FLAGS

ABOUT FLAGS:

It's a sense of belonging or resentment and can mean beauty, love,

unity, acceptance, inclusion, freedom, pride, hater, anger, genocide,
barbarism.
Flags can terrorize and divide us. But they can also unite us.
They can be one of the most powerful and sometimes dangerous
tools in the world.
FLAGS WERE CRITICAL IN BATTLE.
The flag is one of the strongest ideological markers in
our cultural repertoire.
Flags were just tools. Early societies used them to
signal across distances that a ruler was coming or an
invider.
Ships used them to send a message back and forth.

CURIOSITY:

The first flags were made of animal hair or metal. But

around 6.000 years ago, China invented Skil.
Skil was used to make the must prestigious flags on the
world.


THE SOUTH AFRICAN FLAG

The South Africam flag was four flags in one
This flag represented the country's colonizers, is a
symbol of own oppression.

The African National Cogress (ANC) was fighting

for that change, but the goverment banned the
ANC's flag.

Ethiopia is the first to adopt a national flag, and

this flag represented African liberation
When African countries broke free from
colonialism, they created their own flags, and
many them looks to Ethiopia’s flag.

It was a symbol of unity, it gave the opportunity

to they identify with their country.
 NAZI FLAG - HITLER
FEAR, HATE, ANGER, GENOCIDE, BARBARISM AND DIVISION.

Adolf Hitler recognized after the First world war that a

symbol could be used to get a group to coalesce around a
vision of a better future.
In his autobiography Mein Kampf, Hitler wrote that
“A striking emblem may be the first cause of awakening
interest in movement.”
While flags create an “us” they can also create a “then”.
 AMERICAN FLAG
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Feeling of pride, dream is pursuit of the American dream.
The cult of the American flag arose in the 19th century to encourage a culture of patriotis.
It was the first country to have a pledge to the flag, a flag day (June,14) and a flag week.
The Vietnam War marked a change. As an anti-war movement grew, the flag came to
represent two visions of America.
Desecration of the flag was considered a crime.
A culture of patriotism can be a shield of protection
against a very real enemy.
September 11 - people bought a flag.
The New York cover from november of that year
depicted a multitude of flags, as a kind of shield for
minorities in a contry that questioned their patriotism.

Obama chose not to wear a flag pin.

it didn’t go over well, after the backlash Obama started
wearing a flag pin.

Trump - a president who had no issue embracing the

flag.
Trump rallied milions around a vision of America that
was under attack.
In January 2021 rioters stormed the US Capital, and
flags were averywhere.
 THE THIN BLUE LINE FLAG
Its started with de red line of British soldiers, going out to
fight the enemy.
By the 1920's police forces in America had adapted this to
the color of their uniforms. The significance is supposed
protect people.
In 2013 The Black Lives movement began, had many
incidents, one after the other.
In 2014 officers Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu were killed.
That is the motivation of why the police created Blue Lives
Matter NYC.
A new symbol emerged, the thin blue line combined
with an American flag.
In 2017 far-right extremist were planning a rally. That
August, when they took to the street, white supremacist
used a blue line flag.
 PRIDE FLAGS
50 flags are recognized among the LGBTQ+
community, each used to symbolize different
gender identities and sexual orientations.
The use of a rainbow flag as a symbol of gay pride was created in 1978 by Gilbert Baker
started in San Francisco, California but eventually became commonplace at LGBT rights
events around the world.

WHAT DOES THE COLOURS OF THE LGBT FLAG MEAN?

 THE BRAZIL'S FLAG

In 2018 the far right started using the

.
flag of brazil to move away from the left
Flags creates a “we”, but it also creates
a “they”.
When the far right exhibit the Brazil’s
flag, it is to say that they are against
another side of the population.
The idea of an enemy within the
country was created.
At the moment our country is facing an
identity crisis around our flag.


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