Continental Flags

[SuperBeaverInc.]

Oh, cool. What exactly do the use this for, a conference or something?

It's the African Union

 

[thenooblet22]

It's the African Union

Wow I had never heard of that. If the Africans can do it, you'd figure South America should give it a shot.

 

[Mirc]

Never heard about that before either. Read the wiki article on it, but seems not much is happening right now there.

 

[Left]

I doubt the other new members, Canada, Mexico, etc, would agree to be marginalized like that...

Slap a Mexican seal in the middle and change the stars to maple leaves.

 

[Kyriakos]

Here is my conquistador flag for our continent

 

[Cheezy the Wiz]

Slap a Mexican seal in the middle and change the stars to maple leaves.

Dude, that sounds awesome.

 

[mangxema]

I doubt the other new members, Canada, Mexico, etc, would agree to be marginalized like that...

The three flags are too different to incorporate each other into... each other. Yeah...

Unless... what if you took the bird from the Mexican flag, add a bald eagle, maybe a star in the middle or something, to vaguely resemble a maple leaf shape?

(If i wasn't swamped, I'd rig a picture, but... Maybe spring break?)

 

[Tee Kay]

Asia flag, attempt #1:

Why red? It's a colour that's used most widely in Asia, from the Emirates of the UAE to the nation of the Pacifc Rim.

 

[willemvanoranje]

South-America should use this. Of course we would name the entire continent Grã Paraná.

 

[colontos]

The flag of East Asia should be a picture of Confucius, Mao Zedong, Tojo, and Kim Jong Il working together to strangle a baby girl.

Oops, was that inappropriate?

 

[thenooblet22]

The flag of East Asia should be a picture of Confucius, Mao Zedong, Tojo, and Kim Jong Il working together to strangle a baby girl.

Oops, was that inappropriate?

Oh my god, that was so funny and so wrong!

 

[sysyphus]

Note that the EU and AU flags do not incoporate flags of its members, so a North American flag would likely not do so either. Of course, a NA flag should also include the Carribbean and Central American countries too.

 

[thenooblet22]

Note that the EU and AU flags do not incoporate flags of its members, so a North American flag would likely not do so either. Of course, a NA flag should also include the Carribbean and Central American countries too.

Hm, wouldn't the Carribean and Central America be consider 'Latin America' with South America? I think for North America the merging of flags would be acceptable considering it would be only 3 countries sharing it.

 

[Eran of Arcadia]

Geographically, the Caribbean and Central America are part of North America. They (as well as Mexico) are part of "Latin America" culturally. Which means that most of the nations of North America are Hispanic.

 

[mangxema]

Hm, wouldn't the Carribean and Central America be consider 'Latin America' with South America? I think for North America the merging of flags would be acceptable considering it would be only 3 countries sharing it.

How would you merge them though? They are totally different patterns! Well, Mexico and Canada aren't too different, I guess, but the US totally messes of any merger. We can't pull a UK-style, 'Hey, let's just merge all the crosses together!' thing; we'd have a nasty-looking Christmas checkerboard look going on...

 

[Fugitive Sisyphus]

Note that the EU and AU flags do not incoporate flags of its members, so a North American flag would likely not do so either. Of course, a NA flag should also include the Carribbean and Central American countries too.

Well, Great Britain's flag is a combination of English, Scottish, and Irish flags...

 

[thenooblet22]

How would you merge them though? They are totally different patterns! Well, Mexico and Canada aren't too different, I guess, but the US totally messes of any merger. We can't pull a UK-style, 'Hey, let's just merge all the crosses together!' thing; we'd have a nasty-looking Christmas checkerboard look going on...

How about ...

Slap a Mexican seal in the middle and change the stars to maple leaves.

But seriously. It isn't so hard to create a flag incorporating elements from three flags. A leaf, an eagle, some stars, it won't look that bad.

 

[mangxema]

But seriously. It isn't so hard to create a flag incorporating elements from three flags. A leaf, an eagle, some stars, it won't look that bad.

Incorporate yes, but I don't see how it could look as a flag in it's own right, as opposed to others slapped together. The UK flag has a nice symmetry about it that makes it merge well. Until I did a little research, I didn't even know it WAS a merging of flags. There are bad ways of merging flags, and and a resident of GA, I am painfully aware of this fact.

 

[pboily]

Incorporate yes, but I don't see how it could look as a flag in it's own right, as opposed to others slapped together. The UK flag has a nice symmetry about it that makes it merge well. Until I did a little research, I didn't even know it WAS a merging of flags. There are bad ways of merging flags, and and a resident of GA, I am painfully aware of this fact.

My 2 cents: it would give a headache.

 

[thenooblet22]

My 2 cents: it would give a headache.

The headache is for your lack of creativity/art, not the concept. Pasting the flags on a bigger flag is not what I meant for incorporating an element from each country. By the way, whats with the bottom-right emblem (a clove?)?