Do you want your country’s national flag to ever be completely redesigned?

[TipsyTraveler]

Want it redesigned? No, but I wouldn’t care if it was.

 

[Kitty 34]

Nope......I love my flag and what it stands for.

 

[Forevermarypoppins]

ABSOLUTELY NOT

 

[disykat]

I read an article that said if Washington DC becomes a state, the flag will probably be redesigned, like it has been before. It sounded like just a star added, no major changes. We'd still be the starts and stripes. All "old flags" would continue to fly until they reach the point where they need to be replaced, so it's not like we'd all have to immediately replace our flags. New ones would just look different.

 

[Neapolitan Ice Cream]

If I may set the scene...

 

[prairie_girl]

No! Why would anybody want that?

Because we apparently need more things to talk about lol

 

[disykat]

We have changed our flag many times when new states are added, so that is technically a redesign. They have to decide how to reconfigure the stars. There are already some designs being looked at because of the call for WDC to become a state. This is a current events topic. I'm not surprised if even ideas of total redesign are tossed around (not adopted though because I think that would be very unpopular!) every time a change is being made.

 

[ronandannette]

Didn’t Canada change their flag circa 1967?

Yes - the Maple Leaf was adopted in 1967 in celebration of Canada's Centennial. Prior to that, we used Britain's Union Jack. Re-designing the flag as a Centennial project started some time in advance and apparently a 15-person committee worked on it for years. Here's a picture of some of the unsuccessful versions they'd come up with by 1964.

 

[RedAngie]

Yes - the Maple Leaf was adopted in 1967 in celebration of Canada's Centennial. Prior to that, we used Britain's Union Jack. Re-designing the flag as a Centennial project started some time in advance and apparently a 15-person committee worked on it for years. Here's a picture of some of the unsuccessful versions they'd come up with by 1964.
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I like that middle version with 3 leafs.

 

[ronandannette]

I like that middle version with 3 leafs.

That one was apparently known as the "Pearson Pennant" because it was the favourite of the Prime Minister at the time (Lester B. Pearson) and the flag project was his idea. Honestly, it looks hideous to me but maybe because it's just such a departure from the flag we know and love.

 

[marthachick]

Absolutely not! Not everything needs to be changed.

 

[ozliz]

As an Australian I could see it happening. If we become a republic I assume we’d lose the Union Jack part of the flag which would require a more substantial redesign. Something that does a better job of recognising our First Nations peoples would be appropriate.

 

[DisneyOma]

I don't see a need to change the US flag, but some states are changing their flags to remove native Americans that were persecuted by the state, which makes sense to me. Why represent a persecuted population on a flag when you don't do a darn thing to make their lives easier now? If the population was celebrated, respected, had a stronger voice in policy, maybe a symbol to represent them on part of the flag - but people are not mascots or flag parts, IMO.

 

[BrianL]

Honestly, I feel like the US flag is - aesthertically speaking only - too busy. I wouldn't necessarily care if they redesigned it. I would keep the basic motif, red, white, blue, stars, stripes, but there is plenty they could do in that style.