{"id":2695,"date":"2013-08-09T16:52:59","date_gmt":"2013-08-09T15:52:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.briangreene.com\/bhg\/?p=2695"},"modified":"2013-08-09T17:04:37","modified_gmt":"2013-08-09T16:04:37","slug":"im-all-right-union-jack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/2013\/im-all-right-union-jack\/","title":{"rendered":"I’m alright – Union Jack"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"asos-union-jack-bag-18\"<\/a>I have noticed people wearing clothing and bags etc. around these parts (Ireland) with Union Jack flags all across the design. Its not something that would have been a brand or fashion icon 5, 10 or 20 years ago, here, perhaps just Geri Halliwell’s wardrobe.<\/p>\n

And it either means that it has indeed become a fashion icon globally (after London 2012) and in some ways this may be harmful to brand Great Britain [citation needed<\/i>]<\/small>, or Irish people (which I presume they where) are so confident about their own national identity that to wear apparel with the flag of ones’s closest neighbour (an action which once might have made you a target for physical attack in the past) is now cool on the street.<\/p>\n

Does this mean we have grown up?<\/p>\n

Are we more comfortable with our own identity that we have no hang ups about our old colonial occupiers flag any more?<\/p>\n

I’m alright – Union Jack – Fly the flag. #SLF<\/p>\n

the Union Jack explained – to Jedward. cue point #1
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