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  • Everybody welcome back to flag fan Friday

  • Hope you liked the Kuwait episode alright

  • So you know the deal every time before we start I gotta fix up the mistakes that I made in the country episode number one

  • The demographics graph was a complete mess the percentage was completely off. I went overboard to a hundred and ten percent

  • I meant to say thirty seven percent not forty seven percent for the expats and also I accidentally said India twice

  • I meant to say India and Indonesia, but it might defense come on they both start with IND so it's like indeed

  • And also I think this is not the correct picture of sana a jittery he's a famous Kuwaiti astrophysicist anyway

  • I think those are the biggest mistakes

  • I think there's a few more, but yeah, whatever and those are the biggest ones alright now. We can go on without further ado

  • Kuwait was such a fun episode to film because you know it's like one of those countries

  • That's a little obscure

  • You don't know too much about it, but they have been in the headlines in the news a few times

  • But so you kind of need to brush up or otherwise they kind of remain a little obscure

  • It's those quiet kids in the class you got to keep your eyes on all right flag time the flag of Kuwait

  • There's a horizontal tricolour of green white and red with a black

  • trapezoid on the left or moist side this makes Kuwait the only fully recognized sovereign country with a flag that incorporates a

  • Trapezoid on it the colors of course utilize the pan-arab colors or red white and green and black

  • however many might also say that they are inspired off a poem written in 13th century by this guy the green for the fields of

  • the Arabs and the land the black standing for the battles they faced in the defeat of the enemy the white for the purity of

  • their deeds and the red stands for

  • Specifically though the red stands for the blood on the swords, but it was it's blood

  • It's still it's still blood once again. You guys know who made that animation it was Ken

  • Thank you can follow him on Instagram, Ken. I appreciate you so much. I will not fire you this week

  • You survived another round

  • now keep my Kuwait was under a few other flags before this one as mentioned in the Kuwait episode they were a

  • protectorate of the UK for a while and more under this wag and prior to that they're under a bunch of crescent and star

  • Flags with a red field, but yeah, that's about it for their flags now

  • We move on to the coat of arms

  • Which is not a coat of arms is an emblem the emblem of Kuwait contains a golden Falcon the national bird

  • Expanding its wings in a circular fashion around a disc image of the sea with a traditional boom sailing ship with the words

  • emblem of Kuwait written above it yeah

  • the emblem has the word emblem written on it as well as a vertically draped Kuwaiti flag in a shield shape below the Falcon the

  • Falcon represents Quraysh the tribe that the Prophet Mohammed belonged to whereas the boat

  • symbolizes the historical maritime tradition of the country long before in its beginning stages prior to this they also had two other emblems from the

  • Protectorate years they incorporated the old flag of Kuwait and they also had like a hawk one of them even had a crown

  • Oh, yeah, after independence this one was created, and it stands today alright. That's about it. That means you know what time it is

  • Geography Meal Time, okay guys the last time we did this was for the South Korea episode

  • It was a while ago and since then the mail has been piling up dramatically

  • Let me show you yeah, this is uh yeah, this is all of it

  • It's a lot, so I'm gonna try to put as much as I can on camera right now. However. I'm not gonna

  • Have a lot of time to elaborate on each piece

  • You're only gonna get a few seconds of screen time

  • But I'm gonna try to get as much as I can okay all right like usual we're gonna start with postcards

  • Rhys who is Scottish but visited Iceland and sent this Joel who's from Minnesota sent the Cathedral of st

  • Paul in Minnesota, I grew up close to this by the way Timon from Germany visited, New York

  • So weird like you guys are from different countries from the postcards that you send

  • Kanishka sends this from Sri. Lanka. I was pretty cool, Georgia and Allister send this from China

  • But it's like a Cathedral in China. I think your name is Theo you send this from Bonn Germany

  • Thomas sends us from the National Gallery's of Scotland Pedro is from I believe Brazil, but he's visiting Norway

  • And he sent this cool postcard of Viking laws Levi sends this cool wildlife of Arizona postcard Zika sends this from

  • Slovenia and this is really cool Bradley who is from Baltimore, Maryland

  • He actually visited Antarctica, and he even had the Antarctica McMurdo Station

  • Stamp, that is so cool. I've never gotten anything from Antarctica alright now

  • we're gonna do letters start off with letters from my own fellow countrymen Mia from Kansas sends this really cool picture of various flags and

  • She sent a postcard of a Shoshone a woman on a native tribe here in the US

  • I really want to do like a video highlighting like the native tribes of the

  • USA cuz I feel like they really need to be highlighted more yeah, thanks for the inspiration uh Mary from Chicago

  • She has done a lot of traveling and sent bank notes of the various places she's visited Ava from Louisiana

  • Thank you for your card and talking about your Cajun culture and Spencer from Humboldt County, California

  • Thank you for your letter and your book recommendation, and I was called Eric from Massachusetts

  • Thank you for sending this patch of the flag of Zhai air yeah, now this used to be a country back

  • I was I was alive when this was a country and Timothy from Florida

  • Thank you for your awesome flag drawings. All right now. We go international Santiago. Who is Colombian visa Snax

  • Yeah, those me a peso banknotes these amazing postcards. He also visited, Panama City

  • No, we have a very small community of Colombians here in Los Angeles, and it's so crazy like every time. I meet Colombians

  • I'm just like how are you that attractive? It's like almost illegal

  • I feel like I should call the cops on you

  • You can't be that attractive anyway moving on you'll steam from Romania

  • beautiful Romanian postcards and a book of all the UNESCO heritage Romanian sites

  • I've met very few Europeans that love their countries as much as like Romanians

  • There are some but man Romanians you love Romania Henry who is a Kiwi

  • But he lives in Singapore sends all these little trinkets and banknotes and coins from his various travels cool little Ireland and Italy

  • erasers and I traveled to Cambodia

  • All these cool postcards speaking of Oceania Thomas from Australia created his own country called Terra Aquila nests

  • He made his own flag and everything that's cool Mateus from Czechia

  • But he was visiting his neighbours in Slovakia and sent these cool postcards Francisco who is Peruvian

  • very proud of his Peruvian heritage

  • But interestingly enough he also sent a bunch of North Korea stuff as well Ava from

  • Czechia who lives in Czechia sent me a bunch of Czechia souvenirs including this magnet in all these postcards cool

  • Thanks Rafael. Who is Spanish but lives in Germany. He wrote a letter and basically at the end

  • He says he wants me to use the pun can I do something Spain full to you?

