Hey everybody welcome back to flag/fan Friday, hope you like the Luxembourg episode
this is the part where I usually fix up a few things that we got a little wrong in the episode or I
Talk about things that we didn't get to talk about the biggest one a lot of you caught on yes in the motion graphic it
Accidentally said that Strasbourgh was in Germany when it's in France. I should know because I've actually been there
I also kind of forgot to talk about how it's really kind of hard to even distinguish what a native
Luxembourger even is if that even exists historically they've mixed a lot between peoples of the region and even today there's Luxembourg
Citizens that identify with ethnicities that are not from Luxembourg like there is Bulgarian
Luxembourgish citizens and so on but generally speaking
It's probably someone with a Germanic maybe a little bit Latin based background and another thing
I didn't really talk too much about is why there are so many Portuguese people in Luxembourg there really isn't too much of a backstory
Behind it. It's mostly just they moved in to do the work. That's all simple. I guess Portugal was just the top contender anyway
Yes, that's enough on that let's move on to the flag so without further ado
Love this thing that was sent to me last week from that guy from Albuquerque. I might be hitting you up, man
I mean, I don't know do you guys would you guys like these if so?
I'll hit the guy up and maybe he can print them out
And we can start selling them to you guys geography now desk ornaments
But anyway time to talk about the flag the flag is a horizontal tricolour of red white and light blue
Very similar to the flag of the Netherlands, but the flag is a little longer and the blue is just lighter the colors
don't really have designating meanings rather are most likely derived from the national ensign which depicts a crowned red line in front of a
Striped blue and white backdrop. Yeah, sorry guys no symbolic interpretation this week, however
There is some interesting backstories behind this flag for a while
They were kind of thinking about
Reverting back to the original flag with the lion on it to kind of make the distinction between them and the Netherlands and in
2006 they voted
But they voted to kind of like keep both though now both flags are kind of seen as equally symbolic of the nation's identity
However on the international stage the tricolor is used more often to make things even more confusing the luxembourg
Province of belgium literally uses their flag I bet Luxembourg was like dude really anyway
I prior to that they're under the Spanish the Austrian low country the French the Dutch World War two Nazi Germany
And then finally they went back to this flag anyway that brings us on to the coat of arms now
You really don't have to know too much about all the small details basically
It's the same image of the red line with the crown
We just talked about on a shield with a huge crown on it supported by two other bigger lines with crowns
Shrouded by a huge elaborate fringed mantle cloth that also has a huge crown on it specifically the grand ducal crown
keep in mind
this is actually the Royal coat of arms the regular state coat of arms just takes away the mantle now we could go into the
Whole historical imagery thing from the Middle Ages up to the 20th century
But that's gonna take too long and it's kind of boring honestly
It's basically you find the same red lion with the crown on it in every variant and iteration of their coat of arms throughout history
So you get the point, and yeah, that's about it for now you know what time it is it's time for
So yeah, we got quite a few things and
Few boxes so yeah, let's jump into it all right. You know the deal we always start off with postcards
Tomas sends this really cool one from France has that like cool jules verne steampunk type of aesthetic to it. Oh how appropriate
Ida Just sent this from Luxembourg, and it's what we literally just have talked about a few seconds ago max from Australia sent this
Thank you. Jesus from
Valencia Jonathan from Colorado Sonja visited Lava Beds National Monument in California
Hah Brandon sent this from a limber whisk nah. He's from Ireland
I can tell 'cause you know the post stamp that is weird by the way why does your Irish stamp have a picture of Martin Luther King?
