THIS IS THE MOST ABUSRD AND REDICULOUSE THING IVE EVER HEARD. DOMINICAN REPUBLIC IS DOMINICAN REPUBLIC. WE CARRY THAT NAME WITH PRIDE HERE IN THE U.S. AND I THINK CHANGING THE NAME MAKES US SEEM ASHAMED AND INSECURE OF WHO AND WHAT WE STAND FOR. I WORK AT A HOTEL AND WHEN MY GUESTS ASK ME WHERE IM FROM I PROUDLY SAY IM FROM THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC. IVE NEVER BEEN ASKED WHERE IS THAT OR WHAT COUNTRY IS THAT. I DONT THINK THERE IS A MAJORITY OF PEOPLE WHO DONT KNOW WHERE THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC IS. IF MR. JOSE ANTONIO MARTINEZ ROJAS ASKED FOR MY OPINION TO CHANGING THE NAME OF THE COUNTRY IT WOULD BE NO WAY JOSE!!!!!!!!!!!!! FIND SOMETHING ELSE TO KILL TIME WITH!!!!
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changing dominican republic's name!!!!!
you should hire somebody to explain you about the meaning of our flag before talking s..t.
We are very PROUD of the Dominican Flag which has one of the best coat of arms of any flag in the world.
We are very PROUD of the Dominican Flag which has one of the best coat of arms of any flag in the world.
Names and flags
Changing the name of the country isn't going to change the way the government behaves. Bunch of clowns with too much power and not enough checks and balances if you ask me. I like the name, it's a good one...but time to cut the head off this snake.
The flag kicks ass if you ask me. Good story behind it, and like jjsk not too busy, not too many colors...really good especially with the coat of arms on it. (just got one last week for my house, actually!)
There's a lot of things they need to change about the country before they start spending money on the name. You'd swear they have money to burn.
silly,
marc
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Changing the name of the country isn't going to change the way the government behaves. Bunch of clowns with too much power and not enough checks and balances if you ask me. I like the name, it's a good one...but time to cut the head off this snake.
The flag kicks ass if you ask me. Good story behind it, and like jjsk not too busy, not too many colors...really good especially with the coat of arms on it. (just got one last week for my house, actually!)
There's a lot of things they need to change about the country before they start spending money on the name. You'd swear they have money to burn.
silly,
marc
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Flag wavers need not apply
I love my country, let me reaffirm that and I defend it. But our flag is ugly. It is too busy, just like most of our homes. The coat of arms has too many colors, shapes and things.
Flags I like: The MOST beautiful flag in the WORLD:United Kingdom(British Flag and all their former colonies have nice flags because of it) If this flag were to be designed today it would have been created by Gianni Versace. It is that well designed.
"The other Guccis of flags"
USA
Brazil
France
Italy
Australia The people who designed these flags had
Sweden great taste
Netherlands
Chile
Finland
The Vatican
Colombia
"Honorable mention-Other beautiful flags"
Germany
Syria
Panama These group is very nice but not up to
Peru designer category
Cuba
"The most abstract but nice"
Japan
"The ugliest flags" enough said!!
Jamaica
Dominican Republic
Argentina and all their copies from central America
Greece
Bahrain
Sorry if I offend some people, including my compatriots.
TW
I love my country, let me reaffirm that and I defend it. But our flag is ugly. It is too busy, just like most of our homes. The coat of arms has too many colors, shapes and things.
Flags I like: The MOST beautiful flag in the WORLD:United Kingdom(British Flag and all their former colonies have nice flags because of it) If this flag were to be designed today it would have been created by Gianni Versace. It is that well designed.
"The other Guccis of flags"
USA
Brazil
France
Italy
Australia The people who designed these flags had
Sweden great taste
Netherlands
Chile
Finland
The Vatican
Colombia
"Honorable mention-Other beautiful flags"
Germany
Syria
Panama These group is very nice but not up to
Peru designer category
Cuba
"The most abstract but nice"
Japan
"The ugliest flags" enough said!!
