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Very good introduction

Chapter 8 was pretty good, I liked learning about the similarities between some flags , as well as the Brazilian flag but I would have liked to have more about “order and progress”

Argentina and falklands is also pretty cool but I think they could have spent more time on this

Chapter 7 was pretty good I especially liked the story about nigerias flag as well as that of Ethiopia and it’s connections to Rastafarianism and marcus Garvey

Honestly chapter 6 was just okay I kind of just skimmed through most of it

Chapter 5 was …. I just don’t think it was necessary to make basically a whole chapter about Palestinian groups labelled under “flags of fear” like there’s other terror groups in the world and this just rubbed me the wrong way

Chapter 4 was pretty good. I particularly enjoyed understand the contestation around using religious symbols on flags

I actually really liked chapter 3, I really liked learning about the Russian flags (hammer and sickle) as well as the association between flags and extreme right wing groups, which has been heightened by the refugee crisis that happened in the 2010s

I really mostly skimmed over chapter 2, except for the parts about colonialism and it being used as a far right / fascist object

Chapter one was good, it went over how the US views the American flag in a sort of religious sense.

Burning a flag as free speech.
Instilling a sense of hope.
Flown during wars.