Everybody welcome back to flag fan Friday
Hope you liked the Kuwait episode alright
So you know the deal every time before we start I gotta fix up the mistakes that I made in the country episode number one
The demographics graph was a complete mess the percentage was completely off. I went overboard to a hundred and ten percent
I meant to say thirty seven percent not forty seven percent for the expats and also I accidentally said India twice
I meant to say India and Indonesia, but it might defense come on they both start with IND so it's like indeed
And also I think this is not the correct picture of sana a jittery he's a famous Kuwaiti astrophysicist anyway
I think those are the biggest mistakes
I think there's a few more, but yeah, whatever and those are the biggest ones alright now. We can go on without further ado
Kuwait was such a fun episode to film because you know it's like one of those countries
That's a little obscure
You don't know too much about it, but they have been in the headlines in the news a few times
But so you kind of need to brush up or otherwise they kind of remain a little obscure
It's those quiet kids in the class you got to keep your eyes on all right flag time the flag of Kuwait
There's a horizontal tricolour of green white and red with a black
trapezoid on the left or moist side this makes Kuwait the only fully recognized sovereign country with a flag that incorporates a
Trapezoid on it the colors of course utilize the pan-arab colors or red white and green and black
however many might also say that they are inspired off a poem written in 13th century by this guy the green for the fields of
the Arabs and the land the black standing for the battles they faced in the defeat of the enemy the white for the purity of
their deeds and the red stands for
Specifically though the red stands for the blood on the swords, but it was it's blood
It's still it's still blood once again. You guys know who made that animation it was Ken
Thank you can follow him on Instagram, Ken. I appreciate you so much. I will not fire you this week
You survived another round
now keep my Kuwait was under a few other flags before this one as mentioned in the Kuwait episode they were a
protectorate of the UK for a while and more under this wag and prior to that they're under a bunch of crescent and star
Flags with a red field, but yeah, that's about it for their flags now
We move on to the coat of arms
Which is not a coat of arms is an emblem the emblem of Kuwait contains a golden Falcon the national bird
Expanding its wings in a circular fashion around a disc image of the sea with a traditional boom sailing ship with the words
emblem of Kuwait written above it yeah
the emblem has the word emblem written on it as well as a vertically draped Kuwaiti flag in a shield shape below the Falcon the
Falcon represents Quraysh the tribe that the Prophet Mohammed belonged to whereas the boat
symbolizes the historical maritime tradition of the country long before in its beginning stages prior to this they also had two other emblems from the
Protectorate years they incorporated the old flag of Kuwait and they also had like a hawk one of them even had a crown
Oh, yeah, after independence this one was created, and it stands today alright. That's about it. That means you know what time it is
Geography Meal Time, okay guys the last time we did this was for the South Korea episode
It was a while ago and since then the mail has been piling up dramatically
Let me show you yeah, this is uh yeah, this is all of it
It's a lot, so I'm gonna try to put as much as I can on camera right now. However. I'm not gonna
Have a lot of time to elaborate on each piece
You're only gonna get a few seconds of screen time
But I'm gonna try to get as much as I can okay all right like usual we're gonna start with postcards
Rhys who is Scottish but visited Iceland and sent this Joel who's from Minnesota sent the Cathedral of st
Paul in Minnesota, I grew up close to this by the way Timon from Germany visited, New York
So weird like you guys are from different countries from the postcards that you send
Kanishka sends this from Sri. Lanka. I was pretty cool, Georgia and Allister send this from China
But it's like a Cathedral in China. I think your name is Theo you send this from Bonn Germany
Thomas sends us from the National Gallery's of Scotland Pedro is from I believe Brazil, but he's visiting Norway
And he sent this cool postcard of Viking laws Levi sends this cool wildlife of Arizona postcard Zika sends this from
Slovenia and this is really cool Bradley who is from Baltimore, Maryland
He actually visited Antarctica, and he even had the Antarctica McMurdo Station
Stamp, that is so cool. I've never gotten anything from Antarctica alright now
we're gonna do letters start off with letters from my own fellow countrymen Mia from Kansas sends this really cool picture of various flags and
She sent a postcard of a Shoshone a woman on a native tribe here in the US
I really want to do like a video highlighting like the native tribes of the
USA cuz I feel like they really need to be highlighted more yeah, thanks for the inspiration uh Mary from Chicago
She has done a lot of traveling and sent bank notes of the various places she's visited Ava from Louisiana
Thank you for your card and talking about your Cajun culture and Spencer from Humboldt County, California
Thank you for your letter and your book recommendation, and I was called Eric from Massachusetts
Thank you for sending this patch of the flag of Zhai air yeah, now this used to be a country back
I was I was alive when this was a country and Timothy from Florida
Thank you for your awesome flag drawings. All right now. We go international Santiago. Who is Colombian visa Snax
Yeah, those me a peso banknotes these amazing postcards. He also visited, Panama City
No, we have a very small community of Colombians here in Los Angeles, and it's so crazy like every time. I meet Colombians
I'm just like how are you that attractive? It's like almost illegal
I feel like I should call the cops on you
You can't be that attractive anyway moving on you'll steam from Romania
beautiful Romanian postcards and a book of all the UNESCO heritage Romanian sites
I've met very few Europeans that love their countries as much as like Romanians
There are some but man Romanians you love Romania Henry who is a Kiwi
But he lives in Singapore sends all these little trinkets and banknotes and coins from his various travels cool little Ireland and Italy
erasers and I traveled to Cambodia
All these cool postcards speaking of Oceania Thomas from Australia created his own country called Terra Aquila nests
He made his own flag and everything that's cool Mateus from Czechia
But he was visiting his neighbours in Slovakia and sent these cool postcards Francisco who is Peruvian
very proud of his Peruvian heritage
But interestingly enough he also sent a bunch of North Korea stuff as well Ava from
Czechia who lives in Czechia sent me a bunch of Czechia souvenirs including this magnet in all these postcards cool
Thanks Rafael. Who is Spanish but lives in Germany. He wrote a letter and basically at the end
He says he wants me to use the pun can I do something Spain full to you?
