Last week, I opened up a thread to ask you guys about your flags – specifically, your most exotic one and the one you wanted the most. A response by Vincent Ignatius at his blog got me thinking about a new variant on the flag metric. I haven’t worked out all the kinks with this idea, but I think it’s a good one, so I’m plowing forth with it anyway.
Now, the idea behind the flag metric is to gauge how well a man can adapt his game to a foreign culture. One of the bigger problems with the metric (beyond the fact that, like all such metrics, you can game it by banging mud-turtles, fatties, and other low-quality girls) is that it doesn’t account for inter-country cultural differences. You don’t need to be a genius to know that cultural norms and practices aren’t uniform within a country’s borders. Many countries have large ethnic groups who are distinct enough from the majority that you can’t use the same game adaptations with their womenfolk and hope to succeed. Laying a little Quebecois tart such as the one pictured is not the same as laying a real English-speaking Canadian. (It’s much easier, for starters.)
Which brings me to the miniflag. A miniflag is a flag from an area of a country that is considerably different from its host society, a region where the methods needed to bed women are not identical to ones from the main populace. But what makes a miniflag? Under the most liberal definition, every separate geographical unit within a nation, as well as every racial group, could count as a miniflag. Therefore, I’ve designed an acid test to determine whether or not shagging a girl from a certain provincial subgroup qualifies as a miniflag:
If the subculture in question could survive (or has survived) as an ethno-state independent of its host country, with its own contiguous borders, language, and culture, it is a miniflag.
Borders are an obvious requirement. Technology hasn’t evolved to the point where having states that consist of hundreds of Snow Crash-esque enclaves spread out over large portions of land is feasible. Language isn’t always necessary (see: Ireland) but is a good indicator of distinction in most cases. Culture requires a bit of elaboration. Americans have a shallow concept of culture that generally doesn’t go beyond superficial attributes like food and dress. You need to travel and/or live abroad in order to understand that culture isn’t just what people eat or what days out of the year they celebrate holidays, but is a shared history and way of thinking and behaving that is rooted in hundreds, possibly thousands of years of tradition.
For example, under my requirements, Quebec counts as a Canadian miniflag, while Manitoba doesn’t. Puerto Rico (native boricuas, not any of those Nuyorican or Amsterico posers) counts as an American miniflag, while Texas doesn’t. Although the regional populations of the U.S. are growing apart, they are still similar enough that the same rules still apply. I may be a New Yorker, but I still have enough in common with Alabamians, Californians, and Floridians that banging a woman from any one of those states doesn’t require me to reorient my entire game. The same goes for gaming women from different Anglophone Canadian provinces. Non-white American and Canadian minorities (save for the aforementioned groups) also don’t count. Other territories that could count as miniflags off the top of my head – Catalonia (Spain), Corsica (France), and Wallonia (Belgium). Why not see what you can come up with?
How miniflags are counted in regards to regular flags is up for debate, but for now, I think they should not be added to your overall flag count, but instead regarded as the equivalent of merit badges, gold stars stapled onto your “big” flags. This is mostly because seducing women from other countries is still more challenging than seducing women from multiple regions in one country due to the cross-cultural interaction that inevitably results when different tribes are locked in the same cage. For instance, a guy who can bang both Anglo-Canadians and Quebecois has better game than a guy who can only bang one or the other, but is not as skilled as a guy who can bang Anglo-Canadians and Italians.
Am I on to something with this concept, or am I completely full of it? Want to share your miniflags (or superflags and language notches, as Vincent reminded me in his post) as a continuation of last week’s open thread? Sound off in the comments.
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I love how one of the tags is “Alabama”. You sure include EVERYTHING in those tags.
I imagine it helps your search engine traffic??
[Very. I will own Google Romania in short order. - ed.]
Sounds like you have a soft spot for “La Belle Province” and Quebecoises! Let’s hear some stories!
[I can't resist an entire province full of French whores. - ed.]
Quality metric, IMO. For example: my Singapore flag was a Malay; this is a huge accomplishment, because muzzies aren’t supposed to engage in premarital sex (and they really don’t, most of the time), and they’re rare in Singapore. A Chinese Singaporean would be a totally different game. Same story holds in Malaysia itself, with the addition of a large Vietnamese immigrant community.
Another metric: I dated a half Chechen Russian for several years. She wasn’t that different from a “regular Russian,” though somewhat different from, say, a jewish Russian, and I feel I deserve a mini flag for rarity and danger. India’s caste system and many different races would also be interesting and complex to traverse: I don’t even pretend to understand it. Kurd would definitely be different than a Turk or Iraqi Arab, as would “Assyrian” (a very different tribe, which is often confused with “Arab”).
While I think most of the races of America are alike, there are some differences. Social class is huge: a ghetto dude banging some country club woman is doing something really extraordinary. Even when poor people make it big (think, Marky Mark), they tend to date within their social class, or nearby. My own dating history reflects this: it’s generally working class girls with educations. Upper middle class women are easy targets for my “bad boy game” (since I’m technically a working class mook who made it big), but I can’t stand being around them for protracted periods of time. Blue blooded Americans or actual Royalty would be an awesome mini flag for someone who doesn’t fit that description. Of course, schlongmeisters like Taki who come from those peeps probably sow lots of seeds there.
This is a good metric, and one that I’m pretty deficient on. I don’t think I have any miniflags.
One metric for men still in college is which universities have they banged girls from. This will be easier for men in areas with a lot of colleges e.g Boston, New York, The Triangle
Elle est belle. :-)
“La Belle Provinceâ€
It’s interesting noting how French people move to Quebec thinking it’s an French outpost in America and leave describing the province as a land of French-speaking Americans. As I like to note, the overpasses are foreign by North American standards, but the signage is based on NYSDOT’s standards…
By the way, banging a burqa wearing muslim chick should count as its own flag. The real trick is that you won’t know whether you are banging a 10 or a 1 until you get the burqa off. In fact you should get extra points because of the risk factor from her cousins trying to kill you.
Wait, burqa is the bullshit headscarf. I meant that full length sith robe muslim chicks wear. You must game and fuck a girl who wears one of those. Think of it as the ultimate test of your game.
[Actually, you had it right. The burqa is the full length robe. The headscarf is the hijab. - ed.]
DA: Indeed; Quebec, like English Canada, has become so Americanized in its culture, that not only is there French-language country music, but even French-language bluegrass; I saw some on TV last time I was there.
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