Canadians fly the flag a lot. All it says is “I’m happy to be from here and how lucky we are to have all this.” (Fly whatever flag you want if it makes you happy)
I don’t know Germans to be a happy people, and I don’t know if I feel lucky to have a crippling bureaucracy in a country with an oppressive, authoritarian history that really hasn’t gone. So when I see people flying the flag I wonder why they’re doing it. There are still German people who are bitter about the end of the first world war and what that meant for the country’s trajectory and so they wish they could “restore German greatness” and so I think that’s the wrong reason to by flying flags.
Canadians fly the flag a lot. All it says is “I’m happy to be from here and how lucky we are to have all this.” (Fly whatever flag you want if it makes you happy)
I don’t know Germans to be a happy people, and I don’t know if I feel lucky to have a crippling bureaucracy in a country with an oppressive, authoritarian history that really hasn’t gone. So when I see people flying the flag I wonder why they’re doing it. There are still German people who are bitter about the end of the first world war and what that meant for the country’s trajectory and so they wish they could “restore German greatness” and so I think that’s the wrong reason to by flying flags.
Love that hybrid-but it would only fly in a few places in this country, surely?
England’s St George’s flag is perhaps even more problematic than Germany’s tricolour, but both are axiomatic that flags are bad…ha-ha!
St. George is an odd one because he never stepped foot in England.
Yes, the irony is terrific.
Like Farage being married to a German and having both a UK, and applying, but failing to acquire a German, passport.
Can’t cure stupid when it comes to England and St George…
We have a similar problem over here in England with the St. George’s flag.
If you ask me we should be swapping the country flags with football emblem flags.
Three lions on a flag?