I sincerely apologise on the absolute tragedy of me pronuncing Wallachia and Moldavia/Moldova, thanks to the people who pointed it out and gave the proper pronunciations
In Romanian we pronounce "Moldavia" as "Moldova" too. Even though the current Romanians who live in the nation of Moldova like to see themselves as different, in reality we are all the same people so I don't think the way you pronounced it is such an issue.
The common pronunciation "Wallakia" is actually wrong too. Its spelling was unfortunately taken from German, where the "W" is pronounced as "V" and the "CH" is pronounched as "H". So, to avoid confusion, the ideal spelling would be "Valahia" similar to "Valhalla".
@@lounirs sorry to break it to you,but as someone who is currently living in frnace,i don’t see how burning innocent peoples cars (which don’t all have insurance),the stores (ie grocery stores like lidl,carrefour,auchan ect) have nothing to do with the shooting of the young boy
@@lounirs their using that as a pretext and justification of those actions.if it were protests i wouldn’t say anything.but they are literally burning houses with parents inside and children of said parents screaming and begging for help “just for naël/nahel”
They were making the mother of all omelettes. They refused to fret over every egg. This was a poor decision in the long run. It seemed good at the time because they were purging the weak nations to improve their own status.
@@saminyasir1847and sometimes the Americans which was made by the brits and French but both of those were made by the germans so IT'S ALWAYS THE GERMANS FAULT! But germany came because of italy! Which came from carthage. Which is israel/palestine so it's THE JEWS FAULT!!!
1:09 It is important to note that the color scheme was inspired by heraldry present on diplomas emitted by former voievode of Wallachia, Michael the Brave, who actually ruled over an united Romania for a year back in 1600. Hence the inspiration.
It is also important to note that despite the habit of 19th century patriotic painters of placing the national flag in scenes depicting Michael the Brave, the very concept of national flags did not exist in the principalities at the time. This stems from a legend about the three colours being based on the colours of the 3 principalities being merged on one flag. The real reason the colours were first used in 1821 is because the Wallachian rebels admired the revolutionary spirit of France but wanted a flag that is a bit different but still recognisable.
@@TheWoollyFrog True, but either coincidentally or intentionally, the colors used by 19th century romanian nationalists were identical to those used bu Michael the Brave on his diplomas. And by 1848 this was definitely consciously used.
@@TheWoollyFrog actually, a bit more "believable" than the michael the brave stuff, is that around the 1830's, the flag of wallachia was yellow-blue (the army used the tricolour already for some reason) and the flag of moldavia was red-blue, so those two combined
To be fair... The problem with Chad's first flag was that it was too close to Mali's. It had the same colors, the only difference was the lack of a little doodle. The problem with Chad's 2nd flag is that it was too close to Romania's. It had the same colors, the only difference was the lack of a little insignia. ...Do you see my point? Chad's blue-yellow-red flag should've been contested since the very beginning. It doesn't matter that Romania changed its flag later on to become more similar to Chad's; Chad's flag was _already_ too close.
@@malekpe236 The flags of the Slavic nations are all similar on purpose, same reason why Luxembourg-Netherlands, the Arabs, Africans, Central Americans and Bolivarian countries have similar flags aswell.
The problem is that they're both tricolors. Complaining about the colors looking similar is trivial when the whole design is the same and is essentially a copy of the Dutch flag.
If Chad would have simply changed the order of the colors, we would have had an Ireland - Ivory Coast situation, which would have been acceptable by us Romanians.
@@malekpe236Yeah why not? 🇸🇮 Slovenia could make a beautiful flag out of the coat itself. 🇮🇩 Indonesia could take inspiration from their variant flag which has 9 alternating stripes, since their flag is newer. They can make it 4, 5 or 6 stripes to make it more simple. 🇳🇱 Netherlands could adopt their orange again, or 🇱🇺 Luxembourg could go with a more different blue or do the same as Indonesia and go with the variant flag of 10 stripes but simplifying it to 5 or 6, and excluding the lion. Alternatively add some red symbol on it or make a stripe red.
I am a romanian. What I can tell you is I don't care if Chad has that flag and I find it funny how chad literally went to the UN to cry about how Romania stole the flag lmao.
The Indonesian and Monaco flags look the same, but here's the story behind them: Monaco's flag was adopted in April 1881. Chosen by Prince Charles III in 1881, the national banner recalls the colors of the Grimaldi coat of arms, which themselves recall the red and white colors of the heraldry of the Genoese Republic, the cradle of the Prince's Family. Monaco's flag has a 4:5 ratio and Indonesia's at 2:3. And the shade of red is darker for Monaco. The Indonesian flag's colors are derived from the banner of the 13th century Majapahit Empire. However, it has been suggested that the red and white symbolism can trace its origin to the older common Austronesian mythology of the duality of Mother Earth (red) and Father Sky (white). This is why these colours appear in so many flags throughout Austronesia, from Tahiti to Madagascar. In the early 20th century these colours were revived by students and then nationalists, as an expression of nationalism against the Dutch. The modern red and white flag which was first flown in Java in 1928
Haiti and Lichtenstein had the same flag (Blue over Red). This error went unnoticed until they both competed in the 1936 Olympic Games in which they paraded their flags at the opening ceremony. Lichtenstein later added their Royal crown in Yellow in canton as a differencing mark in 1937.
