Wednesday, January 11, 2012

Red, white, and blue

Whenever an American references the "red, white and blue" I can never tell if it's out of ignorance or hubris.  Granted, few other countries in the world revere the national flag as Americans do, but the fact is there are twenty nine countries whose flag is red, white and blue!

I found this curious, but it turns out is was just from countries copying other countries:
  • The Union Jack was created from the red-blue English flag and Blue-White Scottish flag, and is used by the former colonies, including USA, Australia, Fiji, New Zealand, Tuvalu.
  • The US flag, as a symbol of revolution, was adopted by Liberia, Chile, Malaysia, Uruguay.
  • The French flag was designed in 1794 and adopted by French colonies such as Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, etc.
  • The Pan-Slavic colors were red, white and blue, and adopted by Russia, Czech, Slovakia, Serbia, Croatia, and Slovenia.
  • The flag of the Netherlands was originally the flag of the Prince of Orange, and was orange–white–blue. Somehow, though, it got changed to red–white–blue.  (New York adopted the original orange–white–blue as its state flag.)
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