everybody welcome back to flag / fan
Friday hope you like the Papua New
Guinea episode as you know there's the
part where we talk about the things that
didn't quite make it into the video
first of all small mistake it was
actually Kundu drum second I wanted to
talk a little bit more about hit emo to
the other official language of Papua New
Guinea it's kind of really only spoken
in the south and in the Capital Area by
Port Moresby
one of the last surviving German Creoles
in the world was made in Papua New
Guinea who's a toy it's only spoken by
about a hundred people and most of them
live in Australia and some of the
ethno-linguistic groups the people are
completely separated by gender every
single day apart from a brief amount of
time when the husband and wife get
married and when their children are born
cargo cults during war times many
airplanes would drop off supplies and
remote areas and many times the people
living there had never even had any
contact with outsiders so when they see
these huge loads of cargo coming from
the sky it kind of made them admonish
and revere the gift givers from above to
the point where a kind of life became a
religion and hence the cargo cults
there's actually a really interesting
one in the island of Tanna for Vanuatu
but we'll save that for the Vanuatu
episode there was a section in the video
where I talked about the controversies
of the country I did ask you guys if
there are any controversies and issues
of the country you'd like me to
highlight for one Papua New Guinea does
have an own high recorded index of human
rights abuses against the populace
specifically in the sexual assault
category mostly against women often lack
of access to courts and police means
that reports are left on addressed in
addition many people have complained
about the government officials
misappropriating public funds and
another thing pop wins are tired of
being called cannibals since in the past
many tribes were documented to have
practiced the act today it is illegal
and claimed that cannibalism is
eradicated from the country however if
we have to be completely honest in
certain obscure isolated tribes it's not
easy to be completely sure but they hope
it is and it probably is
and yeah other than that they have one
of the world's only a few poisonous
birds so that's just about it otherwise
we got to talk about the flag so without
further ado you
oh my gosh Papua New Guinea has so many
people groups and languages and customs
and traditions and animals and blah blah
blah it's a very interesting country to
research and speaking of animals there's
one on the flag the flag is split
diagonally into black and red triangles
in the hoist is the Southern Cross the
famous constellation found in the
southern hemisphere in the further fly
side of rocky yana bird of paradise the
national bird is silhouetted in yellow
red and black have long been traditional
colors of many Papua New Guinean tribes
the color can be found all over their
traditional body paint pottery masks
artifacts and so on although the colors
were also used in the former German
Empire flag which had colonized them
prior to 1918 there is no correlation
between the two and keep in mind prior
to this they had various flags according
to each of the various powers that took
over them in the north or south remember
that little skit we did in the history
section under the British and
Australians they had a few different
territory flags Japan had a quick moment
in World War 2 where they kind of took
over on the north side and most of the
islands of course we already mentioned
the Germans leading up to their
independence from Australia
there was actually a proposed flag that
looked like this it never actually
happened though when they competed at
sports events sometimes they would use
this flag under the territory of papua
under australia and yeah that is just
about it for flags now the national
emblem the national emblem is pretty
simple and illustrative of the images
that symbolize the country as a whole on
top you find the national bird the Raji
onna bird of paradise as depicted on the
flag but in all of its wonderful color
and detailed glory the bird is perched
on a traditional Kundu drum which is
used intertribal II amongst many of the
peoples and ethnic groups of Papua New
Guinea they come in all different
patterns and sizes yet follow the same
shape and format of an hourglass with a
handle on the side finally splicing the
back side of the drum and protruding on
the left and right is a traditional pop
one spear the traditional weapon of
choice for many people groups throughout
the country and keep in mind sometimes
the coat of arms can also have the words
Papua New Guinea inscribed below the
entire image interesting to note that
the raga Jana bird of paradise was also
depicted on the coat of arms during the
German colonization years but the Brits
and the Aussies in the South were a
little more boring they just used a
crown to show that it was part of the
Commonwealth and they used an acronym of
letters or whatever and yeah that's
pretty much it for the symbolism of
Papua New Guinea now we go to jog with
fan mail time alright so we're back to
fan Friday as you guys
we always need guest stars like we
always usually do so come on in Miss
Hannah and thing back there Caleb
alright guys so as you know we always
start off with postcards thank you whole
vard from Denmark thank you for sending
this cool postcard Luna is a girl from
Sao Paulo Brazil
oh this is this postcard is my trip to
Mexico a few years ago alright mythal or
miss hole from Melbourne sends us a
postcard from the North Pole Islands
little context the Aussies pronounce it
Melbourne but yeah Thank You Marcel and
his three friends from Slovakia but they
visited Russia sweet speaking of
Slovakia this young fellas name is Judah
is currently visiting Slovakia
this is Andrew he is a rat at the
Virginia Military Institute no I want
you Hannah with no context to explain
what a rat is a rat in the military is
somebody who is enlisted and at the
lowest rank and that's to climb their
way up to the top had like genetic
modifications and we got two postcards
from Malaysia one is from Joanna and the
other one is from Bob we got a postcard
here from Aden they took a trip to
Washington to go whale watching then you
guys seen a whale ever from Pakistan has
visited Islamabad during the summer and
