Using Savvy Search, I put a search for "world's flags" and got some references to various Web sites. I chose a link to World Flag which offers a wide selection of flags (but very few images) with information on how the flags were crafted and made. The page is basically designed to sell flags via the net and it provides a price list for over 175 countries around the world (price depends on the size and type of the flag). I didn't plan to buy a flag and if I did, I wouldn't buy a flag from that site since it offers to sell those flags without presenting them to the customer, hence, how would I know if I'd get my moneys worth?

The Flags site is excellent since it points to images and information on flags. I first chose a link to the Selection of National Flags and it indeed let me view various images of humongous flags (the flags cover most of the computer screen).

Yet, some other links, referred to by Savvy Search, lead to the International Marine Signal Flags which provide flags' images, with their special meanings, used by ships at sea and to Motor Racing Flags that offer an archive of small and large flag icons. Finally, the Australian National Botanic Gardens (ANBG), offers links to various sites; I clicked on their Very Long Menu and then on Images, Pictures that provides images and pictures exhibited by various Universities.

I'm not really sure about the usefulness of those sites to social psychology . All I know is that I enjoyed looking at the flags. Each flag has its own unique history and symbolizes something meaningful for the people who stand behind it. Those flags not only illustrate how culturally, ethnically, and symbolically diverse is our world but they also reminds us that in diversity there is unity.

Leave a Message for Nitsa Mc Carthy?