@@m.c.martin Haiti added a trophy of arms on a White escutcheon. It can be flown or displayed without it, like Mexico's flag or the European tricolor flags.
Here's the story about why the Puerto Rican and Cuban flags are similar: Puerto Ricans and Cubans are brothers in arms. There were groups of pro-independence Cuban and Puerto Rican exiles living in NYC in the 1800s. The Cuban flag was designed by Narciso López and Miguel Teurbe Tolón over dinner there in 1849 (both of them died in Cuba in 1851 and 1857 respectively due to fighting with the Spanish). Known as the Lone Star of López, red represents the bloodshed of the independence fighters (with the triangle representing liberty, equality, and fraternity), the blue stripes represent the three military departments Cuba used to be divided by, and the white represents the purity of the national movement. The star (representing freedom) and the colors red, white, and blue were originally inspired by the US flag, with the star being added to appeal to the US for statehood (though this didn't happen). So yeah, the Cuban flag is one of two flags of a current communist nation that has no communist symbolism (the other being Laos). Fidel kept it because the flag was already revolutionary enough Like the Cuban flag, the Puerto Rican flag was also designed in NYC by exiles and inspired by the Cuban flag, presented the design to the PR Revolutionary Committee in 1892. The red represents the bloodshed, the two white stripes represent victory and peace, blue represents the sky and the sea, and the star represents the island. The Puerto Ricans created another flag similar to the Dominican Republic's flag that was used during El Grito de Lares in 1868, but this one wasn't used again. So in summary, the US flag inspired the Cuban flag, which then inspired the Puerto Rican flag...inspiration-ception. To recognize NYC's important role in the independence of Cuba, Cuba gifted the city with an equestrian statue of José Martí designed by sculptor Anna Hyatt Huntington that was cast in 1959 and dedicated in 1965, located in the southern end of Central Park
The current flag of PR use to be sky blue like the Cuban flag. It eventually changed to appease our overlords. My old man was a little nuts and would replace the flag with a green and white "independence flag" at different locations. Yes he would get arrested
Moral of the story: The French are always to blame. But on a more serious note, as a Romanian person myself, this was interesting to learn about! I studied Romanian history in depth at school, but it never crossed my mind to look into *how* exactly it came to be. I was aware that the unification and independence movement of Romania was inspired by the French revolutions, but I was not aware that the flag was also inspired from the flag of the French revolution as well. Thank you for this video and lesson, I learned something new today :)
@dragonofthewest8305 Romania had that flag in 1866-1948 and then returned to it in 1989. So Romania was first, even though they weren't using it at the time Chad became independent.
@dragonofthewest8305 Romania created the flag 200 years ago... and then Chad replaces the white from the France flag with yellow and claims Romania copycat it...
The Flag of Romania (Romanian: Drapelul României) is a tricolour with vertical stripes: beginning from the flagpole, blue, yellow and red, these colours found on late 16th century royal grants of Michael the Brave, as well as shields and banners representing Romanians everywhere. During the Wallachian uprising of 1821 these colours composed the revolutionaries’ flag and for the first time a recorded meaning was attributed to them: "Liberty (sky-blue), Justice (field yellow), Fraternity (blood red)". The colours also symbolise the Principalities that formed Romania: Vallachia - yellow (having a yellow and blue flag before the 1859 unification), Moldavia - red (having a red and yellow flag prior to the 1859 unification) and Transylvania -blue (having a blue-red-yellow flag prior to the 1918 Union)
@@killerdinamo08 No, it's freedom & hope for the blue (this one is kind of similar), the desert & sun for the yellow (different) and the shed blood for independence (different). So, overall different.
@@dyawr Wasn't the yellow for the field of grains? Justice is colourless, or should be. And fraternity or bloodshed is the same, still refers to blood.
@@killerdinamo08 No, fraternity & blodshed are 2 different things, lol. The fields of grain plus the sea, are part of an alternative symbolism, not the original one. And it's anyway different from the desert & sun.
@@killerdinamo08 For Romania it's the Roman blood that makes us brothers(because there where many tribes within Valachia, Moldova and Transilvania that were all under Roman Empire rule so we united under this common ancestor), for Chad it's the blood spilled.
As a Romanian watching this, I think it's a good opportunity to form a broship. Why argue over the flag when we could use it as something to bring us together? I love random broships between countries or peoples, like the Irish and the Choctaw natives in the US or Sri Lanka and Japan, where despite their distance or different culture, some event made them friends. So, long live the Chadian-Romanian broship!
I'm going to do it.. I'm going to bring The Netherlands into this....... France's flag is based on the Dutch one.. so all tricolors that are based off of the French flag are in turn based off of the Dutch one 🗿
There was a similar issue with flags of Poland and Czechoslovakia, which had barely distinguishable colors and proportions. However, this only lasted for a few years, as Czechoslovakia changed its flag less than two years after becoming independent.
Thanks for the info. Now the next problem is the air force roundels of the Czech and Dutch Air Force are very similar. Both pie charts of Red White and Blue.
