Poll: Italian and Irish Flag Confusion

[ParanoidAndroid]

No, but that's probably due to the fact that I'm Irish.

 

[Redlin5_v1legacy]

Nah, I know the Italian flag pretty well and I always run the mouse over the flag anyway if it's not a flag I'm intimately familiar with.

 

[Artina89]

No I have never mixed up the Irish and the Italian flags. For a start off, my Irish and Italian friends would never let me hear the end of it if I did

I admit though, the Ivory coast and the Irish flag both look rather similar

Ivory coast

Ireland

I am aware the Ivory coast flag has the orange on the hoist side, whereas Ireland has the green on the hoist side, but somtimes when I am really tired I have gotten them mixed up.

 

[manythings]

Nah, never. But I am Irish, so I'm pretty used to it.

I don't.
I remember the Italian flag like this -
Red is Germany in the east, Green is France in the west, White is Italy.
Though I'm not sure how I managed to rememebr that.

Funnily enough, that is the general sort of idea behind the Irish flag.
Green for the south, orange for the north, and the white meaning peace between the two.

Well, that was the idea anyway...

Constitutionally it was originally gold for prosperity.

I'm surprised no one has brought up the Indian flag which is the same with a wheel in the middle that symbolises buddhism. The wheel is a giveaway but... well sometimes people ignore very specific important details.

 

[DustyDrB]

I'm from the US:

Nah, Red White and Green is Italian. Every shitty deli and pizza place in Charleston puts some Italian flag sticker on their window. So I associate the Italian flag with soggy sandwiches.

Though I really don't encounter the Irish flag much, so I don't recognize it. I just don't look at flags, so only know a few (I could recognize the US flag, the Italian flag, the Canadian flag, and the Japanese flag. That's it).

If anything in America wants to look Irish, they just bathe it in green, clovers, and Boston Red Sox crap. So as a Yankees fan, I have associated Irish-ness with the Sox and am automatically apprehensive. Anyway, I never see the Irish flag, but I wouldn't confuse it with the Italian one.

 

[Davey Woo]

Never, because I know that the Italian flag is Green white and Red, and I don't see the Irish flag all that often, though I wouldn't ever confuse the two.

 

[DustyDrB]

I have to ask this...

Is it me or are people here in the US often way too overt about how "Irish" they are? It's really weird to me, since their family was really only Irish five or six generations ago.

 

[gigastrike]

I know what they look like, but I always wonder if the coloring in the picture is off for some reason.

 

[BlumiereBleck]

Never, but while in 6th Grade i confused Mexico's flag with Italy's.

 

[DefinitelyPsychotic]

Maybe they should have come up with more creative flags.

Hell, the Mexican flag is a direct copy of the Italian one, but just with a symbol in the middle of it.

 

[Fenix7]

Grew up in Italy and never confused our flag with the Irish one. Call me weird, but I find Hungary's flag more confusable (is that a word?) than the Irish one.

 

[randomuser642596]

I could see how it would happen, but it's never personally been a problem.

 

[Prince Regent]

Nah those two I don't confuse.

But just compare the dutch flag with that of Luxembourg.

Left is dutch right is luxembourg.

 

[FalloutJack]

Who cares? I'm both nationalities at once!

 

[TheIronRuler]

I don't.
I remember the Italian flag like this -
Red is Germany in the east, Green is France in the west, White is Italy.
Though I'm not sure how I managed to rememebr that.

especially ofcourse cause it's damned wrong

Croatia bosnia serbia slovakia
those are all countries east of italy

Germany is north

I nearly used a bad word there


What the fuck is up with people and there damned ignorance of geography

Did you feel good after pointing this out?
Did you? I think so.
The reason behind it is that there are no major countries to the immediate east of italy so I chose germany. Croatia and Austria border italy to the east, the rest is sepeated by the meditteranian sea.