Poll: Italian and Irish Flag Confusion

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Boba Frag

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Duskwaith said:
The Ivory coast flag ever so slightly takes the piss with my eyes when it comes to the Irish flag, being an Irish man

http://www.33ff.com/flags/XL_flags_embossed/Ivory-Coast_flag.gif
I agree.... Although I'm hoping that they have some symbolism behind the arrangement of the colours like we do as opposed to just picking options out of a hat.

I don't understand the confusion except in cases of Extreme Ignorance or colour blindness.
 

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DustyDrB said:
I'm from the US:

Nah, Red White and Green is Italian. Every shitty deli and pizza place in Charleston puts some Italian flag sticker on their window. So I associate the Italian flag with soggy sandwiches.

Though I really don't encounter the Irish flag much, so I don't recognize it. I just don't look at flags, so only know a few (I could recognize the US flag, the Italian flag, the Canadian flag, and the Japanese flag. That's it).

If anything in America wants to look Irish, they just bathe it in green, clovers, and Boston Red Sox crap. So as a Yankees fan, I have associated Irish-ness with the Sox and am automatically apprehensive. Anyway, I never see the Irish flag, but I wouldn't confuse it with the Italian one.
You basically confirmed what I've always suspected about Irish-America.

*sighs*
 

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Maraveno said:
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Yes cause I'm fed up with people lacking significantly in geographic knowledge

And for the love of god this is nowhere near an excuse for what you stated

North is north east is east
If you'd be saying east like that at least have said something like inbetween russia and america cause that's the kinda geographical knowledge your showing off here and even than you'd put germany above italy

I loathe geographical nonsense that's my mistake I guess?
Yes.
Stop talking about this matter.
I picture italy inbetween two major powers, that's how I remember it. Now you can stop.
 

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In regards to the Ivory Coast flag, don't (or didn't) people hoist flags upside down as a symbol of distress?

While we are at it, the Australian flag is the same as the New Zealand flag, except the stars are white and there are two more of them. Though, they both are informative, you can tell which way up they go, and which major power colonised them. And also that they are in the south.
 

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Maraveno said:
DustyDrB said:
I'm from the US:

Nah, Red White and Green is Italian. Every shitty deli and pizza place in Charleston puts some Italian flag sticker on their window. So I associate the Italian flag with soggy sandwiches.

Though I really don't encounter the Irish flag much, so I don't recognize it. I just don't look at flags, so only know a few (I could recognize the US flag, the Italian flag, the Canadian flag, and the Japanese flag. That's it).

If anything in America wants to look Irish, they just bathe it in green, clovers, and Boston Red Sox crap. So as a Yankees fan, I have associated Irish-ness with the Sox and am automatically apprehensive. Anyway, I never see the Irish flag, but I wouldn't confuse it with the Italian one.
hah you fell for it

green white and red my friend :D
I wasn't worrying about listing them in order.
 

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Boba Frag said:
Really? nice going! Care to share the secret?
Irish-Italian is a reasonably common ancestry in the Northeastern U.S., because both groups had large amounts of Catholics. If you couldn't marry a "nice X girl/man", you could at least marry another Catholic. Or worse yet, a Protestant marrying a papist! Quel horrore!
 

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Prince Regent said:
Nah those two I don't confuse.

But just compare the dutch flag with that of Luxembourg.



Left is dutch right is luxembourg.
Plus the fact that if you lie down or spend too much time at the library it is exactly that of France.
 

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Nope, being Irish I haven't had a problem apart from very badly coloured flags (or when my TV decides to make everything washed out and faded). I had confused the Ivory Coast flag though, however I was thinking that was Infinity Ward being stupid and flipping the flag in Modern Warfare 2!
 

Boba Frag

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FalloutJack said:
Boba Frag said:
FalloutJack said:
Who cares? I'm both nationalities at once!
Really? nice going! Care to share the secret?
Ya have to be born that way, lad.
Ha! Very good. Should have seen that one coming.

I don't doubt that as regards ethnicity, I was curious about actual citizenship status.
As far as I know dual citizenship was phased out, but I could be wrong.
 

Boba Frag

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Dags90 said:
Boba Frag said:
Really? nice going! Care to share the secret?
Irish-Italian is a reasonably common ancestry in the Northeastern U.S., because both groups had large amounts of Catholics. If you couldn't marry a "nice X girl/man", you could at least marry another Catholic. Or worse yet, a Protestant marrying a papist! Quel horrore!
What will the neighbours say?!! Oh, sweet mother o divine Jaysus! lol

That's really interesting, and not to mention cool. I mean, how is that not forming some kind of master race? :p
 
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Ah, it'd be pretty easy to tell them apart. You see if you're in Dublin, it'd be the Irish flag. If you were in Rome, it'd be the Italian one. And if you were in Belfast, then either would be fecking eedjet flags.

/begorrah
 

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Boba Frag said:
What will the neighbours say?!! Oh, sweet mother o divine Jaysus! lol

That's really interesting, and not to mention cool. I mean, how is that not forming some kind of master race? :p
It's fun looking back at American ethnic history and seeing how the varying "white" ethnic groups hated each other at first. It wasn't until after WWII really that white people started to get along with eachother.
 

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Dags90 said:
Boba Frag said:
What will the neighbours say?!! Oh, sweet mother o divine Jaysus! lol

That's really interesting, and not to mention cool. I mean, how is that not forming some kind of master race? :p
It's fun looking back at American ethnic history and seeing how the varying "white" ethnic groups hated each other at first. It wasn't until after WWII really that white people started to get along with eachother.
Well, moving aside from such a broad and frankly weird way of looking at hundreds of European ethnicities and cultures under the big vague banner of 'white' (and that sentiment I would apply to any broad categorisation)... yeah, old world prejudices don't go away very easily. People have memories, and Europeans are extremely good at coming up with historical reasons to hate each other.

I'm Irish and I'm probably from the either the first or second generation of people that have next to no antipathy towards English people just because they're English.

That said, I do wish they'd stop giving us their shit z-list celebrities to gawp at.

Apart from that- two words. Top. Gear.
Nuff said- they're my favourite neighbours because of that any many other reasons.
 

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Well the thing is i am Too Italian to fall for the Green, White, and orange. When i think about it the flag may have dodged a bullet for almost copying the Italian Kingdom flag, because of how they are pretty identical only one has a different color from the other. The Kingdom of Italy was established long before the Republic of Ireland. Not dissing on them for the unorginality of their flag, just that i can tell what is Italian and what is Irish. But seriously they could not be more mainstream, have you seen wales flag, it is pretty awesome that fact that i put it's animal on the front which was a freaking dragon. Again i am not being rude towards Irish people, in fact i got a friend who is Irish and his name is Patrick. So yeah i don't know why they did not make it Orange, White, and Green, just saying it would have been a little better. Still though they may change their flag, it's only the process of time and politics that will decide that. Though Italians vs Irish in soccer i think both would be tied, but in a war Ireland could be beaten kinda badly since the Italians made huge advancements in technology. And the fact that the Irish have to rely on the British for main battle tanks just makes it sad. I love the Irish and the Italians but i am Italian so i have to stand by my flag and my origin country, you know, "Join or die." Well after that bit of tantrum, i think if you were to just study polotics and history it should be easy for you to tell the difference between an Irish flag and an Italian flag.

If any one was offended by this then i would like to apologize deeply for it, i was only sharing my thoughts and if you wish to throw your thoughts my way then i will read and respond in a gentleman like manner.