As someone from outside the USA, I’m surprised a state flag looks this good. I dig it.
It’s no California Bear, but it’s up there
The bear is great but the fact that they label it “CALIFORNIA” in big block letters makes me laugh every time I see it. It’s like a child drawing.
https://lemmy.world/comment/8300053
All good things in America should be treated with suspicion
It’s not uncommon to have religious symbolism in flags. 🇦🇨🇦🇫🇧🇲🇦🇺🇦🇮🇧🇻🇮🇪🇬🇧🇸🇦🇫🇮🇫🇴🇸🇪🇮🇶🏴🏴
Just a quick glance through flag emojis for some.
Love that someone downvoted this
Looks like an nfl team logo. I hate how contemporary corporate design it is.
You think that’s bad, check out some of the municipal flags in Japan, especially the ones designed in the early 2000s. The ones based on old clan symbols are fine, but those other ones look like some corpo bro from the 90s commissioned designs by saying “I want it to have more radical swoosh vibes!”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_municipal_flags_of_Tōhoku_region
Hirosaki not changing theirs is… interesting.
I guess Buddhism is still common enough in Asia that WWII didn’t completely ruin the manji. You still see temples marked on maps with it these days.
I still can’t believe they tried to stop this from being adopted because better designs are woke now apparently
Look, let’s be honest. Any change is “woke.” There is this imaginary world that existed 80 years ago that they want to get back to, that was all sunshine and surplus, and they think that any change, particularly progressive change, is bad and “woke.”
Edit: so I realized what instance I was in and that this isn’t the appropriate place for that rant. So I will just say that I really appreciate the changes that are being made to flags, because it seems like the people coming up with the flags in the first place didn’t really get it.
Why is the lower part in red?
It represents the blood that will be spilled in Utah’s conquest for world domination.
In all seriousness, it’s meant to evoke a rocky canyon. Additionally, the white is meant to be mountains (hence the shape), and the blue is sky.
is utah known for beekeeping or something?
When settlers first got to Utah they imported bees and brought them in to help develop and cultivate. Since then, Utah has been known as the beehive state.
That would be a logical reason for it but remember this is Utah… so no.
Bees have weird place in Mormon lore. The creepy founder created a new name for them in the Book of Mormon “Deseret”.
His successor, Brigham Young, used it as the name of country Mormons tried to establish in the west.
“It represents a theocracy ruled by the church.”
The bee symbolism used in sermons from the 1850s described the godly society the Saints strove to build.
https://byustudies.byu.edu/article/the-symbolism-of-the-beehive-in-latter-day-saint-tradition/
It’s lovely. Unlike the compromise flag that came out of Minnesota.
You’re looking at the Minnesota flag through the eyes of someone with lots of good choices who didn’t get what they want. I think there’s no doubt that the current new flag is an upgrade from the old one.
Is there alot of bees there?
Since you haven’t received a serious answer yet…
Utah is self reffered to as the Beehive State because Brigham Young originally wanted to name it “Deseret” from the Book of Mormon. “Deseret” in LDS teachings means “Honeybee”. This was meant to show that the Mormon settlers were hardworking, industrious, and self reliant.
This obviously didn’t fly for a ton of reasons and they didn’t have much of a choice after the Union Army basically chased them halfway across the country and then took a foothold right alongside them in the territory to make sure they didn’t establish a Theocratic state.
to make sure they didn’t establish a Theocratic state.
Another Big L for the US military
Wait, you support a theocratic state?
Have you been to Utah? It is a theocracy.
