National symbols

[Whateverist]

Eagle here. The sickle stands for farmers and the hammer for workers. The broken chain stands for getting rid of German occupation.

But I thought you were german or at least in Germany, no?  [My bolded.]

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So I was struck with a weird thought the other day.

Looking around here in Kiwiland I noted that the national symbol is the Kiwi.

Now this is the country that was once home to a Haast eagle, one of the largest eagles ever identified, which would make a great national symbol.  Instead they chose a rather plain, ugly, flightless bird.

And before any Aussies laugh, the national emblem for Oz is a large, bouncy mouse...

Why do you think there are no more Haast's eagles about?  Because the kiwis slaughtered them en masse.

Boru

Whereupon they all put down their 'arms' .. apparently.

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The Lion is the animal symbol of my country.

And by "my country" I mean this large land mass I was born on because philosophical determinism/chance (the former makes more sense.  Chance is just a way humans make sense of pseudorandomness in a universe that appears supremely chaotic on the quantum level because we're merely hairless apes with large egos).

You might be over thinking this a tad, lad.  Very, very locally wouldn't your personal animal be a turtle?

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'Twas never on the national flag. 'Twas the royal banner, the current version ye happened to steal off us Irish.

Did we, aye?

May as well give it back then.