The blue was originally added to symbolize the slovaks, however ever since the separation of the two states of czechoslovakia, the blue on the flag of czechia has come to symbolize the moravians instead
The 3 primary colours: I’m surprised more nations didn’t wind up with identical flags - especially since they are the same colours (or similar hues) used by most of the independent nations of the former Spanish colonies in South America.
The primary colors are red green and blue, the primary pigments are magenta, cyan and yellow…but it seems elementary school teachers don’t like the words “magenta” and “cyan” since the kids don’t know them yet…and then they even buy red and blue paint instead of magenta and cyan so the color mixing project doesn’t seem to quite work the way it should.
@@theodoremurdock9984 green is not a primary colour, the primary colours are red yellow blue We just have rods and cones and shit in our eyes that detect green, blue and red light.
@@theodoremurdock9984 Red-Yellow-Blue are the primary colours in painting - and the RYB theory has been the basis of painting for hundreds of years. The subtractive CMY and CMYK techniques are restricted to (relatively) modern photographic and printing techniques. Kids learn painting and RYB mixing techniques when very young, as painting is a skill acquired at a very early age. Older students at school learn subtractive techniques if they study photography and printing, and the RGB model when learning about digital screen colour theory.
@@RaduRadonys that is why is said "related to balkan countries" since i know only romania is kinda balkan, also i said countries as i was also refering to other "balkan related" conflicts
Michael the Brave (Romanian: Mihai Viteazul [miˈhaj viˈte̯azul] or Mihai Bravu [ˈbravu]; 1558 - 9 August 1601), born as Mihai Pătrașcu, was the Prince of Wallachia (as Michael II, 1593 - 1601), Prince of Moldavia (1600) and de facto ruler of Transylvania (1599 - 1600). He is considered one of Romania's greatest national heroes.[2] Since the 19th century, Michael the Brave has been regarded by Romanian nationalists as a symbol of Romanian unity,[3] as his reign marked the first time all principalities inhabited by Romanians were under the same ruler.[4]
There's a simple solution. Look at Ireland 🇮🇪 and Cote d'Ivoire 🇨🇮. Switch the flag pole to the opposite end in one of the countries. Side note: I think the irish flag might also have been inspired by the French.
idea for solving the problem: make the hole the 1989 revolutionaries put in Romania's flag a permanent feature also makes the Romanian flag instantly stand out not just from Chad, but from everybody
imagine being forced to change your flag that you had for over 150 years because some african colony got independence and had no creativity to make a unique flag for themselves
3:44 it feels a bit weird to portray the situation like this. Chad under French rule wasn't a singular state, it was part of French Equatorial Africa and thus it had no own flag to begin with (similar to how French Guyana is today). Only when Chad was given independence, after the French freeloading of their territory rather than the territory freeloading their flag, they had the chance to get a proper flag.
Nah cuz its crazy how i just learned this exact lesson like 2 months ago in school. Still watched the whole video, i prefer this format rather than textbooks.
@@darkstar3116 We need to ban tricolors and force all countries that use tricolors to change it to a unique flag. We need to also collectively remove tricolors from memory and banish the idea of boxes of color deep into the netherworld, or the Netherlands since they invented tricolor flags.
@@jeyyranthis isn’t true Austria comes from old high German Ostarrîchi which means eastern realm whereas Australia comes from Latin terra Australis which means southern land
Damn this is a dope video, recommended came through this time. Good stuff man, i really like this channel and this is an interesting topic that i never knew about. Thanks
Also Romania have almost the same tricolor emblazoned as the other 2 And if you search more you will see that Andora and my country (Roumania)have before the horizontal color arangement 😂😂😂😳😳🤓
@@SudaNIm103 yes I know I was pointing that with Andora and my country the similarities are so big that both countries have a horizontal alignment of the colors of the flag before and that also my country and the other 2 have almost the same mark on the flag even if the one from the Republic of Moldova is much more similar to ours and inspired by it. P.S. I am curious about the meaning of the mark of the Andora
Canada had a British red ensign as its flag and many commonwealth nations had some variation of it. I think it is cool that nations could share a flag and show solidarity. If someone wanted to use modern Canada's flag I would take it as a compliment.
I get your point that nations share the same basic flag design to show that they are related. A variant of that is the air force roundel of the RAF. The Canadian RAF put a maple leaf in the center, instead of the inner red circle of the RAF, the Aussies had a Kangaroo, the Kiwi's had a kiwi of course. The South Africans had a springbok.
Ivory Coast and lreland had similar flags as did Luxembourg and Netherlands. Haiti and Lithuania had the exact same flags which they only discovered at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin. Both kept the same colors but Haiti added a coat of arms and Lithuania added a gold crown. Fun with flags 😅
the ones to blame here are not the French but the Dutch. The Dutch where the first nation to have a tri colour flag which then a lot of other countries took the concept of.
Chad is mostly at fault here. Their first flag was too similar to Mali, then they changed it. Then it was too similar to Romania, but they didn't change it. They shouldn't have made it similar to Romania's flag to begin with. They still could have kept the Pan African colours and just designed it any other way. They literally could have just added a line and it would have been unique. They could have made the patterns more diagonal. They could have added a circle. They could have done anything.
