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I'm not kidding or exaggerating, the only reason I found your channel in the first place was because I Googled "why is Canada Day on July 1st" back in 2017. And more than two years later you finally answered what I suspected all along.
Hey there, JJ! A fan from Primorsky here. Never thought to come across our flag in one of your videos. Was pleasantly surprised. However we are not a part of Siberia. Russian Far East and Siberia are slightly different things. Otherwise, keep making great content as usual.)))
Volcaniks It’s alright. Not that different from other places in Russia. The only thing that comes to mind is having cheaper and fresher seafood and larger distances between settlements. Also our nature is a lot friendlier than our neighbours’. Only ticks and a several species of vipers. In other countries and regions that are even remotely close to us it feels like everything is out to kill you.
There is another layer to this he didnt adress. Since Hong Kong and Macao are Cantonese speaking residents of those areas who saw a Chinese or Taiwan flag might not assume the workers could speak anything other than mandrin. However since all chinese languages use the same characters the flag design they chose might better convey that all dialects of chinese are spoken
@@Chris-rd7co well，actually. 留学 means study abroad in Chinese to be precise, so it’s for helping Chinese to study abroad or to immigrate, which often come hand in hand with each other for the Chinese (I’m from mainland btw)
Primorsky Krai (literally trandlated as: By the sea Land) is usually referred to as The Far East, as it's neighbouring China and North Korea. It might be technically an obscure part of Siberia, but nobody in Russia really thinks of it as Siberia, at least I've never heard anyone refer to it that way. Vladivostok is the largest city there.
The “Chinese immigration flag” actually still has characteristics that could make people in the Chinese community feel segregated from each other as well. The characters on the flag are written in traditional characters which is the type of writing found in Hong Kong and Taiwan, but not communist china. So it’s possible that Chinese people from China make take offense, but I believe they chose traditional characters because of Canada’s interesting relationship with migrants from Hong Kong in particular.
not really, Chinese can read and write traditional Chinese if they reach an education level say middle school, the simplified version just makes the work easier when 10 billion people need to learn writing are mostly illiterate at the time. people in china are not against traditional Chinese at all and most people don't really care small detail like that as long as it's not the roc flag
Wouldn't Chinese people be complaining about this in Hong Kong before they would complain about it in Canada? Also they chose traditional characters because the beginning of Chinatowns in America was before the Republican period, so the Vancouver Chinese community has always been around and used traditional characters. The ATMs are for the local residents as much as it is for tourists
China has very few regional flags, in the 90s there were some minor attempts by cities and such to establish flags, but that was quickly stamped down on after the Tiananmen Square _incident_
2:49 We have a few types of 'provinces' : -- republic -- krai (land or territory) -- oblast' (region) -- autonomous oblast' and even more! Republics have their own constitution, a national anthem and they have the right to establish their own official language.
@@JJMcCullough It wasn`t called the Russian Empire for Nothing! Russian Imperialism is why Canada is larger in area (when including sea area) than China. The Russian acquisition of Chinese territory (including Primorsky Krai) during the Second Opium War is why. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amur_Acquisition
Having seen Top Gun Maverick I was a little surprised to see that his jacket patches were identical to those in the first movie. His jacket still featured the flags of Taiwan and Japan. Apparently from what I was able to find out it was Tom Cruise himself that objected to the change. He refused to allow the new patch simply to appease the Chinese and told the studio that he didn't care if the Chinese banned it or not. Whatever happened he is in fact wearing the original unmodified jacket in the new movie.
Hello, J.J.! Your subscriber from Primorsky Krai here. It was pretty surreal to see the flag of the region I was born and raised in in one of your videos. Good job cracking that mystery! :)
@@JJMcCullough What can I say? Many people leave Russia in pursuit of a better life and Canada is one of the more popular destinations when it comes to immigration.
just an fyi, that chinese flag specifically translates to something a lot like “immigration for students studying abroad”. I guess “student immigration works” but it’s nice to be specific and i wanted people to know that google translate was accurate with that though, i don’t see how that exactly is supposed to be very non political, since it’s using tradition chinese, which is not endorsed by the mainland chinese government
It is not very political to use traditional characters, they're still used in advertising or certain print applications in the mainland. Plus people visit Hong Kong all the time and there isn't discussion about changing the typography of the city
Would you consider covering the upcoming UK general election? It'll be one of the most important in British History and I'd love to hear your take on it
6:25. The fact that the flag uses Traditional Chinese characters 留學移民 instead of Simplified Chinese characters 留学移民 might trigger people from the People's Republic of China.
Btw, the word Krai in Russian just means "frontier", it's a part of the word "Ukraine" for instance which just means the (western) "frontierland" in Russian. So promorsky Krai would mean the promorsky frontier and would denote one of the far flung reaches of the Russian state. This word was more common during the period of the Russian empire, and was used to describe many parts of the empire in the far east and Central Asia.
