Germany versus Turkey Part II
Jun. 25th, 2008 06:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sister_luckThis article in The Guradian (I'm keeping the spelling mistake, even though it's not the traditional version) provides some background to the flag picture in yesterday's post.
Flagwaving used to be frowned upon when I was younger, but with the football world cup in 2006 this has changed. Germans are now quite unashamedly displaying the national flag everywhere - on their faces, their cars or hanging from their windows. But it's not a mass of German flags, as the immigrants from countries participating in the Euro show off their national flags as well and often they also add a German one. The Portuguese flags have disappeared along with the Dutch flag, but the Italians in the cafe at the corner have kept theirs on display.
Some people overdo it - like the Germans who covered their whole balcony with a huge flag or the Portuguese who had about ten big flags adorning the front of their restaurant.
Still, as long as the various flags can coexist, I'm happy.
There will be lots of honking of car horns tonight.
Flagwaving used to be frowned upon when I was younger, but with the football world cup in 2006 this has changed. Germans are now quite unashamedly displaying the national flag everywhere - on their faces, their cars or hanging from their windows. But it's not a mass of German flags, as the immigrants from countries participating in the Euro show off their national flags as well and often they also add a German one. The Portuguese flags have disappeared along with the Dutch flag, but the Italians in the cafe at the corner have kept theirs on display.
Some people overdo it - like the Germans who covered their whole balcony with a huge flag or the Portuguese who had about ten big flags adorning the front of their restaurant.
Still, as long as the various flags can coexist, I'm happy.
There will be lots of honking of car horns tonight.
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Date: 2008-06-25 06:40 pm (UTC)Oh yes, it's a very special day - I'm sitting at the computer until the pre-match commentary is over because that is usually so awful that it spoils the fun of the actual game.
It's a shame that 'you lot', i.e. the English team didn't make it this time round.