I sincerely apologise on the absolute tragedy of me pronuncing Wallachia and Moldavia/Moldova, thanks to the people who pointed it out and gave the proper pronunciations
Hey, thats fine. Good work on noticing the issue and good luck on your future projects!
In Romanian we pronounce "Moldavia" as "Moldova" too. Even though the current Romanians who live in the nation of Moldova like to see themselves as different, in reality we are all the same people so I don't think the way you pronounced it is such an issue.
Also in the end could've added moldova but nice vid ^^
The common pronunciation "Wallakia" is actually wrong too. Its spelling was unfortunately taken from German, where the "W" is pronounced as "V" and the "CH" is pronounched as "H". So, to avoid confusion, the ideal spelling would be "Valahia" similar to "Valhalla".
I was not offended in the slightest, but for aknowledging it you got my sub
As any civilised person, he found a way to blame the French.
Its only natural
with the way france have become gta or Fortnite these last couple hours (days?) i can’t blame them
@@batrienielyou're talking about the riots against the murder of a 17 years old boy by the police? That's real life, my dude
@@lounirs sorry to break it to you,but as someone who is currently living in frnace,i don’t see how burning innocent peoples cars (which don’t all have insurance),the stores (ie grocery stores like lidl,carrefour,auchan ect) have nothing to do with the shooting of the young boy
@@lounirs their using that as a pretext and justification of those actions.if it were protests i wouldn’t say anything.but they are literally burning houses with parents inside and children of said parents screaming and begging for help “just for naël/nahel”
Chad: “You copycat!”
Romania: “We invented it!”
France: *Sweating and eyeing the conflict*
Andorra: *Sweating in terror*
Moldova: *Sweating profusely*
Moldova was part of the OG Moldavia (f**k you Russia) so there's no problem here.
There's so many places that aren't Andorra!
Moldova was part of romania and has the moldovan coat of arms on the flag. It's only natural to have a simmilar flag dipshit.
@@doomsdayrabbit4398🇦🇩
I think Romania was cool with Moldova that Moldova used Romanias TriColour
Wow youtubes actually recommending good creators with small audiences???
I didn't realize that this youtuber only has ~500 subs.
good on youtube for once
very surprised!
seems like youtube is really pushing these 500-4k subsribers youtubers to me and im very glad for that
773 subscribers as of the 24th of June 2023 15:46
I read this and was like no fucking way it's better than most channels with 10k+ subs
So what did we learn today kids?
It's always the French's fault
French and the Britsh
Be it borders or flags, it's always the two's fault
You don't make a colonial empire without breaking a few... everything, really
They were making the mother of all omelettes. They refused to fret over every egg. This was a poor decision in the long run. It seemed good at the time because they were purging the weak nations to improve their own status.
@@saminyasir1847and sometimes the Americans which was made by the brits and French but both of those were made by the germans so IT'S ALWAYS THE GERMANS FAULT! But germany came because of italy! Which came from carthage. Which is israel/palestine so it's THE JEWS FAULT!!!
Perfect solution: add Andorran coat of arms to both Chad and Romanian flags to make all 3 indistinguishable
let there be anarchy 😅
Or add Moldovan coat of arms to Romanian flag and Andorran coat of arms to Chad's flag, or vice versa
Unify Romania and Chad into one glorious state!
Why can't we use smiley faces instead of flags?
@@sorin_channelthat would be funny, if Moldova's flag wasn't invented by *literally doing exactly that*
The "Romania being the Chad" joke actually made me laugh out loud.
So, Chad designed an unoriginal flag to avoid designing an unoriginal flag.
1:09 It is important to note that the color scheme was inspired by heraldry present on diplomas emitted by former voievode of Wallachia, Michael the Brave, who actually ruled over an united Romania for a year back in 1600. Hence the inspiration.
Perfect profile pic to make this comment
It is also important to note that despite the habit of 19th century patriotic painters of placing the national flag in scenes depicting Michael the Brave, the very concept of national flags did not exist in the principalities at the time. This stems from a legend about the three colours being based on the colours of the 3 principalities being merged on one flag. The real reason the colours were first used in 1821 is because the Wallachian rebels admired the revolutionary spirit of France but wanted a flag that is a bit different but still recognisable.
@@TheWoollyFrog True, but either coincidentally or intentionally, the colors used by 19th century romanian nationalists were identical to those used bu Michael the Brave on his diplomas. And by 1848 this was definitely consciously used.
Wait so is your profile pic Romania or Chad?
@@TheWoollyFrog actually, a bit more "believable" than the michael the brave stuff, is that around the 1830's, the flag of wallachia was yellow-blue (the army used the tricolour already for some reason) and the flag of moldavia was red-blue, so those two combined
To be fair...
The problem with Chad's first flag was that it was too close to Mali's. It had the same colors, the only difference was the lack of a little doodle.
The problem with Chad's 2nd flag is that it was too close to Romania's. It had the same colors, the only difference was the lack of a little insignia.
...Do you see my point? Chad's blue-yellow-red flag should've been contested since the very beginning. It doesn't matter that Romania changed its flag later on to become more similar to Chad's; Chad's flag was _already_ too close.
