hey everybody welcome back to flag slash
fan friday hope you liked the mexico
episode this is the part where i usually
talk about things that didn't quite make
it into the video or where i fixed up
some mistakes first of all i misspelled
kalo for frida kahlo and the f for fox
should have been capitalized but
otherwise in the history section i
forgot to mention two important things
mexico actually had two empires not just
one the first one was led by this guy
and it only lasted like two years and
they were like nope we don't want this
and there was also the mexican-american
war and that's kind of how texas became
its own country that's a whole other
story originally we talked a lot more
about corn in the video but i just had
to cut it out like popcorn was invented
in mexico they found it in
archaeological sites we didn't even talk
about tamales i wanted to talk more
about how they put chile on like sweet
things raspatitos are so good i forgot
to mention how the largest indigenous
languages are nawata which is an aztec
language and yucatec maya obviously
mayan after a court ruling in 1957
mexico has a strange rule where you can
kind of technically pay your taxes in
artwork if it's good the committee has
to approve of it there's a city in
mexico where they speak venetian italian
tequila is made from the agave plant and
it was invented in the town of tequila
and subsequently tabasco was invented in
the town of tabasco i didn't even
mention about the meteor of yucatan
there was a whole part i had to cut out
where caesar did accents of all of the
regions of mexico
but it kind of went on for too long and
i realized like most of my subscribers
don't speak spanish so they might not be
able to relate to that and there's a lot
of mexican american celebrities but i
didn't quite mention a lot of them in
the famous people section because
there's already so many mexican mexican
celebrities and famous people if i
mentioned all of them it would just go
on and on and on so anyway that's a lot
uh let's just move on to the flag
without further ado
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dude doing the mexico episode made me
really want to go back to mexico i was
this close to going to that cool like
hidden beach inside the whole of islas
marieta there was like a storm the day i
was supposed to go there oh it'll happen
someday hopefully anyway the flag the
flag of mexico is a tri-color banner
with three vertical bands of green white
and red in the center of the flag lies
the coat of arms or the emblem of mexico
we'll save this part for later article 3
of the flag law in mexico's constitution
does not give an official symbolic
meaning for either of the colors however
it's generally accepted that the green
stands for hope the white stands for
union or purity and the red stands
for
those who fight for the freedom
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once again thank you ken for making that
animation and appreciation ken i will
give you the opportunity to buy part of
the new stock of geography now notepads
and buttons from geographynow.com um but
don't i work for you though can i get it
for free
i'm gonna pretend i didn't just hear you
say that anyway keep in mind over time
their flag has changed obviously when
they were under the spanish they were
under the spanish viceroy and spanish
new spain flags originally their first
flags after independence looked like
this they had like diagonal bands with
stars it wasn't until 1821 that the
eagle was added and then various
variations came about throughout the
years during maximilian's empire they
used this it didn't last very long and
finally the one we have today now the
emblem the emblem is based off of the
aztec legend for tenochtitlan which is
now mexico city which was also the
center of the aztec empire as the legend
goes the aztecs were looking for a place
to build their city and supposedly they
heard from the gods to look for a place
where they would find an eagle sitting
on a cactus while devouring a serpent
they finally found one but unfortunately
it was on top of a lake so they were
like fine we're just gonna build our
city on the lake over time the image
also kind of came to symbolize the
concept of good triumphing over evil but
yeah it was all kind of based off of the
legend of tenochtitlan all right so
that's just about it uh you know what
time it is geogra fan mail time ken
help me open some packages uh yeah
totally where'd you get that button from
whoa
let's begin as you guys know we always
start off with postcards paul and anka
visited greece tesla nikki we got a
postcard from ian from nashville
tennessee jake visited iceland kangaroo
surfing oh yeah i'm guessing this is
australia thank you leah lindsay who is
canadian visited mitzenberg beach cape
town south africa that's pretty cool
hope you surfed with some kangaroos even
though they're not african
andrew is mountain helen's had a mount
or no yeah it erupted in the 80s oh adi
this is from hiroshima japan this is a
postcard from nicaragua from derek chris
and may visited svalbard and they said
uh they look forward to the growth of
the channel and see more on screen time
for ken
oh great well you know we can't always
listen to all the subscribers but yeah
we got a postcard from quebec jonathan
uh we went to montreal like oh yeah
last year oh yeah that was fun the
geography yeah this is really cool
martin visited a micro nation in france
the principality of seaborga i can't
even regari oh just these post offices i
always put stickers on but there's
always one
there you go there's the name oh there
you go wow uh michael wait mick miguel
mckellen what w is that a w a uh uh sent
a card postcard from mauritius we just
did that episode yeah that was just
recent nick was in it and everything
yeah nice all right this is really cool
this is from a 68 year old geograpeep
from new york but he bought this
postcard from istanbul turkey in 1972.
