Thread: Now that's a flag!

one that represents the people

one that tells everyone where we're from

Originally Posted by Mick_Marsh

The point I am making is the flag represents the country, not the inhabitants.
I have given examples of places with flags and no inhabitants and/or nationals.

Where it gets silly is when people think the flag represents the inhabitants. That is when we get countries with multiple flags. Each group has a flag to represent their individual group at the exclusion of all others. That is when it gets decisive.

The meer fact that people alone make flags, means that flags represent people. How does an uninhabited land come up with a flag?

Then you have territories controlled by sovereign nations, such as Norfolk Island [ Xmas Island as well]

Norfolk Island (Australia)

Originally Posted by cuppabillytea

The meer fact that people alone make flags, means that flags represent people. How does an uninhabited land come up with a flag?

That's my point. The inhabitants of the country design a flag to indicate what they believe shows to other people what their country represents by way of an image or a symbol, for example think maple leaf and you think of Canada, think of a crescent and you think of an Islamic country such as Turkey, the various crosses in the Union flag represent something to Great Britain.

Even the uninhabited island that Mick used as an example earlier must have had a person to design it.

Then you have the various State flags. The only flag that was designed to represent the colony was West Australia. The rest were designed to represent the governors of the States and colonies.

Australian States and Territories

Then there is the Northern Territory, never a British Colony, it was never given a colonial badge, as given to the States.

Northern Territory (Australia)

And now we have some real doozies, " the flags of Aspirant peoples". Check out the flag of the" revolutionary movement of the blue men", the Tuarag revolutionary movement.

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