Yeah, I did solve a flag mystery once. I was riding my bike around my town and saw a flag that was red with yellow dot in the middle with eight yellow stripes going around it. It looked like a big yellow sun on a red background. Turns out it is the Macedonian flag. I just never seen it before.
As for Primorsky Krai, Russian administrative division is actually quite interesting and messed up. We have 6 different types of provinces most of which make absolutely no sence. My favorite is a Jewish autonomy with 1% Jewish population and Yiddish as an oficial language.
Primorsky Krai! My great-grandfather is from there. Minor nitpick: Primorsky Krai is not in Siberia, but in the Russian Far East, which is a separate region. You could do a video on Russian administrative divisions! I'll gladly help.
I have my own story of finding flags. I was born in Lara State, Venezuela. During the early 2000's every state started making their own flag because the name "state" is just decoration and we are not a fuctional federation. Anyway so we have a very badass looking flag, 2nd best among Venezuelan states but it happens that the flag was imposed by a governor who supports the dictatorship and I stopped liking it. Doing research I found that we used to have a more obscure flag that no one remembers from the early 1990's that is posted on many pre-2004 websites but there are no photos of the actual flag waving or displayed anywhere. I recreated an HD design of it with Photoshop but I want to know if it was official or just a temporary symbol that people used.
@@macuare Because people don't say I'm from somewhere unless it is relevant to what they are saying. A lot of Venezuelans who watch English videos don't live in Venezuela anymore.
“And I must say this story of insecurity and one-up-manship behind our national holiday is the most delightfully Canadian thing I’ve ever heard.” 🤣🤣 Haha this segment was both fascinating AND hilarious!
A brilliant "flag" analysis on so many levels, even though I disagree with many of your posits on other subject matter--thanks for your hard work and research on this particular matter, thanks!
It’s really interesting how big of a difference the specific symbols mean. I originally saw the tiger and when I googled “Red, white, and blue diagonal flag with a tiger” It was the first search result. However when I swapped tigger for lion it didn’t come up at all. People take flag lore more seriously than I thought.
As a sailor, and member of the Royal Vancouver Yacht Club I can tell you that there are a lot of different burgees out there. A burgee is like a insignia from your yacht club and every yacht club and sailing club has one. They are often used like a warship would use a naval jack being flown at the front of the boat. Many yacht clubs also collect other clubs burgees and display them, the restaurant at my yacht club has them displayed all over the ceiling. When you travel to different sailing competitions (regattas) you start to recognize other club’s burgees, and It’s really helpful to know where a boat is from. Lastly the way you pronounce burgee (or at least the way I hear people pronounce it) is like bur-jee.
As a Brit I find your videos fascinating; I love to see how a Canadian reacts to certain aspects of our intertwined history, though I am a hardcore monarchist I’m afraid ;)
I live in Newfoundland, and my French teacher a had a few years ago. She had the Acadian flag on her wall. I thought it was the communist French flag. I spent the rest of the year thinking she was an FLQ supporter
I had quite an interesting experience when I saw the flag of the "Jamtland Republic" (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_of_Jamtland) while on a walk in the small town in Sweden where I live. As I also am a vexilophile, I decided to try and find what it was right then and there, and the closest flag I could find was the flag of Sierra Leone, as I was only looking for national flags (Yes, I entirely missed that the coloured bands are reversed). I thought, "Hm, that's quite an obscure flag to fly, but I guess someone from Sierra Leone lives there". However, when I got home, I told my girlfriend about this. She asked me if the flag had a black seal on it, which it did. As she hails from the region of Sweden right next to Jämtland, and had lived in Jämtland for a while. I had heard of the "sort of a joke, sort of not"-republic of Jamtland before, but it didn't pop into my head until she mentioned it.
Hey JJ, I’ve noticed that in a lot of your flag based videos whenever you display a graphic of the Union Jack you often use the pre-1801 version that doesn’t include St Patrick’s cross to represent Ireland. Just wanted to let you know because as a British Flagspert it can be painfully obvious when the St Patrick’s cross is missing. Also I love your vids, keep up the good work!
I've only ever had one flag mystery. I was at a Ferry port in Northern France (St Malo to be precise) and, as you would expect they have the French flag, the British flag, the EU flag; but they also had a weird flag, very similar to the Russian province one from this video. Same design, but with a black top, white middle and red bottom (and sadly no tiger) I knew that it wasn't the flag of Brittany (the region St Malo is in) so I presumed it was the flag of the town (nope) or the neighbouring region of Normandy (again no). I decided to turn to Google and searched every regional flag in France, and when that failed I searched every flag in England I again came up empty handed. I was getting desperate. I then searched for all the islands around the UK when I found it. The flag I had seen was the flag of Sealand, a tiny micro-nation off the coat of Essex. I still don't know what it was doing at a Ferry terminal 300 miles away in France, but I don't care, I found it!
