http://blog.thefuturescompany.com/2008/04/04/flying-the-flag-post-1-of-2/ Bite-size thoughts from HCHLV people about trends, futures and cultural change to provoke and entertain Fri, 19 Feb 2010 18:05:54 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 http://blog.thefuturescompany.com/2008/04/04/flying-the-flag-post-1-of-2/#comment-96 Manfred Goretzki Mon, 21 Apr 2008 21:40:10 +0000 http://henleycentreheadlightvision.wordpress.com/?p=185#comment-96 While the new flag of Kossovo was clearly designed to curry favour with the EU, in Brussels, on the day Kossovo declared independence, there were plenty of Albanian flags to be seen, carried by or draped around young Kossovars, but not a single blue and yellow Kossovo flag. As a brandig exercise a flag is not something to be introduced over night. Besides, the flag tries to represent a Kossovar identity, which probably does not (yet) exist. The people there are Albanian or Serb first and Kossovars second, if at all. While the new flag of Kossovo was clearly designed to curry favour with the EU, in Brussels, on the day Kossovo declared independence, there were plenty of Albanian flags to be seen, carried by or draped around young Kossovars, but not a single blue and yellow Kossovo flag. As a brandig exercise a flag is not something to be introduced over night. Besides, the flag tries to represent a Kossovar identity, which probably does not (yet) exist. The people there are Albanian or Serb first and Kossovars second, if at all.

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