where is my country? Basque Country

i m from Basque Country- Euskal Herria , and there is not my flag for choise it, why?

Yes Zigor,you are right!!!

we must have our own flag !!Then we wouldnt choose a flag which doesnt belongs to us.It would be more simple!!

Some people do choose to have a globe next to their username which means they are international. I can see why Chess.com doesn't have a basque flag. If they did then maybe some people from Texas will want a Texas flag? I guess it is easier for them to just have soverign nations lthough I realise this is probably little comfort to you.

Wait. There is no such country as Basque.

but there are the flag for catalonia and galicia, why this discrimination ???

discri-my- nation

I don't think too many people particularly care. Ask this guy:

http://www.chess.com/members/view/pdela

if your country isn't recognized by the UN, why would you expect chess.com to recognize it?

Well, but he's right when he says there are Catalonia and Galicia flags. I wonder if there is any reason.

That I can tell you. People made posts very much like this one, and soon chess.com (if I remember correctly, Eric himself) threw in the towel.

True, don't count on me to get into this mess...

Well, many years of violence there. Maybe staff members don't want to make a commitment about this. About Galicia and Catalonia, they and Basque Country are considered a sort of historical autonomous regions here, if I'm not wrong. Therefore the flags, then. What about Isle of Man?

I can understand why some may feel offended.  However, many of us stand under nobody's flag and see ourselves, as pointed out, as International.  Flags are used to divide people, many of us in the UK don't feel good about the 'butchers apron' (Union Jack) as it's always been used to represent the most negative aspects of the country where we were born.  Flags represent borders made by the wealthy, depicting 'their' property, not ours.

It was carried, and still is, by men with guns, mostly economic conscripts, to represent the wealthiest in society and never the poorest; wars are fought for the rich normally, never the poor.  I suspect that there's many people in the world who feel no national pride as their country of origin treats them abysmally.

  Millions of working people across Europe are thrown to the dogs, mass unemployment, poverty and few opportunituies for themselves and their children while the privileged, always proud to wave the flag,  gain economic advantage.

Throughout history the UK, or England in particular, has enslaved, murdered, looted too many other nations to count.  We were taught as children to feel proud of this , that 'we' were superior because of these conquests. 

Bear in mind also when the UK was the richest country in the world the ruling class allowed young children to work up to fourteen hours a day in factories.  Many being malnourished, didn't make adulthood, working people died in droves due to poverty and harsh conditions.  Why should we feel proud of that flag; you can't eat a flag, and we have more in common with the working people of the world than we do with our own ruling class who love that cloth dearly. 

Somewhere near Spain ain't it?

Rigt heer in the USA

Just a joke...we all know how simple it is to be offensive if we really wanted to.

How 'bout the Republic of Liverpool then?  Given the revelations under the 30 year rule, Thatcher wanted a 'managed decline' of our City. It's why we were forced to fight back, but not nationalistically.

Almost all of the flags on chess.com are of UN member states or overseas territories. The remaining ones are non-UN states recognized by many but not all countries, such as Kosovo, Palastine, and Taiwan.

The odd ones out, so to speak, are the 'home nations' of the UK, England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland, and the two autonomous Spanish regions Catalonia and Galacia.

The 'Scum' y'mean?  There were public burnings.  It's never established itself since that time, despite many attempts to bribe people by offering money for charities etc.  We had street parties when Thatcher died, which may sound harsh to some.  Bereaved families from Hillsborough won't forget either the terrible anti-working class attitudes, and lies that were blasted across the front pages of that rag.

  I remember the 80's well, the poverty, the slums and lack of hope for many and the Tory rhetoric, alongside all the good and the great, including religious leaders, to denounce us for having the nerve to use democratic methods for rejecting their ideology.  We kept winning in elections, never voted out.

A thousand of us travelled to Scotland to support the people there in their first march against the Poll tax.  She represented her class well, with the loyal support of leading Labour Party careerists, rewarding them with honours afterwards.  It's all recorded, if interested google Liverpool 47 and then tell me if we live in a democracy.