@@malekpe236 The flags of the Slavic nations are all similar on purpose, same reason why Luxembourg-Netherlands, the Arabs, Africans, Central Americans and Bolivarian countries have similar flags aswell.
The problem is that they're both tricolors. Complaining about the colors looking similar is trivial when the whole design is the same and is essentially a copy of the Dutch flag.
If Chad would have simply changed the order of the colors, we would have had an Ireland - Ivory Coast situation, which would have been acceptable by us Romanians.
@@malekpe236Yeah why not?
🇸🇮 Slovenia could make a beautiful flag out of the coat itself.
🇮🇩 Indonesia could take inspiration from their variant flag which has 9 alternating stripes, since their flag is newer. They can make it 4, 5 or 6 stripes to make it more simple.
🇳🇱 Netherlands could adopt their orange again, or 🇱🇺 Luxembourg could go with a more different blue or do the same as Indonesia and go with the variant flag of 10 stripes but simplifying it to 5 or 6, and excluding the lion. Alternatively add some red symbol on it or make a stripe red.
There are no laws saying flags can't be identical
I am a romanian. What I can tell you is I don't care if Chad has that flag and I find it funny how chad literally went to the UN to cry about how Romania stole the flag lmao.
LOL Romania is the bigger chad. Maybe Chad should change its name?
Well they did something about bit, unlike Romanian who wouldn't mind even if their identity was 'stolen'.
@@killerdinamo08i bet u were the kinda kid who would run to the teacher every time a classmate would make fun of u
"UN, pot confirma ca Albastru Galben Rosu e singurul lucru pe care NU l-am furat."
@@3_14thon7 No, I avoided the teachers, they we're worse than the kids... But I went thru school and it's harshness, unlike you.
The Indonesian and Monaco flags look the same, but here's the story behind them: Monaco's flag was adopted in April 1881. Chosen by Prince Charles III in 1881, the national banner recalls the colors of the Grimaldi coat of arms, which themselves recall the red and white colors of the heraldry of the Genoese Republic, the cradle of the Prince's Family. Monaco's flag has a 4:5 ratio and Indonesia's at 2:3. And the shade of red is darker for Monaco.
The Indonesian flag's colors are derived from the banner of the 13th century Majapahit Empire. However, it has been suggested that the red and white symbolism can trace its origin to the older common Austronesian mythology of the duality of Mother Earth (red) and Father Sky (white). This is why these colours appear in so many flags throughout Austronesia, from Tahiti to Madagascar. In the early 20th century these colours were revived by students and then nationalists, as an expression of nationalism against the Dutch. The modern red and white flag which was first flown in Java in 1928
Then why is red at the top?
@@se6369 because mother like to be on the top??...
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I'll see myself out.
@@se6369 Because they didn't want the same flag as Poland? 🙂
Sorry but this means WAR!!!!
I can tell the difference between an Indonesian and a Monegask. Something about the color of their skin.
Chad's attempt at implying Romania was being a meanie by using "their" flag is nothing short of a Monthy Python skit.
Haiti and Lichtenstein had the same flag (Blue over Red). This error went unnoticed until they both competed in the 1936 Olympic Games in which they paraded their flags at the opening ceremony.
Lichtenstein later added their Royal crown in Yellow in canton as a differencing mark in 1937.
Haiti added a symbol too
@@m.c.martinyou mean they added a jpeg
Well, the color of the skin reveals weather it is a Haitian or Liechtensteiner.
@@m.c.martin Haiti added a trophy of arms on a White escutcheon. It can be flown or displayed without it, like Mexico's flag or the European tricolor flags.
Here's the story about why the Puerto Rican and Cuban flags are similar: Puerto Ricans and Cubans are brothers in arms. There were groups of pro-independence Cuban and Puerto Rican exiles living in NYC in the 1800s. The Cuban flag was designed by Narciso López and Miguel Teurbe Tolón over dinner there in 1849 (both of them died in Cuba in 1851 and 1857 respectively due to fighting with the Spanish). Known as the Lone Star of López, red represents the bloodshed of the independence fighters (with the triangle representing liberty, equality, and fraternity), the blue stripes represent the three military departments Cuba used to be divided by, and the white represents the purity of the national movement. The star (representing freedom) and the colors red, white, and blue were originally inspired by the US flag, with the star being added to appeal to the US for statehood (though this didn't happen). So yeah, the Cuban flag is one of two flags of a current communist nation that has no communist symbolism (the other being Laos). Fidel kept it because the flag was already revolutionary enough
Like the Cuban flag, the Puerto Rican flag was also designed in NYC by exiles and inspired by the Cuban flag, presented the design to the PR Revolutionary Committee in 1892. The red represents the bloodshed, the two white stripes represent victory and peace, blue represents the sky and the sea, and the star represents the island. The Puerto Ricans created another flag similar to the Dominican Republic's flag that was used during El Grito de Lares in 1868, but this one wasn't used again. So in summary, the US flag inspired the Cuban flag, which then inspired the Puerto Rican flag...inspiration-ception. To recognize NYC's important role in the independence of Cuba, Cuba gifted the city with an equestrian statue of José Martí designed by sculptor Anna Hyatt Huntington that was cast in 1959 and dedicated in 1965, located in the southern end of Central Park
How read that?
