Take a flag in front of any 500 people on "any where in the planet" and burn it in front of them, trust me you will not come out of there alive. You are simply wrong in saying no one cares about flags, plain wrong. Tell me I am wrong about any crowd of 500 beating you to a pulp if you burn their flag in front of them, go ahead tell me I am wrong, stop playing dumb you know it is the truth unless you have an IQ lower then 30.
I don't know if lovemonkey is from Sweden like me, but not a damn thing would happen here, maybe you would get some applause.
In fact, you might get beaten for displaying the Swedish flag here in many areas, for example if you have the flag print on your clothing or fly it on your balcony or yard. Many people would assume you're a racist if you attach any type of importance to the flag.
Sweden right now is in a strange place wrt to "national pride" or whatever you might call it.
The Prime Minister was blasted for being a racist for using the term "ethnic Swede", because there's no such thing now. There is no "Swedish culture" either, and if you suggest there is, you are a racist. Sweden belongs to all peoples of the world, it has no identity of its own.
Now I'm not taking sides here, on what's right or wrong. There's potentially legitimate points on both sides of the argument. Blind nationalism is distasteful to me, but otoh, zero national identity
will probably be disastrous.