Thank You Cindy and Aidan from Jacksonville, Florida finally Thank You Simon who sent this from Swaziland
Which just changed their name to a swathi knee however
I'm waiting to see if the UN changes the country code, and if they do then
We'll see what happens all right letters and packages see we got a Leehee from Malaysia, dude
He sent like literally every denomination
of every Malaysian banknote and every Malaysian coin every flag of every region of Malaysia
There's no letter but um yeah appreciate it my next up Antonios from Michigan. I'm guessing you're Greek
Hey Barbs,I'm Antonios writing from Michigan. I'm half Greek
I included a Greek flag and a rainbow colored quartz rock I found in Greece
Antonios I swear you're gonna send this to me. It better have magical powers
Next up we got I think your name is Darko from Serbia. Hey Barbs have been a fan of the show for a long time
I'm making my way to becoming Orthodox Christian
So I'm sending you an icon of the Virgin Mary and Jesus and one of Saint Archangel Michael
They have prayers written on them in serbian cyrillic. I'm also sending you some money from
1993 back when it was Yugoslavia, dude check this out former
Yugoslavia Dinars Wow I've never even seen these before Gabriel from switzerland guessing you're from Fribourg so apparently
Switzerland only had one kind of technical colony in Brazil known as Nova Fribourg
I'll look into it. Got Cooper from Thailand. Thank you for sending all this Thais stuff in these Thai coins
Oh, we got another Malaysian. Lot of Southeast Asians today, Ahmad. Thank you for the little mini flag and the
Legoland Malaysia pamphlet Peter from Serbia Belgrad Malaysians and Serbians, I think you guys are dominating today
Thank you for these wonderful postcards of course the Serbian flag nice little magnet of Belgrade
I hope you'll visit Serbia and see it from another angle not just the one from the 90s war Serbia has great history and beautiful
Culture it also has very good food and drinks and women
(laughs)
That's the thing you know I know Serbia is one of those countries that kind of gets a lot of flack from the other former
Yugoslav states, but you know there's also another side to this story
And I really hope that I can kind of cover all sides of the perspective when I do this Serbia episode
So thank you Peter when I spoke too soon because now we have something from Republic of Macedonia
FYROM whatever you want to call it and of course the currency
Oh boy, Lake Ohrid Galicia mountain and Prespa Lake
[Let's] see, Will from North Carolina sent a UN flag. Hey Barbs I'm Will from Durham, North Carolina
visit historic sites of Mars Heidi from
Illinois Spanish three years. I'm a 19 year old student living in, Illinois
I'm sending you my old Spanish work book from high school because I have no use for it
I figured you would I don't know I mean, it's a big book. You didn't even do any work in this book
There's nothing written in it. Did you even use this book? Maybe you're just dumping this on me because you're like
Yeah, well you know this was a lost cause is this the Illini yeah the Hat. Oh, it's a really warm hat too
I got a package from the UK hahaha
Marmite my name is James
I'm from England
And I hate Marmite took a lot of willpower for me to buy a tub with my pocket money and put it in my basket
At Tesco well James lucky for you. I love Marmite
I've got a box from Rhode Island the Rhode Island flag lemonade packets
Postcards there's Rocky Point and Providence a coffee mug that says where in the world is Rhode Island
Hey, Barbs, my name is Cole. I hope you can come to Rhode Island sometime
It's more interesting than you think also can you let Ken out of his cage on Fridays for 10 minutes, please?
No promises. Okay. This is really cool. We got something from somebody who is from Chad
Aha, he says La Pia Barb's I guess I tell you say hi in your area
My name is Ninby, and I am from the Republic of Chad my family is part of the gum by ethnicity from southern
Chad the in gum by language is widely spoken in Chad and neighboring countries
I heard in one of your flag Friday episodes that you would like to receive something from someone from Chad and would like to visit
The two besties mountains yes, I would those rocks look crazy you are more than welcome to visit my cradle of civilization
Ah, oh my gosh. You're tempting me to use the Central African franc banknote as their currency
They're pictures of him and his friends and family in his home area the Chad Ian flag of course you know
Romanians could say like oh it could be Romanian, but you know the blue is a little darker, so it's Chad, dude
Thank you so much numb by I am so tempted to go to Chad and you just bumped up those points by like a million
All right, Anna we got another box from Serbia okay, Serbia wins this episode is like a third thing from Serbia
Hey Barb's and the rest of the team my name is Sava I come from Serbia
I'm writing this letter after I've watched the Liberia episode since this a bottle opener magnet oh
oh
You know that I'm a liquor guy by the way guys. I know kids watch the show kids
We do not condone underage drinking here at geography now. If you are a child do not drink
I am of age though, so haha gorky list is a bitter leaf Serbian Jagermeister Vin. Yak is a cognac
sleeve of
Pizza which is made of plum oh, I'm gonna enjoy these and our last, but not least we got this big box from
Bartow May from Paul, I'm guessing. This is what's inside?
Okay, it's a globe but it only shows Poland
That's a very nationalistic thing for you to send man. Hey Barb's i'm bartek. I live in Poland in the Silesia region
I've sent you three postcards a pin and a globe of Poland yes. I
Don't even know what to say, but I'm at a loss for words. You know it's time to drink whoa Vin yak
Whoa all right guys that was fun and everything but before we go you know what time it is it's time for return address
Contest I put all of your return addresses in this bag, and I pick one out and whoever wins I send a little gift
Too and that gift is a scratch-off map we are collaborating with geography
Frederico keys sell T's independently off of his website. It's right here, or you can go to the description
You don't win one you can actually just buy one if you want, but if you win
You will get this for free all right, so I'm just gonna take one. I'm gonna pick one out. I'm not gonna look
I'm not gonna look
Lina from
Finland you just won. All right guys well. This was interesting
I love putting your hometowns in your home countries on display got a lot of weird interesting stuff this week
But in the mean time. Thank you for watching. You've just been flagged stay cool stay tuned