I'm so glad I'm not the only one who thinks this.

@DarkErminia I don't know, I feel the people who are concerned about the Pride Flag and the American flag are more than likely two different groups. I'm Bi, American, and also black. I don't have love for the American flag, but I don't get too in arms about changes to the Pride flag.

This is exactly why we have a flag that lasted for 40 years now need to be updated 5 times in less than 10 years. Once you start down this path, there's no way to refuse anyone from demanding an alteration without being a hypocrite.

@@Glen_lastname Me three. The new flag (or flags - I've seen numerous variants) just reeks of virtue signalling bs, and speaks to the weaponisation of identity that's become all too common these days (as flying the old flag could now be construed as racist/transphobic etc.).

@@sdrawkcabUK That reminds me of how it's now considered transphobic to use the all pink lesbian flag instead of the "correct" flag when the orange flag is only like three years old and the all pink one (minus the lipstick) isn't even transphobic to begin with. Like I've seen lesbians be harassed by non-lesbians for it.

Because those groups want special treatment.

@@tomfuller4205 I think it’s more that virtue signaling weirdos decided they need to butt in. I don’t know anyone, LGBT or otherwise, who likes the “new” flag. So who came up with it?

There is a joke to be made about said group, but I would rather not be imprisoned, good evening lads

the progress flag is basically exclusively used by pushover liberals who care less about the lgbt community and only want to look good

I actually got banned from a Discord server for saying this lol

Still dont understand why its a rainbow. Rainbows are illusions that only appear when humdity/pespective/sun meet crossover Also science, the great taboo

@@psycholaw4394 I always thought it was a rainbow because rainbows span across every colour, showing the diversity of the flag and how it represents a wide variety of human experiences

6 different colors is a lot for a flag, but the simplicity of it being a rainbow in a line makes it not overly complex. But these other flags that add tons of different colors and shapes makes for a much more complex flag that really is just an eyesore to look at

@@0xt10 no

@@bluishbuncake A rainbow

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I'd argue that adding elements to the Union Jack (like the Welsh Dragon) is one of the few 'change the flag' arguments with any traction since it is literally composed of the flags of the other members of the 'United Kingdom'. It seems like it would be like adding a new US state without adding a new star to the US flag.

@@NakAlienEd yep I'm of the same opinion too. the Welsh aren't really potrayed on the flag and I feel like it would be somewhat unifying and it's long overdue

I agree

pretty sure they were just blue-white-red coloured

@@omargerardolopez3294 I was going to say that! 😋👌

Im just gonna put it here 12:21 The editing & sound effect are just great. I burst out laughting twice in my first watch XD

Their flag should be red, white, and rosé.

You still on your road trip?

Hello

*stumbling into a distinct taste for sauerkraut

Get back to editing or driving you Danish knave

okay now go east

Crossover Episode

But why is that? What's wrong with waving a flag? How it's it nationalist to wave a flag? I can understand if it's a flag of a dictatorship but England isn't one

Yeah some people are very stupid, their asinine opinions don't matter.

Bhutan is cool because they have a dragon on their flag

People who wants to exclude Wales?

@@erikharaldsson2416 *losers

I think they should’ve just gave Northern Ireland back to Ireland and put the wales dragon on it

Me. The Welsh suck.

I agree completely. Once you are being as literal as “the flag must have everybody’s skin tones on it” you’re setting an impossible standard of inclusivity that will never be met.

I get that

it also implies that trans people aren't included under the "original" pride flag

It's because much of the fighting for lgbtq rights was done by trans poc

Also super confused why there is a sex worker umbrella? What does that have to do with pride/LGBT? Like I get that some LGBT people may be sex workers, but doesn't make sense to me as a gay man who is not a sex worker to have "my" pride flag include sex worker references.

Yes! This is a great pet peeve of mine as well

I personally dislike the rule that a flag has to be simple enough for a child to draw it from memory. Personally, it should that it would be at least recognizable if a child drew it from memory.

I absolutely agree, especially when they are used to judge a flag that has other purposes than representing a country of something like that. It's just silly to use the same metrics for a country's flag and a flag used by a neighbourhood of a small community.

@@coquimapping8680 Yeah, it's not that easy to remember flags that well. Also, flags that are easy to remember are often boring. I think that a flag being recognizable in black and white is cool too (and also helps the color blind a bit) but many simple designs wouldn't pass that. One of the big problems with the "seal on a bedsheet" designs is that they make flags less unique, but really simple flags aren't all that unique either.

