How about bulls?
Catalonia is a Spanish region, not a country
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Following the logic of some on here (states v countries) Chess.com should remove the flags of the EU28 member states and replace them with the EU flag...
Burradas wrote
Cataluña is a historical region - it is not, has never been, and is pretty unlikely to ever be, a country like, say, Scotland.
An interesting comparison... I would be interested to know your definition of country.
Scotland is part of Great Britain, and thus part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and (Northern) Ireland.
Dec 11, 2019
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#105
andrewbanks42 wrote:
Burradas wrote
Cataluña is a historical region - it is not, has never been, and is pretty unlikely to ever be, a country like, say, Scotland.
An interesting comparison... I would be interested to know your definition of country.
Scotland is part of Great Britain, and thus part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and (Northern) Ireland.
Interesting question: what makes a country a country (and when, and who)?
I'm not sure. But fact is that scotland once was a full-fledged independent state/country (untill the Acts of Union 1706&1707, and cataluña not.
Dec 11, 2019
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#106
ghost_of_pushwood wrote:
and I heard most of the people who live there are Moors!
you shouldn't believe everything you hear, but even if so, so what?
We're talking about flag icons on a chess site, not passports! Who cares?
When you consider on a case-by-case basis, whether you allow the use of a particular flag, any decision will not free of politic. In order to stay politically neutral, you can try two ways;
- You delate all flags of territories/ countries with disputed independence from the list.
or
- you accept all flags.
In case 1, I wonder, how many territory/ country names would disappear from the List. And the list would look uncomfortably political. Would you be happy with that? – I wouldn’t.
I appreciate that Chess.com allows flags of territories. It shows they (chairmen) respect personal feeling of identity of the individual.
This is not the United Nations! Who cares what flag icons people choose? If I wanted t play under the flag of Narnia, or Hogwarts, what possible difference could it make?
Dec 11, 2019
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#110
ghost_of_pushwood wrote:
Burradas wrote:
ghost_of_pushwood wrote:
and I heard most of the people who live there are Moors!
you shouldn't believe everything you hear, but even if so, so what?
who's this goof?
2nd time you're proving yourself to be an ignorant
GMproposedsolutions wrote:
let's hear from the administration
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gI7YHZVc7mM
....you're right !
So. This one goes out to Mister Chess Dot Com !....lets hear it for him !!
Apr 30, 2020
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#112
congrandolor wrote:
How about bulls?
--- Oh yeah there is a lot of bull in the threads around here rofl.
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#113
I don't care if Catalonian flag is there, I respect every idea, but following the logic of the self-identity, Castilla Y León, Andalucía, Murcia or any other regions in Spain (or the world), should have the right to choose, for the same reasons, otherwise you give the chance to some who identify Catalonia as a country and negate it to others) you should create flags from every region.
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#114
I don't care if Catalonian flag is there, I respect every idea, but following the logic of the self-identity, Castilla Y León, Andalucía, Murcia or any other regions in Spain (or the world), should have the right to choose, for the same reasons, otherwise you give the chance to some who identify Catalonia as a country and negate it to others) you should create flags from every region.
Blame Jose Andres
First I'll have to look him up!
https://twitter.com/chefjoseandres