  • Yeah, I will probably use that your I'll punch myself with you

  • See we got Mahdi who is Pakistani and sent a pakistani flag

  • I don't think you wrote your name, but you sent this from the Netherlands

  • And it has like a Krampus in the middle Happy Holidays. Yeah, that's how late we're doing these videos

  • Well uh Timothy from the Philippines. He's at these cool Filipino stamps of course a little Philippines flag

  • We got another Filipino Dave from the Philippines off is so cool

  • He sends one of the old

  • Filipino scripts for those who don't know prior to the Latin script the Philippines actually had a few indigenous scripts that they used to write

  • In they're almost extinct, but few people still use them, and this is one of them

  • That's so cool a lot of info on the Philippines an amazing picture of the Philippines that he drew this really cool

  • Gift I think that's how you pronounce your name from Belgium

  • He had a bunch of really cool antique coins from Belgium, and he did like these pencils shaving tracings of the coins

  • Yeah, that's really cool belch old Belgian shaving copy coins alright package time, Fernando from Hong Kong of course

  • He has to send Hong Kong flags, but he also sent a Macau flag. I don't think I'd Macau yet. That's so cool

  • I love this I

  • saw a picture of these before it's hilarious :

  • That's like cold old egg tart flavored snacks

  • I know this sounds kind of funny, but these are these are these are real thing, and then yeah, yeah

  • Eric from Slovakia, oh boy tons of

  • Stuff I'm guessing these are all

  • Slovakian like chocolates and snacks peanuts corn puffs you guys know

  • I'm very strict with my diet, so I probably won't eat most of these maybe I'll keep them to my friends

  • Of course a Slovak flag he also sends these Slovak postcards and keychain and cool souvenirs

  • Borov each cos Slovak alcohol you guys know that I love liquor. I'm not a beer guy

  • I don't to be but I like liquor. She doesn't blow you up and it hits you harder faster

  • By the way guys here chug for now we do not condone underage drinking if you are a child

  • Do not drink and even if you are of age use your best discretion don't go crazy

  • Okay, nobody likes a drunky monkey, but yeah, I do love my occasional. You know okay, I'm sorry

  • I got a I'm sorry. I gotta try a little bit right now

  • Wow

  • Herbs in it or something weird Eric. I lose it

  • You didn't even write a letter you just sent a ton of stuff well, Erica either way. I appreciate it

  • See we got Jonathan who is israeli-american

  • He sends a ton of Israeli chocolates and snacks he sent the Hebrew alphabet they drew this

  • Barbies balkans, I guess this little guy is me we got Jeff. Ah who is from, Texas

  • Where's the Texas flag postcard of the family and some places?

  • They've been to believe you guys are Indian Americans living in Texas, and you are Christian, too

  • And there's actually a book that J Bob wrote. It's actually a very beautiful book

  • It's it's about how one of her daughters passed away, and how she's in heaven

  • I really appreciate this

  • And I thank you it's a beautiful book you did an amazing job with this book jabba all right got two boxes from Australia

  • Stephanie Merry Christmas

  • Ah, that's how late we are with these things. She's a Chinese Indonesian living in Perth she says if I go to Australia

  • I should go to check out Perth, dude

  • I think Perth really is like one of the most underrated

  • Cities in Australia cuz these cool postcards and the Black Swan which is like. I guess a very iconic animal. Oh sure

  • Hahaha, I'm actually a big deal in Slovenia

  • I'm like why does she send me a flag of Slovenia is you you were listening to what I said in my other tree oh?

  • My god. This is this is genius

  • I think I think um it's a little too big for me so what I think I'm gonna do is

  • I'm gonna cut off the sleeves and make into a workout t-shirt. This is such a cool gift neil from victoria. He sends this uh

  • 2018 calendar know various pieces of artwork from australians and Tim Tams

  • You know we actually do sell these here in the US

  • but I don't think we have the double coat version so I think we only have the original and like maybe one on one and

  • Finally our last box is from Denmark. My name is Martin. I'm from Denmark

  • I've been watching channel since the bees I remember been mean he visited the 2017 World's Fair in Astana Kazakhstan

  • And he brought a bunch of stuff back from it. Oh, that's cool. Like a Jordan Chile

  • He sent a bunch of a Danish birthday stuff with a bunch of Danish flags even Danish wrapping paper and a Danish

  • Chocolates dude, this is like the famous chocolate. I've ever seen in my life alright guys

  • That was the last one but before we go you know what time it is it's time for return address contest

  • I put all your return addresses in this bag, and I pick one out and whoever wins I send a little gift to

  • Emma from Illinois you just won actually no you're the Emma that made I

  • Think I remember you you're the one that made my pillowcase the foot Emma you won

  • And thank you for making this so glad you won because you're you're cool Emma. Okay guys this was amazing

  • I love putting your countries and hometowns in home countries on display. It's I mean this is so fun. But uh yeah

  • Thank you for watching subscribe if you'd like and stay tuned stay cool. Have a good one

Everybody welcome back to flag fan Friday

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