fickle | Patriot icons, anyway?

Want an icon like the above? Comment with a link to a photo of you (unless I know what you look like already) or with a doll of you, and what flag you want. I know that many of you guys are multiracial, so you get to choose which origin you want to flaunt.

I can't do multiple flags in one icon, sorry. ♥

So, as most of you know, I was born in LA, travelled around the world until I was four, spent a year in Australia, then lived in Austria until I was eighteen, at which point I moved to America for college.

And yet, my patriot pride icon is a Sri Lankan one, even though I'm only Sri Lankan genetically and fly down there twice a year at the most. I'm not a good Sri Lankan girl -- I don't have long hair, have no plans on getting married, am not Buddhist, wear inappropriate clothing, have no interest in tele-dramas and think the civil war is stupid. I think Sri Lanka has too many mosquitoes and I hate the way guys stare at me when I'm there. The crime rate is appalling and the Sri Lankan tendency to create traffic jams out of nothing more than a cart and a bullock is insane.

None of that really matters, though, because when it comes down to it, Sri Lanka is a tiny little island shaped like a teardrop, and it's where I come from. That's why my icon doesn't say 'American Pride'; there are already enough Americans around to be proud of their homeland. I think it's time someone took a turn at being proud of being Sri Lankan.

~~And hey, at least we never invaded Iraq.~~

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XD Honestly? It's because my icon is the one that I made first, ages ago. If you watch it carefully, you'll see that firstly, the animation for the flag isn't as smooth so there's a white, jagged outline around it and that I missed out on erasing bits of the doll so it's white between her arm and body, and between her legs. So I put up 'Asian Pride' there just because I couldn't get 'Sri Lankan Pride' to fit in a way that looked good.

The second icon I made is the Kiwi Pride one -- the guy I made it for pointed out that in order to be consistant, I'd have to say 'Oceania Pride', but I decided that sounded stupid and didn't fit properly on the space available so I just stuck down Kiwi Pride instead. Sri Lanka doesn't have a quick little nickname like that, alas. Still, there's no way that I would have used 'New Zealander Pride' since it's just too long.

The 'Welsh Pride' icon nearly ended up with 'British Pride', since it was the third one I made, but I decided that it made more sense to stick to keeping it country themed. Alex asked specifically for 'Tribal Pride' on his icon, so that's why it says that instead of 'Navajo Pride'. XD

Basically, it comes down to what looks good and what people want. And in the case of my icon, I didn't think too deeply about it, I just figured 'Asian Pride' looked better and hey, at least it's a good reminder that there are other countries out there besides Japan in Asia!

Patriot icons, anyway?

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