everybody welcome back to flag / fan
Friday hope you like the Wakanda Rwanda
episode by the way we got brand new
blood of those who fight for the freedom
t-shirts get him at geography now calm
or anything else you want on the website
at geography now calm
it's my March I can promote it anywho as
you know there's a part where we talk
about the things that didn't quite make
it into the video
now although Hutus and Tutsis are
generally the same people geneticists
have actually concluded that Tutsis may
or may not have around ten percent more
nylon ik genes than Hutus on average but
that's just about it
now we did mention that were one that
did have a former monarchy however after
it was deposed monarch was actually
exiled to the US and later on he
announced that his nephew would be the
successor to the throne and although the
royal family doesn't actually have any
authority over Rwanda they and their
loyal followers do actually do
humanitarian work as posted on the royal
house of Rwanda website in 2015
Rwanda was actually the first country to
use drones to distribute medical
supplies and blood to rural communities
that were not easily accessible by Road
I also wanted to talk about the
political system of a meheeco kind of
like a transparency contracts for
politicians this kind of gives the
people leverage of accountability over
their leaders interesting fact I forgot
to mention somewhere around 10 to 11
percent of the country is actually
seventh-day Adventist and finally one
thing we didn't have enough time to
mention the survivors of the genocide
and their families otherwise known as
the I bet cheats sacred chimú which
means those that survived the spear the
government actually gives them
subsidized living and social benefits
alright that's just about it so now the
flag so without further ado you
I was really fun filming Rwanda I
actually really wanted Edmond to be in
the episode like the studio films part
of it but he was working during the
daytime and we always film during the
daytime so he can only come at nighttime
in my office right here but either way I
got him in the video cheers for Edmond
anyway to the flag the flag has three
bands the larger blue one on top with
the green and yellow ones on the bottom
the blue represents happiness and peace
the yellow band represents economic
development and the green band
symbolizes the hope and prosperity of
the nation the Golden Sun has 24 Rays
and represents the enlightenment of the
nation the Sun was positioned on the
upper right side as a means to show more
prominently while waving in the air now
keep in mind prior to this they had
quite a few other flags
under the kingdom years they had this
flag but it was too close to looking
like the flag of Guinea so they just
added an
prior to that they were colonized by the
Belgians and prior to that the Germans
so they had those flags pretty simple
and speaking of simple the National seal
the seal of Rwanda contains elements
that pertain to the tribal culture of
the people you have a stem of sorghum
and a branch of coffee as well as the
traditional up a sec a basket that we
talked about in the episode which is
surmounted on a cogwheel the Sun and
it's raised above it all on the sides
are two typical Rwandan shields and
everything is encircled by a square knot
at the bottom the text on the top banner
reads the Republic of Rwanda and the
bottom reads unity work and patriotism
prior to this from 1962 to 2001 they
actually had this coat of arms
I am prior to that they actually had the
Kingdom of Rwanda court of arms and
prior to that under the Belgians they
had the coat of arms of rwanda burundi
it was like one country at the same time
see it's very simple like Rwanda you
just you get what you see cool that's
just about it so now you know what time
it is it's time for fan mail time
alright we are back and as you know we
always need a guest star so today's
guest star is going to be mr. no I'm
great Paul how are you have your
holidays I so know you've done this many
times as you know we always start off
with postcards all right here we have a
postcard great Chiefs of the American
West this postcard is sent to us from
Spencer he's from North Carolina really
I think I'm gonna put this in the US
episode something like this because we
really got to highlight the Native
community in Central Australia and his
name is oh he lives in Norway but he
visited Australia man my nails are done
I gotta get those done boy hello
geography lovers greetings from Paul
from Melbourne Australia been watching
the show since the China episode this
card is from pork weight or total torque
weigh resort take a look it's in a book
the Reading Rainbow back this is from
Luca the immigration Museum oh he says
uh the Qatar episode was funny because
the Steve Irwin impression of Kaleb was
good as new
Luca is a fan of Caleb I gotta say this
card is best place in my heart says hi
Noah that's for Noah
but it says as a fellow Iowan my first
GM postcard has to go to you but he says
go Hawks
his alma mater can we bleep out the
Hawks part
I'm is killing Billy I'm just kidding
there's a rivalry that miss Kim's
kidding Billy but he says go cyclones
which is where I went to college and
Caleb as well now a funny story I did a
report on Hawaii back when I was in
second grade did not go so well what I'm
trying to picture what second grade Noah
would look like now we got this card
from Ron who did a kibbutz program in
Israel I'm guessing you're Israeli or
you're Jewish and yeah this is from Tel
Aviv I love cake all right cupcakes cake
cookies didn't you have like bacon wraps
at your wedding Caleb or something yeah
I think the most Midwest you're like
chicken nuggets at your wedding or
something what did you have okay we did
have non ad-free Spotify has wedding we
were all in dance floor dancing is like
this ad brought to you by Walmart I
remember that was amazing that's where I
met you we met each other at Caleb's
wedding Kayla you're responsible for
this I've got a postcard here from this
hey Paul we are Luka Fabian Phillip and
Michael from Germany he said they are
currently visiting the lovely little
Liechtenstein little Liechtenstein and
now let's do all letters and packages my
