What do the colors of flags generaly mean?
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The colors on various countries flags come from the 5 rings on the Olympic flag, blue, black, red, yellow and green.  These colors represent the five continents that participate in the games.Blue representing Europe, Black representing Africa, Red representing America, Yellow representing Asia and Green representing Australia(Oceania). Every country has at least one of these colors.
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Chaps - the Union Jack is a 'slang' term.\n\nIt is the Union Flag!\n\nAnd yes the Union Flag represents the United Kingdom of Great Britain and is made up of ONLY the English 'Red Cross', the Welsh Flag (red diagonal lines on white) and the Scottish flag where the dark blue comes from (again with white diagonal lines).\n\nThat is it. No Irish (neither Northern nor Republic) flags in there and definitely no Commonwealth.
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Coloring jerseys according to the nation's flag has always been a convention rather than the rule. Therefore, you will find a few countries here and there that come represented in colors that are nowhere on their flag. Actually I think for teams that have been out there very long there is history and tradition to it like Italy I guess.
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The colour makeup of the stars (which represent the points of the southern cross) reflects that of the Union Jack. Red interior with white borders on a blue background.\n\nIf you refer back to the maritime origins of the NZ flag you will see that this has invariably been the case. Prior to the current flag, there was a flag that included the letters NZ in the bottom right hand corner (no stars); these letters were also in red with a white border. Additionally, a prior 'signalling' flag consisted of four red stars on a white disc.
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"Sentimental writers and orators sometimes ascribe meanings to the colors in the flag. The practice is erroneous, as are statements on this subject attributed to George Washington and other founders of the country. Charles Thomson, Secretary of the Continental Congress, reporting to Congress on the Seal of the United States, stated: "The colours of the pales [the vertical stripes] are those used in the flag of the United States of America; White signifies purity and innocence, Red, hardiness & valor, and Blue, the color of the Chief [the broad band above the stripes] signifies vigilence, perserverence & justice."
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WHITE:\n Incorporates qualities of all other colors, represents transcendence, wholeness, chastity , innocence, reverence, simplicity, cleanliness, peace, humility, precision, innocence, youth, birth, perfection, winter, snow, good, sterility, marriage. A symbol  of purity, brings peace and comfort at a high  level, , virginity ( Western  culture ), death (Eastern culture ), cold, clinical, sterile, God ,oneness, Spirituality, associated with rarity,  uniqueness and spiritual authority.\n\n  7th (crown) chakra. Yang, male, God, Goddess in the Maiden aspect (in some traditions only). For the Chinese, white was the color of death and mourning. It's also yang chi, and energy on the decline, west, white, children, everyone knows a white flag means surrender. White has significant meanings in many cultures throughout the world. \nfrom my article on color healing
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The British flag is a union between the flags of England (a red St. George's Cross on a white background), Scotland (a white St. Andrew's Cross on a blue background, and Ireland (a red St. Patrick's Cross on a white background). The Welch flag was not incorporated because Wales had already been united to England when the Union Jack was created in 1606.
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NO.\n\nBecause the very idea that the flag symbolizes is the freedom to do what I want, say what I want, and protest what I want.
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The U.S. flag has undergone many changes since the first official flag of 1777. On June 14, 1777, the Continental Congress passed the first Flag Act, which said that the flag would be made up of thirteen alternating red and white stripes and thirteen white stars on a blue field. Stars have been added to the flag as new states join the union. Currently, the flag contains 50 stars.\n\nEver wonder why the flag is red, white, and blue? While the flag's colors did not have a specific meaning at the time, the colors were significant for the Great Seal of 1782.\n\n    * White: Signifies purity and innocence\n    * Red: Signifies valor and bravery\n    * Blue: Signifies Vigilance, perseverance, and justice\n\nWhy stars and stripes? Stars are considered a symbol of the heavens and the divine goal to which man has aspired from time immemorial; the stripe is symbolic of the rays of light emanating from the sun.
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Some Irish people still do not wear green. Green is the color related to Caltholism and England, which some Irish consider imposing. Orange is Protestant and Southern Ireland. While the fighting still goes on, its largely political. The Irish flag literally means, green-catholic, orange, protestant, and white a dream of a unified day.
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It stands for the 5 principal continents. America, Europe, Asia, Oceania, Africa. The five colors are also significative. At least one of the five is in every flag of the world.
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The white background symbolizes peace and truth. The five rings represent the five continents of the world, but a prevalent post-facto interpretation has tied specific colors to specific continents:\n• Blue representing Europe \n• Black representing Africa \n• Red representing America \n• Yellow representing Asia \n• Green representing Australia (Oceania)\n\nThe Olympic flag is a symbol of peace, goodwill, and global solidarity and tolerance. True to this meaning, she has lent her colors to many athletes who were unable to compete under their own flag.\n\nAt Barcelona in 1992, athletes from a part of Yugoslavia not represented at the Games participated as independent athletes under the Olympic flag. They did not march in the parade of flags, but the Olympic flag was raised on their behalf during award ceremonies for them. In the 2000 Games at Sydney, four athletes from East Timor were allowed to compete under the Olympic flag because East Timor did not have international status as an independent country.
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The Olympics is open to every country in the world so way back when they had chosent the colors for the Olympic flag, they wanted to unite the world. The Olympic flag's colors represent the World united since at least one color on the flag is in any one nation's own flag.
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The flag is nothing but cloth and dye.  It is a symbol that's all.  Too many people make too big of a deal about it.  It has almost become idolatry.  It is like skin color.\n\nInstead of blindly defending or attacking symbols lets get to the heart of the issues; America has some "growing up" to do.      America can be better than it is toady, we have room to grow and mature.  We are not the BEST country in the world, but that is OK because we have the potential to be the best (or more concisely; we have room to be our best). But to do this we must choose better leadership, in fact we must all learn to be leaders, we must educate ourselves, we must get wise, etc.\n\nWe have been acting like idiots, but that's OK because we are young, but now that we know our mistakes we must stop repeating them.\n\nWe have so much potential.  I can't wait till these tough days come to an end and we finally live up to the pride we have in our flag.
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I think because the colour of flag was designed with the meaning behind the colour.\n\nLike my country flag, it's red and white.\nRed = brave\nWhite = holy/clean\n\nSo, the founder of the country design the flag because they use the characteristics and meanigs of the colour to describe the country and to express the spirit of the country. It's random, yes we know that.
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You also rarely hear your national anthem.  We are a country that is proud of every aspect of it.  We fought for what we have.  We live in a society that teaches us to be proud of where we live and respect where we are from.  The flag is a symbol of our freedom.  It is way more than just a flag to us.  I realize that is something that you may not understand.  The stars and stripes of the flag all represent something.   The 13 stripes represent the original 13 colonies and the 50 stars represent the 50 states.  It isn't "just a flag" it is a symbol of who we are and how we got to be that.  :)
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Colors (colours) have very different meanings all around the world.  The source lists many interesting meanings.  Enjoy.