So cool. Uh, Nick, I don't need you now though. Head out, go. All right, everybody, welcome back to the Flag/Fan Friday

Hope you liked the Mauritius episode. As you guys know, this is the part where

I kind of fix the mistakes that were in the episode or I talk about stuff that I didn't talk about

First of all, yes, there were some spelling mistakes and like grammar mistakes French is hard.

Also uh, this is not Grand Baie wrong image. Also

I used the wrong image of the wrong Dutch Prince that the country's named after

Also I said Mauritius is kind of like the Singapore of Africa, technically, maybe Seychelles actually takes that title

It's smaller and even richer we'll talk about that in another episode

Also, I want to talk more about the Chagos people

It is kind of like a source of controversy for both Mauritius and the UK

Basically, the people of the Chagos islands were slaves that were brought in during the colonial years over time

They kind of developed their own culture on the islands, but then after Mauritius gained independence

part of the deal was that the UK would take over the chocolate islands instead of Mauritius and in doing so the people of the

Chagos Islands were then

Deported to Mauritius to this theory and the Chagos people kind of want their islands back and there's a lot of dispute going on yada

yada

It's a long story and finally Mauritius is one of the only 4 countries in the world that does not have any domestic or international

Conflict the other ones being Botswana Chile and Uruguay and yeah, that's just about it

I think there's a few other things that could have been mentioned but

uh we don't have time

If you know of anything write in the comments in the meantime, we gotta get to the flag. So without further ado

*flag friday intro*

Ah, Mauritius. If you want to go raise your hand. So cool how they make so many different people groups, isn't it?

Anyway, to the flag. Adopted shortly after independence in 1968

The flag of Mauritius has four equally sized

horizontal stripes of red blue yellow and green. Each color has a meaning: the green stands for the agriculture of the country as well as

the fact that the island stays green all twelve months of the year the yellow stands for the new light of

Independence the blue stands for the Indian Ocean that the country is located in and the red stands for

According to the government website the struggle for freedom and independence

It technically does not stand for the blood of the country

It's kind of help for dispute but I got with what the website of the government says

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Anyway keep in mind under the British they have three different colonial flags under the French

They used the Royal Standard flag and under the Dutch

They use the Dutch East India Company flag and also keep in mind you might find this variant flag of Mauritius that has the coat

Of arms on it and speaking of the coat of arms

The coat of arms has a bit more complexity to it

The image contains a shield split into four parts on the top are a limb fat or an old-style sail ship representing the European settlers

Next to some palm trees referring to the vegetation on the bottom a key

Symbolizing the strategic importance of the island next to it a white triangle and star

Representing the island being the star of the Indian Ocean on the sides of the shield are two sugar canes

Supported by the now extinct dodo bird on the left side and a sambar deer on the right side

Which are the two national animals at the bottom lies the model Stella Clavis?

Maurice in DC meaning the star and key of the Indian Ocean in Latin and yeah

They've pretty much kept this coat of arms since independence. So that makes my job a lot easier

So that means you know what time it is you're a fan now time

Alright, let's do this know we start off with postcards

So we go on here for Matthew from Michigan Pablo visited the UN building. Awesome Thank You Pablo

All right. We got Matthew he lives in San Diego and he visited

Traverse the Traverse City. Thank you for that Matthew

I think your name is LOB's and we've been we've been trying to wear that one out. Yes, sim. You guys your names?

I'm sorry, it's from Belgium. Thank you so much, man. We've got a max Oh delightful Island. Thank you

We got another Matthew but this Matthew is from Minnesota land of lakes my birthday

Ah, okay, so he's from Mauritania and he lives in Boston visited, New Hampshire. Mr. Jake Jake interesting

That doesn't sound like a Mauritania name says he's from Mauritania though. Okay, Jake from Mauritania Daniel from West Virginia. Ah

He visited Greece. Yeah. Kefalonia. What bolonia nice

Hello, John Jill a fleet Lucas from Belgium. Thank you. And he says he'll send some chocolates

I'm holding you accountable to that. I believe Belgian chocolate. Oh the best. Yeah. That's what I want us see

the Philippines

SM Mall of Asia putt Pasay City

Philippines nice sweet. Okay. This guy sent all these postcards. He's on a European trip. I'm so sorry

I cannot read your name you write it in the same on every postcard

I know it starts with an A and turn and - no, I don't know really cool. You visited all these places Spain