That the one complain about this community, especially because i'm a brazilian and pur flag break two rule: it has something Whitten on it and the stars are too hard to anyone draw. Most of the flags i like breaks those two rules

Probably because they CHOSE to live in that place, rather than their true homeland. But, I don't agree with that anyways

@@saulgoodmanKAZAKH I think he meant, being more patriotic towards their original country. In Europe this is fairly common, people originating from Algeria, Morocco, and such, will often wave flags from their origin country in all sorts of contexts (where it has no reason to be waved). For example, during football matches where neither Algeria nor any algerian player is playing. Or after the election of François Hollande in 2012. The same happens inside countries : in France, people from Brittany (but not living in Brittany) won't shut up about their salted butter and wave "Gwenn-ha-du" flags at all sorts of events, things they would most probably not do "at home". Maybe it is just a way of sticking out.

@@saulgoodmanKAZAKH You don't understand, we're talking about for example brits emigrating from the UK and immigrating to spain, and the brits becoming way more nationalist for THE UK while living over there. Not being patriotic about Spain. The vast majority of british immigrants living in hot mediterranean countries voted FOR brexit. Seriously. And now it's biting them all on the arse because now those countries like Spain and France have kicked them out and told them they'd be illegal immigrants if they didn't leave and move back to the UK. It's bizarre for a person living somewhere else in the EU, and only being allowed to live there because the UK was in the EU, then voting for the UK to leave the EU so that these immigrants are no longer allowed to live there. Delicious schadenfreude for the smart ones of us in the UK who voted remain. At least we get to see the pain the brexit voters brought on themselves entirely because of their own actions.

@@saulgoodmanKAZAKH a. You misinterpreted the comment B. I agree with the statement, that i don't have to be proud of nation that i had no say of being born in

@@saulgoodmanKAZAKH this

idk why use countryballs as an example of this considering countryball comics and animations arent as serious as other topics

@@WNSQ-TV Yeah struck me as odd too. Like the modern german flag is often used in country balls to represent the germanic people who are a) much older and b) are a much more broad group, not because of some political reason or to 'push an anachronistic view of histroy' but because those comic strips are light hearted fun and not at all a correct historical represenation

Yeah, it really put me off

Hello

The original one was just horrendous!

Hopefully this video gets some ppl to be okay with (non-US locality flags) flags designs and proposals for places “just because they look cool/good”.

As a European, I honestly don't really like our flag. I use it a lot because European identity means a lot to me, but I do believe in the theory that it was made up with Christianity in mind (blue as a Marian color, and the 12 stars representing the Apostles) which was obviously a bad decision as Europe nowadays is almost entirely secular and many Europeans are irreligious or part of other religions. The official interpretation on the other hand, is extremely vague and doesn't really make much sense to me.

@@stefanosanastasi99 What was the original flag proposal?

Yes. Canada’s flag is good too for this reason but I didn’t want to be braggy.

Yeah, if you add symbols for one specific group, you have to add them for all specific groups, else the flag looks like it's specifically excluding them.

The Pride flag is a great example of this failing. The “official” flag stood as it was for, I think, 50 years? But now in the past 10 years it’s been updated at least 5 times as they added in more stripes and designs to explicitly represent certain groups. And now that they’ve started, it’s difficult to say “no more changes” without coming across as bigoted.

@@JJMcCullough how could I forget

@@anthonydelfino6171 I agree that the pride flag that JJ showed in the video is bad, but I've actually never seen it used outside of the internet. It's always either the rainbow flag or the rainbow flag with the chevron (or the trans flag or the bi flag or whatever, but those are different altogether)

Interesting how different american attitudes are to german ones because of our history. While where im sitting, you display the stars and stripes or else youre a liberal fascist communist anarchist glue eater, its interesting that in germany, because....*that* time period, you guys consider waving your flag liberally dangerously nationalist. Tldr, i just regurgitated what you said with extra detail.

Yes, the only other place besides the soccer championship and official government buildings where you see the flag are the homes or protests of right wing (extremist) nationalists.

Same for France

Some people don’t like being over expressive of the Australian flag because they believe it can be a symbol of white privilege.

kinda unfortunate

Exactly. The lgbt has separate pride flags for different gender identities and sexualities

There is 2 key differences : first, there is a supreme authority over the flag of Ireland, the Irish government, whereas there is no "LGBT+ Assembly". Secondly, the nature of this group. The purpose of the lgbt community is to be open and welcoming to everyone who doesn’t fit in the cisgenre hetero majority, so thematically, it could make sense to make it evolve; also, the definition of what is and what isn’t lgbt sometimes isn’t clear, and the labels evolve rapidly, so putting it on the flag can make sense.

I never actually knew that about the Irish flag, that’s really interesting. Thanks!

