Or that their English may not always be great. Or just “please stop assuming I’m from your hemisphere”

I really wish there was a pictoral way to indicate preferred language without tying it to a country or making people think I like the values of said place.

We could always do (ENG) or (DE) or something but that doesn’t offer much more clarity to the difference, and it reads as less scrutable than 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 or 🇩🇪 to me . Maybe something like (🗣️:🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇩🇪) would work?

And it’s not like there’s a rule about not being able to be proud about something you’ve done nothing for. If your Parent does something cool, are you not allowed to be proud of them?

They might, but it’s usually used by AfD supporters or far-right conservatives. Because of Germany’s history with nationalism, most sane people don’t use or show the flag all that much.

Funnily enough, the most extreme Neo-Nazis, those who don’t even try to appear moderate, reject the German flag because it’s the flag of the Federal Republic. The German Reich they so desperately want back had a different one.