On my last post I talked about the importance of keeping our culture. One of our culture biggest symbols is our flag. Take a look at it.
Do you see something wrong in the second one? I hope so.
On the shield of the first flag, there are seven castles which symbolize the victorys of Afonso III and the conquest of Algarve.
But in the second one something is wrong: there are Chinese pagodas instead of our castles. That happens because Chinese people are making flags for us. And Portuguese people, who know entirely their nation symbols, proudly show their (Chinese) flags to the world in football championships.
Pagodas are not a symbol of our culture!
Well, at least, this is a good way to illustrate how globalization can mean degradation of one culture symbols.
Do you see something wrong in the second one? I hope so.
On the shield of the first flag, there are seven castles which symbolize the victorys of Afonso III and the conquest of Algarve.
But in the second one something is wrong: there are Chinese pagodas instead of our castles. That happens because Chinese people are making flags for us. And Portuguese people, who know entirely their nation symbols, proudly show their (Chinese) flags to the world in football championships.
Pagodas are not a symbol of our culture!
Well, at least, this is a good way to illustrate how globalization can mean degradation of one culture symbols.
This is even more alarming than what you said in your previous post! I believe that people shouldn't use another culture symbols thinking they're using the ones of their own culture.
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