Sealand is a fascinating story in itself. A radar station built by, if I am not mistaken, the RAF at the dawn of the Cold War consisting of a platform atop concrete pilings, rather like the oil wells found in the North Sea. It was abandoned in the early 1960s and most of the equipment removed. A few years later it was occupied by a pirate radio station, taking advantage of a few legal loopholes like it being an abandoned facility in what was then international waters. The occupiers eventually declared it to be an independent nation which allowed them legal means to stay, even if no other nation formally recognized them. At least I think that's how they worked it.
Hey J.J. love you love the channel. Someone gave my dad a small collection of beer steins that they got from a garage sale and we had a grand old time deciphering them using Google lense and Google translate. Oddly enough a certain Budweiser stein was one of the toughest to figure out thank you and keep up the good work
Thanks JJ. I believe the provincial flag of British Columbia features the Crown and Union flag of Britain, with blue and white ocean waves underneath. Very nice design.
Hi JJ, it's pronounced 'Bur-jee'. They're usually a small flag that goes on top of the mast to indicate wind direction. Other triangle flags might be called a pennant.
Fun fact: There exists a patriot flag for quebec independance that is a reverse Hungarian flag (green white and red) That flag is acctually the one that represents Quebec in Eu4
You made my day with naming Primorye's (shorter name for the krai) a symbol of a religion. You should also look up the flag of Sakhalin oblast. It is litteraly the most creative thing in flag universe (*sarcasm sign*)
@William Winter Canada would crumble aswell. You guys think food, electricity and gasoline is expensive now lol, if wexit happend it would skyrocket. The Canadian dollar would crash. And I dont think alberta/sask wants to be the martyr of Canada. Albertans and the entire west just wants parliament to stop killing our export economy (oil, logging, grain, beef, water, steel) and give us a fair deal in the electoral system. B.C needs to get off the devils lettuce and stop making us give our black gold and everything else to the yankees. Seattle is better at selling our oil than Vancouver is. At a mark up price nonetheless!
I loved this video. Especially the last one with British Columbia. As a US citizen, we are CRAZY about the flag, and we love to make up new flags and then argue about whether they are "the real" flag. I read a lot about heraldry when I was younger, so flags are a natural next step. Have a great 2020.
7:30 Hey JJ, why do you use the Union Jack that doesn't include the St. Patrick saltire (diagonal red lines) in your videos? There may not be a reason, but it's pretty consistent across your videos, and I'm just curious.
@@leinstermapping American flagspert here and in my research any configuration of the "stars and stripes" is considered valid and acceptable for display and saluting. Most people won't question the number of stars on your flag if they even notice.
I remember being a little kid seeking a Sikh temple, and the orange pennant fluttering on top with the awesome crossed swords symbol. I looked it up to figure out what it stood for, and I fell down a neverending rabbit hole of flags and geography. My brain is 95% useless flag information, and I love it.
You could say that it was due to appeasing China. But it fits the backstory of Top Gun perfectly. The original patch was dated in the "Far East Cruise" in the 60's meaning it is Maverick's dad's patch or even his jacket. The USS Galveston CLG-3 was indeed a USS Navy missile cruiser that served the fleet from 1945-1975. The new patch is dated "Indian Ocean Cruise 85-86" which is the timeline of the original movie.
@@eutoob Yes, I saw the video too. But they obviously did it so they could release in China. Which is why it looks so similar to the previous one, not out of some plot reason.
Barkerville deep dive, please! I love the Dominion Day flag, the beaver is really cute, and the maple leaves are artistic rather than just representational.
Me and my family were in a Walmart and a lady who worked there asked me if I was from Canada because of my accent, I said yes and she said that she has never been to Canada and wanted to know if it was true that we lived in some sort of Igloo or cold waste land. I laughed really hard and told her that it was only a stereotype and not actually true. She was a weird lady and we walked out of the Walmart laughing.
Though I am not Canadian I have a flag of your province in my home! We took a school trip to Victoria in my last year of formal education. I took a tour of the capitol building and fell in love with the B.C. flag. I think it might be one of the prettiest flags in the entire world (though admittedly there may be some provincial flags from outside of North America that I am not aware of).
This happened back when I was in middle school. I was walking to my bus stop when I saw the French flag, but this French flag had a cross in the middle. At the time, I was super confident in my ability to identify most flags of the world, so I made it my duty to figure out where this flag came from. Several days later I came across it again, but this time on Instagram. I tried to think of the many governments that France had gone through and it came to me that during World War Two, the Germans had created a puppet state called Vichy France. So I looked up “Vichy France flag” and what to do you know - it was the Vichy France flag. This is the story of my first flag mystery.
A couple of years ago I saw a flag that was white, green and light blue at a Habs game and had no idea what it was for. Later I discovered it was the flag of Labrador. Turns out Labrador and Newfoundland have their own flags
Vexilographer: I am a Vexilographer
J.J. McClough: I am a flagspert
JJ an intellectual
To be fair, #vexillology is under the video.
