Following the England football team having the St George’s Cross turned purple on their kit, the British Olympic team has now unveiled a pink and purple Union Jack flag, prompting many to ask what the hell is going on here.
The Telegraph reports that “Team GB have been slammed for ‘defacing’ the Union flag,” ahead of the Olympics in Paris.
Malcolm Farrow, president of the National Flag Institute, told the newspaper “I don’t approve of our national symbol of unity being defaced.”
“People have every right to be upset with Team GB.
They need to remember brave men fought for this flag and died while protecting it,” Farrow further urged.
He added that “Changing it is bordering on an insult to them.
To do something like this in places like India, Greece or Turkey would have serious consequences.”
The company that designed the flag for the British Olympic Association claimed that it made it pink and purple because while “red, white and blue is synonymous with Great Britain,… it’s far from unique, with nations such as France and USA also sporting the same colours.”
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Hundreds of years of wars to protect and defend the realm and the final outcome of that sacrifice and death is this….. What a disgrace!
@ISIDEWITH2yrs2Y
Do you think changing a flag's colors can impact national unity or pride, and why?
@9L9VQW92yrs2Y
yes leave the flag the original you just made it a different country
@ISIDEWITH2yrs2Y
How important is the uniqueness of a flag’s colors to its identity, and should it matter if other countries share the same colors?
@9L9YJXV2yrs2Y
I think its mildly important but it shouldn't matter if other countries share the same colors.
@9KY6LGG2yrs2Y
I'm one of these people who want to know what the H-ll is going on here. What happened to the Great British Empire, the nation of liberty, Christianity, and civilisation, that liberated billions from ignorance and hundreds of millions from slavery, that gave the United States their heritage and common law principles? Where did that Britain, the Britain of Edmund Burke and Winston Churchill and Wellington and Margaret Thatcher, go? As an American who deeply admires Britain's past, I am sorry to have to ask.
@GrizzlyBrettSocialist2yrs2Y
I suppose the height of entitlement and self served privilege is when you feel that you can change a country's flag that will be used to represent that country at the Olympics,
@QuichePetePatriot2yrs2Y
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