painting: The national day parade (only norwegian flags please)

"The national day parade (only norwegian flags please)"is an acrylic painting on plate (size: 50x61cm).
At the moment there is a tensed debate in Norway about the national day parade, on the 17th of May. This day the children are marching the streets, all over the country, waving their flags to celebrate freedom from war and repression. The ongoing debate, that has heated up in parts of the population, concerns whether the children should be allowed to walk the parade with other flags than norwegian ones. Some people are of the opinion that other flags should be banned in the parade and that children with other flags than the norwegian ones should not be permitted to participate, others again feel that flags from other nationalities should be welcomed.

I spent my early childhood years in a small village in the outskirts of the northern part of Norway where the national parade appeared something similar to this.