this is a Coast Guard there Dane who
visited San Francisco the most expensive
place in the USA this young fellows the
name is Brett I can't pronounce that you
read it yourself
Oh Brunei this is a postcard from
Adriana she sent us a card for Poland
this is pretty cool this from John he
actually visited one of my favorite
places in the country Monument Valley
and he said he went
because I mentioned it in one of my
videos I go there Peter from Slovakia he
loves your show and I see knock Ian's
that's actually Seoul South Korea Oh
greetings from Seoul this is from Kurt
he is from New Zealand but he is
visiting Fiji you didn't write your name
you just said hello from Newfoundland so
Canada Newfoundland all right we've got
a postcard here from Tyler this is the
Petrified Forest National Park very
scary you've been there no it's
petrified why do they call it that Paul
yeah well you oh man of geography
because time trees solidify and calcify
and become those things that's petrified
wood I was hoping for a dumber answer oh
oh you wanted me to be funny okay well
you gotta you gotta give me like a
little nudge if you want me to say
something witty otherwise I'm just gonna
get into the fact mode stuff actual
petrified alright this is from mirage he
is on holiday in Japan I'd like you to
address me by name in the next postcard
what nobody ever puts my names
Oh guys send kill some more stuff the
last postcard they were like Paul did
anyone else good evening
Barbie Noah Keith kin and anybody else
on the guy from Virginia the rat from
Virginia we got Adam whose real clutch
performer he went to Rwanda and sent a
bunch of those cards his cursive is
beautiful this is from Nobu Shelly Koz
and I Yahoo are from Maine but they live
in Japan anyway look what this card can
do
Jiri from what w goes and does these
flag coffee which I will absolutely try
and guess what these stop so if you look
closely you could see the fort of San
Juan on the socks but I think your name
is Alwyn
from Hawaii whose parents are of
Philippine descent uh he did this really
big project where he drew country balls
of all the countries we've got Melvin he
says that it's a pity that you did not
visit the best province of the world
which is zealand say that are you in
need of a good accountant I know all
about taxes
Melvin I got a CPA thank you but I'm
pretty sure you're good at taxes so the
next one is super cool
these are books from Sam he's an
American immigrant to Israel he wanted
to write an accessible funny book about
traveling around the country and he
knows that I want to go to Israel very
bad so he gave me a book and Armada of
cats hi barbs Ken Hannah Noah and Keith
these are beverages from Belgium and no
it's not beer gin rum etcetera hope
you'll like it
Alexei and Alessandra from Russia you
guys Alessi Alexei and Alison I want to
meet you guys sometime cuz you guys sent
so many cool things who are you I want
to meet you okay email me I want to meet
you guys in person cuz you guys are so
cool but in the meantime liqueur gin and
dry gin and whatever that is
as usual our geography now it does not
endorse underage drinking if you are
underage do not drink we are of age
though so we can drink I hate gin I hate
Jen well I mean if my forbidden fruit of
the elephant tree what does that even
mean
guys they're endangered that is that is
not alcohol that is perfume you'll see
me some wine out drink how does a wine
person get great ready 5 4 3 2 1 cheers
we just perfume that was terrible oh no
kidding it's perfume fillers dry gin 28
this is it's on the bottle it says it
was made at a distillery in hell oh no
it's a Chanel number 5 so that was our
shot the text what we got here is Stefan
what Stefan has sent us a bunch of stuff
a lot of food good for me I haven't
eaten today general European foods here
which is gonna be great on his family
snacks I see a Serbian hat how many
times we have to tell you guys to stop
sending us meth Oh turkish delights
there you go go for it and so fun you
know he likes putting his Serbian
culture on display all these little
Serbian relics they're Orthodox Serbians
are Eastern Orthodox looks like a
Himalayan salt crystal dude let's do
bath salts don't don't don't don't
encourage drugs on the show but you know
we can we can make a joke of it so if
it's a joke on ok Hannah what do you
think of the Turkish Delight
where's giving up all your freedom to
the Ice Queen
all right Patricia went to Mexico and
she brought that caramelized goat milk
that's supposed to go on pancakes
supposedly it's really good uh Mexican
ragdolls for its geography now crew oh I
bet they're handmade no really and
finally we got one last package this is
I kind of already opened today you know
it's amazing but thank you to Dominic
this is so cool this is so cool he
actually emailed me what my shoe size
was I was wondering why and the reason
why is because this with flags all over
them these shoes are Nike Air Max pluses
they were a special edition that was
made for last year's FIFA World Cup
these are as of right now the coolest
shoes I own yeah he says he loves the
show team has made up of great
individuals I'm honestly super jealous
of how close you guys are and get to
work on these kind
topics together you've got a supporter
for life and thanks for the amazing
educational content Thank You Dominic so
legend my shoe sizes 12 okay if anybody
wants to send shoes say your shoe size
right now or forever hold let me just
give you my venmo let's just skip the
middleman alright guys so this was
really fun um I did not bring the return
address contest back so I'll do it back
at my place but in the meantime Canada
Canada Hanna Hanna and Caleb you guys
have anything left you want to say to
the geography person subscribers out
there in the world my t-shirt size extra
small t-shirt sizes medium to large I
guess we're doing this okay if somebody
could make a t-shirt with my face on it
not like a good version of my face like
if you could draw it really terribly
alright return address contest does you
know I put your return addresses in this
bag I pick one out and whoever wins gets
a geography now notepad and button oh
and by the way you can get geography
t-shirts at geography now calm alright
so here we go I'm just gonna pick one
now pick one oh yeah and uh from Malta
you just won all right so that's just
about it thank you for watching you've
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