Not me
@@mr.chickenen*How* read that?
The current flag of PR use to be sky blue like the Cuban flag. It eventually changed to appease our overlords. My old man was a little nuts and would replace the flag with a green and white "independence flag" at different locations. Yes he would get arrested
And the Puerto Rican flag inspired the Catalonian flag.
Moral of the story: The French are always to blame.
But on a more serious note, as a Romanian person myself, this was interesting to learn about! I studied Romanian history in depth at school, but it never crossed my mind to look into *how* exactly it came to be. I was aware that the unification and independence movement of Romania was inspired by the French revolutions, but I was not aware that the flag was also inspired from the flag of the French revolution as well. Thank you for this video and lesson, I learned something new today :)
Keep going! This channel has really good potential. Im romanian and you explained the topic very well
The oldest country is Romania and it is their historical flag registered when they were member state of the SDN (predecessor of the UN ).
In English the SDN is called the League of Nations.
@dragonofthewest8305 Romania had that flag in 1866-1948 and then returned to it in 1989. So Romania was first, even though they weren't using it at the time Chad became independent.
@dragonofthewest8305 Romania had the idea of this flag back in 1600s as well
@@Vengir Sleague Dof Nations
@dragonofthewest8305 Romania created the flag 200 years ago... and then Chad replaces the white from the France flag with yellow and claims Romania copycat it...
When you said Chad used France's flag, I thought, "Oh, they just replaced France's white with yellow." Well, I had the right idea but wrong color, lol
“Ypu probably do more useful things than staring at flags” me:no
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The Flag of Romania
(Romanian: Drapelul României) is a tricolour with vertical stripes: beginning from the flagpole, blue, yellow and red, these colours found on late 16th century royal grants of Michael the Brave, as well as shields and banners representing Romanians everywhere. During the Wallachian uprising of 1821 these colours composed the revolutionaries’ flag and for the first time a recorded meaning was attributed to them: "Liberty (sky-blue), Justice (field yellow), Fraternity (blood red)". The colours also symbolise the Principalities that formed Romania: Vallachia - yellow (having a yellow and blue flag before the 1859 unification), Moldavia - red (having a red and yellow flag prior to the 1859 unification) and Transylvania -blue (having a blue-red-yellow flag prior to the 1918 Union)
And Chad's colours symbolise the same 😂.
@@killerdinamo08 No, it's freedom & hope for the blue (this one is kind of similar), the desert & sun for the yellow (different) and the shed blood for independence (different). So, overall different.
@@dyawr Wasn't the yellow for the field of grains? Justice is colourless, or should be. And fraternity or bloodshed is the same, still refers to blood.
@@killerdinamo08 No, fraternity & blodshed are 2 different things, lol. The fields of grain plus the sea, are part of an alternative symbolism, not the original one. And it's anyway different from the desert & sun.
@@killerdinamo08 For Romania it's the Roman blood that makes us brothers(because there where many tribes within Valachia, Moldova and Transilvania that were all under Roman Empire rule so we united under this common ancestor), for Chad it's the blood spilled.
The easy solution would be to just integrate Romania into Chad and call it Gigachad
It feels so good to get recommended a hidden gem of a channel like this
As a Romanian watching this, I think it's a good opportunity to form a broship. Why argue over the flag when we could use it as something to bring us together? I love random broships between countries or peoples, like the Irish and the Choctaw natives in the US or Sri Lanka and Japan, where despite their distance or different culture, some event made them friends. So, long live the Chadian-Romanian broship!
This! We can be chads and romantics at the same time ;)
As long as they stay in their own country
@@imt1217 Huh?
@@octavianpopescu4776 niggas are a bioweapon
Always gotta be a random rayst jumping in
when in doubt, blame the fr*nch
Like most modern conflicts, this can be traced back to the French.
I'm going to do it.. I'm going to bring The Netherlands into this.......
France's flag is based on the Dutch one.. so all tricolors that are based off of the French flag are in turn based off of the Dutch one 🗿
So its Hollands' fault! It all makes sense now!
- Steal the flag colors
- Refuse to elaborate further
- Leaves
Romania: HEY, you STOLE my fuckin flag 😡
Chad: NO, I didn't 😭
Moldova: 🥸
Andorra: 🙈
4:07 "(Except Guinea's marvelous "reverse the colours" trick)" xD
I tried to find a difference between the flags of Chad and Romania and now I am color blind lmao
There was a similar issue with flags of Poland and Czechoslovakia, which had barely distinguishable colors and proportions. However, this only lasted for a few years, as Czechoslovakia changed its flag less than two years after becoming independent.
Thanks for the info. Now the next problem is the air force roundels of the Czech and Dutch Air Force are very similar. Both pie charts of Red White and Blue.
The blue was originally added to symbolize the slovaks, however ever since the separation of the two states of czechoslovakia, the blue on the flag of czechia has come to symbolize the moravians instead
@@mardiffv.8775 turn one upside down maybe?