@@dieucondorimperial2509 exactly this, thank you -lgbtq person

@@dieucondorimperial2509 The problem is, when you add more symbols, you actually exclude people. The progress flag has no representation for asexuals, intersex people, non-binary people (unless you want to put them under the trans umbrella), polyamorous folks, etc. Making matters worse, at times asexuals have been excluded from LGBTQ+ spaces or had their participation in the movement called into question, and so the progress flag comes across as more of the same, even if that was not the intent. The rainbow flag never had that problem, because it was intended to have broad, general significance, rather than trying to exhaustively recognize each individual subgroup with separate colors or symbols.

@@c_mark5622 you mean your mom ?

@@c_mark5622 no u

Yeah, without using flags they just couldn't cover certain things.

@@c_mark5622 chu mean?

@Longhorn XII True, Israel is a Cube, Kazakhstan is a brick, an hypothetic 4th German Reich is a rectangle, Chile is sometimes represented like some kind of worm, Singapore and Bermuda are triangles and so on

@@SanGrampsMapping Especially Nepal or Ohio ( i know, Ohio is a state ) they keep the flag design but add teeth to em

@Longhorn XII and some are people. *cough* hetalia *cough*

@@SanGrampsMapping Isn’t the German Empire (2nd reich) a rectangle already?

@@NoName-ig2jb Well, I´ve read in the countryball wiki that it was only for a 4th Reich

Do you think flags might be used more prominently in larger countries? They need this official identity to avoid secession and discourage regional identity. The EU is using the EU flag pretty aggressively.

@@Humanophage National flags in Europe have a distinct political intention when their use is pushed. It's mostly coming from their appropriation from the farther right wing nationalist angle, and it drives anyone left of these ideologies (even when in the right politically) to shy away from the idea of comfortably using the flag.

like almost every neighborhood has at least one US flag

I would not use the word obsessed. It's patriotic yes but it it's also used as a just a pattern decoration on items from clothes to clocks like polka dots. Plus a big flag over businesses makes them noticable in cities where signs can only be so high. I see it more like a mascot type thing. We also use flags to signal shared sorrow over death. You don't know how many times I've seen a flag half mast and googled to see what tragedy/politician/national treasure died. Flying a flag of any sort here is very popular. Not just our flag. From state flags to the LGBTQ one to one supporting breast cancer awareness. Flags are not a political thing here. They are an outward statement what we like. One my flagpole I have an American one, a gay pride one and I've been thinking about getting some to hang for different months to honer native Americans and such.

Thats because in the US, the flag is used litterally for the Aesthetic. Theres no other reason. Stop overthinking it. It looks sick. Im canadian, and I put the US flag on my minecraft base just cus it looks cooler in minecraft since u cant make a maple leaf with minecraft banners. Also thats why Americans in video games would have canadian skins aswell, cus the maple leaf looks sick if its blacked out and put on a tank or a gun. Thats litterally it. Like idk why yall overthink it so much.

Standards aren't really flags tho, are they? Plus, any standard of any Roman legion wasn't the flag of Rome more than a US military flag is the flag of the USA. In any case, the point that JJ is trying to adress, i think, is that yes, you can find a symbolic piece of coloured cloth in almost any ancient culture, but associating it with the modern idea of a flag isn't an accurate mental image of the past

@@briandeweyforbes It obviously did not, as the Romans did not have widespread access to lightweight colored cloth and a capacity to mass-produce patterned cloth the way we do today. Even having colored clothes made of soft material in those days was considered a real sign of wealth. Any flag-like things present in Roman society would have been quite rare and expensive items, owned by and for the elite. So if they were venerated, it would have been because they were something impressively rare and highly ceremonial, which is not analogous to flag culture anywhere today.

@@JJMcCullough yeah more like an national emblem

@@sig_pagot Standards pretty much are flags for the ancient world. They are widespread through units across the land, represent their nation's values, and eventually were the predecessors/basis of modern flags. They were also far cheaper and durable to produce than a flags. In the case of certain nations, such as Lithuania, the standard and coat of arms essentially was the flag just now with a colored background.

It was the solid golden statue of an Eagle, messanger of Jupiter, which was considered the Sacred part of the standard. The bit of cloth below it with the state motto, SPQR (Senatus Populusque Romanum-“The Senate and People of Rome”) was just a bit of cloth and reminder to the Legion as to who they served as far as the Romans were concerned. And the Golden Eagle of the legion was not used in civilian life: too sacred, and legions generally weren’t even allowed within Rome’s official city limits, so neither would their eagle. The Eagle really was revered tho, as it symbolized Jupiter’s favoritism towards Rome, and desecration of it could not be tolerated. A Legion who lost its Eagle would be decimated-every ‘tent group’ or squad of 8 soldiers (people who did basically everything together, and technically considered a ‘decade’ because of their 2 slaves) would draw lots, and the person who drew the short straw would be required to be beaten to death by the other 7 members of their squad with clubs while their superiors supervised, and if someone was caught having STOLEN the eagle, that now-desecrated idol would be melted down and poured down the offender’s THROAT...and the legion would be decimated for letting it happen.