Yeah, I will probably use that your I'll punch myself with you
See we got Mahdi who is Pakistani and sent a pakistani flag
I don't think you wrote your name, but you sent this from the Netherlands
And it has like a Krampus in the middle Happy Holidays. Yeah, that's how late we're doing these videos
Well uh Timothy from the Philippines. He's at these cool Filipino stamps of course a little Philippines flag
We got another Filipino Dave from the Philippines off is so cool
He sends one of the old
Filipino scripts for those who don't know prior to the Latin script the Philippines actually had a few indigenous scripts that they used to write
In they're almost extinct, but few people still use them, and this is one of them
That's so cool a lot of info on the Philippines an amazing picture of the Philippines that he drew this really cool
Gift I think that's how you pronounce your name from Belgium
He had a bunch of really cool antique coins from Belgium, and he did like these pencils shaving tracings of the coins
Yeah, that's really cool belch old Belgian shaving copy coins alright package time, Fernando from Hong Kong of course
He has to send Hong Kong flags, but he also sent a Macau flag. I don't think I'd Macau yet. That's so cool
I love this I
saw a picture of these before it's hilarious :
That's like cold old egg tart flavored snacks
I know this sounds kind of funny, but these are these are these are real thing, and then yeah, yeah
Eric from Slovakia, oh boy tons of
Stuff I'm guessing these are all
Slovakian like chocolates and snacks peanuts corn puffs you guys know
I'm very strict with my diet, so I probably won't eat most of these maybe I'll keep them to my friends
Of course a Slovak flag he also sends these Slovak postcards and keychain and cool souvenirs
Borov each cos Slovak alcohol you guys know that I love liquor. I'm not a beer guy
I don't to be but I like liquor. She doesn't blow you up and it hits you harder faster
By the way guys here chug for now we do not condone underage drinking if you are a child
Do not drink and even if you are of age use your best discretion don't go crazy
Okay, nobody likes a drunky monkey, but yeah, I do love my occasional. You know okay, I'm sorry
I got a I'm sorry. I gotta try a little bit right now
Wow
Herbs in it or something weird Eric. I lose it
You didn't even write a letter you just sent a ton of stuff well, Erica either way. I appreciate it
See we got Jonathan who is israeli-american
He sends a ton of Israeli chocolates and snacks he sent the Hebrew alphabet they drew this
Barbies balkans, I guess this little guy is me we got Jeff. Ah who is from, Texas
Where's the Texas flag postcard of the family and some places?
They've been to believe you guys are Indian Americans living in Texas, and you are Christian, too
And there's actually a book that J Bob wrote. It's actually a very beautiful book
It's it's about how one of her daughters passed away, and how she's in heaven
I really appreciate this
And I thank you it's a beautiful book you did an amazing job with this book jabba all right got two boxes from Australia
Stephanie Merry Christmas
Ah, that's how late we are with these things. She's a Chinese Indonesian living in Perth she says if I go to Australia
I should go to check out Perth, dude
I think Perth really is like one of the most underrated
Cities in Australia cuz these cool postcards and the Black Swan which is like. I guess a very iconic animal. Oh sure
Hahaha, I'm actually a big deal in Slovenia
I'm like why does she send me a flag of Slovenia is you you were listening to what I said in my other tree oh?
My god. This is this is genius
I think I think um it's a little too big for me so what I think I'm gonna do is
I'm gonna cut off the sleeves and make into a workout t-shirt. This is such a cool gift neil from victoria. He sends this uh
2018 calendar know various pieces of artwork from australians and Tim Tams
You know we actually do sell these here in the US
but I don't think we have the double coat version so I think we only have the original and like maybe one on one and
Finally our last box is from Denmark. My name is Martin. I'm from Denmark
I've been watching channel since the bees I remember been mean he visited the 2017 World's Fair in Astana Kazakhstan
And he brought a bunch of stuff back from it. Oh, that's cool. Like a Jordan Chile
He sent a bunch of a Danish birthday stuff with a bunch of Danish flags even Danish wrapping paper and a Danish
Chocolates dude, this is like the famous chocolate. I've ever seen in my life alright guys
That was the last one but before we go you know what time it is it's time for return address contest
I put all your return addresses in this bag, and I pick one out and whoever wins I send a little gift to
Emma from Illinois you just won actually no you're the Emma that made I
Think I remember you you're the one that made my pillowcase the foot Emma you won
And thank you for making this so glad you won because you're you're cool Emma. Okay guys this was amazing
I love putting your countries and hometowns in home countries on display. It's I mean this is so fun. But uh yeah
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