Flags - What they really mean

I just came across this website mentioning a Brazilian artist, Icaro Doria, working for Grande Reportagem in Lisboa. They produced a clever re-hashing of flags and meshing it with statistics about eight fundamental themes. In addition to the war in Iraq and child labor, other subjects addressed the distribution of wealth in Brazil, child mortality in Burkina Faso, the abuse of woman in Somalia, drug trafficing in Columbia, the spread of infectious diseases in Angola and energy wastage in the European Union.

It is a clever way to look at flags, with each color representing the % of people who are disadvantaged in one way or another. For example, the US: the red stripes on the flag represent those in favour of the war in Iraq, the white stripes represent those who are against it and the blue area of the flag are those who don’t know where Iraq is :) Well worth a look and a giggle to deal with the disheartening truths about our social reality on earth.