The Same But Different
Jan. 31st, 2013 05:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
4thofelevenWhile looking up information on the ongoing conflict in Mali, I discovered something: The flag of Chad is essentially identical to that of Romania. Technically, they’ve got different shades of blue, but at best it’s a very subtle difference.
Obviously, this cannot stand. One of you is going to have to change! There’s precedent for this – Liechtenstein added a crown to their flag in 1936, after realising at the Olympics that year that their flag was identical to that of Haiti. Don’t suppose there’s a pretender to the Romanian throne out there who could be reinstalled to justify adding a crown to the flag?
What about a double-headed eagle? Come on, the country’s literally named after Rome, that gives it a better claim to that emblem than, say, Albania or Russia… No? What about Chad? Surely it’s got some sort of special national emblem it could add to its flag? Come on, one of these countries has to be able to think of something more interesting than yet another tricolour flag…
Obviously, this cannot stand. One of you is going to have to change! There’s precedent for this – Liechtenstein added a crown to their flag in 1936, after realising at the Olympics that year that their flag was identical to that of Haiti. Don’t suppose there’s a pretender to the Romanian throne out there who could be reinstalled to justify adding a crown to the flag?
What about a double-headed eagle? Come on, the country’s literally named after Rome, that gives it a better claim to that emblem than, say, Albania or Russia… No? What about Chad? Surely it’s got some sort of special national emblem it could add to its flag? Come on, one of these countries has to be able to think of something more interesting than yet another tricolour flag…