Or vexillologist
vexillographer: makes flags
vexillologist: knows about flags
Vexillology.
That story about Dominion Day, just feels absolutely so reflective of todays "we're better than Americans" passive aggressive conversations.
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Canada is American's well behaved brother.
I just hope they never take it too seriously. We would do everything for northern friends and even look to them as inspiration.
A bit like Scotland and England.
Ireland and England is just pure hatred though.
GAMMA QUADRANT!
I'm not kidding or exaggerating, the only reason I found your channel in the first place was because I Googled "why is Canada Day on July 1st" back in 2017. And more than two years later you finally answered what I suspected all along.
Hey there, JJ! A fan from Primorsky here. Never thought to come across our flag in one of your videos. Was pleasantly surprised. However we are not a part of Siberia. Russian Far East and Siberia are slightly different things. Otherwise, keep making great content as usual.)))
Damn! That's an obscure yet equally fascinating place. How is it there?
Volcaniks It’s alright. Not that different from other places in Russia. The only thing that comes to mind is having cheaper and fresher seafood and larger distances between settlements. Also our nature is a lot friendlier than our neighbours’. Only ticks and a several species of vipers. In other countries and regions that are even remotely close to us it feels like everything is out to kill you.
Если есть на свете рай, то это Primorsky Cry
@@tarasilyin1824 А что с азиатскими товарами? Вам их легче достать?
The only flag I recognized here, being from Russia, but from the opposite side of it. Was interesting to listen to JJ.
Your interest in Vexillography never ceases to amaze me
F China
You mean Flagspertiese?
That Chinese flag was hilarious. It is indeed everywhere in Canada.
You mean Vexillology?
@@the8thgemmer467 no. nobody meant that.
As a Chinese Canadian, that “student immigration” flag is such a hilarious and typical example of “China introduced controversy” 😂
There is another layer to this he didnt adress. Since Hong Kong and Macao are Cantonese speaking residents of those areas who saw a Chinese or Taiwan flag might not assume the workers could speak anything other than mandrin. However since all chinese languages use the same characters the flag design they chose might better convey that all dialects of chinese are spoken
Im no
@@rubenr1337 hes no
@@neileung hes no
Bruh
Wow what a nice flag, I wonder what deep cultural meaning "留學移民" has to the Chinese people?
"student immigration"
should be the Taiwanese people instead of the Chinese people since it is written in traditional chinese, which is the language we use in Taiwan
Two target groups, “students” or “immigrants“. It seems would either be a language school or service provider for new comers
@@RandomVideos-re9ux People in Hong Kong also use traditional Chinese rather than simplified
@@Chris-rd7co well，actually. 留学 means study abroad in Chinese to be precise, so it’s for helping Chinese to study abroad or to immigrate, which often come hand in hand with each other for the Chinese (I’m from mainland btw)
@@RandomVideos-re9ux false many places other then Taiwan mainly use traditional
LOL at "the most delightfully Canadian thing I've ever heard."
Please keep USA informed of are brother from the north
Cool mysteries, and great video! - Sincerely, That guy who solved the mystery of why all the celebrity photos on Wikipedia are so terrible
Great channel my friend! And I like your exotic accent, a topic about which I cannot relate to at all.
JJ McCullough: Vexillology Detective
F china
Would be better than most of the shows on now.
f l a g s p e r t
Primorsky Krai (literally trandlated as: By the sea Land) is usually referred to as The Far East, as it's neighbouring China and North Korea. It might be technically an obscure part of Siberia, but nobody in Russia really thinks of it as Siberia, at least I've never heard anyone refer to it that way. Vladivostok is the largest city there.
The “Chinese immigration flag” actually still has characteristics that could make people in the Chinese community feel segregated from each other as well. The characters on the flag are written in traditional characters which is the type of writing found in Hong Kong and Taiwan, but not communist china. So it’s possible that Chinese people from China make take offense, but I believe they chose traditional characters because of Canada’s interesting relationship with migrants from Hong Kong in particular.
not really, Chinese can read and write traditional Chinese if they reach an education level say middle school, the simplified version just makes the work easier when 10 billion people need to learn writing are mostly illiterate at the time. people in china are not against traditional Chinese at all and most people don't really care small detail like that as long as it's not the roc flag
Wouldn't Chinese people be complaining about this in Hong Kong before they would complain about it in Canada? Also they chose traditional characters because the beginning of Chinatowns in America was before the Republican period, so the Vancouver Chinese community has always been around and used traditional characters. The ATMs are for the local residents as much as it is for tourists
What I find mysterious is that the Canadian flag doesn’t taste or smell like maple syrup
Our money does!
Depends where you get yours from.
You know they're sorry about that.
ayyy, it's a fellow flag-eater!
Yet the Quebec flag tastes like poutine and cigarette butts.
“I was at the Marina, where one often is.”
Where do you think one lives? Monaco?
