Is it the first time?

Abdul Alhazred

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A thought provoked by this story:

Protesters Burn EU Flag in North Kosovo (AP)

KOSOVSKA MITROVICA, Kosovo (AP) - Up to 2,000 Serb protesters rallied against Kosovo's independence in the new nation's tense north on Monday, and a few set fire to EU flags in what has become a daily challenge of the country's secession from Serbia.

The protesters gathered beneath a banner that read "Kosovo is Serbia" and listened to speeches by local Serb leaders in the ethnically divided town of Kosovska Mitrovica - as they've done every day since Kosovo's ethnic Albanian leadership proclaimed statehood on Feb. 17.

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Emphasis added.

This is the first story I've ever heard where demonstrators burned the EU flag.

Is it really the first time ever?
 
Probably not, if you think about it's not really much of a story: "Burning EU flag!" is hardly going to sell papers.
 
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Just to add: enter "burning EU flag" into Google will give you quite a few stores/articles with people burning the "EU" flag. In fact I've just learnt some people were trying to make a campaign of burning "EU" flags last bonfire - amazing what a couple of seconds with Google can throw-up in the way of trivia.
 
I think the reason you don't tend to hear about it is that people in Europe generally just don't care that much about flags. While in the US, doing anything to a flag will just about get you lynched, in Europe you will barely get a raised eyebrow. There's also the point that European countries are themselves first and part of Europe second. Even out of those who may actually care about flags, very few will care about the EU flag because it's not their flag.
 
About Americans and flags -- there's even a strong tendency to fly non-US flags in the US.

For example you'll see more Swedish flags around a SAAB dealership in the USA than you'd see at a Swedish embassy.
 
Cuddles said:
I think the reason you don't tend to hear about it is that people in Europe generally just don't care that much about flags. While in the US, doing anything to a flag will just about get you lynched,
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When is the last time someone was lynched for a flag burning?

DR
 
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