I used to use the flag toothpicks as toothpicks hopefully that’s not a no no

As an American, where I’d imagine that comes from is the idea of the flag representing both the people of the US and the US as a state. You tend to see the American flag in public contexts (on the news, on businesses or government buildings, out front of people’s houses, on clothing, etc), in that it is meant to be widely seen and represent a celebration or support of the US in general. Having the flag used for something that was a much more personal and private context (like celebrating a specific person’s birthday) would come across as odd since the event wouldn’t be focused on the government or the people of the US in a general sense, but instead on only a single person (unless the person had some connection to the government, like being a politician or in the military). However like JJ pointed out, each nation or group of people has their own ideas on appropriate flag usage, and it would be interesting to hear about the reasoning behind Scandinavian flag traditions

I don't know if you're from Scandinavia. However, I'm from Sweden and the only memorable case of "public" (non governmental) use of the flag is on busses. I don't think I've ever seen someone use it as Christmas or birthday decorations.

@@philip2205 Yeah I am from Scandinavia. Agree about the buses. But otherwise - are you kidding? So many birthday decorations in shops in Sweden have flags on them. And in Denmark, it's the done thing to have flags at a person's desk/dinner table for their birthday. I've also definitely seen people in Sweden decorate their Christmas trees with flags.

@@skarredcat our national anthem is literally about the flag, it's definitely a kind of umbrella symbol for everything American more so than a lot of countries

Yeah he doesn't understand that the flag doesn't mean any of that

I understand you guys, recently the Brazil flag has been taken as a symbol of the latest president (I'm not gonna get into specifics, but he wasn't a really nice person nor a very competent ruler for this time period) We use our flag proudly in the soccer fields, but if you put it in your car or in your house, you are basically saying "I'm a right wing extremist who thinks we should turn Brazil into a dictatorship led by Bolsonaro" ... Also he turned the celebration of 200 years of independence into a political campaign for himself 😞... Man I'm so glad he wasn't reelected

This, exactly this.

Absolutely. Also the fact that Poland and Indonesia are sometimes depicted together, but they're both reversed due to their flags... It's never meant to be serious.

Now Monaco, Indonesia and Poland have the same country ball

@@eddie-roo yeah why tho

Is this why Israel is square in country balls? It’s always confused me

I'm not even Lithuanian, and *I'm* glad.

Lithuania finally exists now.

Now I'm good that your good

@@GEO_ANIMATOR now I’m great bc your good

@@karaliusking6833 now I feel amazing cuz your great

exactly, even though good flag bad flag is a list of guidelines and nothing more, flag fandom takes them to be a written law of flag design

Are you annoyed when someone says that anything is good compared to an alternative? In my opinion, the expression “it’s all good” is lazy and amounts to an argument for mediocrity everywhere. What a dull world that would be!

Yay moustache

Sounds like your talking about hitłer

I’m a huge fan of the ‘stache

I think of a shamrock.

Honestly I haven't played it before but it does seem like a pretty fun game

@@traurigekatze the game is fun, but it takes a really long time to set up, and a game can take multiple days to complete.

Ohh that's a good one for my flag mysteries video.

The entire concept of using a national flag to represent a language is just inherently problematic. Like, the two most popular laguages on there are English and Spanish, which already present problems in what flag to choose, so that should already clue you in to the fact that there isn't a 1:1 correspondence between languages and countries.

@@xway2 yeah but there’s a clear origin for both, England and Spain

@@joaquinleon4114 True but most people are probably learning them to talk to Americans and Mexicans.

@@joaquinleon4114 Yet the flag they picked in the end for English is the American one. And if I'm not going insane they used to have the Mexican flag for Spanish but they've now changed it to the Spanish one. Which then creates a slight issue for the Catalan course (from Spanish), which is of course also a language native to Spain (but they use the historical Aragonese standard for that, which makes sense I suppose). See what I'm getting at?

The blind community would have the "no hdmi signal" screen

What about the blind deaf tasteless touchless mutes with no smell or balance

The Blind community is pretty divided and I don’t think they would Identify with a single flag.

@@TinNguyen-rl2xr crumpled paper

@@manifestman132 or any at all, since flags are a visual medium and blind folk are characterized for their lack of vision.

No

Not a fan of 8, but most of the rest I can get behind

@@TlalocTemporal I don't like number 6

Boy do I Stan jj.

Hum being obsessed with Republicanism is a big plus in my book...

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Did you catch today's Geography Now episode on Sudan? It's a much cooler country than I thought.