One always finds himself on the coast, hence one finds himself at the Marina in one’s respective country.
lol
Look at the poor that doesn't live near water and boats! Let us all laugh at him! HaHA!
China has very few regional flags, in the 90s there were some minor attempts by cities and such to establish flags, but that was quickly stamped down on after the Tiananmen Square _incident_
@@RealFaodailyeah exactly! I thought there was a huge incident on that exact day in el Salvador?
1:55
"Who is the man with no eyes?"
"What hath God wrought?"
I just noticed that too
And why is he looking for Those things
“Who is the man with no eyes” is probably a reference to that one Onion video.
J.J. McCullough ARG
2:49
We have a few types of 'provinces' :
-- republic
-- krai (land or territory)
-- oblast' (region)
-- autonomous oblast'
and even more!
Republics have their own constitution, a national anthem and they have the right to establish their own official language.
Wow! Russia is more like an empire than a country!
@@JJMcCullough It wasn`t called the Russian Empire for Nothing! Russian Imperialism is why Canada is larger in area (when including sea area) than China. The Russian acquisition of Chinese territory (including Primorsky Krai) during the Second Opium War is why. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amur_Acquisition
@@T0000000000001 yeah the same thing China did to Uyghur, Mongol, Korea, Vietnam, Nepal, and others. Imperialist against Imperialist.
@@JJMcCullough Russia is a federation 😅 It's called The Republics of Russian Federation.
@@tannhauserr and then they became “anti-imperialist” in 1900
I never expected myself to be interested in flags. I have been gravely corrected
Having seen Top Gun Maverick I was a little surprised to see that his jacket patches were identical to those in the first movie. His jacket still featured the flags of Taiwan and Japan. Apparently from what I was able to find out it was Tom Cruise himself that objected to the change. He refused to allow the new patch simply to appease the Chinese and told the studio that he didn't care if the Chinese banned it or not. Whatever happened he is in fact wearing the original unmodified jacket in the new movie.
I was gonna say, I thought that the modified patch only appeared in the Chinese release (if there ever was one).
I can't find any actual information saying Tom Cruise personally chose that. No news is saying who fundamentally decided on the change
Hello, J.J.! Your subscriber from Primorsky Krai here. It was pretty surreal to see the flag of the region I was born and raised in in one of your videos. Good job cracking that mystery! :)
Dmitry Kuznetsov it’s weird to me how one of you guys wound up in Vancouver!
@@JJMcCullough What can I say? Many people leave Russia in pursuit of a better life and Canada is one of the more popular destinations when it comes to immigration.
just an fyi, that chinese flag specifically translates to something a lot like “immigration for students studying abroad”. I guess “student immigration works” but it’s nice to be specific and i wanted people to know that google translate was accurate with that
though, i don’t see how that exactly is supposed to be very non political, since it’s using tradition chinese, which is not endorsed by the mainland chinese government
i think that flag is probably from Taiwan
@@RandomVideos-re9ux There is no flag, it is plain red with Chinese text
It is not very political to use traditional characters, they're still used in advertising or certain print applications in the mainland. Plus people visit Hong Kong all the time and there isn't discussion about changing the typography of the city
Would you consider covering the upcoming UK general election? It'll be one of the most important in British History and I'd love to hear your take on it
Three Freaks, One Cup I don’t think you do....He’s very mean when it comes to Britain & British politics
@@vancouvertwerp In what way?
vancouvertwerp so are British people
He’s critical of everyone
Should’ve called it “J.J. McCullough’s Fun with Flags”
I want a TV series. Make it so, JJ!
6:25. The fact that the flag uses Traditional Chinese characters 留學移民 instead of Simplified Chinese characters 留学移民 might trigger people from the People's Republic of China.
cuz that “flag” is from taiwan?
@@RandomVideos-re9ux Taiwan, Hong Kong, or anywhere that uses Traditional Chinese characters.
No not at all. What makes you have this thought lol
@@haojunli917 Notice that I said "might trigger" instead of "will trigger".
@@RaymondHng there's really no probability of that
that was very informative and interesting, you should do more of these videos...
Btw, the word Krai in Russian just means "frontier", it's a part of the word "Ukraine" for instance which just means the (western) "frontierland" in Russian. So promorsky Krai would mean the promorsky frontier and would denote one of the far flung reaches of the Russian state. This word was more common during the period of the Russian empire, and was used to describe many parts of the empire in the far east and Central Asia.
“Hello, I’m Dr.Sheldon Cooper and welcome to fun with flags.”
Yeah, I did solve a flag mystery once. I was riding my bike around my town and saw a flag that was red with yellow dot in the middle with eight yellow stripes going around it. It looked like a big yellow sun on a red background. Turns out it is the Macedonian flag. I just never seen it before.
As for Primorsky Krai, Russian administrative division is actually quite interesting and messed up. We have 6 different types of provinces most of which make absolutely no sence. My favorite is a Jewish autonomy with 1% Jewish population and Yiddish as an oficial language.
