Everybody welcome back to flag /ban Friday. I hope you like the Nicaragua episode
So as you know
there's the part where I talk about the small mistakes we made in the video or we talk about the things that didn't quite make
It into the video for one we accidentally said that lag credit area is about the ascension of the Virgin Mary
It's actually about the Immaculate Conception. And another thing we didn't really talk too much about the protests and the controversy going on with Nicaragua
Basically in the quickest condensed manner that I can put it in
2018 president Ortega initiated a pension and Social Security cut omits budget deficits. This angered a lot of people
In the following months there were a ton of protests
A lot of them were students crackdowns were ordered by the government people demanded removal of the president
Protesters were killed and this escalated to the crisis that we see today
It's funny because President Ortega was kind of seen as like a former hero that fought against the Somoza dynasty
That was like a dictatorship that took over for 40 years
So a lot of people kind of see this as like the same thing happening over again speaking of Ortega
He was jailed for bank robbery and then made president less than a decade after his release
He also made his wife vice president and she installed all these metal trees all over
Managua and a lot of angry people haven't been known to cut them down in protest which brings me to my next point in the
Video we did mention how it's safe to visit Nicaragua
And as of 2019 it's still
Kind of is like they still love visitors and tourists but it's just the current political atmosphere is not something you want to get involved
in like it's all internal and foreigners are not the focus like yes protests are still going on and people are leaving and mass and
Accusations against the government are a topic of daily focus
But the country is by no means closed off and isolated from the rest of the world. So it's really up to you
I mean if you want to just sip your margarita on the beach and just put on some headphones as you hear some arguing in
The background up to you and speaking of Managua
It's funny because for the longest time the capital used to switch off between Leon and Grenada
Oh and on a lighter note, Nicaragua specifically Lake Nicaragua is one of the only few places that has freshwater sharks
They actually migrate up the San Juan River like salmon and also 86 of the 88 constellations found in the night
Sky can be seen in Nicaragua. Supposedly. I've been told and yeah, that's pretty much it
So I guess that means we got to get to the flag. So without further ado you
All right, so as you know in every country episode
I always wear at least one color that can be found on the flag of the country and this episode a lot of you guys
Noticed I wore a purple beanie
I literally ran from my house to the nearest clothing shop to quickly buy this before we filmed the episode
But anyway, why purple though, I don't see any purple on the flag
Oh wait
if you look really
Close the flag is a horizontal tricolour of two blue bands on the top and bottom with white in the middle
The flag is essentially a copy of the former flag of the federal provinces of Central America except
they just changed the words on the national coat of arms to
Nicaragua pretty easy task
according to many officials the blue stands for the bicoastal nature of the country being situated between the Caribbean Sea and the Pacific
Ocean as well as loyalty and the white stands for peace in the center lies the coat of arms which we will explain soon before
We do though. It's important to note that Nicaragua had a lot of other previous flags
I mean there under the Spanish Empire the first
Mexican Empire for like two years
then the whole
Federation thing where most of the Central American countries were one country at one time then they kept switching off between these blue ones
And these random yellow and beige band flags
And then one of them looked like Costa Rica
Then there was all that
Confusion when William Walker came in and he tried to take over the country and use this flag
And then the Mosquito Coast was still colonized by the British. It's confusing
But yeah, there's a lot of stuff going on in the end. They just got tired and they're just like forget it
We'll just copy the old one, but just paste Nicaragua on it done
But anyway with that being done and said now we move on to the coat of arms the coat of arms has the words
Repubblica de Nicaragua America Central around it no translation needed
I'm sure you can figure that one out in the center is a triangle signifying equality and within the triangle lies five volcanoes
between two bodies of water
symbolizing the Brotherhood of the Central American countries since they were once unified under the federal provinces of Central America in the center lies the
Phrygian cap a symbol used in many emblems to signify
liberty and freedom and
finally shielding the upper part of the triangle lies the rainbow which signifies peace and if you look really close at the rainbow you'll notice
That it contains all six hues including violet or purple
This makes Nicaragua. One of the only two full sovereign countries with purple on its flag other than Dominica. Remember El Salvador?
