Thai school girls dressed in Nazi uniforms with swastika armbands marching during a sports day event at the Sacred Heart Preparatory school in the northern province of Chiang Mai, Thailand, in 2011. – EPA pic, March 3, 2019.
THAI teen idol Namsai feared being booted from her band after a photo of her wearing a T-shirt with a Nazi swastika went viral, but without the uproar she says she would have remained ignorant about the offensive implications of her fashion choices. As Europe battles a surge in anti-Semitism, including the desecration of graves in France, Southeast Asia is wrestling with a lack of understanding about the provenance of Nazi paraphernalia that casually creeps into public spaces.
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