Why are flags so similar?
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- Опубліковано 7 сер 2016
- There are no international flag design rules, so why are national flags so similar?
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There are a few more specific reasons for similar flags, but I do hope this video serves as a decent answer to the question in my own words.
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I guess the Welsh flag symbolises the frequent Dragon attacks Wales endures.
MCOD1999 im laughing so hard
so is Bhutan flag.. Dragon vs Dragon
Nah it’s just because we’re freaking awesome
I thought the Dragon on our flag was based off a really old Welsh story?
MCOD1999 that explains why I can't understand the wealth language
Because it's spoken by people who were traumatised by the last dragon attack
Here, copy my homework. Just don't make it too obvious
A legend comment
PolyMatter: Why are flags so similar?
Me: Because they want us to screw up our Geography homework.
In short, they just ran out of ideas...
๖ۣۜLǝgiƬkɨłłzᎵrσ『ђeяø』fyi a boring office englishman designed the middle east flags. thought of sharing this
0:20 - Spain's Second Republic (1931-1939) had a flag with a purple stripe on it.
Thank god it´s in the trash where it belongs.
Javier Sds long live the second republic
thank god Franco got rid of it
@@Agent-Blaze np
The Second Spanish Republic flag included purple and it was really beautiful!!!!
Jorge Correa soy republicano, pero esa bandera era una mierda, en la I República se usaba la misma de ahora, ojalá vuelva a ocurrir.
xorxex I have
xorxex the ideology was shit though
xorxex Yeah but they were clergy murdering Leftist shitheads so it doesn't really count
Hussite democracy?
I still get annoyed of the Malaysian flag, and I live in Malaysia. Why can't we just slam a tiger on that thing and call it a day?
Da Dragon Durp poeple would think that is the Texas flag
Watch minute earth
It would go against one of the rules of designing a good flag
Typical Malaysian always comment bad thing about its own country.... or are u from 'seberang'??
Da Dragon Durp phillipones flag ?
Sheldon Cooper would LOVE this!
Factz
The reason I THINK we have simple flags is because we humans are good at recognizing patterns. If we would have an really complicated flag it would make it harder to recognize and duplicate.
Well, flags, banners and coat of arms where used to recognize your friends on the battlefield and such.
You do not want to just write your natios name on your shield since black on white writing looks all the same in the heat of the moment.
If i make a Country I'll make a purple flag Just for you
ASF Kelly / A weeb country
Sealand
that moment when you make basically the exact same comment as someone else lol (i just wrote basically the exact same comment)
What about Banditerra?
*He he he, no one will get that reference....*
Great video! Have you ever seen the TEDtalks on designing good flags? I would definitely recommend, if you haven't.
Yeah, I've seen the one from Roman Mars (who has a design podcast which is amazing, if you don't know about it).
PolyMatter Yes, that is what I was talking about! I forgot what the podcast was called. I have it saved, but I haven't listened yet.
PolyMatter iam from indonesia
Victor Petcu l
Link please? :)
"Cyprus, a master of copy paste" LMAOOOOO
Παναγιώτα Δζ
But why did Cyprus put itself on a flag, though.
Couldn't they just draw inspiration from their very first flag?
Kalvin Castro idk ask them 😂
😂😂 ikr
Well at least I could distinguish their flag rather than... 😖 CHAD AND ROMANIA WHO DECIDED TO BE BAKAS AND MADE THEIR FLAGS THE SAME!. Sometimes tbh I just want to slap the person who made the flags
Kalvin Castro They did that because there are both Greek and Turkish Cypriots in Cyprus, so they wanted a neutral flag. And it's pretty good in my opinion.
Chad 🇹🇩: Hey Romania, can I copy your homework?
Romania 🇷🇴: Yeah sure, just make sure that it looks different
Chad: 🇹🇩
i have a purple flag bandiaterra...
Combination of kazakistan and italy lol thats very rare
You are an icon
Its the best country with a purple flag!
Wanted to comment that too
dude ar the final with the blue-yellow-red flags Romania and Moldova having similar flags makes sense because they were both one country... but then ww2 and a lot of things happend
Andrei Oprescu and then there is Chad. Good ol' Chad.
that was pure coincidence
What about Chad and Andorra? :D
マーク One used to be ruled by France, the other is still half owned by the ruler of France. Besides that, no similarities.
The Black Eagle Romanian had it first in 19th century
How about pink flags? Seriously?!?!
@HTD7 ukraine was planned to have pink flag, but failed and use its normal flag till today
I didn't know anything of this. I thought that each country was like : "My original flag, do not steal."
I don't remember subbing to you... But you're good... I like the style!
Hey thanks!
i like purple a good idea to make a purple flag
you came up on my feed too... love it... subscribed~!