Nope, their rainbow stops at blue. I mean, hey if you want to change your coat of arms anytime soon
Let us know until then the purple Club only has two members now
of course throughout their history the coat of arms has kind of changed up a little bit here and there like they had you know
Many flags or weaponry or a wreath around it but more or less
It's always kind of stayed the same and that is just about it
So I guess that means there's only one thing left to do geography mail time
And actually this time we visit Keith at his place and I did not have a microphone
So the audio is gonna be a little crappy, but sorry
Whoo. All right guys. So today we are joined with Keith
All right, so we got
This much stuff and we will start you know, how we always start we start off with postcards
All right, so I just grabbed one Jade pin. All right. Hey Paul, even though I'm not Paul. I'm Keith, but
Sending you greetings from Mount Fuji while you are on your European trip. I am so pissed. I am NOT in Europe right now yours
Truly Caleb. Well, we try to do as many meetups this weekend so you can make the next one
Already we have
Valencia from Ian. Hey Barb's just went to the Las Fallas Festival in Valencia Spain. It's a really amazing event
Check it out now. So when you made me buy a pie bards, my name is Victor and come from the city of
In northern Serbia Oh Serbia right on the border with Hungary and
We have this from Marco who visited
Turkmenistan, I'm a German student from Berlin traveling through Turkmenistan by tourists by a tourist visa greetings from ash kebab
All right, here we go greetings from New York City PS. I'm going to visit LA as well in
next
Days, I'm going to visit LA as well in
Next days it
from LA to
Prove that you're from Slovenia, but you visit in New York. Okay. Hey guys. My name is Daniel. I'm from Rio de Janeiro
I'm visiting Brasilia the Brazilian capital in a world heritage by UNESCO
It's a haven for architecture lovers regards for you all
Daniel Thank You Daniel from Brazil and uh from Macomb, Michigan. My name is Nana
I've been subscribed since I think around the Honduras episode one thing I learned about Norway. Is that their?
rusev faring all the party for the
Graduation have you guys seen the Norwegian Roose parties if I'm remembering correctly?
what they do is they they ran out they get buses like Volkswagen buses or whatever and then
They deck them out and they like people spend thousands and thousands of dollars on them and they just get drunk every day
Yeah, by the way on junk now, we do not endorse underage drinking if your creation - muttering this is from Cornell leo
from
Kids on City Philippines good morning to all of you in this envelope. You will have a map of the Philippines and and the provinces
of the Philippines cool
He drew all of the island chains of the Philippines and wrote little notes on each part. Well, that's cool
I love it when you guys have like a sense of pride in where you come from
And then you want to share as much as you can. Yes. Thank you Filipinos for Jollibee Oh Mike. Yes
We got one in LA. I think - - we got you
Nathan's from Wisconsin home of good very good cheese
And they make a soup out of beer and cheese and it's very good and they make really good cheese
You had that the beer cheese soup. Yeah, of course. Ah, I've never had it. I'm gonna try it
Hello Barbie, even though I'm not Barbie and Keith. I
Live in Wisconsin and I'm hurt during this letter
I also sent me flag of Wisconsin. Basically this dudes from Wisconsin you rule. Yay
He also sent us this sick map of Madison, Wisconsin
I always say everybody in America needs at least one friend from Wisconsin
All right. We got something from Malaysia
Malaysia
I'm glad to see that your channel is doing great and many people around the globe are learning about another as you noticed I used
A set of stamps which features all the 14 states of my country. Oh, that's what this is
their
Respective coat of arms is also displayed nine of the stamps feature rural figure heads that rotate every five years that was in our video
Yeah, man. It was really fun doing the Malaysia episode and I
briefly was in
The south side of Malaysia. What was a
Johor bahru in the south of malaysia right across from Singapore. I would love to go back someday
So, thank you so much Farhad from Malaysia
We got this package from the NIC who is from Georgia the state in the USA
He says a lot watching your YouTube videos
Middle, Georgia. Hope you like it
Nice Warner Robins, Georgia size large a little too big for me. But how long can you fit it? Let's see
Warner Robins, Georgia
Well, mr. Nick man, thank you so much
Appreciate the shirt last package, man, all you all right, so we got this here package from Milwaukee inspection department
Skywest airlines Milwaukee five five five air cargo away. I think that's the inspection office boy. Thank you be in from Tennessee
I guess sir Barney. I recently visited the Cape Verde Islands
I picked you guys up some brandy distilled with ginger
It was made at a family-run place on the island of San Diego, but near the nation's capital
Proprietor pray pray pray hi. All right
Thank you so much Ian for saying this. You got us brandy from Jay Baer guys
What's gonna for a third time we had Jagran?
I do not endorse underage drinking if you are underage. Please do not drink
But we are of age so we can drink I just want to say thank you to everyone that watches Channel
You guys are awesome, by the way
Keeps a little sick right now. So yeah, so like the points are well, man
All right guys, so we're supposed to do return address contest, but I forgot to bring the bag with me. So in that case
I'm just gonna go home II do it
Alright return address contest
I put your return addresses in this bag and our whoever wins gets a jog Rafi now notepad and button. All right
So here I go just gonna pick one out
Let's see
Jonas from Poland you just won so thank everybody for watching this episode
I hope you liked it in the meantime stay tuned stay cool. You've just been flagged