LL-L "Vexillology" 2010.07.22 (04) [EN]

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From: Sandy Fleming <sandy at fleimin.demon.co.uk>
Subject: LL-L "Vexillology"



> From: Paul Finlow-Bates <wolf_thunder51 at yahoo.co.uk>
> Subject:  LL-L "Vexillology" 2010.07.22 (01) [EN]
>
> How do you tell a setting sun from a rising one? They're both red as
> far as I can tell!

It's simple: one moves up, the other moves down!

Welcome to the world of animated vexilollogy  :)

Sandy Fleming
http://sandyfleming.org/signers/ll-flag-sco3.png
(Colours getting a bit out of hand now!)



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From: Hellinckx Luc <luc.hellinckx at gmail.com>

Subject: LL-L "Vexilloligy" 2010.07.22 (01) [EN]



Beste Paul,



You wrote:



From: Paul Finlow-Bates <wolf_thunder51 at yahoo.co.uk>
Subject:  LL-L "Vexillology" 2010.07.22 (01) [EN]



How do you tell a setting sun from a rising one? They're both red as far as
I can tell!



Just a wild guess...a setting sun has little or no symbolic value...think
that blue, as the color of the West, may have more to do with the color of
the night, dark blue at first. When the sun sets in the West, red won't be
chosen as a symbolic color, because the sun is sort of dying, leaving
us...the night however, time of reflection, is taking charge. Blue is often
interpreted as a masculine color, standing for wisdom and stability...I
guess the EU may like to be associated with those values.

A rising sun on the other hand, denotes a much more powerful image than a
setting sun of course, therefore the East may prefer the red color of a
rising sun.

Red is perceived as an energetic color, a strong quality that a decisive
East may like to see in itself. In a way this corresponds with a
"thoughtful, pensive, old" Europe versus a "young, rising, enterprising
Asia". This only applies to Eurasia of course. As soon as an ocean gets in
the middle, the message gets somewhat lost I think, even though quite a few
Asians will view the American Westcoast as the land of the rising sun too I
think. Seriously doubt though whether American Eastcoasters will think of
Westcoast citizens as "thoughtful, pensive and old"...quite the contrary
methinks...recent migration plays a role too of course.



Sometimes I wonder what the psychological effect must be of living in a
country where you're always five or more hours behind or ahead of the time
zone of your capital. Most news will already be old and stale when you get
up. Wonder if this can play a role in a corporate environment.



On a sidenote, red matches black hair very well, and blue matches blonde
;=). Blue is also the color of the Belgian liberal party, but within this
party we tend to differentiate between "dark blue" standing for conservative
liberals and "light blue" for the progressive ones. Political red stands for
socialist or communist parties of course.



Kind greetings,



Luc Hellinckx, Halle, Belgium



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