[markdown]

It's abnormal behaviour. There's no reason to hang your country's flag in front of your house. I mean... maybe if you live near the Canadian or Mexican border and are feeling particularly patriotic or insecure.

> I’ve seen people from all over the world wear or display their own country’s flags.

You may have imagined it. If not, could you say where? It is a uniquely American thing. I mean, Indians will pull out a flag quite often, but they're perpetually at war with their neighbours so it's kinda understandable. In the US you'll see flags on houses in the middle of buttfuck nowhere, owned by people who've never met another foreigner. It really is bizarre behaviour.

[wil421]

Germany. Southern Germany specifically. Lots of people even have Bavarian or German flag stickers on their cars.

Lot’s of flags in Italy including regional flags like Siena which has 17 different flags corresponding to the parts of the city. Lots Italian and Vatican flags in Rome.

I’ve met a Costa Rican tourist in Europe who had a flag hat, shirt, backpack, and a small flag in hand.

[markdown]

Thanks.

> I’ve met a Costa Rican tourist in Europe who had a flag hat, shirt, backpack, and a small flag in hand.

That's very common with tourists, and it makes sense... you're travelling through other countries, representing your own. Same with carrying a flag in a protest or at an international sports event.

That's very different to putting up a flagpole in front of your house to fly a national flag.

[zepto]

There are plenty of union Jack’s in England, and Tricolores in France.

[markdown]

Flying in front of residential homes? I don't think so. I could go onto Google Maps and in short order find a US flag on a random US suburban residence. It'd take days to find the same in the UK or France.

[OJFord]

Not as common I don't think here in the UK as US, but it does happen in certain areas/by certain people, and carries the same connotations, just with the possible addition of football (soccer) hooliganism.