Sarajevo, 16th of August 2010
These photos are taken when we celebrated the Independence day, the first of March, which is not recognized in the Republic of Srpska entity. All the companies are forced to put a national flag, which was imposed by the Office of The High Representative in BiH, after the war. All the flags before that one, became illegal as national symbols. You can see the photo gallery below.
It's really strange that some people don't know how the national flag should be put. Shame of them!
This is the watch maker in the building where I live.
Union Bank is the only domestic bank. They have two offices and in both of them, flags are turned on the wrong side.
This is the boutique in the city center, next to my place.
This is the best bakery in the city. Even all the products cost only 1 KM (0,5€), they make really nice bread, cakes and candies. But, unfortunately, they still don't know how to put the flag.
Union Bank again, it's explained above.
Sprind Bakery, in the street where I live. We had a big discussion on this theme, but they didn't put the flag on the right side.
Why is it so important to you that the flags are hanging right? And why are companies forced to hang one? I don’t really care about flags; it’s the people that feel national pride or not, and a flag doesn’t change anything about that.
Hanna, you really made me smile. Of course it’s not so important, but we have “politics” section here and my point would be that it’s a shame not to know how to hold our own flag. I agree with you that the flag doesn’t change anything, but not in the Balkans, where should be more important than in Belgium, for example.
I agree, if people are trying to make a statement by flying them (or are they purposely upside down? I think the Union Jack was made to be symmetrcial so that we cant express discontent sometimes!), then its really a shame that they dont know how they should look like!
Ive seen a lot of ‘touche pas a mon pays’ written across flags in Belgium recently but, like Hanna, am not a fan of them either..
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