7:32 that’s a horrific Union Jack 🇬🇧
Just an old one
Primorsky Krai! My great-grandfather is from there. Minor nitpick: Primorsky Krai is not in Siberia, but in the Russian Far East, which is a separate region.
You could do a video on Russian administrative divisions! I'll gladly help.
“THIS WEEK ON; FLAG DETECTIVE!!!”
That’s funny, I always saw you as more of a “Flag-natic”
Gus Hardy I’m pretty flag-grant about it.
Flag-tastic joke
Armando Blanco you went too far.
@@JJMcCullough I guess your interest in this thread was flagging.
I'm crying at your lion doodle at 0:46 😂
You should do a video on creating an alternate flag concept for countries since you have pretty good artistic ability
@Sean Wilkinson did a quick Google, it definitely does need a refresh my guy.
I actually quite enjoyed this video, would LOVE to see more of this in the future!
GoatUnicorn more what!
I have my own story of finding flags. I was born in Lara State, Venezuela. During the early 2000's every state started making their own flag because the name "state" is just decoration and we are not a fuctional federation.
Anyway so we have a very badass looking flag, 2nd best among Venezuelan states but it happens that the flag was imposed by a governor who supports the dictatorship and I stopped liking it.
Doing research I found that we used to have a more obscure flag that no one remembers from the early 1990's that is posted on many pre-2004 websites but there are no photos of the actual flag waving or displayed anywhere. I recreated an HD design of it with Photoshop but I want to know if it was official or just a temporary symbol that people used.
Fellow venezuelan, a guy from Aragua state here :p saludos ^^
Your the only Venezuelan I’ve seen in youtube
@@macuare Because people don't say I'm from somewhere unless it is relevant to what they are saying. A lot of Venezuelans who watch English videos don't live in Venezuela anymore.
Ooo! Is there somewhere online I can see this alternate flag?
Your knowledge of flags is incredible! Great video! Maybe you should do a video on some fictional flags, I think that would be pretty cool!
I would love to see a video on Barkerville! Ive never heard of it before!
“And I must say this story of insecurity and one-up-manship behind our national holiday is the most delightfully Canadian thing I’ve ever heard.” 🤣🤣
Haha this segment was both fascinating AND hilarious!
A brilliant "flag" analysis on so many levels, even though I disagree with many of your posits on other subject matter--thanks for your hard work and research on this particular matter, thanks!
It’s really interesting how big of a difference the specific symbols mean. I originally saw the tiger and when I googled “Red, white, and blue diagonal flag with a tiger” It was the first search result. However when I swapped tigger for lion it didn’t come up at all. People take flag lore more seriously than I thought.
UK flag = English (Traditional)
US flag = English (Simplified)
Max 2000 nice
@RFT Angola has such a hard core flag. Who else puts a machete on their flag
@@Samuel88853 Mozambique
even puts a bayonet attached AK-47 on flag.
AU flag?
As a sailor, and member of the Royal Vancouver Yacht Club I can tell you that there are a lot of different burgees out there. A burgee is like a insignia from your yacht club and every yacht club and sailing club has one. They are often used like a warship would use a naval jack being flown at the front of the boat. Many yacht clubs also collect other clubs burgees and display them, the restaurant at my yacht club has them displayed all over the ceiling. When you travel to different sailing competitions (regattas) you start to recognize other club’s burgees, and It’s really helpful to know where a boat is from. Lastly the way you pronounce burgee (or at least the way I hear people pronounce it) is like bur-jee.
As a Brit I find your videos fascinating; I love to see how a Canadian reacts to certain aspects of our intertwined history, though I am a hardcore monarchist I’m afraid ;)
A lot of Canadians are monarchists too. It just depends where you go. Like here, in Quebec where I live it's, well, not.
Canada: chilly mexico.
Mexico: spicy canada.
Usa: that one kid that dosent know what it whants to be.
Whants
USA: the one who has different personalities for each friend group
That one guy who put his Russian tiger flag out on his balcony finds this video. "Yay! JJ Senpai noticed me!"
I live in Newfoundland, and my French teacher a had a few years ago. She had the Acadian flag on her wall. I thought it was the communist French flag. I spent the rest of the year thinking she was an FLQ supporter
The Acadian flag never made any sense to me since the post-revolution French Republic never owned any part of Canada. Only the old France kingdom did.
@@lajya01 diaspora
Red Ensigns are also used to identify British Civilian ships.
There are also customised Blue Ensigns for yachting clubs.
Also Galveston is pronounced "Gal-ve-stun".
John Rovell yep
Your ability to make flag videos interesting is amazing. This would be truly mundane of anyone else ever attempted it.
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Question one: Is this the Red Insign?
No, but at least there's _beaver_
I’m going to Primorsky Krai soon for New Year. It was nice to see this flag on your channel!
YOure leaving out the northern Irish every time you show that weird Union Jack
7:32 uses the 1707-1801 Union Jack instead of the modern Union Jack.
