Pentagrams on tower of babel

Symbols that have a potent meaning in one culture can be little more than an interesting image in another. After several years in China, Erik Nilsson no longer finds it strange that his child's nanny wears a Satanist shirt, and he's learned to keep his duck shirt for trips back to the US.

LSD. Upside-down pentagrams. The Playboy Bunny. These are symbols I've encountered in Beijing in the past week.

What's weird is, this didn't seem weird.