The Seven Year Twitch I’m in Georgia too I have never seen flags on the history books

Actually, the 1956 flag is part of the standards for 8th grade Social Studies.

Do a video on the thought crimes

PG LC Spax This was during my first semester at GSU, every prof is different

Hahah lol

Yes. This is why it's not a normal red/blue ensign as well. I believe they added the stripes to placate the US, whose power was growing in the region, in an attempt to keep from getting conquered. (Spoiler alert: the US conquered Hawaii anyway, which is why they've kept the Union Jack flag they used as an independent kingdom.)

This.

lastbreathsigh I’ve heard this story too. There seems to be a lot of different legends about the origin of the flag. One of the commenters below says the stripes represent an attempt to curry favor with the Russians.

The British never really owned Hawaii IIRC. It was independent until the US took over.

Yes, it was never a British colony. It was visited by Captain Cook and others, but never claimed for the British Empire.

E Hawk Exactly. He really needs to do some research. Somehow in every video, he makes a statement about the British.

As a matter of fact, Hawai'i is to this day an illegally occupied sovereign state. U.S. control is de facto and has no legal legitimacy. Public Law 103-150 openly admits it.

It's not a moon on the south carolina flag, its a gorget from civil war uniform.

Jayson Flint Except that’s absolute crap. Was the Hawaiin monarchy overthrown in a legally dubious (and ethically horrendous) legislative power grab-absolutely. But the subsequent annexation by the US was perfectly legal under internation law at the time (though again, not ethically). Furthermore, your citation of Public-Law 103-150 is problematic for three reasons. 1) Despite its name, it does not actually carry the force of law, nor is it a treaty or international declaration by which the US would be bound. 2) The sentiments stated in the “law” are somewhat ahistorical, as the while the US intervention in the Hawaiian coup was a mess, the Hawaiian Legislature instigated the coup against the Queen, then opted to join the US. By most international laws, even today, a legislature has the right to depose an executive and ask to join another nation. The native Hawaiians gave up sole right to the island when the Hawaiian King instituted land reforms and elections which gave power to foreigners (again, this is not a statement on whether he should have, but simply that he did). 3) Lastly, native Hawaiians are a small minority on the islands today, and as their own king legally sold Hawaiian land and allowed white Hawaiians into government, it is simply not true that they have any greater legal claim to the entirety of the islands than its other inhabitants.

I thought it was because Kamehamea was a huge Britaboo

Dubai is just a state

Because Dubai is the only thing most people know about the UAE

Dubai is not a country, it’s a city in the United Arab Emirates! It’s also known as the UAE in its abbreviation or simply the Emirates!

No Dubai is a city

Abu Dhabi is shaking

Yup

I just said that, but you beat me to it

hey, a southern state’s gonna do what a southern state’s gonna do.

I mean it worked

Exactly their isn’t really a difference between the current one and the 1956 one

Does Luxembourg have a navy?

He can look for the Luxembourgish navy, it's impossible to find

lol, I wish he’d do a tad more research when he did this video

Kyle Bennett I don't think Luxembourg has a navy, it doesn't even have access to the coast lol. The alternative flag actually comes from the coat of armd of the house of Luxembourg, used to be the most influential power in the Holly Roman Empire in a brief time during the middle ages, had control of Bohemia and large portions of modern day Germany and Poland, yeah Luxembourg used to be huge compared to how it is today

Oscar Blanco yeah the Holly Roman Empire didn't really have countries in it in the modern sense it was quite a mess internal squables, fleeting aliances and power plays, it's honestly quite surprising it managed to exist for such a long time

The flag of the former "Empire of Brazil" is awesome! The cross represented the Order of Christ, the Portuguese variation of the mighty Templars that discovered Brazil and which the Portuguese Royal Family is a part of. And the leaves are coffee plant on the left and tobacco plant on the right. The two main good from Brazil back then. Curious is that this cross of the Order of Christ/Templars symbol is still present in the Shield of the Brazilian soccer team. Funny isn't it? upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/55/Flag_of_Empire_of_Brazil_%281822-1870%29.svg/2000px-Flag_of_Empire_of_Brazil_%281822-1870%29.svg.png

Also the Provisional Brazilian Government's flag was just a copy of america's flag

Another note about our flag is the origin of the motto: it's an abbreviation of the motto of Comte's Positivism, (loosely translated) "Love as the principle, order as the basis, progress as the goal". I have an ambivalent relationship to the flag. I like the design and the colours, but I dislike the subservient symbolism of the imperial colours, and, really, positivism? Come on. I wish they would remove the motto altogether.

