Why are flags so similar?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 ต.ค. 2024
- 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 ?
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....*
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.
"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.
Sheldon Cooper would LOVE this!
Factz
I like Red. It's the color of glory. 🇦🇱🇨🇦🇩🇰🇭🇰🇰🇬🇲🇪🇵🇱🇸🇬🇹🇳🇻🇳🇹🇷🇹🇴🇦🇹🇧🇭🇨🇳🇨🇭🇬🇪🇬🇮🇮🇩🇮🇲🇬🇱🇱🇻🇲🇦🇲🇰🇲🇹🇵🇫🇵🇪🇹🇱
I like blue 🇦🇨🇦🇶🇦🇽🇧🇧🇧🇿🇨🇰🇨🇻🇨🇼🇪🇺🇫🇮🇭🇲🇮🇱🇮🇸🇭🇹🇰🇾🇱🇮🇲🇭🇲🇶🇲🇸
where's my country north korea?
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
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
1:31 white and red painting...brush blue
Russia/France
Australia?
Netherland too?
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? :)
How about pink flags? Seriously?!?!
@HTD7 ukraine was planned to have pink flag, but failed and use its normal flag till today
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
Purple isn't used in flags, because in the past it was to expensive to create that colour.
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
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.
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.
*“can I copy your homework?”*
*“sure, just change it up a bit so it wouldn't look obvious that you copied.”*
*“ok.”*
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"?
I haven't seen the brazilian flag. And it is, in it's own way, kinda unique. :D
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
I didn't know anything of this. I thought that each country was like : "My original flag, do not steal."
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
Chad 🇹🇩: Hey Romania, can I copy your homework?
Romania 🇷🇴: Yeah sure, just make sure that it looks different
Chad: 🇹🇩
Bandiaterra is the second flag with purple in it.
Correction: Jordan's flag has a seven-pointed star, not a five-pointed one.
1:05 WHERE IS JORDAN?
0:12 wait where is phillipines?
Narrator: one
Me: oh nevermind
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)
0:15 I can see two bits of red in that frame
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.
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 flag of Ottawa used to be a third purple, but then they changed in
the ottawa flag is really cool
*NEPAL!!!!*
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
Romania flag = Chad flag
Moldova flag = Andorra flag.
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
1:03 what about jordan
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...
The first Ryukyu flag is purple
Zachary Shinzato But Ryukyu is not a country.
@@user-Ou38uwHZ3 we know
The Brazilian flag is different! 🙃
I have always been facinated by flags, but was always in love with our country's flag: Saudi Arabia. The green background symbolises peace, the sword symbolises our strength, and finally the odd Arabic bundle of words and calligraphy tell of our religion's idea (it's kind of an oath) which is what Saudi's law is based on XD It looks so different from the other straight line flags.
Why i dont see czech republic flag? you have there slovakia flag but no czech republic flag
you are right there is no purple color on flags... but the reason was purple is very expensive to produce at the time when the flags were designed and the color purple only found on royal families clothes.
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)
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.
0:32 And here we are with completely different idea. Instead of taking a rectangle, we cut it from diognal and join them whatever we like..
Problem solved
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...
one rule from heraldry is that metals(Gold/silver respectively yellow/White) must not stand aside metals, and colors not aside colors, also a coat of arms has to be recognisable from a cretain distance.
the function of a flag is similar to a coat of arms.
this rules seem to be followed with a lot of flags, 2-3 Stripes can be easily seen from a distance and a lot of countrys have the metal in the middle.the number of combinations is of course limited.
Also that stripes are preferred over Checkers may have to do with easier stitching. 3 stripes are two straight seems, Checkers are three seems and create a weak point in the middle where the seems meet.
(i know that flags nowadays are printed, but historically they were certainly sewed)
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)
The flag of the Spanish Republic was Red, Yellow and...
PURPLE !
So we have to retablish the Republic of Spain
South Africa has a unique and very beautiful flag!!! 🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦
This video began with an ad for Purple and there is a Purple ad hovering above my "up next" video.
ar 1:04 SOMALILAND. that's where I am from
shut up you are from somalia
Samo ku waar
1:20 Why is both St Lucia, Mongolia and San Marino shown with their old flag?!
1:28 What the hell THAT'S MY COUNTRY BANGLADESH
...So?
So what
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 -.-
The Spanish republic had a purple flag ❤️💛💜
¡No pasarán!😿✊🖤❤
Look the Spanish Second Republic flag, it was the flag of Spain from 1931 to 1939 ;)
Also look the actually flags of Castilla's provinces (Salamanca, Segovia, Plasencia, Málaga ;). ) It will sorprise you
I have to say, Philippine Flag is my favorite.
This was interesting. Could you make a video on a more in depth discussion? Would love to see that.
And then there is the flag of Nepal 😂
Because they are still united together in the world.
"There are no rules"
Rule 1: Main European flags are not allowed to have Sowjet flag.
