the thing is that as soon as i am considered basque chess player i would like to have the chance to choose at least my own flag,no any other...
However,first play is right too.Border arent too good so maybe it is better to be international.But in our case we cannot even choose between those two options.
All in one,we miss our flag.
if your country isn't recognized by the UN, why would you expect chess.com to recognize it?
Just a joke...we all know how simple it is to be offensive if we really wanted to.
To be fair, the flag I'm showing here is not my flag. The Republican one is difficult to find.
Bueno, ¿y qué quieres, que me ponga la de Isla de Man, o la bola del mundo? Pero tienes razón, esta es la bandera de los borbones y sus compinches...
Patriotism, the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Bueno, ¿y qué quieres, que me ponga la de Isla de Man, o la bola del mundo? Pero tienes razón, esta es la bandera de los borbones y sus compinches...
Bueno, ¿y qué quieres, que me ponga la de Isla de Man, o la bola del mundo? Pero tienes razón, esta es la bandera de los borbones y sus compinches...
Vale, pero la gallega es mi mujer, y el nick es porque nunca he probado nada mejor (ya, ya, hasta que me dé una vuelta por tu país ;) ).
Could be politically sensitive.. Isis would want to flaunt a flag... I.R.A. etc.
Out of interest: Do you guys have your own language? And how is it different from Spanish?
They have. And, if I'm not wrong, is not even Indo-European.
Out of interest: Do you guys have your own language? And how is it different from Spanish?
Out of interest: Do you guys have your own language? And how is it different from Spanish?
Our languaje is before than latin, nothing same of spanish
Nahiko ikusgarria.
Anyhow, I didn't know that. Learn something new every day.
While the maintain many basque traditions, I don't believe they have a lot of polio grievances
The Spanish flu of 1918 probably made them all immune to it.
They have. And, if I'm not wrong, is not even Indo-European.
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.
in the USA
To be fair, the flag I'm showing here is not my flag. The Republican one is difficult to find.