Domen Bremec this happens to me alot
I like Red. It's the color of glory. 🇦🇱🇨🇦🇩🇰🇭🇰🇰🇬🇲🇪🇵🇱🇸🇬🇹🇳🇻🇳🇹🇷🇹🇴🇦🇹🇧🇭🇨🇳🇨🇭🇬🇪🇬🇮🇮🇩🇮🇲🇬🇱🇱🇻🇲🇦🇲🇰🇲🇹🇵🇫🇵🇪🇹🇱
I like blue 🇦🇨🇦🇶🇦🇽🇧🇧🇧🇿🇨🇰🇨🇻🇨🇼🇪🇺🇫🇮🇭🇲🇮🇱🇮🇸🇭🇹🇰🇾🇱🇮🇲🇭🇲🇶🇲🇸
where's my country north korea?
Purple isn't used in flags, because in the past it was to expensive to create that colour.
Romania VS Chad flag
The Romanian flag is the one with darker blue (right-top flag)
Wikipedia says Chad is the one with the darker blue stripe, and so do other sources on the Internet, so I think it's the opposite to what you said; Romania has the slightly lighter blue and Chad has the slightly darker blue.
It's called ''Royal Blue'' and it's a strong blue actually.
umm I'm Romanian and I know my flag u know It has a darker blue than chad
The virgin Romania vs The Chad Republic
no mention of the Canadian flag? our's is pretty unique other than that it uses red.
Love our flag!
a fucking leaf
lol true but still better than most other flags XD You see a Canada Flag you know what country it belongs to immediately. Besides maple syrup runs in our veins.
Peru with a leaf
Rly? Is a simple design just with a national logo.
1:31 white and red painting...brush blue
Russia/France
Australia?
Netherland too?
I haven't seen the brazilian flag. And it is, in it's own way, kinda unique. :D
0:12 wait where is phillipines?
Narrator: one
Me: oh nevermind
Bandiaterra is the second flag with purple in it.
Hey, when Spain was a republic it used to have a flag that was red, yellow and purple, but after Franco won the civil war it was removed and substituted by a fascist flag, it's a shame😞
Pablo Cifuentes Hola! Qué tal? Oye siento haber tardado tanto en responder de verdad que no me apetecía nada, antes que nada quiero que sepas que no me ofenden tus apelativos cariñosos o adjetivos calificativos (como te apetezca llamarlos) y siento haberte hecho rabiar tanto que hayas tenido que usarlos (en realidad no lo siento mucho, verdaderamente me encanta haberlo hecho) Sobre la bandera... Esta vez sí que lo siento mucho, tuve que haber especificado eso es cierto, a ver tú a una bandera le das el significado, una bandera de por sí no lo tiene, y bueno Franco le dio un significado a la bandera de España no muy adecuado a mi gusto y a al de una gran parte de la población, un águila para compensar las otras dos que ya había en Europa, estoy plenamente seguro de que Francisco Franco no le dio el significado que ese escudo tenía durante la época de los Reyes Católicos, ya a mí me hubiese gustado que lo hubiese usado para apelar a la unión de pueblos de una manera pacífica, no para imponerse sobre los demás con fuerza y odio (fascismo), y yo no me refería a la bandera actual de España que por cierto me da igual, me refería a la que tiene el águila de san Juan, lamento la confusión, pero aún así me parece una bandera que no representa a todo el mundo, eso no quiere decir que sea una bandera fascista, si quieres seguir sigue, soy todo oídos
Rue Ryuzaki De hecho, Franco sí le dió el mismo significado de los Reyes.
What's "ladies" without the "a"?
THANK for making a video to answer THIS question!!
I like your videos so much, they are very interesting and the animations are pleasing to the eye
I can explain the italy's colors
"the green of the Italian lands"
"the white of it's mountains"
"the red of the blood of who died for it's freedom"
Davide
Likewise for Ireland;
The flag was first introduced by Thomas Francis Meagher in 1848 who based it on French tricolour.
The green represents the older Gaelic tradition (Gaelic Order - The native Irish) while
the orange represents the supporters of William of Orange (Orange Order - Northern Irish British).
The white in the centre signifies a lasting truce between the 'Orange' and the 'Green'.
Pretty Powerful.
Our flags (and Ivory coast for us) are so easily mistaken for.
Davide Here in Lebanon we share a VERY similar story. Before all the very stupid shit that happened (aka the civil war that lead to not really much to be honest) we fought bravely for our freedom and our independence from the French. And so the red rwpresents the bliod of the brave soldiers who died for this cause, the white was chosen to represent a very unique trait that Lebanon had compared to all the other middle-eastern countries which was the snowy mountains, and finally the cedar tree was chosen because:
1. It was a tree that was found in the middle-east only in Lebanon.
2. The tree never looses it's green colour whatever the season is and is used as a symbol to show that our nation was an immortal one that would last forever (good job on that it made WONDERS :p lol).
