Cartoons: Refugees, Flags and What I Stand For
Cartoons: Refugees, Flags and What I Stand For
Images by Lyndon Hood![Cartoon: Syrian
refugees in Europe, the New Zealand refugee quota and the
Silver Fern NZ alternative flag option](http://img.scoop.co.nz/stories/images/1509/2c06e69f89d831d07104.jpeg)
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![Cartoon: Syrian
refugees in Europe, the New Zealand refugee quota, and the
Koru NZ alternative flag option](http://img.scoop.co.nz/stories/images/1509/cad56f69c1045fb00a72.jpeg)
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Both these are in response to a number of local and international cartoons of the current refugee crisis (and how New Zealand's response sits with the supposed self-examination of the flag debate). But they were prompted specifically by @ksuyin's question:
Which of these four flag designs do you feel best represent our refusal to help refugees?
— Su Yin Khoo (@ksuyin) September 2, 2015
If a flag is supposed to represent our nation, let's make the nation something we're proud of.
Recommended (and more positive) book: Shaun Tan: The Arrival