The 3 primary colours: I’m surprised more nations didn’t wind up with identical flags - especially since they are the same colours (or similar hues) used by most of the independent nations of the former Spanish colonies in South America.
The primary colors are red green and blue, the primary pigments are magenta, cyan and yellow…but it seems elementary school teachers don’t like the words “magenta” and “cyan” since the kids don’t know them yet…and then they even buy red and blue paint instead of magenta and cyan so the color mixing project doesn’t seem to quite work the way it should.
@@theodoremurdock9984 green is not a primary colour, the primary colours are red yellow blue
We just have rods and cones and shit in our eyes that detect green, blue and red light.
@@theodoremurdock9984 Red-Yellow-Blue are the primary colours in painting - and the RYB theory has been the basis of painting for hundreds of years. The subtractive CMY and CMYK techniques are restricted to (relatively) modern photographic and printing techniques. Kids learn painting and RYB mixing techniques when very young, as painting is a skill acquired at a very early age. Older students at school learn subtractive techniques if they study photography and printing, and the RGB model when learning about digital screen colour theory.
@@Robespierre-lI red green *blood*
O.o
I love your style, try slowing down your narration just a little bit. Cheers mate
This is a FANTASTIC video! Keep going. You deserve way more recognition. +1 sub
I like how every conflict and dispute related to balkan countries at its core has the question "Who was first?"
Chad isn't Balkan at all, while Romania is barely Balkan. So much for "balkan countries"...
@@RaduRadonys that is why is said "related to balkan countries" since i know only romania is kinda balkan, also i said countries as i was also refering to other "balkan related" conflicts
A British guy blaming the French, there's a new one.
The shitload of bloodshed in Chad made me laugh out loud 😂
Romanians are actually chill with the same flag but chad was whining to UN that romania "stole their flag" 💀 not a chad move
Michael the Brave (Romanian: Mihai Viteazul [miˈhaj viˈte̯azul] or Mihai Bravu [ˈbravu]; 1558 - 9 August 1601), born as Mihai Pătrașcu, was the Prince of Wallachia (as Michael II, 1593 - 1601), Prince of Moldavia (1600) and de facto ruler of Transylvania (1599 - 1600). He is considered one of Romania's greatest national heroes.[2] Since the 19th century, Michael the Brave has been regarded by Romanian nationalists as a symbol of Romanian unity,[3] as his reign marked the first time all principalities inhabited by Romanians were under the same ruler.[4]
And what does this have to do with the flag?
@@killerdinamo08 well.. The date is important.. In the late 1500.. 1595+ to be more exact, CHAD WASN'T A COUNTRY...
@@killerdinamo08he was technically the origin of the colors, flag, and ambition to unite
Good stuff, subbed
There's a simple solution. Look at Ireland 🇮🇪 and Cote d'Ivoire 🇨🇮. Switch the flag pole to the opposite end in one of the countries.
Side note: I think the irish flag might also have been inspired by the French.
idea for solving the problem: make the hole the 1989 revolutionaries put in Romania's flag a permanent feature
also makes the Romanian flag instantly stand out not just from Chad, but from everybody
Hungarian's were first to use a flag with a hole in the middle, so they wouldn't be that original
No, it would make the Romanian flag inherently Anti-Communist. It would be too ideologically motivated.
The flag can't wave if it has a hole.
imagine being forced to change your flag that you had for over 150 years because some african colony got independence and had no creativity to make a unique flag for themselves
Would the hole be just a white circle in the middle, or an actual hole in the fabric?
unironically my new favourite explanation of this ensign escapade
As a Romanian, I think the original horizontal tricolour actually looked better. Wouldn't mind reverting to that.
L-as prefera si eu daca n-ar fi atat de asemanator cu steagul curcubeu al alora pe invers.
I feel like this channel will explode soon :)
4:57 Romania: "This is the one thing i never stole"
Chad: "Yet another act of theft from Romanians"
This had me gasping for oxygen 😂😂😂
Subscribed at 3.28k subs. Just leaving this here so I can remember when this channel blows up. Awesome video!
What this video really showed me is that if you try hard enough you can trace any problem back to the French
Damn that was hilarious. Subbed my dude and keep em coming.
Staring at flags seems pretty normal to me...
This video is awesome.👍🏼
Thank you for lifting my confusion.
This is why I hate tricolor flags and wished more flags were unique and not just three bars of color.
RUclips likes you, so I subbed
Given that so many flags are three colour stripes horizonal or vertical, I'm surprised there aren't more identical flags.
Based on these comments, it sounds like there are
The humor and art were on point. Great video!
I was waiting for a gigachad to appear........sorely disappointed.
But good vid regardless👍👍👍
3:44 it feels a bit weird to portray the situation like this. Chad under French rule wasn't a singular state, it was part of French Equatorial Africa and thus it had no own flag to begin with (similar to how French Guyana is today). Only when Chad was given independence, after the French freeloading of their territory rather than the territory freeloading their flag, they had the chance to get a proper flag.
I want to see the UN Transcript of Romania telling Chad to fk off 😂
Nah cuz its crazy how i just learned this exact lesson like 2 months ago in school. Still watched the whole video, i prefer this format rather than textbooks.
