June 2007, Northern Ireland, Belfast, Shankill Road - loyalists’ district of the city. Torn British and Scottish flags on the lamp posts. One of the differences between Shankill Road and Falls road is the quality of the flags on the lamp posts. In the Falls the flags of the Republic were clean and brand new, contrary to the flags in Shankill, all of them looked like torn wags. It was thing hard to understand. Scottish flags together with Union Jacks, while Scotland is heading towards independence and at least part of the society is for it. Anyway, I can understand the approach of loyalists, but while they were marching with pride through the catholic districts the flags on the lamp posts looked like they had no respect to their own symbols.
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