The Oscars Awards
The Academy Awards is an internationally recognized award show that awards the best movies produced, a gold-plated britannium on a black metal base with a knight holding a sword standing on a reel of film with five spokes. When the Oscars are awarded, an estimated audience of one billion viewers worldwide tunes in to watch the presentations every year.
The WWW Internet Symbol
Probably one of the most understated trademarks in the world is the WWW representing the World Wide Web that much of the world uses to communicate, learn and socialize with other people from all over the world. Many Internet sites include the WWW visibly at the beginning of the address followed by the website name, and an abbreviation : COM, us, gov and/or org. We use it almost everyday and it is universally accepted in most other nations around the world, so this trademark is more than worthy to belong to this list.
RELIGIOUS SYMBOLS
Sometimes in some very remote places on the planet, the only trademarks or symbols that a group of people may recognize is a religious one. While it is understood that there are a few thousand religions that are known throughout the world, only four of these religions are truly deserving members of this list, because of their age, population ratio to believers' ratio and their popularity (in active members).
Age of the religion matters, because it proves that its message can and has endured through thousand's of years and its can be used as a controlled measurement, so to measure other religions against. Not saying that one religion is better than another religion, but to weed out cults and homegrown religions that are used to evade taxes by private wealthy citizens. There have been thousands of religions that have come and gone over the past few thousand years, but only 4 have endured. The fifth not mentioned member of this list is Atheist and it is not a religion, because its members do not believe in any religion.
Christian Cross
The cross represents the crucifixion of Jesus and is the most recognizable symbol in the Christian religion. Although there have been several dozen variations used throughout the ages since the crucifixion of Christ, the best known cross is the Latin Cross which has longer extending arms and is the most common among the followers of the faith.
The Jewish Star of David
The Star of David is best known as a Jewish symbol that is used to identify both the Jewish people and the Jewish nation called Israel. The star can also be found on the Jewish Flag and is associated with the birth date of Jesus Christ as a bright star shined over the location where the Christ child was born.
The Crescent of Islam
The Islamic movement and religion is most identified by the Crescent (a half moon-like symbol). The Crescent was used in the Sassanian Empire of Persia {Iran} and after the Arab defeated the Persian Empire in 651 CE the Muslim leadership adopted the Crescent as the uniting symbol for Islam.
The Buddhism Buddha
The Buddha is considered to be a person who discovered the true realities and meanings of life through many lifetimes and investigations, until utter enlightenment could be reached in the body and the mind. The Buddha symbol is that of a man mediating as becoming one with the Universe.
NON-RELIGIOUS SYMBOLS
The Atheist Symbol
While atheists do not consider themselves a religious movement because of the lack of belief in any form of religious practices, it is still worth mentioning that some types of symbols are used to identify individuals' who are self-proclaimed non-believers in public forums such as the Internet. Even though atheists have not established a universal symbol for atheistism there have been a few symbols used that is most associated with atheistism such as; The Darwin Fish which looks like a fish with feet and The American Atheist Symbol that is an A encircled with what kind of looks like an atom belt encircling the A.
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Conclusion
Trademarks have in fact made life a bit easier to live as they can be used to crossover language barriers, just by simply showing the trademark and/or symbol to an individual in order to locate a place, group or business in different countries. The world's most recognizable trademarks and symbols can be found throughout the world and be just as easily associated with a person, place or thing upon seeing its image.
Personality, I wish to learn more about the various trademarks from around the world and how these trademarks have helped shape the social environments, which they originated from. Trademarks and logos are more than clever advertising and marketing tools; they have become part of the fabric of global communication.
