Everybody, welcome back to flag fan Friday. Hope you like the Nauru episode...
So, as you know, this is the part that I kinda talk about the things that didn't quite make it into the video.
For one, I said that Nauru was the only country without an official capital...
Technically, that's half true half kind of not true.
Switzerland does have a de facto capital Bern. Although it's not completely official but its de facto status
So it's kind of some people say it is but it's more of like a half capital - ish thing going on
But if you really want to be technical kind of yes is the Nauru only country but maybe Switzerland as well
It depends on how you look at it. Second of all, I forgot to talk about religion
The majority of people on Nauru are Christian about two-thirds of which are Protestant the largest denomination being the Nauru
Congressional Church, and you have Catholics Assemblies of God and about 10% still practice the original indigenous Nauruan religion.
[Barby hilariously slaughters the word a few times]
Forgot to talk about the traditional weaving pattern, I think Kokosfasern
I also forgot to mention that, out of the 12 tribes, only 10 still exist today two of them actually died out. And finally
The controversial topic of the detention centers. I forgot to mention that yes, there were a lot of protests,
it's a source of lots of controversy in both
Australia and Nauru and the world. A lot of people thought that the conditions there were not deemed as
acceptable as they could have been. People in the detention centres have also been known to protest as well; and it's just kind of like
A very tricky situation to deal with there's probably a few other things that I could have talked about
But if you want to say it just put it in the comments.
Otherwise, we got to move on time to go to the flag. So without further ado....
[Geography Now Flag/Fan Friday theme plays]
Nauru? Nauru. Crazy how it's just like the least visited country in the world...
Let me know if you've been to Nauru. I mean, yeah, not many people been there.
[stutters] You-you're one of the rare lucky few. But anyway, let's go on to the flag. Adopted shortly after independence,
The flag is essentially a map depicting the location of the actual island the blue, of course, representing the Pacific Ocean,
whereas the yellow line symbolises the Equator. The star
, of course, stands for the country of Nauru being situated just below the equator
The star is white to represent phosphate, the primary resource that they are known for, and the twelve points on the star
symbolise the twelve historic tribes of Nauru. Now, of course, prior to this flag, they had quite a few others. Throughout history before independence
They were under this weird like trusteeship between Australia and the UK both countries kind of had like authority over them
I guess...? Prior to that, for one year, there under Japan, then there were a British mandate and, prior to that,
it was the German Empire
Yeah...
Germany took a stab at this place. And prior to that there were pretty much no other national flags and they do have a coat
Of arms the image depicts a traditional shield with a woven background (divided into three parts) and the top upper part is an alchemical
symbol of phosphorus;and on the bottom left, a Frigate bird perched over an ocean with waves
Alluding to the tradition of trained frigate bird fishing in the bottom
Right, you have a branch of Calophyllum flowers native to the island.
the shield is surrounded by ceremonial tribal chief gear containing ropes, feathers, shark teeth and
palms. On the top, lies the 12- tribe star, just like on the flag, above it a banner reading "Naoero"
, the Micronesian name for Nauru, and at the bottom ,in English , reading "God's will first"
Yeah, that frigate bird training thing is really interesting. It's kinda like those fishers in South China
that use the (what are those birds?), like, the cormorants. Two people groups across the world ,thousands of miles away, they have the same idea...
what a world we live in!
So yeah, that's the only coat of arms they had, so we don't really have to talk about anything else in the meantime
You know what time it is... Geogra-Fanmail Time! Ah! [plays instrument]
Still love this thing...
Alright guys, so we're about to start, before we do, we need a guest star which means today's guest is gonna be... you know him,
Kenneth-o-Tron.
[Ken]Oh what's up! Kenneth-o-Tron.
[ Barby] Yeah. Alright so grab anything Ken, just start opening.
[Ken] Okay, cool...
[Barby] This is from Jaron from the Philippines... 'kay.
[Ken] (in Filipino/Tagalog) Mabuhay!
[Barby] Mabuhay...
[Barby] Oh shoot! What the...this thing is broken.
[Ken]Oh,it had the Geography Now logo on it.
[Barby] Oh, dude! I'm sorry... you made something with the Geography Now logo, but it's broke.
{reads} A mini Katipunero flag. Um...
{Ken}Wait, what? No....
No, [stutter]I don- I don't is that all are we allowed to show that
[Barby] This is not what you think it is,
this is the Kat.... ( laughs)
This is the Katipunero flag.
[Ken] Wait, it's from the Philippines?
[Barby] From the Phillipines.
[Ken] You know...I wouldn't wave that around here, I mean... look, on the bright side, Keith, Caleb and Ken, like, you know..
[ in unison] There you go!
From the Republic of what, Czech?
[Barby] China -oh China, oh Republic of China
[Ken] So Taiwan, so Taiwan... Republic of China...
[Barby] Not People's Republic, but Republic.
PRC is China two things - yes, Stefan and model Magdalena, Magna Lena
It says coffee on the oh, it's the same thing we got last time. Oh, yeah
Yeah, can't go wrong with good old coffee Taiwanese coffee
Yeah, like you open it into a bag and then you pour the hot water into it
And then also this thing is a cup. It's like a disposable mini cup to put in your cup. My name is Eddy
I'm from Manchester. UK and geography now is my favorite youtube channel
Bless you my love ding dong. Wow, that sneeze echoed. My mom sneezes. She likes scream sneezes. That's amazing
My mom says a lot of words right after it like ah bless you think you America. I love you
Anyway about Eddie Oh see this is a list of various American English words that the British equivalents useful for visiting the UK
Yeah for those you guys don't know you can the USA's both weak English
But we got some different words truck is lorry garbage rubbish sweater jumper stuff like that. So rubber, huh?
