Hey everybody you remember Nick. Hey guys! Yeah, he's gonna help me open fan mail at the end of this episode
So cool. Uh, Nick, I don't need you now though. Head out, go. All right, everybody, welcome back to the Flag/Fan Friday
Hope you liked the Mauritius episode. As you guys know, this is the part where
I kind of fix the mistakes that were in the episode or I talk about stuff that I didn't talk about
First of all, yes, there were some spelling mistakes and like grammar mistakes French is hard.
Also uh, this is not Grand Baie wrong image. Also
I used the wrong image of the wrong Dutch Prince that the country's named after
Also I said Mauritius is kind of like the Singapore of Africa, technically, maybe Seychelles actually takes that title
It's smaller and even richer we'll talk about that in another episode
Also, I want to talk more about the Chagos people
It is kind of like a source of controversy for both Mauritius and the UK
Basically, the people of the Chagos islands were slaves that were brought in during the colonial years over time
They kind of developed their own culture on the islands, but then after Mauritius gained independence
part of the deal was that the UK would take over the chocolate islands instead of Mauritius and in doing so the people of the
Chagos Islands were then
Deported to Mauritius to this theory and the Chagos people kind of want their islands back and there's a lot of dispute going on yada
yada
It's a long story and finally Mauritius is one of the only 4 countries in the world that does not have any domestic or international
Conflict the other ones being Botswana Chile and Uruguay and yeah, that's just about it
I think there's a few other things that could have been mentioned but
uh we don't have time
If you know of anything write in the comments in the meantime, we gotta get to the flag. So without further ado
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Ah, Mauritius. If you want to go raise your hand. So cool how they make so many different people groups, isn't it?
Anyway, to the flag. Adopted shortly after independence in 1968
The flag of Mauritius has four equally sized
horizontal stripes of red blue yellow and green. Each color has a meaning: the green stands for the agriculture of the country as well as
the fact that the island stays green all twelve months of the year the yellow stands for the new light of
Independence the blue stands for the Indian Ocean that the country is located in and the red stands for
According to the government website the struggle for freedom and independence
It technically does not stand for the blood of the country
It's kind of help for dispute but I got with what the website of the government says
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Anyway keep in mind under the British they have three different colonial flags under the French
They used the Royal Standard flag and under the Dutch
They use the Dutch East India Company flag and also keep in mind you might find this variant flag of Mauritius that has the coat
Of arms on it and speaking of the coat of arms
The coat of arms has a bit more complexity to it
The image contains a shield split into four parts on the top are a limb fat or an old-style sail ship representing the European settlers
Next to some palm trees referring to the vegetation on the bottom a key
Symbolizing the strategic importance of the island next to it a white triangle and star
Representing the island being the star of the Indian Ocean on the sides of the shield are two sugar canes
Supported by the now extinct dodo bird on the left side and a sambar deer on the right side
Which are the two national animals at the bottom lies the model Stella Clavis?
Maurice in DC meaning the star and key of the Indian Ocean in Latin and yeah
They've pretty much kept this coat of arms since independence. So that makes my job a lot easier
So that means you know what time it is you're a fan now time
Alright, let's do this know we start off with postcards
So we go on here for Matthew from Michigan Pablo visited the UN building. Awesome Thank You Pablo
All right. We got Matthew he lives in San Diego and he visited
Traverse the Traverse City. Thank you for that Matthew
I think your name is LOB's and we've been we've been trying to wear that one out. Yes, sim. You guys your names?