Rule 2: Scandinavia is only allowed to have crosses.
--> Greenland is just a punk, so that's why we don't support him.
Rule 3: USA is not a country. It is like Europe. Remember this.
Rule 4: Never do not have an flag!
BienenTV 6
Although is a country in the kingdom of Denmark, Greenland is a predominantly inuit country. That's why its flag is different.
Can you... spell...
USA is a country made out of 50 states. New York isn't a country. New York is a state.
Wikipedia: The United States is the world's third- or fourth-largest country by total area.
The United Kingdom however is a soverein state made out of 4 countries.
gueldon lol, wikipedia faf 👍
great video, maybe another video on how you make all the videos. software you are using, brainstorm....
Serbia :hey russia
Russia : hey serbia or shold i say russia
Serbia: IM MY OWN COUNTRY !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
whats the joke?
I've made redesign of the French flag incorporating the colours white and purple.
Qatar has a purple flag
Danny Jabour Maroon, not solid purple
but now where are the pink and magenta flags?
Germoney.
Take into consideration past rule. This sorta overlaps how this represents the country, but not quite.
An large example is some of the previously (or still) British-owned countries. They still have the British flag on them.
2:10 No Problem
thezilla.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Purple.png
xDDDDDDDDD
Similar to the many Northern European countries; the American countries also have a similar flag theme. Being horizontal lines with red white and blue.
look up rupulic of spain. pupole flag
If purple wasn't available then why not mix black and blue?
Sidddhant Kulkarni Purple once has very precious and valuable colors until 18th century.
Wow you must be fun at partys
idk if someone already commented about this, but there's a reason why most Arab countries use the colors white, black, green, and red (or some combination of them). there's a poet called Safi Al Din Al Hilli (who lived about 700 years ago), who wrote poems, and specifically one verse, praising arabs. roughly translated, it goes "white are our deeds, black are our wars, green are our dwellings, red are our swords" (the superlative is implied) which is brave and generous and all, but it makes it pretty confusing to memorize haha
Lybiria has the lazyest most uncreative flag ever
If anyone wonders why there are many flags in Africa that use the same colour scheme (green, yellow, red), that's because just after WW2, many Africans wanted independence, inspired by Ethiopia's ability maintain its independence despite Italy's numerous invasions. They were also the first to use the green, yellow and red colour scheme. Because of Ethiopia's independence, it became a symbol of Pan-Africanism and freedom from colonialism, and thus many advocates for Pan-Africanism who also happen to be advocates for independence designed flags based on Ethiopia's flag. As a result, countries like Benin, Ghana, Mali and Senegal all use green, yellow and red.
Bizarre, not bizzare. #checkyourgrammar
FannomacritaireSuomi
Check your linguistic terms. That's not grammar, it's spelling.
#checkyourself
Well... #cheekibreeki
"Can I copy your assignment?"
"Sure, just change it a bit so the teacher won't notice."
"ok"
"44 have 3 horizontal stripes".
you forgot Israel, it's 45
Daxrash it only has 2 stripes, but if you count the white background than you can say it has 5 stripes
Daxrash and he forgot latvia aswell!!! Idiot😠
Daxrash yeah,because Israel isn't a country
that's not a tricolour
Israel is a country, it's more of a country than most U.N. member states.
I like your videos so much, they are very interesting and the animations are pleasing to the eye
0:38 THE NETHERLANDS my country!
overproud Dutch detected
Sulthan Faris probably!
That feel when you're the first country creating a tricolor flag and half the world copies your design
The real 3 striped flag. The rest are rip-offs.
Paul Grote Beverborg true
Purple wasn't in use because a long time ago it was too expensive to get this colour. That way nobody use purple to represent his country.
Albanian 🇦🇱 flag is one of the best and very very unique
emanresukcuf Unique? Sure. Best? Nah.
Nope its ugly Albania. Mafia LAND!
Same with Macedonia. Our flag was voted being the best in the world once.
Dac DT Macedonia is greek you know ...
XTRAKTOR Okay, North Macedonia. Happy?
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.
the second Spanish republic flag has a purple stripe instead of a red stripe at the bottom. many of the flags of regions in spain are also purple.
In Victorian times and still now the royal purple that the government has to use for every flag is to expensive because surprisingly they use snails of something like that to get the purple and you need thousands
Saint Lucia and the Seychelles have interesting flag designs
So I think the lack of purple flag is down to purple being a historically difficult colour to produce. Hence why it was saved for royalty (think Roman emperors). As such it wasn’t feasible to design a flag using purple.
*Finaly Another Fun With Flags :)*
Great video! Also,at 1:17,Austria’s flag appears twice.
Purple was expensive to get, when the flags where designed and changing a flag isn't that easy these days, as many would not want it.
one of the reasons why there aren't as many purple flags is, that purple dye was very expensive back in the days when they made-up flags