Fernie, I would love to see the motto gone. I really like the design of our flag despite its origins and the lies we teach children about it. Anyway, it stands out. But text on a flag? C’mon.

the imperial flag with it's coat of arm's on it would nowaday be called "seal on a sheet" and considered a bad design. removing the coat of arms and replacing it with a much simpler picture of the Rio de Janaeiro nightskye is an improvement. But another crime against vexillogy is text on a flag. you can't read text on a distant flag waving in the wind. so leave that out.

Gabi da Gamer Maryland flag is great.

Yea it's better than the 25 states who's flag is just a basic color background (usually blue for some reason) with the state seal in the middle.

At least the flag follows the rules

It’s cool but ugly, kinda like Maryland itself

Connecticut Ball it’s really not all that, the food is great though

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Anmol yes

He claimed more mass shootings happened in Quebec than any other place in Canada and that this was due to our culture apparently: montrealgazette.com/opinion/columnists/opinion-washington-post-article-paints-a-distorted-picture-of-quebec

I know leftist party can hold critic in my province..

He said Quebec should learn English and French speakers are just a minority so they should pleased the majority

USA: Damit My Hat Is Crying Again

Zionyr www.thestar.com/news/canada/2017/02/08/quebec-condemns-washington-post-opinion-piece-that-calls-province-more-racist-than-rest-of-canada.html

He published an article demonstrating that Quebec is culturally less tolerant and more racist than any other Canadian province (citing numerous examples). Apparently the Quebeckian legislature has nothing better to do than police the internet for anglophone criticism of their nation-but-not-a-country-because-we-were-too-scared-to-actually-declare-independence. So they ended up passing a resolution denouncing J.J. for his impertinence.

lastbreathsigh holy

www.thestar.com/news/canada/2017/02/08/quebec-condemns-washington-post-opinion-piece-that-calls-province-more-racist-than-rest-of-canada.html

He said Quebec should learn English and French speakers are just a minority so they should pleased the majority

and that was a good thing... when someone don't know what they are talking about, they shouldn't be talking period

Do you support Bavarian independance

Tomorrow We Live thanks from a Marylander

Ew...

Thanks I love I md

Muhammed Soofi so do I. I am outside of dc

Ok Oswald Mosely By which I mean you have the flag of The Union of British Facists

bluecommie yeah your right on the X's

I highly dislike you

Some Galafalacnid why

I thought it was based off of the shield on their coat of arms.

I thought it was because of the infamous red light district of Amsterdam. :V

Rodolfo Lopez they look shit but the symbolism is actually good.

1234567890q If they removed the Liberian state flag and didn't use purple and green, they might be fine. For example, a green tree with *neat* (not like some preschooler scribbling a tree in crayon) on a brown landscape would be solid.

Rodolfo Lopez You know Liberia was Americas only African colony of course it didn't last long as in 1847 Liberia became an independent nation. (For more info look it up) :)

*county flag

I talk about them in a previous video!

I got a heart from JJ. That makes me feel special. You're my favorite Canadian.

juliaz12345 Baton Rouge's needs to change

Landon Street I just took a look at it. It has potential. The name of the city must go, but that shield has promise.

Is that a whale spouting on the Orlando flag?

corvus13 Nope. It's a representation of the famous fountain in the city.

@Duggie Bright Good luck with that

Astitva Pandey I’m not throwing them on the floor, just putting them on the side table beside me.

J.J. McCullough So that's why you keep breaking the glasses.

I am from the USA and I love India!

It’s fabric calm your bobs.

You Indians are super patriotic. I am not surprised..

LOL funny

might just be some political stuff who knows

irishpennsylvanian Lol......... And Btw what has happened in the Mock Election RP?

Well, depends. When were you there last?

Ayy lmao

davyjones2001 there is actually a long story about the flag of my home state of Texas.

He probably meant naval flag, because it is used on boats in the moselle river, and on boats bought by luxish people at the belgium coast

Mrrow1113 i agree i love history and it badly annoyed me

Me, too.

well blame bad dye and bad weather for the current dutch flag

The Prince Flag, the variant with orange, is widely associated with extreme-right fanatics and neo-nazism. Therefor that flag is never used. Also, the red was used instead of orange long before the French came along with their new flag.

I agree. But France ripped off the Netherlands not vice versa

Just cut the red and we got Indonesia's flag.That is how we got our flag to this day.Never know who ripped off the red but I'm not sure he is alive to this day as there was a lot of fight in a Dutch-majority area and at that time of the birth of Indonesia's flag.Maybe he was dead after being killed by a Dutch/British soldier but who knows

Nicolas Spring I've even seen it on underwear online!

