Do you know why Flags are not purple?
There's a lot of fun trivia facts that they don't teach us at school and honestly I wish they did because it's so interesting.
There is a collection of information that we found from around the world that will makes you the most interesting person in the room after you learn them take it away did you know that there's one forbidden color you will not find on any flag in the world purple national flags don't have purple but why?
let me take you on a trip all around the world to discover the truth about flags that their countries don't want you to know about when it's a world cup or the Olympics and you see your flag you start singing your Anthem with your friends and you start feeling super proud why because your country's flag is unique and because it means something special to you for example here in Brazil the flag looks like the country it's green like the rainforest yellow because of the gold they have and blue like the sky.
In France flags colors represent the country's values blue white red for Freedom equality Brotherhood or as they say liberte, egalite fertility in fact that flag and those values got so popular that many countries started to copy it Italy Ireland Belgium Romania Mexico and many others have three stripes as well same way Ethiopia's fight was a huge influence all over Africa because Ethiopia is the one country that resisted the most against the colonizers another popular flag is the American one Liberia basically copied it because it was founded by freed slaves from the U.S.
In the Arab world most flags are red black white and green because they come from the one pan-Arab flag and that's the one they used to all rally and break free from the Ottoman Empire other Arab countries like Algeria and Tunisia prefer to go with the Crescent Moon of Islam to pay tribute to their Muslim Roots.
likewise in the land of the Viking they're all having crosses on their Flags because they're mostly Christians and that flag Denmark is said to be over 800 years old making it the oldest in the world and also did you that all flags are rectangles except for three the Vatican flag and Switzerland's flag are squares.
no matter where you go the one color you will not find on any flight is purple because not so long ago the only way to get some purple was from a tiny sea snail that you could only find in one small region of Lebanon.
to create just one gram of purple you needed more than 10 000 snails so no country could afford covering its entire flag with it your country's flag is part of who you are and it's also part of your culture and the beautiful thing is that no matter where you go in the world you know that whenever you see it you'll feel a little bit closer to home.
