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SHD
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Actually, "Mensa" is what high school and university cafeterias are called in German, and also in other languages where it's a German loanword (such as my first language where it's "menza"). So it fits with the German theme. |
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Princess_Irene
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^ I stand corrected! Thank you.
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Mohawk52
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It shouldn't be necessary to remind one's self that Japan was apart of the "Axis Nations" during WW2 and still to this day write, and teach their history as if they were the victims instead of the perpetrators so I'm not surprised at the anti-semitic feel to this story, because they still just don't get it. It's like the Trumpsters still in denial Trump lost the election.
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Tenchi
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Witches use the hexagram as well, it's basic geometry that is not exclusively a Jewish symbol. The ending credits of the first Silent Mobius movie from 1990, another witchcraft-related production, featured a giant hexagram superimposed over the entire Tokyo Bay area. |
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ANN_Lynzee
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The hexagram is much, much more heavily associated with Judaism than witchcraft. Any occult usage/association is miniscule in comparison and I'd go far enough to say that to any layman reader outside of Japan is going to think of Judaism before witchcraft. The mix-up in manga/anime has more to do with general ignorance than anything else, and not an attempt invoke Kabbalah imagery. Some manga reissues have gone back and altered the artwork for this specific reason. http://4NN.cx/.146330 |
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shosakukan
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A Japanese person who teaches the Japanese language at a school in Magyarország talks about menza in a blog article. Pedagogist Ishikura Mizué has mentioned menza in a treatise on university dormitories in Československo. I sometimes see Japanese Germanists mention Mensa in what they write in Japanese. Since Dōgakusha's Apollon German-Japanese Dictionary includes the word 'Mensa' in its 1500 important words, the word 'Mensa' may be a piece of rudimentary knowledge for Japanese people who learnt the German language. |
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Princess_Irene
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Thank you, shosakukan, that's really interesting! I love learning things like that, and since my German is, as I said, limited (and I have no Hungarian at all besides recognizing the name in its own language), this is especially fascinating.
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