Can you guys explain your flag thing to this Brit?

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I've always been slightly confused by it.

I've seen many threads on this site about the American flag, seen it prettily wafting away, nicely backlit in various movies, stuff like that. You all seem to really, really like it.

Now... the Union Jack...:




(ugly looking thing. I've never liked it...)

... is a bit of a figure of fun in the UK. You're much more likely to see it on baseball boots or T-shirts or coloured in wrong in the UK. Nobody "respects" it. It doesn't really symbolise, to me, a set of ideas, but stands as a psychic place holder for "those guys over there, you know, the black pudding eating bumbling jokey guys that sing "always look on the bright side of life" at the drop of a hat."

Its sort of silly. Maybe that's because British people are!

What we have instead is the royal family. But... we don't really take THEM very seriously, either. We do think setting fire to them is probably bad, I guess.

I genuinely don't understand what you're thinking when you think about your flag.

Can you tell me?

I'm not saying it's a bad thing. I just don't think we really have an equivalent over here.