Jamaica
Dominican Republic
Argentina and all their copies from central America
Greece
Bahrain
Sorry if I offend some people, including my compatriots.
TW
golo ?
I don't get it; you say the DR flag is too busy, but yet the top 2 on your list (USA and Britain) are among the busiest flags going!
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I don't get it; you say the DR flag is too busy, but yet the top 2 on your list (USA and Britain) are among the busiest flags going!
?<img src="http://www.sassiessite.f2s.com/images/Smilies/eksmiley2.gif"> <sub>I think you're just trying to get ppl irritated ...</sub>
I like the Dominican Flag!
In fact I like it so much,I had it "Tatooed" on my right shoulder about 10 years ago! Looks great! It is not as big as it was ten years ago, neither are some of my "other" body parts! (Stomach and Butt not included!) I have 7 tatoos which I will display at the next DR1 "Social", if AZB showes up! Criss Colon
In fact I like it so much,I had it "Tatooed" on my right shoulder about 10 years ago! Looks great! It is not as big as it was ten years ago, neither are some of my "other" body parts! (Stomach and Butt not included!) I have 7 tatoos which I will display at the next DR1 "Social", if AZB showes up! Criss Colon
I'm changing everything!
I don't like when you have to include the word "republic" in a country's name. It should be only one word like Colombia, Brazil, Chile among others.
All the garments coming from the DR have this big annoying label on them just because the name of the country does not fit in a regular label. I bet that's where this is coming from. They could save a lot of money if they could use smaller labels.
Well, I don't like the flag either. The people that designed it could not make up their mind as to what color would go on top. So they put together a checker flag. The flag has to go. I want a flag with one solid color and then something in the middle. It could be anything, a mango, whatever.
And then comes the shape of the island. My first grade teacher used to say that it looked like..."el cuero de una vaca desgollada", or something like that. I don't like the shape. Just look at Cabo Rojo. It looks like is gonna fall in the water any minute.
I dont' like where it is positioned geographically either. Our island should be around Trinidad. That's it. We would have a lot of oil or at least we could send yoleros at night to steal it from Venezuela.
Let's move it! Think about it. If we move the island real fast to the right all the Haitians would fall in the water and that would make a lot of people happy.
Pepe
I don't like when you have to include the word "republic" in a country's name. It should be only one word like Colombia, Brazil, Chile among others.
All the garments coming from the DR have this big annoying label on them just because the name of the country does not fit in a regular label. I bet that's where this is coming from. They could save a lot of money if they could use smaller labels.
Well, I don't like the flag either. The people that designed it could not make up their mind as to what color would go on top. So they put together a checker flag. The flag has to go. I want a flag with one solid color and then something in the middle. It could be anything, a mango, whatever.
And then comes the shape of the island. My first grade teacher used to say that it looked like..."el cuero de una vaca desgollada", or something like that. I don't like the shape. Just look at Cabo Rojo. It looks like is gonna fall in the water any minute.
I dont' like where it is positioned geographically either. Our island should be around Trinidad. That's it. We would have a lot of oil or at least we could send yoleros at night to steal it from Venezuela.
Let's move it! Think about it. If we move the island real fast to the right all the Haitians would fall in the water and that would make a lot of people happy.
Pepe
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Joke
I see that this thread has turned into a comedy. It is refreshing though to know that you idiots don't mean those stupid comments about our country and our flag. I agree with the post that said that maybe you're just trying to stir up some controversy! so let's join in everybody!
ugly-ass flag! stupid funny-shaped country!! dumb-sounding name! I hate that damned country!
I see that this thread has turned into a comedy. It is refreshing though to know that you idiots don't mean those stupid comments about our country and our flag. I agree with the post that said that maybe you're just trying to stir up some controversy! so let's join in everybody!
ugly-ass flag! stupid funny-shaped country!! dumb-sounding name! I hate that damned country!
