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**sunnykerr** · 08-13-2008, 05:47 PM

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Welsh, Scottish and English flags aren't really local flags.

I didn't mean to reduce Scotland, Wales, England and Northern Ireland as localities either. I just couldn't come up with a better word at the time that would encompass the different countries there with situations a bit more muddled like us here in Quebec or the different ethno-linguistic regions in Belgium and Switzerland.

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But are those athletes that want to fly the flag from their home really expressing a politcal or a cultural point of view? That is the question.

I'm sure I shouldn't express a general opinion about situations that may not only differ from place to place, but also from athlete to athlete, but I do think it has to be a cultural thing at the very least.

Waving the Quebec or the Tibet flag, that'd definitely be political (local politicians are up in arms over here about Quebec athletes being unable to display their sovereignist pride, as though athletes don't understand where their funding is coming from...).

But whatever flag one would choose to wave, at the very least, it would be an expression of their feelings of cultural belonging, no?