@@nelsonricardo3729 haha I was waiting for that episode for three years and it was Awesome! 😅 they really did it justice . I hope you enjoyed it

I feel you man, I lived in the US during my teenage years and I take a lot of pride in both my home nation US' flag. It's weird how you can get so attached to something but deep down I really feel like it reminds us of our lives and the path we forged for ourselves, or atleast that is the case for me anyways. JJ does a great job in this video explaining why flags hold so much significance for some people.

As a brit we feel the same pride but not with flags

Yeah, like how many average people can tell apart all the flags with 3 stripes of red, white, and blue on them? Lol. Also, I remember being a kid (probably over 25 years ago now) and having an assignment to make a flag from a country where I have ethnic heritage. I chose Poland, and agonized for hours over making that eagle that used to be in the middle of it. Now it's just a red stripe and a white stripe. It's not nearly as cool or distinctive.

@@aerialpunk Ever seen the Malaysian flag? Same-y problem

Agreed, unlike most people, I like the US State flags.

As long as it's not 'seal over bedsheet' flags

I personally like a compromise. I like flag designs that are instantly recognizable from a distance. Some of my favorites are the American, Canadian, British, and Japanese flags for having strong, instantly-recognizable designs. Meanwhile, tricolors are boring and generic, especially because so many countries literally just copy the French colors of red, white, and blue. The issue with seals, though, is that even if they're unique up-close, from a distance the details are lost and you just get a circle on a solid-color banner.

couldn't have said it better

Here we go

For Me personally as someome form the LGBTQ community. I wish instead or the triangle and the gradient and the umbrella they keep it how it is, I'm not saying races are apart of the LGBTQ but being different skin colours should have it's own pride flag for darker skin at the bottom and lighter skin at the top to talk about how light travels or whateber Also I feel like the umbrella will make homophobes talk about how We spread HIV and STDs and how sex workers don't use safe sex and condoms and I feel like personally We should make sex in general a seperate pride flag cause the pride flag is to do with sexuality and not just ohhhhh gays Fuck all the time and don't do anything else kind of thing Plus I rather design the pride flag as a rainbow style instead of a rectangle to show how equal but not straight design and maybe have 6 skin coloured strips hanging onto the rainbow like how cheer leaders have 6 ribbons on each hair style or whatever and under there there's a countries flag and a green ribbon for mental health, showing how a country has both hospitals ans therapy hospitals to treat physical and mental trauma I'm shit at describing and understanding and English so don't attack Me because something triggered you, also thid is My own opinion, I can't send a pic to exsplain what I'm explaining but just try use your imagination

@@NaughtyNovaroo69 only thing I had an issue with you bringing up was the race thing. I don’t know if you made a mistake, but the normal rainbow flag should cover all races, it shouldn’t be altered because “oh this person is a different race, have this darker rainbow flag. Oh you have a lighter skin color, take this pastel rainbow pride flag” That just comes off as racist. Just the normal rainbow flag does it’s job. I agree with all your other points. A flag should be a sort of umbrella symbol that covers all people that identify with that flag.

The "pride" flag is a rainbow flag, which people continue to wrongly attribute to the LGB community. Rainbows belong to everyone, and are most often associated with children. If the LGB community wants their own flag, they should design one.

Especially… you know… considering the old flag…

I like the Wisconsin flag. Two guys, I think drinking beer, out in a farm field, with a cow. Yep, sounds like Wisconsin.

I can understand Japan but Korea?

@@DOCTORKHANblog Korea also has a history of right-wing nationalism that persists in politics to this day.

yeah too many dumb people worrying & Talking about "Nationalism" I did a video on that topic. im an American & I have many Flags including Canada, & Japan.

@beginning of the end It's not so much the number of flags, bur rather that one HUGE flag covering the front of the building would give a sense of unease in their own countries.

heheheh big leaf

This might be a weird question, but; what if you hang a picture of the swedish monarch? How would people see you?(just curious)

To parade your country flag and be ostracized like a criminal seems pretty fucked up to me.

​@@lawden210 The only people I've ever met who did were either a) elderly people who grew up with parents that instilled them with a respect for the monarchy that still held political power within their lifetime or b) people who treats said picture as an ironic joke (and all of the ones I've met had an entire small room or alcove decorated with monarchical memorabilia). So to me it'd just come of as mildly kitschy, and certainly less of a concern than people who deck their home with an excessive amount of flags.

This is the same in Finland too. Excessive use of the flag is only for sports events. Only people that use the flag outside of some patriotic holiday here is a nationalist and they are usually trying to fearmonger about something.

I mean, maybe? But that's only for waving the flag with your hand, on flagpoles it's a different story, Swedish flags or variants of it on flagpoles is extremely common here, just go to the nearest villa suburb, you'll see a flag in no time.

