Having your country’s flag on your property
Oh wild guess… USA?
Denmark too. You’re not a success in Denmark until you have a flagpole, two kids (no more, no less), an electric car, a robot mower, a robot hoover and a sunken trampoline.
I moved to Denmark recently. The Danish love to fly their flag. Half of the houses have a flagpole. It’s weird for me because no one in Poland does this.
It’s a long story of course, but goes back to a wave of nationalism that arose after the 1864 wars against Prussia. The Danes often said “what is lost externally must be gained internally” and it lead to a break with Pan-Scandinavism so Danes really had nothing but flags and flagpoles left. And boy did they use them.
Isn’t putting up flags an American thing too? Don’t really see this kind of nationalism in other coutnries.
If you see a truck in Canada with our flag on it, high probability it’s also got an ‘F Trudeau’ sticker and an asshole driver.
can you explain the racism part of it to a non brit? like I’m five /stupid american pls
Not OP, but British, seems you only really see them on house for football as previously stated and on the houses of people that tend to be ignorant and/or racist so they fly the Union Jack St George Cross Flag as a means to be patriotic to this shit hole.
Edit: Put the wrong flag, as evidently I’m a moron today.
I’ve seen it in just about every country I have visited physically and in Geoguessr. Maybe not quite as prevalent as the US but I wouldn’t actually say the difference is as big as people probably think.
What’s funny is that beyond knowing you’re in America, the flag doesn’t help a lot with location guessing. USA is one of the tougher countries to pinpoint within in GeoGuesser. It’s probably harder to distinguish Vermont from Ohio from Oregon (depending on the photo) than it is to tell Albania from Austria even with no flags or signs.
Complete opposite of my experience. While you do see flags in other countries they are usually only at governme t buildings, it’s rare to see people flying flags themselves. Whereas in America they are everywhere and also buildins will often have multiple. Like I went to a mall and the outside had at least a dozen flags on sides.
american geography is also aggressively diverse as well, it varies from ice in alaska, to the literal desert
Or ice in Minnesota to the literal desert, or ice in Massachusetts to the literal desert, or ice in the literal desert to the literal desert
In Finland we have plenty of national “flag days” every year. I don’t see people putting up flags on their porch or anything but many has flag poles on their yard and flying a Finnish flag has no racist implications to it or anything like that. It’s a traditional thing to do and especially the elderly are pretty strict about it.
That was what the US used to be, but now flying a flag has too many negative connotations. Don’t let your nationalist nut-jobs ruin it for you too
If it doesn’t have a blue stripe, you can absolutely still fly the flag at your house. It’s when you have it on your shirt and car that it gets weird.
It seems like it’s common in places that have an independence movement (Quebec, Ireland and Taiwan as others have mentioned), the USA is an exception to that.
A fair few Australians fly the flag in front of their house all year round.
And they without fail put up the coalition corflutes during elections, and had the ‘if you don’t know, vote no’ signs during the referendum.
The Venn diagram is a perfect circle.
Oh don’t fucking get me started on the referendum. It was defeated by weaponised ignorance. An absolute disgrace.
We were there a couple of weeks ago. Seems different neighbourhoods had different flags. We elected not to fly a courtesy flag on our boat as all the alternatives were partisan one way or another.
It really depends on what definition of nationalism you’re using, absolutely. Original usage of “nationalism” had its meaning much closer to “patriotism”, the older of the two words, but usage over time has separated their definitions (again, dependant on where you are in the world).
In america “nationalism” is more often associated with ‘white nationalism’ and even when not explicitly tied to the white nationalist movement, ‘nationalism’ at best carries with it a negative connotation. “Nationalism” in the States means patriotism, but an exclusive sort which puts the rest of the world beneath the needs of America, even the basic needs of a given country’s right to self-determination if it goes against the US’s interests, which dovetails nicely with your definition of fanaticism
Common in Canada.
Where do you get the notion that it’s an American thing from?
Where is this common? I have family in Ontario, Saskatchewan, Alberta, and BC, and we rarely see flags on people’s lawns/whatever. I’m in Vancouver and there is ONE flag within a 20 minute walk in any direction. In fact, my kids refer to it as ‘the flag house’ it’s so out of place.
Hell our Prime Minister had to ask us to be more patriotic for the olympics in 2010.
Every city/town/municipality I have traveled to has multiple. It’s not every yard, but there’s enough that it’s noticeable. About the same rate as most cities I’ve been everywhere really.
Lots of business in fact fly them, dealerships are one prominent one.
Do you travel by air instead of vehicle between places?
Is that guy okay?
Nope. Storing all of Google street view in one human’s brain takes a toll on you.
But seriously, if you haven’t seen him before, the guy is nuts. He has to come up with challenges to make geoguesser difficult for himself now:
Grayjay isn’t opening this up for me. What’s the channel name of this guy?
if this guy worked for the CIA every russian spy in existence would be dead within two weeks
the CIA would give him photos from known russian spies and within the hour he would track their location to the exact spot.
Holy shit, it’s postal dude without his glasses.
Sign my damn petition
I’d put mine out in the garden. Mate. Cheers.
