Many flags around the world are iconic, think the ones of France, Canada, South Africa, the Nordics, etc.

However, there are some that aren’t as good, like the Australian and New Zealand flags, both of which still retain the union jack with little Indigenous symbolism. Speaking as an Australian myself, our flag isn’t all that great! The Southern Cross is cool, but there is no hint of green/gold, and the union jack just looks tacked on. There are also many flags that look good, but the symbolism represents ideas that you’re against. Think Iran’s flag that draws heavily from their sect of Islam and the theocracy, or the PRC’s flag having the smaller stars representing the people surrounding the larger star representing the one party state. There’s also some that are okay, but a bit boring and hard of distinguish from the rest, and an additional element would make it stand out more.

And purple should be on more flags! Republican Spain during the 1930s had some purple, but they lost the civil war and the flag was replaced.

If you could change the national flags of the world, what would be your flag proposals?

  • OwOarchist@pawb.socialEnglish
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    19 days ago

    Well, I do concede that I’m very much fighting a losing battle against human nature. Humans are hard-wired for tribalism, and national identity is an easy way to take advantage of that. (One of many.)

    But I do want to call attention to an internal tension within your argument:

    all identities exist to include and exclude. That’s what an identity is, it’s a set of identifiers that makes something distinct to the things its compared to

    versus

    A nation doesn’t have rigid edges nor does it segregate nor does it isolate.

    If it doesn’t have rigid edges, if it doesn’t segregate, if it doesn’t isolate … then how does it include and exclude? How does it accomplish what you say all identities exist to do?