Whatever you do, do NOT, I repeat do NOT, google the Parthenopean republic
@@darkstar3116 We need to ban tricolors and force all countries that use tricolors to change it to a unique flag. We need to also collectively remove tricolors from memory and banish the idea of boxes of color deep into the netherworld, or the Netherlands since they invented tricolor flags.
They should have a wrestling match to sort out the issue.
This is a cool channel!! Keep up the good work
This reminds of how both Austria and Australia are really similar.
well both come from the latin term for south, but austria was named first 😜
@@jeyyranthis isn’t true Austria comes from old high German Ostarrîchi which means eastern realm whereas Australia comes from Latin terra Australis which means southern land
Damn this is a dope video, recommended came through this time. Good stuff man, i really like this channel and this is an interesting topic that i never knew about. Thanks
Nice! 🙂
5:48 Of course, also Moldova ;-)
3:57 I like how the Chad borders make it look like a face
Hey man great work, this single video earned this channel one more subscriber my friend. Looking forward to checking out the rest of your content
"Coincidence?! I THINK NOT!"
We need a country called based to use that same flag now.
0:03
You shown Poland’s flag, respect
Like Andorra, the Republic of Moldova also uses the same tricolor emblazoned.
Also Romania have almost the same tricolor emblazoned as the other 2
And if you search more you will see that Andora and my country (Roumania)have before the horizontal color arangement 😂😂😂😳😳🤓
@@alinbejinaru1755 🤨 Ummm. . . yeah, that was the subject of the video‽
@@SudaNIm103 yes I know I was pointing that with Andora and my country the similarities are so big that both countries have a horizontal alignment of the colors of the flag before and that also my country and the other 2 have almost the same mark on the flag even if the one from the Republic of Moldova is much more similar to ours and inspired by it.
P.S. I am curious about the meaning of the mark of the Andora
Canada had a British red ensign as its flag and many commonwealth nations had some variation of it. I think it is cool that nations could share a flag and show solidarity. If someone wanted to use modern Canada's flag I would take it as a compliment.
I get your point that nations share the same basic flag design to show that they are related. A variant of that is the air force roundel of the RAF. The Canadian RAF put a maple leaf in the center, instead of the inner red circle of the RAF, the Aussies had a Kangaroo, the Kiwi's had a kiwi of course. The South Africans had a springbok.
The virgin Romanian revolutionist vs The Chad Chad flag stealer
That white yellow and red looked good though
Ivory Coast and lreland had similar flags as did Luxembourg and Netherlands.
Haiti and Lithuania had the exact same flags which they only discovered at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin. Both kept the same colors but Haiti added a coat of arms and Lithuania added a gold crown.
Fun with flags 😅
Liechtenstein, not Lithuania.
“Well, one of us has to change.”
don't even get me started with the flag of ivory coast...
Super nice channel! Keep going 💪 love from… France 🥖👨🎨
Samonella might be gone but his legacy lives on
He made a vid recently.
"This is the one thing I never stole" 💀
Gonna sit down and watch all your videos this evening can’t wait ♥️♥️♥️
If you look closely at the thumbnail the two blues look slightly different.
You managed to put a beard on Alexandru Ioan Cuza where he did not have and leave out the only part where he actually had :DDD He had a goatee :)
I've always wanted fun with flags from big bang theory IRL
Andorra flag seems a mix of France and Spain ones, that's not surprising as it was a co-principality for centuries.
the ones to blame here are not the French but the Dutch. The Dutch where the first nation to have a tri colour flag which then a lot of other countries took the concept of.
Chad is mostly at fault here. Their first flag was too similar to Mali, then they changed it. Then it was too similar to Romania, but they didn't change it. They shouldn't have made it similar to Romania's flag to begin with.
They still could have kept the Pan African colours and just designed it any other way. They literally could have just added a line and it would have been unique. They could have made the patterns more diagonal. They could have added a circle. They could have done anything.
Chad could've, should have, instead they choose to whine to UN !
Easy solution: unite the two countries to form the Federation of Romania and Chad.
Yeah
you finlly blew up!,! very nice
Chad arrived at Rome’s Central station & upon leaving the station saw on a wall the graffiti ‘When in Rome, do what the Romanians do’ 😂
It’s funny how you say the blue is much more noticeable. For me it’s definitely the yellow which makes me think for some it must be the red!
I can't see any difference in the yellow! 😳
A Funny Fact one was that Liechtenstein and Haiti showed up at the 1936 Olympic Games and noticed their countries had identical flags.
Good vid. Thx.
"Fuck off Chad". Quote of the day 😂
informative and funny video, ya gained a sub
Dude. Indonesia 🇮🇩 and Poland 🇵🇱 always gets me.
Throw Monaco in there too
@@DrakenROM yer right haha
They are at least visibly different
the chad borders actually look like a chad face
This is amazing content!!! You deserve way more subs!
Romania: "Nooooo, we can't just have the same flag!"
Chad: *is Chad*
Chad cried to the UN about the romanian flag.
@@HeirofDacia Yh but the meme works better if I omit that fact, hahaha
@@brettjohnson536 Lol
All Chad has to do is add a star, and/or maybe make the stripes diagonal.