I'm sorry, it's from Belgium. Thank you so much, man. We've got a max Oh delightful Island. Thank you
We got another Matthew but this Matthew is from Minnesota land of lakes my birthday
Ah, okay, so he's from Mauritania and he lives in Boston visited, New Hampshire. Mr. Jake Jake interesting
That doesn't sound like a Mauritania name says he's from Mauritania though. Okay, Jake from Mauritania Daniel from West Virginia. Ah
He visited Greece. Yeah. Kefalonia. What bolonia nice
Hello, John Jill a fleet Lucas from Belgium. Thank you. And he says he'll send some chocolates
I'm holding you accountable to that. I believe Belgian chocolate. Oh the best. Yeah. That's what I want us see
the Philippines
SM Mall of Asia putt Pasay City
Philippines nice sweet. Okay. This guy sent all these postcards. He's on a European trip. I'm so sorry
I cannot read your name you write it in the same on every postcard
I know it starts with an A and turn and - no, I don't know really cool. You visited all these places Spain
Gibraltar visited Gibraltar. He's been everywhere. You've been everywhere man. I just can't read your name. I'm sorry
Well, thank you. Thank you, but letter
Malta thank you, Alexei and Alexandra from Russia from Vincent. Ah, here we go
Yeah, spend the summer traveling in Israel James. This is Horseshoe Curve in
Pennsylvania I am package of sign packages time Somnath. You're calm William cool little pin badge
have you ever been to Dartmouth I have
It's like it's like asking me if I've ever been to South Dakota
Anything you want to say out to your fellow countrymen by the way, Jim and I it's nice and warm here
we got a cool letter from
Unga he is from Indonesia, but he's from West Papua. That's really cool
So that's kind of like the area that's very similar to
Papua New Guinea has people the Melanesian people and
He says he likes he likes how we did the episode and talked about the West Papua region
A lot of Indonesian people probably don't even know some of the facts that I mentioned in the Indonesian
Episode and they sent some very very cool currency. Yeah, that's Indonesian. Rupiah's my wages for today. Yeah
Yeah, that's your payment. Thank you for being in this episode
All right. So we've got this from Drude an American living in Japan and he visited East tomorrow. Thank yous and
Macadamia what you wanna try one? Yeah centavo coins
So East Timor uses the American dollar as their currency, but they also have their own coins. Hmm, so it's kind of mixed up
Oh you try. Is it green tea? Good. Hmm. If only kenka try these Oh, where's the worst Ken's post card?
Yo, Ken. Oh, you got a postcard Oh
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Use your postcard got a postcard. Oh, wow, Oh postcard from from the Philippines. That's really nifty
You miss you've s from the Philippines. Thank you so much. And uh, let's see what we got here
I uh, we got this package, but actually it's for Keith. Uh, Ken
Deliver this to Keith go you got it
Hey Keith, I got you a package. Whoa
somebody for Ben from Pennsylvania Oh
Somebody sent me a shirt one of their band shirts almost honest. There's another honest honest
Poster that they sent me he kind of got a little wrinkled in the mail. Do your keys in the geography now team?
I really enjoyed the content. You have been putting out. Please enjoy. My band's t-shirt and CD
We are a groovy sexy Viking funk doom rock band from the land of the Amish, Pennsylvania
You can call us dad Rock for short. We hope you dig it and we would love to hear from you
Well, thank you, PA. Dad Rock for Pennsylvania dead Rock suite. Thank you guys. All right
Well, I got to go back to the dungeon. So
And we got one last package this is from cadet Noah Oh military
First of all, Noah as I always do for all the military personnel. Thank you for your service salute
This guy, I'm guessing you went to West Point. Oh, it's like a little statue West Point. He sends all these badges
Wow, look at that that's challenger coin. I've gotten like some other military personnel
They gave me challenger coins for those. You know, West Point is like probably the most prestigious military academy in the u.s
West Point Barnes my dude. My name is Noah
I'm originally from just outside of Boston and I came to New York for school a few years ago
I'm a cadet at the United States Military Academy at West Point. Yeah, just gives a lot of information on West Point
That's really cool, man. Look it says go army beat Navy
If you're in the Navy right now and you're watching this, I'm pretty sure that kind of infuriated
Be an Air Force man
You guys just I play bagpipes in our pipes and drums band and our kilts are made of this material
Yeah, each Scottish clan actually has their own pattern for the kilts
And I guess that the one that you have for yours are you Scottish? I don't know if you're Scottish
I think me are you I really do appreciate this man. It's really cool. And once again man salute, that's that's just about it
Thank you guys off. But before we go, you know what time it is return address contest
so, uh
nick is gonna pick out a name from this bag and
Whoever wins wins this scratch-off map sponsored to us from jogger people federico
He salt them on his website and go here. If you don't win you can buy one. So yeah
Just one two one this is gonna be
Jeff from Australia nice Jeff you're just once. Alright, but yeah, thank you guys so much
I love putting your home countries in places on display Nick any last words before we go
Um, thank you for having me and thank you for all this stuff
I'm totally amazed by as I said anyone that can get their hands on these things
Totally for free to send them any time like sure also, uh, you did great on the Mauritius episode people. Love you
They love your accent
Cool in that case. Uh, hope you guys have a good one. You just been flagged stay cool. Stay tuned