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Ruth Lee, a Chinese-American woman, flying the flag of China while at the beach to avoid being mistaken for Japanese, Miami, USA, WW2, December 15, 1941 (lemmy.world)
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[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 26 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Probably not flags usually, but there was a great deal of effort made by Chinese-Americans to distinguish themselves as "Not-Japanese" to the white majority of the US during WW2 to avoid getting racism-by-proxy.