I find this especially interesting when you look at the US's anthem and their use, like you hear it at every sports game and it's extremely widely used. But when you watch an international soccer game, while the other country's fans sing their anthem with their whole heart, the US players stay pretty much silent, as do the fans.

Ew a nazi

@@Void_Wars I think he’s a monarchist, actually

I think you have a poor understanding of what a Nazi is. I'm not much of a monarchist either, I just have parents from Kaliningrad, and am possibly slightly related to German monarchy

@@Shifty_ hey, they're very clearly monarchist, which is separate from the Nazi's. They're still cringe, but not the same level of cringe as neo-nazis

To be fair, that is probably because of the former fascist dictatorships.

Honestly it's really alienating when you need paragraphs explaining just the flag

The pride flag has already gone through revisions. For example, the original had pink but was dropped due to availability. It also reduced to 6 colors for dispay purposes. There also have been anti-gay activists trying to "reclaim" the rainbow flag (scare quotes because they assumed LGBT+ folks were stealing the rainbow symbolism from the story of Noah's ark) and would wear the rainbow colors while espousing anti-gay rhetoric. So I do not find the terf argument very persuasive when this has happened before and the flag withstood the test of time.

Eh the military flag is better

I disagree almost entirely with your second point. Because if the wrong kinds of people are using your symbol, that is an excuse for you to use it MORE, not less. In the UK we have, for the last few decades, had to work hard to stop our flag from being associated with neo-nazi skinhead groups. Can you imagine what would happen if the normal patriotic Brits had given up that fight and used an entirely new or modified flag to represent ourselves - simply to prove that _we are not those people?_ Only ever advocate for an alternative design to represent the fairer, more inclusive version of your community if you intend for that change to be permanent, and are prepared to discard the original design. This approach will only lead the original to become a symbol of what your community is not. If you say "the original rainbow flag is used by terfs and exclusionists" then it only becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. Besides, corporates have latched onto the triangle pride flag much more quickly. The central station in my city for instance currently has two of these abominations, each with the logo of the train company in big white letters across the middle. Not to mention the hundreds of corporates who already use it on their social media for Pride Month.

@@AnonymousGentooman The equivalent of that would be to use the separate LGBT rainbow 🏳️‍🌈 and trans 🏳️‍⚧️ flags. No need to combine them both into a single design since the former is already inclusive of the latter. It would be like having a flag to mean “USA but inclusive of Texas!” and every state having to fly it.

Well euro coins let countries put whatever they want on one side. I think the problem is that some eurozone countries 1) only one design for every denomination 2) use boring designs. Not to brag, but the Italian euros have: the colusseum, other 2 iconic buildings, the paintingof Venus by Botticelli, 2 iconic statues, the vitruvian man and Dante Alighieri. If these are not good Italian symbols, I don't know what is. Not to mention the commemorative 2 euro coins!

@@sig_pagot Yes and amen! They can definitely be excellent. I’m actually in the UK so usually only see Irish and German Euros for some reason - I look forward to seeing the Italian ones now!

Hey cool, another coin collector

I gotta brag about our Canadian coins a bit, all but one of our standard coins have recognizable Canadian animals on them (Beaver, Caribou, Loon, and Polar Bear), and the penny had the maple leaf on it, all easily identifiable as Canadian symobols. The only one I have a problem with is the dime, which has The Bluenose on it, something most foreigners and I imagine most Canadians don’t really know/identify with

@@evilemuempire9550 animals on coins are always a good choice 👌

Wales was annexed by England by Edward the First, so at the time the Union Flag was created it wasn't its own country.

@@SuperWiggler I know that, but even after recognised as separate now Wales is still not represented, so the point stands

I agree, especially the rule that there can only be a few colors. Of course most look better with fewer colors, but many have more than 3 and really look nice with them.

Yes I can see why some people don't like coat of arms and all but I feel they give a unique feel however I would like if coat of arms are added to be the center point of the flag

Agree, South Africa and the US state of Maryland have two of the best flags in the world, and they are both major rule breakers.

@@j.s.7335 *flattered South African has joined the chat*😌

@@j.s.7335 South Africas flag is great but I just got eye cancer from looking at Maryland

I like how they included the trans colors, completely ignoring the fact that trans people were already represented in the "original" rainbow

As a gay man, I think I can say the rainbow flag is busy and gaudy enough as it is and the last thing we need is to put more stuff on it.

the problem with adding more is that they're gonna piss someone off eventually, no matter how hard they try, or eventually end up with a mess of color that looks nothing like the original

Adding the different colors in the rainbow (you know the trans flag and the rainbow with those black and brown colors) IS going to exclude ALOT OF PEOPLE no matter the present or future people that are being offended

@@Maxzes_ It's funny that adding more colours makes it less inclusive.

