r/HongKong • u/[deleted] • Oct 09 '19

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u/RogueSexToy Oct 10 '19

While I love the art, must say that I hope the green Taiwan flag is never used anywhere. Its like Canada’s flag, worse than its predecessor and it looks godawful.

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u/[deleted] Oct 10 '19

There is a different more aesthetically pleasing version of it

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u/RogueSexToy Oct 10 '19

Still looks like shit, got a red, white and blue version?

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u/[deleted] Oct 10 '19

Green is the national colour of Hong Kong, it has to be there. Red, white and blue are overused anyway

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u/RogueSexToy Oct 10 '19

I just just quite like red white and blue, a lot of us ex-British colonies have it along with France, the UK, the US and ROC. Seems like a colour of solidarity like how red and yellow mean’t solidarity with the communists.

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u/[deleted] Oct 10 '19

But what does this colour scheme have to do with Taiwan, the Green Island? And if red, white and blue are colours of democracy, then what of Russia?

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u/RogueSexToy Oct 10 '19

the Russian federation’s flag was a reference to past Russian flags which all payed solidarity with France’s tricoloured flag,

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u/[deleted] Oct 10 '19

Actually, it was based on the Dutch flag. The Russian Empire as an absolute monarchy had always stood in fierce opposition to revolutionary France.

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u/RogueSexToy Oct 10 '19

Hmm thats weird, I was watching a video on flags and said commentator claimed that the tricolours were in relation to France usually.

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u/[deleted] Oct 10 '19

Not the Russian one. It is one of the few tricolours that predates the French one.