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My ex from Norway mentioned how unusual it was that so many places and people here fly our flag (USA), so I was curious to hear what it's like for others here on the fediverse.

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[-] balthasar1stern@feddit.de 5 points 1 year ago

I am from Germany and no one is raising a flag. Except he is a Nazi. Or it is soccer World Championship.

[-] Zednix@lemmy.ca -1 points 1 year ago

That's kind of sad. It's getting that way in Canada. Trudeau has called people every ism and ist when they are carrying a Canadian flag that people don't fly it very much.

[-] hugz@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Australia: Very unusual. I'll see someone doing it maybe once a month and always think "fucking weirdos". It's more common to see Aboriginal flags, but still uncommon

It's more common to see bogans using it as part or their beach or BBQ attire (eg, maybe an Australian flag stubby cooler)

[-] animist@lemmy.one 2 points 1 year ago

My country is a former colony of an imperial power so it's flown all the time to reinforce our feeling of sovereignty

[-] TXinTXe@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

I'm from Spain, it's not uncommon unfortunately, but that's because the flag is appropriated by the right and far right and if you see someone with one you can be 90% sure of the type (homophobe, anti abortion, bullfighting supporter, climate change denier, etc etc)

[-] KrimsonBun@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Also from Spain, I don't think the right hasreally appropriated the flag since it's always been a rightist flag. But yeah I know what you mean.

[-] Sinnz@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago

Could say the same about Germany

[-] Mat66@eslemmy.es 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The problem that the origin of our flag is dated in 1785 but because we were under the Dictatorship of Franco for 40 years, young people identifies the flag with that regimen (extreme right). But not everydody things that way 😏 🙄

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[-] minorsecond@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago

It has become that way in the US.

[-] esm@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 year ago

In Scotland, it tends to indicate your political beliefs. People flying the Union Jack are normally unionists and supporters of the monarchy, whereas people flying the Saltire (Scottish) flag are normally nationalists (pro-independence). It's therefore difficult to fly a flag 'neutrally' unless you were to fly both.

[-] IverCoder@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Here in the Philippines, it's generally around only on government buildings and schools. Some establishments and residences may opt to fly the flag as well, but most of us just don't bother at all.

Generally the flag doesn't have any negative (or positive) connotations. Both the leftists and rightists see the flag equally.

[-] kaffiene@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I'm a New Zealander. I don't see anyone flying a NZ flag in Dunedin, where I live. I may have seen one or two in private residences in my life. Flying flags is weird. Nationalism sucks.

[-] DrCatface@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

kia ora bro nationalism teaches u to hate people youve never met

[-] Jimi_Hotsauce@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

When I went to Norway I counted the flags I saw. I forget the exact number but I saw maybe 6 in the week I was there. Come back to the US I saw at least 20 coming back from the airport.

[-] eezeebee@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'm in Canada and would say it's not extremely common, but enough so that I wouldn't think twice if I saw the flag on a house. Maybe one in fifty houses has one.

Sometimes it's on clothing too, but nowhere close to the extent that I've seen the American flag on everything when I've visited. You guys seem to really really like your flag!

We also have provincial flags which people will put on their houses, but the one I see most is for Newfoundland and Labrador, which is a different province than mine. It's arguably close to as common as the Canadian flag.

[-] ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

Yup. I'd say the Canadian flag isn't super common but isn't out of the ordinary. I also don't see people waving the flag and think the person must be some extremist nut job. Those ones are waving around "F*ck Trudeau" flags.

[-] TheGayTramp@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

You must not be from out west. People here have flags on their cars (trucks actually mostly) and those people are Convoy idiots exclusively. And there are a lot of them. I don't go a day without seeing at least one

[-] Zednix@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

I see confederate loser flags on trucks and shitty vehicles a fair bit in Alberta. Lots of fuck Trudeau flags, because western alienation is stronger than ever.

[-] aaitvedan@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

It was uncommon in The Netherlands. Except on certain holidays. And when kids get a high school diploma: a flag plus school bag.

But since last year, angry farmers ‘decorated’ the country with flags hung upside down to protest against environmental measures. All kinds of angry right wing people followed.

[-] TheBananaKing@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

Australian here. Outside of official government uses, it's generally a sign that someone is a racist fuckwit.

[-] dsht@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago

Interesting, I though those groups tended to prefer the eureka stockade flag. Has it shifted more to the Australian flag now?

[-] TheBananaKing@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Eureka stockade is for your wild-eyed shovel-waving racists, the national flag is for the smug boomer ones.

[-] KrimsonBun@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

In Spain it's extremely common to hang the flag on your balcony, especially since the pandemic. It's also quite common to see younger people wearing bracelets of the spanish flag. I'm not really a fan of it but most people don't do it for political reasons, it's just nornalized, so I can't really blame them.

[-] jarfil@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Not in the Basque Country, and not in Catalonia, or Valencia, or...

Depending on the province, showing up with the Spanish flag can get you at least a keyed car, and at most a trip to the ER.

[-] marshell@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago

German here. No, we don't do that here. (Exceptions: Football World Cup and weird dudes on camp sites or allotment gardens. Usually a sign to avoid the area.) Interestingly, the fascists don't show the German flag, but the one from the Germany before the current one...

[-] WhipperSnapper@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Was in Germany in April. On one outing, we passed an area of private garden spaces (which is an interesting concept, but makes sense in context) and the tour guide mentioned how the German flags we saw flying around in some places were a pretty recent addition; they only really started being accepted again after the World Cup showing.

I thought it was a nice sign that Germans are happy being proud of their country. It made me happy to see; you've got a lot to be proud of and it's a wonderful place to visit.

As an American, it's interesting to see the distain from other parts of the world. I understand the distain for nationalism, but I do think there's some nuance there between nationalism and taking pride in your home. Of course, the caveat there is here in the US, flying the flag has been coopted by conservatives in a big way, which is unfortunate. I have seen a counter sentiment to it, though, basically saying "it's not your flag, it's our flag, and we can all claim it".

[-] Pantherina@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago

Whats the matter with camping sites? Saw that too

[-] marshell@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago

I ... have no idea. Really.

[-] reflex_aliens@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago

Very common in Mexico during September. Otherwise not that common but also not frowned upon. There's no signficance behind it.

[-] NuclearDolphin@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Why September?

[-] LostCause@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago

Austria: not often and I like that. Not a fan of nationalism, so the less visible this is in my life the better. I see flags IRL mainly on government functions and when right wingers parade around, maybe also near football matches, that‘s about it.

I‘d like to think the history with Nazis made it less popular, but the actual amount of far-right voters makes me think I might just live in a happy little bubble and I’d be shocked if I looked into people‘s cellars.

[-] resurge@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago

Pretty funny that coming from a Norwegian because they still have the flag out many places in my opinion :)
It's actually one of the things that stuck out the most after I had moved there.
Especially at "hytter" (vacation cabins) I think the majority has a flag out.
Same for national day, you'll see a bunch of flags.

Compare that to Belgium, where I'm from. Even on national day it's a rare sight to see a flag.
And it's only very fanatic people that will actually wave it around on the street.

The moment you'll see most flags out is probably during the world cup.

[-] Urist@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Not really. Vacation cabins are for vacation with Norwegians not acting like Norwegians, i.e. socializing with neighbors and having the flag up indicating their precense. More often than not, the flag is used as a celebration of either a national holiday or the birthday of someone in the household. Cabin, hiking and boat culture are weird albeit common outliers of Norwegian culture.

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