Gibraltar visited Gibraltar. He's been everywhere. You've been everywhere man. I just can't read your name. I'm sorry

Well, thank you. Thank you, but letter

Malta thank you, Alexei and Alexandra from Russia from Vincent. Ah, here we go

Yeah, spend the summer traveling in Israel James. This is Horseshoe Curve in

Pennsylvania I am package of sign packages time Somnath. You're calm William cool little pin badge

have you ever been to Dartmouth I have

It's like it's like asking me if I've ever been to South Dakota

Anything you want to say out to your fellow countrymen by the way, Jim and I it's nice and warm here

we got a cool letter from

Unga he is from Indonesia, but he's from West Papua. That's really cool

So that's kind of like the area that's very similar to

Papua New Guinea has people the Melanesian people and

He says he likes he likes how we did the episode and talked about the West Papua region

A lot of Indonesian people probably don't even know some of the facts that I mentioned in the Indonesian

Episode and they sent some very very cool currency. Yeah, that's Indonesian. Rupiah's my wages for today. Yeah

Yeah, that's your payment. Thank you for being in this episode

All right. So we've got this from Drude an American living in Japan and he visited East tomorrow. Thank yous and

Macadamia what you wanna try one? Yeah centavo coins

So East Timor uses the American dollar as their currency, but they also have their own coins. Hmm, so it's kind of mixed up

Oh you try. Is it green tea? Good. Hmm. If only kenka try these Oh, where's the worst Ken's post card?

Yo, Ken. Oh, you got a postcard Oh

Five minutes

Use your postcard got a postcard. Oh, wow, Oh postcard from from the Philippines. That's really nifty

You miss you've s from the Philippines. Thank you so much. And uh, let's see what we got here

I uh, we got this package, but actually it's for Keith. Uh, Ken

Deliver this to Keith go you got it

Hey Keith, I got you a package. Whoa

somebody for Ben from Pennsylvania Oh

Somebody sent me a shirt one of their band shirts almost honest. There's another honest honest

Poster that they sent me he kind of got a little wrinkled in the mail. Do your keys in the geography now team?

I really enjoyed the content. You have been putting out. Please enjoy. My band's t-shirt and CD

We are a groovy sexy Viking funk doom rock band from the land of the Amish, Pennsylvania

You can call us dad Rock for short. We hope you dig it and we would love to hear from you

Well, thank you, PA. Dad Rock for Pennsylvania dead Rock suite. Thank you guys. All right

Well, I got to go back to the dungeon. So

And we got one last package this is from cadet Noah Oh military

First of all, Noah as I always do for all the military personnel. Thank you for your service salute

This guy, I'm guessing you went to West Point. Oh, it's like a little statue West Point. He sends all these badges

Wow, look at that that's challenger coin. I've gotten like some other military personnel

They gave me challenger coins for those. You know, West Point is like probably the most prestigious military academy in the u.s

West Point Barnes my dude. My name is Noah

I'm originally from just outside of Boston and I came to New York for school a few years ago

I'm a cadet at the United States Military Academy at West Point. Yeah, just gives a lot of information on West Point

That's really cool, man. Look it says go army beat Navy

If you're in the Navy right now and you're watching this, I'm pretty sure that kind of infuriated

Be an Air Force man

You guys just I play bagpipes in our pipes and drums band and our kilts are made of this material

Yeah, each Scottish clan actually has their own pattern for the kilts

And I guess that the one that you have for yours are you Scottish? I don't know if you're Scottish

I think me are you I really do appreciate this man. It's really cool. And once again man salute, that's that's just about it

Thank you guys off. But before we go, you know what time it is return address contest

so, uh

nick is gonna pick out a name from this bag and

Whoever wins wins this scratch-off map sponsored to us from jogger people federico

He salt them on his website and go here. If you don't win you can buy one. So yeah

Just one two one this is gonna be

Jeff from Australia nice Jeff you're just once. Alright, but yeah, thank you guys so much

I love putting your home countries in places on display Nick any last words before we go

Um, thank you for having me and thank you for all this stuff

I'm totally amazed by as I said anyone that can get their hands on these things

Totally for free to send them any time like sure also, uh, you did great on the Mauritius episode people. Love you

They love your accent

Cool in that case. Uh, hope you guys have a good one. You just been flagged stay cool. Stay tuned