I would totally support designing new national headdresses for the countries that don't have one already

I would disagree. Flags are easy to produce, and more relatable to the populace than headdresses.

@@IkeOkerekeNews I agree. It's a reference to a joke from an earlier JJ video.

@@sig_pagot coming from a culture that has a number of national headdresses I'm surprised that not everyone has them

@@sodinc yeah I totally get it. Honestly, most of Europe, for example, could revive old traditional costumes and headdresses if there was interest in doing it. It's not that they don't exist, but they're not part of the iconography of our countries anymore (this doesn't always apply obviously). I don't know what was the traditional costumes of my region and I think 99% of the population doesn't know either.

Thats why i think a symbol of inclusion, the rainbow or the flag of country that holds personal freedom in high regard, is way more meaningfulls then a group collection sheet. It celebrates the concept of acceptence no matter what situation it's used in

Probably removed

Try checking again, I'm fairly sure i watched it a few days ago so it might have been put back up. Maybe there was a copyright he had to edit out or something

Only in the north of Ireland is this really the case

In Ireland, yes, the tricolour is somewhat associated with republican or nationalist political positions (these are not like the US use of those terms) and those who put a lot of effort into flying it are likely to be assumed to be such. It is far more the case in Northern Ireland, where both the tricolour and Union Jack are used as symbols to declare which side of the divide one sits on. I'd say that the Union Jack is much more prevalent there, but that is just my experience, and it and the oppression and aggressive hostility to people like me (being Irish) that it represents in this context is one reason I don't like to see the Union Jack in general. It's one reason why I would be very sensitive in general with symbols such as these, as they often represent far more than is understood by most people. That's why, whatever one personally thinks of Sir John A Macdonald (first Canadian PM and problematic figure re how he treated the indigenous peoples of Canada), recognising that his statue will often legitimately represent something very different to others is key. The Irish tricolour is actually intended to represent peace and harmony between the Irish Nationalists/Republicans (green) and British Unionists/Loyalists (orange) on the island of Ireland. Sadly this imagery is rarely what is felt by the Unionists, but that was its original intent and hopefully someday it will fulfil that, even if the island remains divided.

@@caolangordon8167 Tell that to Derry...

As other replies have stated only really the case in Northern Ireland and by city and town and region there

@@neurolicia182 Derry is in the north lol so yeah

I will say NOTHING

Kraut is an amazing KZfaqr

Kraut is a far right lunatic

@@darioguerra3065 used to be*

@@NACHOXXX4 not really, he removed his old far right conspiracy videos and has tried to rebrand himself, watch his debate with vaush and others he is still crazy

-Napoleon Bonaparte, 1812

Long live the Empire

wow I cant believe all 7 billion of us are in the same country

In Indonesia, flags are mostly flown around our Independence Day (August 17)

Not even at government buildings?

Same here in Australia. I can count the number of Australian flags I’ve seen in real life on one hand. It’s literally just school assemblies, Anzac Day, and maybe you might see one on the town hall.

@@GH-oi2jf well, obviously at government buildings such as the parliament and the president's "castle" as it's called. but no homes or businesses or schools or tax offices or anything fly flags here outside of the liputuspäivä

Huh interesting, here flag culture allows for full time flying of the flag at almost all times, but it is only flown by Government and educational institutions afair (cut me some slack I've been stuck at home for like a year and a half at this point).

That's actually the same standards for the US and Ol' Glory. And if a flag ever touches the ground, it's to be ceremonially burned

@@coupledyetivonvanderburg5385 There's all sorts of ways we use the flag despite the flag code, that are completely normalized, and are part of manufactured products. Yet somehow when someone burns a flag in protest as a form of symbolic speech, people want laws and amendments against flag desecration.

@@carultch I've always found the idea that people want to lock up or commit acts of violence against other Americans using their freedom of expression to protest in that way, to be one of the least American things I can think of.

@@ultrademigod It is. And that is precisely why Texas vs Johnson struck down these laws.

And if the flag is made of an incorrect material that becomes a punishable offence.

Yea it just comes down to that fact that we were louder and more dramatic, I think. Makes us more memorable in a world where people are bad at geography in general. It’s nuts to me, I live in america now, and people can tell me what day which general did what in World War 2, but they didn’t know germany was split into east and west after the war, for example. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ people are dumb. At least there are only two of us, unlike the red white and blue club.

well as an American Smart American who studies Flags I understand BUT it's just that not many other people know about Flags. Ill be doing a subdivision Flags of Belgium I just did one for Spain Flags will upload that sometime soon. I do have some Flag related videos up also.