name is Ralph just took a week-long trip
to many picturesque sites in Guatemala
this is the national bird and of course
he sends of course Guatemalan currency
so if my name is of this I'm being read
Ahmad
Lebanese Brazilian said his uncle found
these postcards here in Lebanon old
postcards from the 60s and 70s kind of a
pretty meet this person says hi to all
the geography is junk now Paula Hannah
Keith
Jason art Caleb Nora and others they
even had a Jason interesting yeah you
guys sent stuff to Jason if you want
he's a cool guy
I am from Uzbekistan where I was born
and he served in the Uzbek Air Force
from 2002 to 2007
I would love to contribute to the Bekaa
Stan episode Jack corn ja horn J aka Cho
is back but anyway please contact me for
the us-pakistan episode I will do if we
love your help this dear geography my
name is Adam and I was born in Russia
dear geography the Russian coins are in
here and some Azure bon coin as your
bike Bell rest banknote and the front
pick a coin oh yeah you got calluses too
let's just show our calluses gross we
got to be gross together there we go we
lift weights guys we gotta lift you
don't want calluses wear gloves but
don't wear gloves but real men don't
wear gloves Harrison went on a Joint
Distribution Committee a humanitarian
group many countries in Africa and one
of them was Rwanda he since this Rwandan
pink note this says hi barbs I'm
Sebastian from up in the Bay Area I've
been following your channel since the
Belarus episode we started collecting
goopy postcards for you since a trip off
to the Pacific Northwest forget a
baguette forget about it
this is a post le gum wall and Seattle
California fixer-upper yours for only
$9.99 95 Sebastian Thank You Lucy and
Alex who are Ukrainian people and they
sent this really cool book awesome
Ukraine and interesting things you need
to know and I really love your show
believe you're doing a great job this
book awesome Ukraine is probably the
best brief glance at modern Ukraine that
we can think of there's a big Ukrainian
community living in Marina del Rey you
know what Alex and Lucy you live in my
city maybe we should uh maybe we should
meet up sometime I have a postcard from
o Muhammad here but originally from
Singapore that this could be a fridge
magnet multi-racial Singapore what's
that building college ball was featured
on here Oh Marina Bay Sands it says
right there Marina Bay Sands a bag of
noodles with you looking at Cookie
Monster type of guy on there that's a
ripoff Cookie Monster instead of cookies
he eats noodles
hey Barb's how are you guys call me
Ishmael pirate that's my real name
yeah reference to Moby Dick I'm a bit of
a traveler myself and he's Sudanese
Australian he was born in the heart of
Nubia so there you have it a true cou
shite he sends of course the Sudanese
flag magnet and a keychain that says I
love Sudan note Aidan
Thank You Aidan geography now is without
a doubt their favorite YouTube channel
they are sending us on Venezuelan
boulevards oh okay the old version may
say these are definitely Venezuelan Hugh
yeah it's real DePaul and the crew of
geography now hears from Chinese New
Year idols for you and the crew the
upcoming year will be the year of the
rat wish you and the crew a healthy new
Jozy yeah so the Chinese are the East
Asian zodiac every year is a different
animal and it rotates every 12 years
this is so cool look at this like a
porcelain beaded thing and it has all
the animals of the zodiac I want to stay
forever young maybe we can dance and
stay for a while Josie you're awesome
and thank you for putting both New York
and China in the spot did you know
there's live-action TMNT show done in
the mid-90s the show crossed over with
Power Rangers yeah that's right ace and
the turtles went to the moon and fought
the Power Rangers I'll teamed up at the
end of fight the bad guys in that show
the Power Rangers had vehicles it was
called a galaxy glider and they could
ride it through space but the turtles
rode them through space and I believe
without any like helmets or anything
what that was the 90s this is from
Vasily from Kazakhstan and whoa the
geography now logo that's fantastic and
on the site Kazakhstan apparently says
slide down slide down Kazakhstan
chocolate your Paul and the entire
geography now crew we are Vassili and
Mahdi two former colleagues from Almaty
started up business they're good friends
vasily is actually ethnically Korean and
third generation immigrant in Kazakhstan
starting in the 1850s many Korean
refugees fled from poverty yeah there's
a lot of Koreans in Kazakhstan I noticed
that Mahdi is an ethnic Kazakh from
western kazakhstan and his grandfather
was mobilized in the Red Army and was a
veteran of the winter war with Finland
please keep being creative and producing
great videos Vasily Ahmadi this is
honestly one of the coolest things I've
ever seen
you put the logo on it to Paul and the
geography now team from Medea Vasily
Almaty Kazakhstan all right so that's
just about it and before we end we
always mentioned the winner of the
geography you shall enjoy challenge you
to do something good for the world and
make it a better place in any way
possible and today's winner is gonna be
James from South Africa he volunteers at
a local school in Cape Town that has no
government assistance and lacks
facilities teaching kids preparing meals
and lessons thank you James you rock
thank you for helping out those kids in
South Africa and with that being said we
are just about done Noah anything you
want to say to the junction our
community you know what yes thank you so
much for your family you guys are
awesome huge other peeps thank you so
much rule is watching her channel you
guys like audio dramas I'm part of an
audio drama called the farm Meridian I
play a character on there and also
provide narration for it as well so
anyone listened to a fun sci-fi ask
audio drama check out the far Meridian I
don't know never even mentioned it
you've been doing it for years but thank
you no and thank you for everybody
sending in stuff putting your home towns
and countries and whatever on display
you've just been flagged to stay cool
stay tuned
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