Nicolas Spring that's just America putting their flag everywhere lmao, we don't do it here in New York though

Draco Distortion I find that it's only some states that use their flag on things. In MD, we put it on *everything*. More than US flag products.

Nicolas Spring true

Draco Distortion I been to New York and what you're saying is straight up bullshit

Exactly, the Dutch flag and the Luxembourgish flag look a lot alike. But they are not identical.

Same

TrajanusChannel Even worse, Monaco and Indonesia. also Chad and Romania

Triggered as well. Even though I’m Ukrainian. In my country it’s very common not to know Netherland’s name ›_‹

TrajanusChannel Poland and Indonesia are less similar than Luxembourg and Holland...

not you Is that some sort of thing from Fallout?

Yes it is, their flag is essentially the same as California only the bear has two heads.

GROTESQUE

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Well, actually Germany has lander, so it depends on how you translate land to English. But I believe the 1871 German imperial constitution used the word staaten (states), and the framers of the Weimar Constitution in 1919 chose the word land instead.

The Baltimore's were Irish I just looked it up, they created Mary (i.e. the Blessed Virgin) land, to be a safe haven for Catholics.

Is it true that they originally had a design similar to the USA, but the first president of the Republic was a monarchist and had it changed to a design similar to the imperial flag?

Well, I actually learned about the first republican flag with JJ's video. I don't believe our first president was a monarchist, but I do think that the monarchist symbols meant a great deal to the population, and that's probably why the flag remained very similar to the imperial one. I do know that the republican government tried to change our national anthem, presenting a new one to the population. Later on, the new anthem became the anthem to the republic, and they added a second part to the old one, which is the one you might have heard in the olympics or the world cup.

hes a hipster

What's not to love!

I think it'd be weird if being Canadian or Americans means hating the other! We are essentially the same country with a similar culture. EVEN OUR DIFFERENCES ARE CONNECTED IN SOME WAYS!

J.J. McCullough you've got a point. As an American, I can't argue with that!

J.J. McCullough what’s a thought crime?

Sometimes landlocked countries have riverine navies, that consist of patrol boats, Monitors etc. I'm not sure if this is the case with Luxembourg specifically though.

Elbert Pham cause Luxembourg can do whatever it wants.

I noticed too...

I think it is the flag of the grand duchy of Luxembourg.

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Quagbro Only issue is it looks like an Islamic flag (maybe get rid of the crescent?) other than that I like it

@@AdamSmith-gs2dv The crescent on the South Carolina flag is quite distinguishable from the Islamic star and crescent, and it has a symbolic meaning going back to the American Revolution. As a fan of flags, I don't think there's any good reason to remove it from probably my favorite state flag.

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Yes he shouod make that. And he should mention the old Macedonian flag cause it was super controversial.

KnowOne yeah, one of my professors was from Georgia, when I asked whether he didn’t like the idea of changing the confederate flag, he smiled and said, “well we change it for the official Confederate, and no one noticed”

Yea no one knows about that flag, hell people call the battle flag "the stars and bars" sometimes when that was the official name for the official flag of the Confederacy not the battle flag!

KnowOne no its is not it would have put the cross on it

@@garrettlangtry9910 No the saltire is the Battle Flag, while the actual national flag of the Confederate States of America were the Stars and Bars

It still looks dope, the battle flag was a bit ugly and so were all the other Georgia flags.

Don't get it either lol

never existed

A landlock country! It's the Civil Ensign. You can use it on a boat if you wish to show that you're from Luxembourg or are a merchant for the country. Other than that, there is no navy!

It's the flag of the belgian province of Luxemburg

They probably caught him thinking in English.

jan Kansi so you’re saying the québécois have mind readers and will only allow thoughts to be in French? I mean that sorta kinda possibly makes sense if you think about it

Like having an official office for the French language? Defending a language which isn't even theirs to begin with?

Il est trop paresseux - ou stupide - pour apprendre le français.

@@LordDavid04 what? 😂 Not their own?

Many landlocked countries actually do have navies that operate on rivers and lakes.

Wes V It’s a good on. It is like the brother of the Canadian flag since they are both trees.

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Daniel Sobczak lol Denny’s placemat, I like that

At least your flag was distinctively bad. Mine is exactly like 20 something

Christian Green god isn’t real

The incarnation of decadency.

Every British man: You have provoked a gang war

caca poopoo god loves u 🤗

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That's one of the intentions.