Venezuelan revolutionary Francisco de Miranda also designed a black-red-yellow horizontal tricolor flag in 1806, intended to be the banner of the new Venezuelan Army he wanted to form. It was supposed to represent the three main racial groups of the country: black people, white people and pardos (triracials). It is often depicted in history books as a early proposal for Venezuela's flag, even though it was projected as an exclusively military symbol (Miranda had already designed a different horizontal tricolor flag which included the yellow, blue and red that would eventually become [albeit with a different pattern] the first official Venezuelan flag in 1811, and then as a result of the subsequent developments of the War of Independence and Miranda's/Bolívar's unification project also the flag of [Gran] Colombia and the States that emerged from it's dissolution). Edit: Forgot to mention that the flag of modern day Miranda State pays homage to this seminal design. As a piece of extra flag trivia, there had been a previous revolutionary attempt in 1797 known as the Gual and España Conspiracy, which was discovered and crushed before its namesake leaders could really do anything other than, well, conspire. They had also took the time to design their own flag for the new, independent country they wanted Venezuela to become (which also contained multicolored stripes representing different racial groups, as well as the human-faced sun symbol of later Southern Cone fame). This flag was never actually flown as far as I know; as I mentioned earlier, they were caught before the actual coup d'etat could take place. But it was adopted as the modern day flag of Vargas State, in which the city of La Guaira, where they had intended the revolution to take place; is located.

belgium as a country has existed longer than Germany as a country has existed. Prussia in 1830 was not yet in 1830 Germany by another name. If we are going for the HRE well, Belgium Austria and Czech Rep were all in that too.

Germany is more known than Belgium, since its a smaller, younger country. Obviously people will think that, sorry about it.

How do I get in

Why would they want to restrict the use of a nation's flag? Wouldn't the government want people to feel pride in a nation and it's symbols?

@@FroyourHistory It's not that they wanted to restrict national pride it's that they wanted a system where the coat of arms was the official government symbol and the people had the regular flag to use however it failed in the long run it was just too widespread to enforce Ironically most border security/police or government workers often have the flag with no coat of arms on their outfit

@@starkillerdude1914 oh I understand I just thought it was counterintuitive. Very interesting

@@FroyourHistory It was a really dumb law which actually come to think of it might still be in effect de facto but it was just so hard and unrealistic to enforce that there was no way it was ever going to be a thing

@@starkillerdude1914 yeah. Though I wonder if it's enforced for shipping and boats.

What is cultural Stockholm syndrome

@@turmunhkganba1705 idk I wrote this at three Am

Again this is assuming that there even is a flag for Inner Mongolia/Buryat/other Mongolic cultures. Sure the polandball community created a bunch of anachronistic flags to represent all of them, but traditionally Mongolic cultures used a diverse set of _tugs_ to represent their tribes and cultures instead of flags. The new flags are "cultural" bc they're just slapping already significant symbols onto a bedsheet, not because they've had any particular history or significance to Mongolic peoples in general.

Eh, I think you're fine. It's nice to suddenly be mentioned.

Don't let others dictate how you should feel. Lithuania is awesome anyway! One of my more memorable trip in Europe 😁👍

Sounds like a normal reaction. It's just in your dna lol

A tent is just fabric and poles, so it's basically already a flag

@@nathanmcgill7249 stfu

@@Polmaise1 Rude!

Their you have it

It’s ahistorical. Why not give them kings they never had while you’re at it.

@@JJMcCullough countryballs can't be anything OTHER than flags jj. It's like cartoons wearing gloves. Mice don't wear gloves but Mickey mouse did. We could possibly have the emblem or symbol or whatever the historical kingdoms had on the countryballs, but countryballs for those states are mostly their seal/emblem on a field of a stereotypical colour of that state

@@JJMcCullough well there are a ton ancient nations that had national symbols or used certain objects as psuedo flags.

@@JJMcCullough Countryballs are a good way to turn complex civilizations into characters with emotions so they're easier to digest for a non historian. Obviously they're ahistorical, but that's part of the fun. It's mostly memes anyway.

black blue red and white. it kinda goes hard

Imo Wales should be in some way a part of the Union Jack

The modern SA flag is one of my favorite modern flags!

It is one of the best flags in the world, I agree. A fantastic mix of color and design. I also don't know what, if anything it specifically represents, just because it functions so well as a symbol of "South Africa," period.

Unpopular opinion. I prefer the old SA flag. The new one is an example of what not to do with a flag.

@@DOCTORKHANblog I just assume you’re some kinda racist because there’s no other reason to like that awful flag over the current, good one.

@@JJMcCullough I'm black. Thanks for assuming.

I've watched Countryballs Explained video about the history of China and I've never assumed the symbols he used to represent the dynasties were their respectives flags.

Chicago flag is *chefs kiss*