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Originally Posted by Shawn
You barely see Japanese flags on actual national buildings.
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Ah ouais ? Funny, I thought the Japanese were a bit spoiled by some arrogant national pride of some sort.
National and EU flags on public buildings are pretty systematic in my country, up to public nurseries. Lol, poor local little kids brainwashed as of the age of 3...
I find it a bit silly as flags, including the gay/peace one made up of the rainbow colors (that's only a biblical thing and a natural phenomenon of physics, eh) often feel like some kind of bigotry, or at least like what we call "prosélytisme".
Definition of that thing:
Attempt to convert (someone) from one religion, belief, or opinion to another.
It is wrong, offensive. No one needs to do that.
That said, Idk why, despite being a Republican, I like the fleur de lys on flags.
But it's only a matter of design, nothing ideological.
This is officially the more or less historic flag of my Paris region.
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drapea...8Ele-de-France
I don't think I've ever seen it anywhere over here, or it has to be very unusual.
Maybe because the fleur de lys is supposedly a monarchist symbol, while of course, our country's been trying to be a fair republic for long.
Anyway, its design itself was something stylish and effective IMO.
As for the OP question, yes, you'll see plenty of foreign flags here.
Especially Portuguese, Algerian, British, American, some German too, and many others on T-shirts and elsewhere.
I guess people just don't mind too much.