Name: Flag/ Fan Friday MYANMAR (Geography Now!)
Uploaded: 2020-03-28T09:45:34.000Z
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Everybody welcome back to flag/fan Friday. I hope you liked the Myanmar episode

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this is the part where I either fix some of the mistakes that were in the video or I talk about stuff that didn't quite make

it into the video. we meant to say that there's over a thousand types of bird in Myanmar. Not just a hundred

Although technically we did get it right because there are over a hundred but still we should have said a thousand

And a lot of you guys said that you wanted us to mention this guy, former UN General Secretary U Thant

Who was the first non-European to hold the title

And funny thing is he actually was supposed to be in the video

but we had to cut it out because of timing and we're gonna use him as an example to show that in Myanmar people don't

CUT FOOTAGE: Also, It is very common for people in Myanmar to lack surnames or patronyms

For example, the former secretary-general U Thant, his name is just Thant

the "U" is just a title for mister. So people are really calling him Mr. Thant

I also wanted to mention how this thing a mythical creature called a Chinthe

is also kind of like a symbolic image of Myanmar and also many other countries in Southeast Asia

You see it a lot on temples and like pagodas and statues all over the place even in the middle of the street

It's even on their money. I also kind of want to mention how they celebrate New Year's in Myanmar

I think we already mentioned in the Laos episode but basically

people splash each other with water to symbolize the end of the dry season

You see this all over Southeast Asia, though

So it's not just unique to Myanmar and there's probably a lot of other things we could have discussed

But if you want to mention anything just feel free to put it in the comments. Otherwise, we got to get to the flag

I love that joke. Sometimes I forget that this is an educational channel

The flag of Myanmar is a horizontal tricolor of yellow green and red with a white five pointed star in the middle

It's funny because it's basically the flag of Lithuania, but with a star and it uses the pan-African colors

even though obviously it's not an African country.

The star symbolizes the significance of a unified country the yellow stands for solidarity

the green stands for peace, tranquility and the lush green vegetation of the country, and the red stands for...

Yeah, sorry, no blood this time. Courage and determination now keep in mind

This flag was actually adopted in 2010 shortly before the democratic shift in politics prior to that

They used various iterations of the Union of Burma and Socialist Republic flags

back when the country was under a unitary political system

prior to that they had this flag for like two years prior to independence. Prior to that

They were under Japan, and prior to that, They were under British Burma

and prior to that. They're under British India

Historically, there are two major kingdoms and dynasties that have their own flags too

There's the Konbaung Kingdom that ended in the 19th century and the Hanthawaddy Kingdom

That ended in the 16th century. Interesting how they use the peacock in so many of their symbols

I mean it is their national bird, and speaking of symbols the national seal

Adopted in 2008 the image depicts a golden red seal with the map of Myanmar in the center surrounded by olive branches

Extending outward to Laurel branches and a five pointed star on top.

Below the seal guarded on either side are the mythical Chinthe creatures

Finally at the bottom lies a scroll written in Burmese reading "the Republic of the Union of Myanmar"

From the 70s all the way up to the late 2000s

They had this seal it had blue Chinthes on the side and a cogwheel to symbolize the Socialist Republic

Yeah. The cogwheel. You see that a lot in the socialist imagery

Before that, they used a black and white version right before independence and prior to that

They were pretty much under the Konbaung dynasty which used the peacock

as an image to represent their royal household

Yeah, chinthes, peacocks, a touch of gold and unity. That's Myanmar. All right, so that's just about it

Which means you know what time it is. Geogra-fan mail time!

Ah, all right. Let's do this before we start we gotta bring in some guest stars

You remember them from the Myanmar episode Jillian and Kaleb. Kaleb are you doing he's expecting?

This card shows some random shopping mall in the front you gotta love that Soviet charm here. We got the dream from Thailand

Let's see. We got Samuel who visited Zurich beautiful, Sydney Khalil

He says I hope you make it cook about Thailand and I hope you do it properly and carefully

but you're gonna have to help me with it gentleman or lady from

Sweden, how about that? We got a bird. All right, this is Hawaii from Kate. Oh, yes reckon I can

Thank you, uh-huh, I didn't say you could need the dungeon

This is from a gentleman named Alfred and he's got a question for you. Can you guess where man ask is?

Well, I'm guessing since the postage stamp says republic francais. It's probably France. Come on. You got a height

Alright, so first letter is this is the first time we've gotten from this country the Central African Republic

Forced um, he draws the flags. My English is not good, but I love the show and my name is Phil stone

I am from the Central African Republic. Probably wrote in English. I mean, okay, actually, I'm

Foreseeable a way so I have a letter from Ronan and he is from Yorkshire, England

I hope you guys can have some pork pies and Yorkshire pudding

Yorkshire pudding is so good. Have you guys had Yorkshire pudding? I've seen a Yorkshire dog

Let's not talk about what I do on Thursdays

Chicago, both of his parents are from immigrants from Poland and in Poland

There's a vodka called Zubrowka which he tried to send you 750 milliliters of oh

Urinate on the grass thus transferring its power to the grass and anyone who eats it I would definitely drink buffalo pee

Vodka, buffalo Peapod care, that's what I've been missing in my life. Alright, so, let's see. I have Luca from Slovenia here

He says that every January they host the ski jumping World

Ken let's just go to Slovenia sometime I go we got a Rick do a geography be there Caleb you're invited to Gillian

I don't know if you got to earn your way, but let's see

Lucas from Williamsburg, Virginia. I hope this arrives in time for the Myanmar episode. Literally. This is the me on our flag Friday episode

So who you got it? Alright guys now, let's open packages. See this is from Joe and

Daria who adopted their daughter from Bulgaria

They actually when they went to Bulgaria, they had a little bit of a culture clash

It was really amazing to go there and they totally recommend visiting Bulgaria when I open this package

It smelled great because this happens every time we get something from Bulgaria. Everybody sends something made of roses

They they are the world's largest rose producer rose oil. Everything roses the Bulgarian flag

Is these really cool magnets from Sri Lanka, but there is no name or letter in here. So, thank you

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