Comment on ‘Don’t call this racist’: row grows over motives behind England flag campaign
steeznson@lemmy.world 3 days ago
It’s weird in Scotland where we have “cuddly nationalism”, you see saltires everywhere. My wife is from England and one of the things she remarked on moving up here was how the St George’s Cross would look mental hanging in all the places the saltire is.
MouldyCat@feddit.uk 3 days ago
You’ll also see the national flag flying happily in France and Spain. Not everywhere, but it doesn’t have any negative connotation. In Germany however the national flag does have dodgy overtones. It seems to be related to whether your country has anything less than pleasant in its recent history.
tetris11@feddit.uk 3 days ago
Same with the Swiss, which is funny since they profiteered off every European atrocity whilst coming out smelling like roses
steeznson@lemmy.world 3 days ago
It’s not like Scotland has a flawless track record! Part of the reason why we unified with England was that our experiment being colonialists was an expensive mistake. Managed to make some of that back being involved in the
triangular trade routesugar industry.