Oh, it's a racer
Yo Cara from tong, oh, it's a Tongan. Oh my god, I'm god. No, I've never gotten something from a Tongan absence awesome
Well, my name is yukata, which means God will increase I'm originally from Colombia. Hello
Love I call of I Tonga. Okay. So my mother's Tongan Hawaiian and my dad is German nice
Also PS don't fire can also say hi to Noah for me. Thank you so much you Kara no guarantees on everything in that letter
Please help us with the Tonga episode which will be in life. Why 20 point no idea. Oh
My god, I was trying to see 2020 is if it's far away from now
That's literally next year. Like I was trying to make let's try to make it sound like it's years
Oh, hey don't scare me like that. So
This is from Ava from the Netherlands. This is hilarious guys. Look at this, like little orange King puff balls
So Miffy was made in the Netherlands for those you don't know
I live in the Netherlands but spent the first year of my life in the suit - oh
Africa nice, I live in the city called Utrecht. Hey Vincent lives in Utrecht
Oh, no our buddy Vincent's awesome, and he will be in the Netherlands episode in a weird way. You'll see
Yeah, we got a postcard from Nicholas and he's in China right now. The People's Republic of China. Nice. Nice
So a place in Harbin which is the coldest place in China, they make these really like nifty looking sculptures out of ice
yep, we got a postcard from Steve who's right now living in Spain who recently visit Morocco, but he is Canadian so
Cool, this is from Fonz
I
Think your name is actually Fonz
Okay
Who visited the azureus the Azores Islands?
Your postcard did get ripped up a little bit because it's made out of cork and I noticed a lot of Portuguese people
Send quark postcards. Ah, you guys produce a lot of it. So so uh, Ken you got some stuff
This is from the Roman family from Rome, New York
Thank You Roman family, let's see what's inside here by the way Rome family. This was sent a while ago
But we just hadn't had time to fill. Oh
My god, oh, that's hilarious
The crochet of it like I got a dungeon here there's me I got a Philippine flag
can I am writing you on behalf of my family a family who collected hearts Barbie broke last year when he
neglected our letter in the package
We sent him you guys have a vendetta against me
Huh as a result of this heartbreak we decided to give you a few things too as we understand what it's like to be under
Appreciated. Oh so they can relate to me. That's so nice
Wait, did they make the other cross-stitch thing? Probably cuz I still have that. Hold on. Let me throw them in family
I still have you guys weren't the ones that made this. Were you I'm pretty sure that looks something similar to that
Yeah, this was a nice Roman one of my videos. Yeah, it has not been neglect. I did not neglect that
I still have this and I put it in one of my videos and I even put it on social media
Come on, cuz I'm just gonna keep it right right there. Okay, you know what?
Well Roman family. I'm gonna put this here too to remind you that I did not forget you we got something from Indiana
Oh, wow, you got the coins of Israel. We got Mission Impossible rogue nation the one Mission Impossible movie
I have not yet seen we have art works like venom got the world travelers, New Zealand
Which I'm guessing is because all very strangely put to get like yeah, I'm stopping
Yeah movie stuff coins and then like filming locations like see middle-earth from Lord of the Rings in New Zealand
This is his resume. I just realized what it is. Oh and it shows literally his programs in his scale set. Cool. Yeah
Thanks for your reservation
my job
So we got a package from Josie from New York. That's a lot of oh
Oh, so you're the pig. That was the year. I was born. You're off the peg to the crew of grg now
I am a huge fan of your channel. I've watched all your videos of the countries
I have packed some Chinese New Year's items designs include the year the pig all symbolise. Good luck. Good fortune and long life
These are all of the 12 zodiac symbols of the Chinese
My sister is more in the air the dragon I'm so jealous pure Pig I'm a pig
I don't know if you are speak Cantonese or Mandarin, but Shinyoung. Kala call me fat choy. What'd you call me?
Which is it? Finally we got this sent in from, Colorado
Oh nice, okay. Oh
I see a photographer. All right Wow. I don't know he looks I mean
Photography skills right here see hey Barb's and crew. I've been watching from the Croatia episode the shows
They helped inspire me to get out in travel more. I'm now a traveling bartender and photographer
I've included a couple of prints of my photos for you and
He has an Instagram where you can see some of his photos. All right, so that's just about it
But you know what time it is
Return to the address to the contest. Oops. I literally just threw the pen for the book
So as you know
I put all your return addresses in this bag and Ken's gonna pick one out whoever whoever wins gets a jog Rafi now notepad and
Button, don't win. You can also get them off of the website at geography now calm. Okay, so
Zoltan from
Siberia Serbia
Siberia from Serbia you have one? Yeah
Yeah, Serbia my gosh, that's just about it. Thank you for sending in all this stuff. Really appreciate it
You've just been flagged stay cool. Stay tuned before we go Ken any last words? Ah
Thanks for sending this up. Please send more. I love it. I don't know. Oh and Roman family. I did not forget
You know, I will never forget you and I will keep this in my dungeon