Busy flags for jjsk
jjsk:
Let me clarify by what I mean a flag being too busy. I believe that for a flag to look elegant and well designed, it should have a very simple very traditional coat of arms. Most traditional coat of arms were just that, the defensive shield used by warriors with the colors of their nation or group. The Dominican coat of arms is too busy and takes away too much from the flag.
The American and British flags are very simple attractive designs with very beautiful colors which stand up timeless regardless of new modern color schemes. The Dominican Republic's red and blue are old colors that are now very distasteful to the eye. Perhaps the government should take note of this and create a commission to bring up the red and blues to modern standards. If the Dominican flag had no coat of arms it would have been a much better flag.
The British flag is so beautiful that even today it is a fashion statement. The best selling t-shirts and ladies tops wear the British flag and similar designs. The American flag is without any question a timeless design. The French flag is an art statement by itself and became the symbol of Impressionist artists all over Europe.
Someone asked me about the Canadian flag. I wished Canada had stayed with the British motive, just like the Bristish colonies. That's all I am going to say about it, except...I don't like it.
TW
jjsk:
Let me clarify by what I mean a flag being too busy. I believe that for a flag to look elegant and well designed, it should have a very simple very traditional coat of arms. Most traditional coat of arms were just that, the defensive shield used by warriors with the colors of their nation or group. The Dominican coat of arms is too busy and takes away too much from the flag.
The American and British flags are very simple attractive designs with very beautiful colors which stand up timeless regardless of new modern color schemes. The Dominican Republic's red and blue are old colors that are now very distasteful to the eye. Perhaps the government should take note of this and create a commission to bring up the red and blues to modern standards. If the Dominican flag had no coat of arms it would have been a much better flag.
The British flag is so beautiful that even today it is a fashion statement. The best selling t-shirts and ladies tops wear the British flag and similar designs. The American flag is without any question a timeless design. The French flag is an art statement by itself and became the symbol of Impressionist artists all over Europe.
Someone asked me about the Canadian flag. I wished Canada had stayed with the British motive, just like the Bristish colonies. That's all I am going to say about it, except...I don't like it.
TW
DR FLAG & NAME
The flag, I like, but that is because I know a little about the history of the flag. Juana Saltitopa and all that. It has a nice historical ring to it.
The French flag is blue, white, red verticle bars. The Haitians took the French flag, the only one they could lay their hands on, turned it horizontal, and literally eliminated the white-for obvious reasons, in 1804.
In 1844, the Dominican movement for liberatin from Hait?, called the "Trinitarios" needed a flag, quick! They took the only one available, the Haitian flag, and sewed a white cross over it. Effective for their purposes. Later on, in the 1850s, the flag was reorganized and defined, and the "checkerboard" pattern was instituted, probably to distance themselves from Hait?. Blue was always to be the upper corner nearest the flagstaff, and the white cross was to be 1/2 the width of the red or blue quadrants.
I agree that the coat of arms is a little too much, but you can buy a nice yacht and fly the navel ensign, which has no coat of arms.
As for the name, I have to agree it is too much. For years I have wanted to call the country Quisqueya, or Hispa?ola, or Santo Domingo. And I, too, prefer a one word definition. In fact, I was the one that pointed out to Microsoft that in their version of Encarta 1998, they had a foto of "Dominica" where the Dominican Republic should have been. Lots of people talk about having been to the "Dominican" .
Will this happen? Don't think so....Too much patriotism involved. The expediency of a 'nice' name will always become second place after nationalism and Juan Pablo Duarte.
Oh yeah, really good flags? Denmark and Switzerland, super simple.
Stars and Stripes convey good history.
French Tricolour is very good.
the Aussie and New Zealand flags are cool, but that IMO.
HB
The flag, I like, but that is because I know a little about the history of the flag. Juana Saltitopa and all that. It has a nice historical ring to it.
The French flag is blue, white, red verticle bars. The Haitians took the French flag, the only one they could lay their hands on, turned it horizontal, and literally eliminated the white-for obvious reasons, in 1804.
