many examples to observe, typically using ritual events that evoke strong emotions in their participants, The 'orange' marches in northern ireland were mentioned above, and these are but one example of occasions when people don uniforms, bang drums, play stirring music, and strut about express allegiance to their kind and their country. appropriate symbolism is chosen to express the particular nation: a flag and its colours, a national anthem, some typical garments, a local flower, bird, or animal, and perhaps some invention or technological achievement of which the nation is particalarly proud. military marches may parade tanks, guns, and other weapons of power, and haunting music will accompany laments for the soldiers who have fallen in the face of such machinery.