sanskrit word for wellbeing.
Nixon adds that the symbol has been found in almost every ancient and primitive culture all over the world, turning up among the Hindus, the Celts, the Germanic peoples and in central Asia as well as in pre-Columbus America.
Walpert thinks that no more than 10 swastika-bearing pandas got into the crackers at the Chinese factory. He says he intends to ensure it doesn't happen again.
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