In 1844, the Dominican movement for liberatin from Hait?, called the "Trinitarios" needed a flag, quick! They took the only one available, the Haitian flag, and sewed a white cross over it. Effective for their purposes. Later on, in the 1850s, the flag was reorganized and defined, and the "checkerboard" pattern was instituted, probably to distance themselves from Hait?. Blue was always to be the upper corner nearest the flagstaff, and the white cross was to be 1/2 the width of the red or blue quadrants.
I agree that the coat of arms is a little too much, but you can buy a nice yacht and fly the navel ensign, which has no coat of arms.
As for the name, I have to agree it is too much. For years I have wanted to call the country Quisqueya, or Hispa?ola, or Santo Domingo. And I, too, prefer a one word definition. In fact, I was the one that pointed out to Microsoft that in their version of Encarta 1998, they had a foto of "Dominica" where the Dominican Republic should have been. Lots of people talk about having been to the "Dominican" .
Will this happen? Don't think so....Too much patriotism involved. The expediency of a 'nice' name will always become second place after nationalism and Juan Pablo Duarte.
Oh yeah, really good flags? Denmark and Switzerland, super simple.
Stars and Stripes convey good history.
French Tricolour is very good.
the Aussie and New Zealand flags are cool, but that IMO.
HB
JAZ...wake up!
I guess you haven't read what the literal name " D" stands for! A dirty street begging friar! Founded by Domingo de Guzman in Languedoc spain in 1215. He is the founder of the " Dominican Order". All they did was LIE AND MURDER! I want to see this medieval name burn to the stake! It means nothing but the memories of death and destruction of 90% of our Taino anscesters...and as long as you go carrying that dirty name! you stab yourself all over...viva Quisqueya!
Now, Jaz..look in the mirror and ask yourself " am I a street begging friar?." Juan Pablo Duarte and his party of dedicated ignorent Dominican Order worshipers, cursed the island with a sectarian medieval name that neither befits our island nor our culture. It has been QUISQUEYA for about three thousand years, you get it?
Tiger is all strong!
I guess you haven't read what the literal name " D" stands for! A dirty street begging friar! Founded by Domingo de Guzman in Languedoc spain in 1215. He is the founder of the " Dominican Order". All they did was LIE AND MURDER! I want to see this medieval name burn to the stake! It means nothing but the memories of death and destruction of 90% of our Taino anscesters...and as long as you go carrying that dirty name! you stab yourself all over...viva Quisqueya!
Now, Jaz..look in the mirror and ask yourself " am I a street begging friar?." Juan Pablo Duarte and his party of dedicated ignorent Dominican Order worshipers, cursed the island with a sectarian medieval name that neither befits our island nor our culture. It has been QUISQUEYA for about three thousand years, you get it?
Tiger is all strong!
I am all for simple. Best flags? Japan, Switzerland, Denmark, and Canada in that order. Obviously the Dominican flag go well ahead in my list than the American and British flags for obvious reasons.
A little note, the Danish flag, the Danebrog is the oldest flag still used in the world. Except for the Canadian flag it seems that younger countries tend to go fancy on their flags.
A little note, the Danish flag, the Danebrog is the oldest flag still used in the world. Except for the Canadian flag it seems that younger countries tend to go fancy on their flags.
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How about "FRIAR ISLAND"!
That way we could do honour to the Order of Dominican Friars,who brought Civilization and a Culture to an Island that had neither! At the same time we would tell people that we are an Island, that could increase the tourist trade.We could put on shows for the tourists about how the Friars taught the "Savages" to be Christians,and how to read , right,and cut sugar cane! Criss Colon!
That way we could do honour to the Order of Dominican Friars,who brought Civilization and a Culture to an Island that had neither! At the same time we would tell people that we are an Island, that could increase the tourist trade.We could put on shows for the tourists about how the Friars taught the "Savages" to be Christians,and how to read , right,and cut sugar cane! Criss Colon!