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Bofferbrauer2 said:
MrWayne said:
I wonder why so many flags are blue, white and red. Especially the western countries seem to like those colors.

Red and blue, sorry, purple and marine, were considered royal and powerful (hence why heraldric symbols like lions and griffins are most often red - unless they're gold). The reason for the white, sorry, silver in between is because on the rules of heraldry no two colors or two metals (silver for white and gold for yellow, some tried to bend that rule with copper for red to make it fit) were allowed to touch each other, hence all those color-silver-color or color-gold-color designs.

And for why especially red, blue and white, well that's mostly due to the tricolore from the french revolution symbolizing democracy in the 19th and early 20th century

The usual explanation about the French flag is that the blue and red are the historical colors of Paris (each symbolizing a Saint), and the white in the middle was the color of the king.