red white and blue

[black lincon]

I've been thinking about the flags of 4 of the 6 English speaking countries flags and what they mean I know what mine means but I have no idea what Britain's means and by extension Australia and New Zealand and more specifically why did they pick red white and blue in the first place maybe one of you Brits could help me out.

and for you who couldn't figure out the sixth English speaking country its Guyana a south American country know best for Jonestown in the states at least.

 

[Evilbunny]

I dunno, why did France pick red white and blue?

 

[Ares Tyr]

In the language of flags, each color has its own meaning, and while I do not know them myself, I know that flag colors are chosen upon this meaning. Apparently France, England, America, and Australia all hold very similar values. Or atleast their founders did.

 

[Easykill]

They were copying someone? I don't know why I said that, but whatever.

 

[Solo508]

The British union jack is simply a combination of the flags of the countries that make up Great Britain; Scotland, England, Ireland and Wales.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/89/Flags_of_the_Union_Jack.svg/350px-Flags_of_the_Union_Jack.svg.png

You can read more about the Union Flag on wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_Flag

 

[Aardvark Soup]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tricolour

One of the first tricolours and the oldest tricolour still in use today is the flag of the Netherlands; one of the first vertical tricolours is the tricolore of France.

It seems everyone was copying us

 

[Gooble]

The Union Jack is a combination of the flags of England (White background, red cross), and Scotland (Blue background, white diagonal cross).

 

[poleboy]

I know the French flag represents the ideals of the French Revolution, but I'm not sure if the colors correspond to specific ideals.

Denmark's national flag is the oldest official country flag still in use. Wikipedia claims we used a Raven banner before that one. Awesome sources indicate it may have looked like this. Less awesome sources say: Probably not. But who listens to them anway.

 

[Fronken]

I know the French flag represents the ideals of the French Revolution, but I'm not sure if the colors correspond to specific ideals.

Denmark's national flag is the oldest official country flag still in use. Wikipedia claims we used a Raven banner before that one. Awesome sources indicate it may have looked like this. Less awesome sources say: Probably not. But who listens to them anway.

didnt you know?, the whole of scandinavia was under the influence of the chaos gods before we decided it was about time we stopped mucking about with gods and stuff and created our current, boring flags.

 

[zirnitra]

well the Union Flag is a Combination of all the countries that make up Great Briton Australia and New Zealand have our flags in theirs because we used to own them and we could tell them to have whatever flag we bloody well pleased and removing it in this day and age would cause loss of major political influence from us.

 

[Xhumed]

I know the French flag represents the ideals of the French Revolution, but I'm not sure if the colors correspond to specific ideals.

Denmark's national flag is the oldest official country flag still in use. Wikipedia claims we used a Raven banner before that one. Awesome sources indicate it may have looked like this. Less awesome sources say: Probably not. But who listens to them anway.

Liberte, Egalite and Fraternite (imagine the accents in the right places) were the three guiding principles of the French Revolution, so I'm guessing its got something to do with that.

 

[Ancalagon]

and for you who couldn't figure out the sixth English speaking country its Guyana a south American country know best for Jonestown in the states at least.

There are 54 countries that have English as one of their official languages.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_where_English_is_an_official_language

It's not the most widely spoken in all of these, but at the very least you're missing out several Caribbean and Pacific nations whose entire population speak English or a dialect of English.