My ex from Norway mentioned how unusual it was that so many places and people here fly our flag (USA), so I was curious to hear what it’s like for others here on the fediverse.

  • aaitvedan@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    It was uncommon in The Netherlands. Except on certain holidays. And when kids get a high school diploma: a flag plus school bag.

    But since last year, angry farmers ‘decorated’ the country with flags hung upside down to protest against environmental measures. All kinds of angry right wing people followed.

  • Jimi_Hotsauce@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    When I went to Norway I counted the flags I saw. I forget the exact number but I saw maybe 6 in the week I was there. Come back to the US I saw at least 20 coming back from the airport.

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    1 year ago

    I’m from Spain, it’s not uncommon unfortunately, but that’s because the flag is appropriated by the right and far right and if you see someone with one you can be 90% sure of the type (homophobe, anti abortion, bullfighting supporter, climate change denier, etc etc)

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      1 year ago

      The problem that the origin of our flag is dated in 1785 but because we were under the Dictatorship of Franco for 40 years, young people identifies the flag with that regimen (extreme right). But not everydody things that way 😏 🙄

      https://eslemmy.es/

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    1 year ago

    Pretty funny that coming from a Norwegian because they still have the flag out many places in my opinion :)
    It’s actually one of the things that stuck out the most after I had moved there.
    Especially at “hytter” (vacation cabins) I think the majority has a flag out.
    Same for national day, you’ll see a bunch of flags.

    Compare that to Belgium, where I’m from. Even on national day it’s a rare sight to see a flag.
    And it’s only very fanatic people that will actually wave it around on the street.

    The moment you’ll see most flags out is probably during the world cup.

    • Urist@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      Not really. Vacation cabins are for vacation with Norwegians not acting like Norwegians, i.e. socializing with neighbors and having the flag up indicating their precense. More often than not, the flag is used as a celebration of either a national holiday or the birthday of someone in the household. Cabin, hiking and boat culture are weird albeit common outliers of Norwegian culture.