Anyways I'm pretty sure there is a lot of Italian influence in our flag but still... I mean before everything went to shit A LOT of Italian corporations had firms and branches here because of how rich the country was (the Lebanese pound at the time was one of the highest valued currencies in the world. Even the motherfucking AMERICAN DOLLAR didn't have that much value! Btw shameless bragging about the time your country was good is shameless).
Davide
I believe France was first to use three vertical stripes and popularised this for other republican movements to follow.
The former French flag consisted of pure white dotted with gold flowers, to represent the Royal House of Bourbon who were kings of France.
During the various French Revolutions, the French adopted the tricolour flag we know today. The flag of Paris (two vertical stripes of blue and red) are symbolically "crushing" the white colour of the house of bourbon, symbolising Paris overcoming bourbon rule and crushing the French monarchy.
You could say that Paris defeated the bourbons on both sides
Nooo...
Red for Mario
Green for Luigi
And white for the fire power up
I'm joking btw. If i didn't say it people wouldn't understand... that's the worst part of the internet!
Davide All land is green, all mountains are white, all blood is red. That said Italy has the best tricolour flag
*“can I copy your homework?”*
*“sure, just change it up a bit so it wouldn't look obvious that you copied.”*
*“ok.”*
Awesome commentary!
The Finnish flag represents Finland's nature. White is for the snow and blue is for the lakes and the rivers.
...I think.
Well, the Iceland flag has those exact meanings, with the red being the mountains.
Iceland is a copy paste of Norway. Just switched around. Norway is a mix of Danish and Swedish.
*NEPAL!!!!*
1:05 WHERE IS JORDAN?
*Finaly Another Fun With Flags :)*
Correction: Jordan's flag has a seven-pointed star, not a five-pointed one.
The flag of Qatar is purpley
Nah, it's more of a maroon colour. Deep red, with maybe a SLIIIIIGHT hint of purple, perhaps - but definitely more of a red.
The flag of Ottawa used to be a third purple, but then they changed in
the ottawa flag is really cool
This video began with an ad for Purple and there is a Purple ad hovering above my "up next" video.
Romania flag = Chad flag
Moldova flag = Andorra flag.
the flag of the second spanish Republic had purple
Spain had a red, yellow and purple flag, It belonged to II Spanish Republic and was oficial between 1931 and 1939, in my opinion the actual one looks prety better, it was just awful! but I suport republics above monacrhies
Pablo Cifuentes yeah, It was ugly
noup it wasn't
Purple, red, and yellow side by side is ugly.
[GD] TheJPZ Well that's YOUR OWN opinion. For me its quite pretty and as well you may consider american(yankie) flag beautiful and for me it is not
Neno Martínez The second republic of Spain was actually pretty good. Education was improved (more than 50% of the population didn't know how to read or write before the second republic), many jobs where created, and the country started to modernize, but of course the communist parties appeared and all went to shit with the civil war. I bet that if Spain didn't have a civil war and was still a second republic it would be in a better position than now. (With no communist parties)
Funny and informative!
This was interesting. Could you make a video on a more in depth discussion? Would love to see that.
1:03 what about jordan
The Brazilian flag is different! 🙃
great video, maybe another video on how you make all the videos. software you are using, brainstorm....
Can’t wait for my next update
Hey the Romanian flag is the original one srsly now. Not Chad,s or Andorra,s or Moldova,s flag
The Real Eugenia you can say that moldova flag is still original
0:15 I can see two bits of red in that frame
Very good video, i guess this took a good amount of time to make =S
i hoped for a longer video
Fun fact: Lybia’s flag is 100% green.
Thats the one from 1977-2011
its still the true one
It *was* the most original…
Was*
The Repúblic of spain was purple
I always wondered why painting cars in customised colours is so rare. Ideas? (Besides they don't have the time and want to sell a car later)
"Can I copy your assignment?"
"Sure, just change it a bit so the teacher won't notice."
"ok"
The first Ryukyu flag is purple
Zachary Shinzato But Ryukyu is not a country.
@@user-Ou38uwHZ3 we know
Just put the name of the country on the flag a common solid background. Tadah!!!
What language? Another controversy.
Maybe colors are the best language...
cool video! keep it up! :D
Funny video. Thank you.
I would assume that there are no purple flags because purple is the colour of royalty, and if a country's flag was purple it make them seem like they think they're superior to everyone else. But that's just me.
The Spain Republic flag is purple and the Gay Flag (Rainbow flag)
The Bandiaterrian flag too
And Iroquais
M1N1SK1DZ360
I don't know, blue and white were official royal colours in France but it's on their flag despite them being staunch republicans (albeit for different reasons than support for monarchy)
Maybe in 1800s but it's 2017 I don't see ppl seeing it that way
Why i dont see czech republic flag? you have there slovakia flag but no czech republic flag
I like the comment at the end where you said we're not all that different, I was actually thinking something similar before I watched the video; now if only everyone realized it -.-
This video would have been great for a fun with flags episode on Big Bang theory
Ok, there's no Philippine Flag here.. _Okayy_
*WE'RE ORIGINAL!!*
❯ Blubie Star ❮ *YEP!!!!!*
TRUE!
