I don't burn it or anything but I don't go crazy over it. I guess we don't revere it as much up here in the north. I like the leaf though.
Do you respect your country's flag?
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It actually stands for a truce between the Nationalist tradition and the Orange tradition.Sonic Doctor said:
It's pretty much like this:
Green = Nationalists
Orange = 'Orange' Traditionalists (ie Unionists)
White = A truce between the two sides that will, hopefully, never be broken.
I'd love to check out my ancestors, my folks researched it years ago. All they can remember is that we came form Co. Clare.
So where abouts did your ancestors live? Never know.....I could be living nearby!
Wait a mo, I just wiki'd the Tricolour...turns out nobody is 100% sure as to what it stands for! :L
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yea the leafs an ok part of the flag I guess =PRedlin5 said:
I think my flag (Montenegrin) looks pretty cool, but I don't really feel any special kind of respect for it or anything. But I think it's still idiotic that Serbs, who are actually the majority in my city, occasionally burn the flag of Montenegro when, for example, they beat us in some sports event or something... I saw a bunch of kids that even younger than me do that once...
Exactly. Would you mind burning your country if it swayed from the ideals upon which is was founded?Furburt said:
A flag is a symbol for a set of ideals, as a country is an institution bound by those ideals. If that flag is misused to represent ideals other than those upon which it's creation was justified, it is burned.
Although the above analogy isn't exactly a strong one, it sure does sound nice.
I think the reason why us lot in the UK are less gung-ho about flags and patriotism is because there's no codified constitution describing what exactly we're being gung-ho about. Because of this, flags here are meaningless as anything other than border and land markers.
But then this is whole argument of codified constitution vs. uncodified, which is something I've had rather enough of over the last year, thank you very much.
I think the idea it symbolizes is noble, but the fact that they use it to symbolize these ideals is something I think is kind of stupid.
I would burn it, but only because I burn everything not immediately vital to me that is properly flammable. I am building my own lighter collection
I would burn it, but only because I burn everything not immediately vital to me that is properly flammable. I am building my own lighter collection
Hah okay well I can say without offending now that your grandma probly made it upSonic Doctor said:Well to tell the truth, my grandma is pretty nuts. She's on my German side of the family, and she lived in Germany when she was little girl and goes on trips there at least once a year. She is very stuck up. She thinks that everybody in Germany is well-mannered and eats meals at the exact same time every day, and don't party all night or do anything that would disturb the perfect peaceful order of life. Obviously, she has her head in the clouds.PoliceBox63 said:Hmm i'm not going to diss your grandma but that's a big claim to make. We can't even find out records about our ancestors only 10 generations ago coz of the events of War of Independence and Civil War! But who am i to say your grandma didn't find that outSonic Doctor said:
But on the genealogical stuff, she probably did very loose research and probably just assumed my family was related to the Irish king Brian Boru. She likes people to think that she is important and that people in her family are important. I cracked up laughing when she said that on my Irish side of the family, we were related to the old west outlaw train robber Jesse James.
Conor O'Brien is the current direct descendant of Boru on the male line going back 1000 yrs.We had a Dutch flag once that we raised at our birthdays (normal to do that here)/Queen's birthday/Victory day. But one evening we forgot to take it in and someone stole it.
It's a piece of cloth with a red, white and blue field. I know that it stands for my country, but I'm definetly not going to sing the national anthem everyday or treat the flag as if it were some deity that needs to be worshipped. Not that I can anyway, considering it has been stolen.
It's a piece of cloth with a red, white and blue field. I know that it stands for my country, but I'm definetly not going to sing the national anthem everyday or treat the flag as if it were some deity that needs to be worshipped. Not that I can anyway, considering it has been stolen.
I sort of respect; I respect it enough to not insult it that much, don't respect it so much that I don't own or plan to own one.
No, not really. I don't buy into that tribal patriotism stuff. As far as i'm concerned, a flag is a logo, used to represent and advertise a collective group of individuals that live and work within the same structure.
It's the country I live in. I could have it wayyyyy worse. I guess you can say that the flag holds the history of our country.
So yes, I do respect it.
So yes, I do respect it.
As an Australian I respect our flag and what it represents, though there's a debate over whether or not we should become a republic, part of which would involve changing the flag and getting rid of the union jack. Something I wouldn't get especially teared up about, so long as they change it to something decent.