I think he's trolling us with that flag of Great Britain. That can't be accidental, surely?
I had quite an interesting experience when I saw the flag of the "Jamtland Republic" (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_of_Jamtland) while on a walk in the small town in Sweden where I live.
As I also am a vexilophile, I decided to try and find what it was right then and there, and the closest flag I could find was the flag of Sierra Leone, as I was only looking for national flags (Yes, I entirely missed that the coloured bands are reversed). I thought, "Hm, that's quite an obscure flag to fly, but I guess someone from Sierra Leone lives there". However, when I got home, I told my girlfriend about this. She asked me if the flag had a black seal on it, which it did. As she hails from the region of Sweden right next to Jämtland, and had lived in Jämtland for a while. I had heard of the "sort of a joke, sort of not"-republic of Jamtland before, but it didn't pop into my head until she mentioned it.
Dang he straight up called out American corporations for bowing down to China lol
He didn't single out America, you're doing that thing he criticises Canadians for doing, making everything about America
Hey JJ,
I’ve noticed that in a lot of your flag based videos whenever you display a graphic of the Union Jack you often use the pre-1801 version that doesn’t include St Patrick’s cross to represent Ireland. Just wanted to let you know because as a British Flagspert it can be painfully obvious when the St Patrick’s cross is missing.
Also I love your vids, keep up the good work!
he does that intentionally.
Gabriel Eberle with what intention?
@@ninostrcic6709 he intends to show his support for ulster joining ireland. if i understood him correctly.
@@gabrieleberle4422 26+6=1!!
The history of Canada Day is far funnier than I ever could have guessed
This was so interestingly amazing, please make a part 2 with fan submitted flags or something like that.
Entertaining as always. I love learning these tidbits, wrapped up in real world experiences.
I've only ever had one flag mystery. I was at a Ferry port in Northern France (St Malo to be precise) and, as you would expect they have the French flag, the British flag, the EU flag; but they also had a weird flag, very similar to the Russian province one from this video. Same design, but with a black top, white middle and red bottom (and sadly no tiger)
I knew that it wasn't the flag of Brittany (the region St Malo is in) so I presumed it was the flag of the town (nope) or the neighbouring region of Normandy (again no). I decided to turn to Google and searched every regional flag in France, and when that failed I searched every flag in England I again came up empty handed. I was getting desperate. I then searched for all the islands around the UK when I found it. The flag I had seen was the flag of Sealand, a tiny micro-nation off the coat of Essex. I still don't know what it was doing at a Ferry terminal 300 miles away in France, but I don't care, I found it!
Sealand is a fascinating story in itself. A radar station built by, if I am not mistaken, the RAF at the dawn of the Cold War consisting of a platform atop concrete pilings, rather like the oil wells found in the North Sea. It was abandoned in the early 1960s and most of the equipment removed.
A few years later it was occupied by a pirate radio station, taking advantage of a few legal loopholes like it being an abandoned facility in what was then international waters. The occupiers eventually declared it to be an independent nation which allowed them legal means to stay, even if no other nation formally recognized them. At least I think that's how they worked it.
Hey J.J. love you love the channel. Someone gave my dad a small collection of beer steins that they got from a garage sale and we had a grand old time deciphering them using Google lense and Google translate. Oddly enough a certain Budweiser stein was one of the toughest to figure out thank you and keep up the good work
4:16 That’s GAL-ves-ton, not GAV-el-ston.
*cringed in Texan*
Well done, very informative and enjoyable video. Thank you J.J. Keep up the amazing work !
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The Russian subdivisions include Krais, Republics, Oblasts (Ob-lists), Okrugs and federal cities fyi
Thanks JJ. I believe the provincial flag of British Columbia features the Crown and Union flag of Britain, with blue and white ocean waves underneath. Very nice design.
Hi JJ, it's pronounced 'Bur-jee'. They're usually a small flag that goes on top of the mast to indicate wind direction. Other triangle flags might be called a pennant.
You should do more flag videos they are extremely interesting
The one guy who can make me interested in flag trivia.
A mundane topic, made fascinating! Keep up the good work!
"What hath God wrought" LOL
Fun fact: There exists a patriot flag for quebec independance that is a reverse Hungarian flag (green white and red) That flag is acctually the one that represents Quebec in Eu4
Or more like, loos like the pre-1979 flag of Iran.
I, for one, welcome our new Chicom overlords.
Raven lord Stop copy pasting lame comment
Maybe you can make this video into a series!!!
0:19 The correct term is vexillologist
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You made my day with naming Primorye's (shorter name for the krai) a symbol of a religion.
You should also look up the flag of Sakhalin oblast. It is litteraly the most creative thing in flag universe (*sarcasm sign*)
Yikes
7:25 Should i be worried the Hong Kong Flag's flower has weird proportions and the Chinese Flag 3 small stars?
Great idea for a video.
JJ’s search Bar!
