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peterpam
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That and a collection of everything a nation/ organization stands for and believes in
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No, for if it was, it would be without color and without design. What is more, any regular piece of cloth isn't worth folding right, nor spending the money having a pole made for it to be suspended properly. Lastly, a piece of cloth would not be raised or lowered on certain occasions.
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not to me..it stands for my country and everything it's about
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Technically yes it is. It's what it represents that's important.
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Its symbolism trascends the material it's made of. To some people it may signify and represent something much more than to others, same as with other signs or symbols.
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is a piece of cloth just a network of fibers, is a network of fibers just an elongated filament...etc. Metaphysically, an object is just what idea we assign to it; Zizek, in his work "The puppet and the Dwarf" comments that there is no ultimate reality. A flag espouses an idea; the idea and the tangibility of the flag are two separate realities and somewhere between them is its significance. A flag has value in that we support that its materiality is symbolic of an ideology. It is simultaneously cloth and the ideas that the cloth can impart. it is just a piece of cloth and just an idea but the reality is in the gap
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