Think Progress reports on the lastest Bush faux pas, As Bush Goes To Vietnam, White House Website Displays The Wrong Flag. They displayed the flag of South Vietnam, which as not be used since the war ended in 1975. How hard is it in this day and age of the Internet to find the right flag of a country?
The CIA World Factbook has the right flag. wikipedia does too. The economist country briefing and the UN's cyber school bus both have the right flag, but they are very small. And yes Flags of the World got it right. And no surprise, Vietnam Tourism has the right flag.
If you google vietnam flag you get three flags, the first is wrong, the second two are right. Would you take the first or the most popular? If you google Vietnam you don't get images.
I suspect this is the problem. If you google South Vietnam you get some images, including the wrong flag. If you lookup South Vietnam in wikipedia you get a nice article on the old country, including the old (now wrong) flag. Maybe this is a problem of too much information being available? It's now easy to find out and out of date information. Then again, I think this is probably just a problem of not knowing what to look for and being careless in what you find.
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