Flag Similarities To Start

In any random perusal of flags online, one will begin to see similarities. The Daneborg, for instance, and the pan-Arabic colors, two topics I'll cover here in a bit, but other times you see other, slightly more random similarities.

The pan-African colors will get a brief view here, but first I'm heading to Eurasia. Here's an interesting pair:

That first flag, for those astute fans of Minsk, is of Belarus. Belarusians, while a Slavic people, don't use the pan-Slavic colors (red, white, and blue), rather the red and green, with a traditional Belarusian pattern on the hoist-side.

The second flag is of Chechnya, the republic that's part of the Russian Federation and lives in the Caucasus mountains. The Kremlin has been killing Chechen terrorists for years now in their own "War on Terror". Deep reporting on the issue might have claimed the life of Anna Politskovskaya, the award-winning journalist who was gunned down in the foyer of her apartment building.

Now, the similarity of the flags is most likely unintentional, as Belarus and the Caucasus aren't that close, and Belarusian Slavs are a different kind of folk than the Chechens, indigenous Ingush people of the Northern Caucasus.

It's just...weird. When you see the two flags separately, hours apart, you end up struck.

Here's another two:

The first is Cameroon, and the second is Senegal. The similarity here makes much more sense, as both countries are in West Africa, sport the pan-African colors, and has, eh, the exact same design.

Similarities arise naturally, and the purpose of some of these posts---the flag ones---will look at similarities or deeper meanings between types of people.

My understanding of how the Baltic group diverged from the Germans and the Slavs is better than my overall comprehension of the Bantu pushing around the other groups in Africa. The Bantu are like the Indo-Europeans in Europe.

So...we'll learn together.