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A holiday that ain't a holiday but should be one!

Mini Pom Pom Pets Flag

Lovely things are always being made.  On the cover of April Chorba's book Mini Pom Pom Pets, make your own friends published by Klutz, an adorable little baby chick can be seen holding a flag.  It is a pink pennant with a yellow star. 

In any case Happy Valentine's Day!



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Muffins National Flag - from the Steven Colbert's Lost Twilight Zone Episodes

A unique flag appears on the Steven Colbert Show, the Muffins National Flag.  In a parody sketch in the CBSVault of Television, "lost episodes" of the Twilight Zone a man awakens to new world order where their formerly deceased dog is now the leader of the world.

A picture of the dog with flag can be seen in a photo.  The colour is impossible to make out, but it most likely is red with a white disc with a black paw print. 

Modern Yugoslavian Freedom Flag

Yugoslavia is a nation no more.  However there are persons who identify with Yugoslavia by heritage, language or ethnic dimensions.  As communist Yugoslavia no longer exists, there are a minority of modern people who still identify in someway being "Yugoslavian" more so than Croatia, Serbia, Bosnia, Montenegro, Kosovo, Slovenia, or Herzegovina.

Cherokee Language Flag

The Cherokee Language Flag is based upon a modified Cherokee Flag upon a language field.

The colours of navy blue and sea green reflect that language is the water element of a persons identity.  Like water that fills a glass, whatever environment your early mind is shaped in you will take on that identity.  Learning a language is like learning to swim, and it takes time and practice.  Eventually an ocean of information overtakes the mind.  Many people can only swim or sail in one type of ocean.  Some persons who are native to the English Ocean in the United States can paddle a little bit in the Spanish Ocean.  But nearly everyone in the United States can splash around in the kiddie pools of France, Japan, or China since they may know a few words: like Bonjour!  Shay Shay?  Oui!  Domoarigato!  It takes time and a lot of practice to sail in different Linguistic Oceans, especially if you are a native to the English Ocean of Speech. 

Remember that most people in Canada and the United States may speak English, yet are not English. Thus one should not confuse language with ethnicity as is often the case with Spanish speakers, since there are many people who sail the Spanish Ocean their entire lives, yet do not have one drop of Spanish blood in the heart.  Likewise, there are many people with English names in the USA who live their entire life in the English Ocean and have absolutely no English blood flowing their veins.

Likewise many people in India learn to sail the Ocean of English at school, yet have zero English Heritage. 

Greek Language Flag

The Greek Language Flag is a modified Greek flag with a language field of sea-green and blue.

The colours of navy blue and sea green reflect that language is the water element of a persons identity.  Like water that fills a glass, whatever environment your early mind is shaped in you will take on that identity.  Learning a language is like learning to swim, and it takes time and practice.  Eventually an ocean of information overtakes the mind.  Many people can only swim or sail in one type of ocean.  Some persons who are native to the English Ocean in the United States can paddle a little bit in the Spanish Ocean.  But nearly everyone in the United States can splash around in the kiddie pools of France, Japan, or China since they may know a few words: like Bonjour!  Shay Shay?  Oui!  Domoarigato!  It takes time and a lot of practice to sail in different Linguistic Oceans, especially if you are a native to the English Ocean of Speech. 

Remember that most people in Canada and the United States may speak English, yet are not English. Thus one should not confuse language with ethnicity as is often the case with Spanish speakers, since there are many people who sail the Spanish Ocean their entire lives, yet do not have one drop of Spanish blood in the heart.  Likewise, there are many people with English names in the USA who live their entire life in the English Ocean and have absolutely no English blood flowing their veins.

Likewise many people in India learn to sail the Ocean of English at school, yet have zero English Heritage. 

Gerogia Language Flag

The Georgia Language flag is modified Georgia National flag with old colours upon a language flag field.

The colours of navy blue and sea green reflect that language is the water element of a persons identity.  Like water that fills a glass, whatever environment your early mind is shaped in you will take on that identity.  Learning a language is like learning to swim, and it takes time and practice.  Eventually an ocean of information overtakes the mind.  Many people can only swim or sail in one type of ocean.  Some persons who are native to the English Ocean in the United States can paddle a little bit in the Spanish Ocean.  But nearly everyone in the United States can splash around in the kiddie pools of France, Japan, or China since they may know a few words: like Bonjour!  Shay Shay?  Oui!  Domoarigato!  It takes time and a lot of practice to sail in different Linguistic Oceans, especially if you are a native to the English Ocean of Speech. 

Remember that most people in Canada and the United States may speak English, yet are not English. Thus one should not confuse language with ethnicity as is often the case with Spanish speakers, since there are many people who sail the Spanish Ocean their entire lives, yet do not have one drop of Spanish blood in the heart.  Likewise, there are many people with English names in the USA who live their entire life in the English Ocean and have absolutely no English blood flowing their veins.

Likewise many people in India learn to sail the Ocean of English at school, yet have zero English Heritage.