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Cartoons: Refugees, Flags and What I Stand For
Cartoons: Refugees, Flags and What I Stand For
Images by Lyndon Hood
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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
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