I don't want to sound like a kissass but i LOVE the philipine flag. When the blue part is above , then the country is in peace, when the top stripe is red then it's in a war AND ALL YOU NEED TO DO IS TO JUST FLIP THE FLAG !🇵🇭 GODDAHM THAT'S AMAZING!
and now i'm not philipin.
Thumbs up!!!👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽
LagiNaLangAko23 what makes you think that way... Actually that flag was made before the philippines was being occupied by america... I recommend you should listen to your "HISTORY" teacher before even commenting here... Maybe you're one of those people who think "negatively" of your own country who is being brainwashed with colonial mentality... You didn't even think of it as a coincidence, not even thinking that red and blue are so common that most flags have them... The only reliable thing you said was that of the triangle on the left... Piss off...
South Africa has a unique and very beautiful flag!!! 🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦
Great video! Also,at 1:17,Austria’s flag appears twice.
Germoney.
1:28 What the hell THAT'S MY COUNTRY BANGLADESH
...So?
So what
The flag of the Spanish Republic was Red, Yellow and...
PURPLE !
So we have to retablish the Republic of Spain
BRAZIL FLAG IS OF ORIGINAL!!
You mean BRA7-1L?
i FounD you *i Must delEte your visruses*
The rarest pepe you will ever find lol
no
Mas é claro porra
I have to say, Philippine Flag is my favorite.
The cross on the nordic flags resemblens that they are holding together like holding hands
1:58 my home country Malta!
ar 1:04 SOMALILAND. that's where I am from
shut up you are from somalia
Samo ku waar
The Spanish republic had a purple flag ❤️💛💜
¡No pasarán!😿✊🖤❤
I've made redesign of the French flag incorporating the colours white and purple.
@ 1:16 🇰🇭 Two Flags of Cambodia, my favorite
2:06 Andorra. Chad Romania Molsova..... Chad has a a little bit more yellow and andora and moldova have seals. Romanian flag is the original one, others are just copies except moldova... Moldova is Romania...
It is Moldova, not Molsova
But the flag of Romania is already a copy itself, with white replaced by yellow.
François Calvaresi please stop lying, french baguette man.
Red Clorox Bleach Check the history of the Romanian flag, it used to be horizontal stripes. Anyway happy new year !
François Calvaresi you too. And i hope the best for France. (I hope Germany doesnt invade you like last time)
And then there is the flag of Nepal 😂
Monaco: "Hey, Indonesia, can I copy your flag homework? I forgot to do mine."
Indonesia: "fine, but don't make it obvious that you copied."
Monaco: "yeah ok"
I look at so many flag designs and just think how can anyone think that looks good...
2:10 No Problem
thezilla.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Purple.png
xDDDDDDDDD
Wow you must be fun at partys
Sweden and Norway was once a one country and the flag was like... You could call it was cut in half...
Pretty proud of how unique Portugal's flag is
Qatar has a purple flag
Danny Jabour Maroon, not solid purple
Serbia :hey russia
Russia : hey serbia or shold i say russia
Serbia: IM MY OWN COUNTRY !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
whats the joke?
Lol i made a fantasy kingdom's flag and its main color was purple. Granted most of the flag was black, and the purple was pretty light, but it's more than you see irl. I might make it more purple.
That moment when France used to have a blank canvas flag
look up rupulic of spain. pupole flag
A perfect example of an all purple flag is the haudenosaunee confederacy look it up
Saint Lucia and the Seychelles have interesting flag designs
Why Nepal has created a weird shape to its flag?
There is a purple falg
The Gay Flag
Joujou *flag
Jon Snow jeuidjdoekmdmxii is sjs si sijwjsmmsjsww•
Gay is not currently a country though
Yombiee Matt right but it called the LGBT flag.
yeah but its not a country also they are bunch of idiots.
Bizarre, not bizzare. #checkyourgrammar
FannomacritaireSuomi
Check your linguistic terms. That's not grammar, it's spelling.
#checkyourself
Well... #cheekibreeki
Just for you my boy, I will make a purple flag for a country in my worldbuilding proyect
I did one purple flag of my micronation with a mix of other colors but mostly the base is white while the symbol is a peacock and one of the feathers are colored purple,the original was where the base was colored purple 😂
Hey! I am at Vietnam right now!
Darkrai Gaming "at"?
Commies...
Darkrai Gaming I thought you couldn't access outside world in Vietnam?
Lybiria has the lazyest most uncreative flag ever
Did you mean Liberia or Libya? In both cases that would be wrong.