wow it's like a blast from the past
that's pretty cool oh we got a 3d
looking holograph postcard from connor
at punta cana uh ken you got some stuff
didn't you yeah um i got a postcard from
pavel from the czech republic and it is
it is written out to my name so
therefore it is my car thank you so much
ravel pavel pavel
chico who is a filipino who visited
thailand oh another card from me another
one for you yeah wow ken's owning it
today's rock we got a postcard from
lindsay from florida she says i really
enjoy watching on geography now your
animations that you make are good use of
the dungeon
that's a true fan right there that is a
true fan boris from kotor montenegro i
love that name kotor oh we got a
postcard from lebanon uh my greets all
your teams especially ken oh what the oh
you oh well it's what i mean she wrote
it to me but
she wrote especially ken at the end of
especially well it's york it's i'm
taking it it's your card uh david from
new jersey visited yay da spain um wait
this is from ethan and ryan lindsey
where is that i'm trying to figure out i
mean i know it's in china there's
tibetan writing on it so maybe they
visited the tibet region of china a room
from denmark visited east timor you know
that was the first time i was ever on
camera on your show that's right yeah
yeah i remember i had you jump up and
those two girls had to hug you wow you
didn't have any lines but yeah still
count we got a postcard from jack
cleveland ohio got two fellow americans
here sean who is from new york breaking
bad mike from new mexico oh also this is
my favorite show of all time all right
well apparently uh ken got three more
things yeah macau uh republic of china
yeah gordon gordon thank you so much for
the postcard i really like it matthew oh
this is iceland awesome
letters iman from the united arab
emirates that's cool cool coast guard of
faiyum the first from egypt these are
like the kingpins the og's of the
emirates jack from ireland and irish
flag obviously thank you uh you said you
would be amazed if i read this on camera
well here you go
that's interesting both ken and i have
irish roots yeah we got a letter from
australia look at that little adorable
owls g'day ken and barbie oh he said my
name first
i'm peter from wollongong my name is
francisco i'm from portugal this is very
uniquely from porto portugal they always
send postcards made out of cork what's
the purpose of court like so is your
mail out they have a huge cork industry
out in
so now packages belgium gotta love their
chocolate all right so we got letters we
got snacks
oh ken loves this is this yes cookie
butter thank you so much i'm taking this
to my dungeon you have just fed ken for
a week yes oh and the flag of brittany
wow cool drew me persian cookies my name
is daphne i'm currently working as a
trainee at the european parliament i'm
based in brussels belgium and you have
heritage from iran so that explains the
cookies daphne really appreciate it ken
your take on the cookies how are they
they're so good they're so sweet and
walnutty oh it has filling yeah that's
what it is well there's definitely
walnuts because there's pictures of
walnuts yeah but that's how i figured it
i just looked at the photo jason you
cheated
just like with everything in your life
i think you faked all the mail that you
got those are all really my letters you
mailed yourself i just wrote it with
like my other hand you stuffed it in my
mailbox
that's why ken's getting so much mail
all right this is really cool we got
something for the first time from
grenada hey barb's my name is amal amana
i've been watching since the guyan
episode and even though i'm from grenada
i'm sending you locally grown cocoa bay
leaves and cinnamon so you can make hot
chocolate yeah the cinnamon stick smells
like cinnamon real cinnamon of course
because it is cinnamon oh my god can i
swear
this is from daniel uh from does it say
georgia oh georgia home improvement one
two three by home depot oh my god this
is both a housewarming and extra patreon
contribution oh you're one of my patreon
patrons
daniel thank you so much oh so you're
from uh georgia where the first home
depot opened little fun geography fact
which is why he sent the home depot home
improvement book from canada from
patrick whoa
this is all snacks oh canadians are just
oh god oh my god ketchup flavored lace
okay canada has they have the stuff we
have but they put their own little weird
canadian twists on it canada loves
ketchup flavored ladies for some reason
i don't know why dear barbs i live in
waterloo ontario canada i use the
information i learned in geography now
to impress my then girlfriend who is now
my wife whoa
we got you married it's him and his wife
and then she was confused as to why
diego's shirt was inside out in the
columbia episode yeah because uh we
can't show logos and he had a logo
that's why eventually however the
ireland episode with potter won her over
maple syrup by the way guys it's a fact
all canadians have a secret stash of
maple syrup hidden on them at all times
for maple syrup emergencies yes that's a
fact awesome congratulations on the
marriage yes i think we got a package
from ohio so this is hudson bay oh he
made this really cool drawing of the
whole
team my god first on the front it shows
the whole team and i'm like wait where's
me oh i'm at the back
dude he added fire he added fire to the
cage wow how did you know that marianne
from slovakia oh look at that look at
that that's the door it's made of like
corn husk i'm sending you a valaska and
cornhusk doll oh i guess this is the
velasco and that's the cornhouse doll oh
that is so cool so he drew this
you're the one bleeding
ken's the one bleeding
um ken if you want to take any of these
slovakian snacks by all means all you oh
i was slovakian do that was a terrible
fun
slobber all over that i slob over this
vodka
and finally dennis from slovenia okay
i've had it you i've gotten so many
things from slovenia you slovenian
people i don't even understand why you
guys are such a small country i have to
go to slovenia my name is dennis i'm
sending you a small package from my
country slovenia a few tips for the
slovenia episode uh we have a lot of
regional dialects we have the second
largest mercury mine in the world
interesting so look at all this sends a
bunch of slovenia snacks you can have
anything but i want the coffee he just
sends maps of
slovenia all right guys that's just
about it but you know what time it is
oops uh geography no uh geogra wait huh
no i got this don't tell me uh return
address contest whoa that only took like
18 seconds only just eight so ken's
gonna pick out a name from this bag that
has all your return addresses in it and
the winner will get this scratch off map
uh sent to us from geography frederico
who sells them on his website go to this
link right here it'll also be in the
description you don't win you can buy
one all right go for it all right all
right cool we got
dan from south africa south africa i
think he's the first african that's one
woo
congratulations alright guys well thank
you that's about it um you guys have
just been flagged uh ken any last words
uh uh
stay tuned stay cool
you literally just took that away from
me that's all i am and you took all i
was away from me
oops
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