That would be fascinating.
“Who is the man with no eyes”
“What hath God Wrought?”
You just got roasted bro. Jreg
You're funniest and most entertaining video in a bit. Love learning and laughing. The mischieviousness, excellence!!
Can you explain the Wexit movement?
@William Winter Canada would crumble aswell. You guys think food, electricity and gasoline is expensive now lol, if wexit happend it would skyrocket. The Canadian dollar would crash. And I dont think alberta/sask wants to be the martyr of Canada. Albertans and the entire west just wants parliament to stop killing our export economy (oil, logging, grain, beef, water, steel) and give us a fair deal in the electoral system. B.C needs to get off the devils lettuce and stop making us give our black gold and everything else to the yankees. Seattle is better at selling our oil than Vancouver is. At a mark up price nonetheless!
I loved this video. Especially the last one with British Columbia. As a US citizen, we are CRAZY about the flag, and we love to make up new flags and then argue about whether they are "the real" flag. I read a lot about heraldry when I was younger, so flags are a natural next step. Have a great 2020.
7:30 Hey JJ, why do you use the Union Jack that doesn't include the St. Patrick saltire (diagonal red lines) in your videos? There may not be a reason, but it's pretty consistent across your videos, and I'm just curious.
Also some US flags have an uneven 26 stars
@@leinstermapping American flagspert here and in my research any configuration of the "stars and stripes" is considered valid and acceptable for display and saluting. Most people won't question the number of stars on your flag if they even notice.
I like the style of videos. Keep it up!
I remember being a little kid seeking a Sikh temple, and the orange pennant fluttering on top with the awesome crossed swords symbol. I looked it up to figure out what it stood for, and I fell down a neverending rabbit hole of flags and geography. My brain is 95% useless flag information, and I love it.
That quick flash of the Native American was genius.
Fun fact: Someone who studies flags is called a vexillologist.
Snurg Burgler you and I have wildly different definitions of fun.
@@JJMcCullough be that as it may, you have fun nerding out about flags so you're hardly one to judge.
The Top Gun flag change is disgusting
You could say that it was due to appeasing China. But it fits the backstory of Top Gun perfectly. The original patch was dated in the "Far East Cruise" in the 60's meaning it is Maverick's dad's patch or even his jacket. The USS Galveston CLG-3 was indeed a USS Navy missile cruiser that served the fleet from 1945-1975. The new patch is dated "Indian Ocean Cruise 85-86" which is the timeline of the original movie.
@@eutoob Yes, I saw the video too. But they obviously did it so they could release in China. Which is why it looks so similar to the previous one, not out of some plot reason.
9:21 lol very subtle
Barkerville deep dive, please!
I love the Dominion Day flag, the beaver is really cute, and the maple leaves are artistic rather than just representational.
Once an American asked me if I lived in a Igloo when I was in a Walmart 😂
I doubt that has even happened once.
It did lol
Awesome Jman I don’t believe you
Me and my family were in a Walmart and a lady who worked there asked me if I was from Canada because of my accent, I said yes and she said that she has never been to Canada and wanted to know if it was true that we lived in some sort of Igloo or cold waste land. I laughed really hard and told her that it was only a stereotype and not actually true. She was a weird lady and we walked out of the Walmart laughing.
I didn’t mean to write “Everytime” I only meant one time
Though I am not Canadian I have a flag of your province in my home! We took a school trip to Victoria in my last year of formal education. I took a tour of the capitol building and fell in love with the B.C. flag. I think it might be one of the prettiest flags in the entire world (though admittedly there may be some provincial flags from outside of North America that I am not aware of).
JJ McCullough, is on the case to solve obscure flags of the world.
Interesting and great vid nonetheless
Interesting. I especially like the information about the origin of Dominion/Canada Day. Thank you.
This happened back when I was in middle school. I was walking to my bus stop when I saw the French flag, but this French flag had a cross in the middle. At the time, I was super confident in my ability to identify most flags of the world, so I made it my duty to figure out where this flag came from. Several days later I came across it again, but this time on Instagram. I tried to think of the many governments that France had gone through and it came to me that during World War Two, the Germans had created a puppet state called Vichy France. So I looked up “Vichy France flag” and what to do you know - it was the Vichy France flag. This is the story of my first flag mystery.
if it was a cross in the middle it would have been the flag of Free France as oppose to Vichy France, the vichy one has an axe and stars on it
British lad you’re right, that’s what I meant to say. Thanks anyways!
A couple of years ago I saw a flag that was white, green and light blue at a Habs game and had no idea what it was for. Later I discovered it was the flag of Labrador. Turns out Labrador and Newfoundland have their own flags
7:22 and 7:41 You gave China’s flag 4 Stars.
It should be 5 Stars.
Only if he wants to give them their dignity. The error is assuredly deliberate.
@@gormauslander Yeah, The Rape of Nanjing never happened!
This is a cool video idea. Thanks!
“Fun with flags”