I would rather say that we’re an old married couple that lost interest in eachother and just pursue our own interests and hobbys without caring much for what the other does. People then ask why we are still living together and the response would be that it’s just too complicated to get divorced and sell the house. And even though we sometimes complain about eachother and talk about getting divorced and sell the house, deep down we all know we just can’t be bothered.
Nah Belgium is that weird guy on the bus with 6 split personalities who keeps hitting himself and then blames it on another personality. When you ask him why he doesn’t see a doctor he starts shouting that you would never understand because of his complex history
I agree 🙂 much love to everyone.
More like two roommates that play FIFA and yell at each other because of it.
Brussels is an unsolvable problem. That is why
Just wait til you hear Francophones complain about the French or the Flemish complain about the Dutch. The two linguistic sides of Belgium are definitely kindred spirits in many ways.
We rather stay together then join France or the Netherlands
Not really, its more that a divorce is more complicated so they slowly drift apart over the years.
I once saw an interview in class (2018-2019) in which they interviewed Belgian youngster whether Belgium should split or not.
One answer was a definite no because Flanders would then lose Eden Hazard as a soccer player.
Dude got his priorities straight.
Depends on who you ask
It’s moreso that a large part of the population doesn’t want to split but only tals out loud when someone suggests we should
If you want to know what youtube video this is: It’s the Tim Traveler – [The Belgian City That Built A Metro Line… And Never Opened It](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QeMJBqU_eYc)
Or watch the followup about the crossing of rails.
The Flemish have more in common with the Wallons than with the Dutch. The Walloons have more in common with the Flemish than they have with the French.
Off course there are differences some fierce and divisive… untill you show a picture of a quality beer being poured in the wrong kind of glass.
pretty accurate
It’s more like “married with children” where one party steals all the money from the other one, constantly berates them and does everything they can to humiliate and counteract them with the other one too weak and resigned to even try and resist. They’re basically only still together because of ‘the baby’ Brussels. Which in reality is more of a horrible mother in law than a poor baby.
There’s more that unites us than divides us. And i say that as a bilingual Brusseleir, so i’d say i have a more neutral point of views than most here (it tends to get rather flemish leaning over here in this sub). Problem is that many just dont really visit the other parts or know many people from the other regions and just go off on stereotypes of each other…
it’s more like a married couple who have different interests and capabilities. Their is one of the people who suffered some of it’s wealth so the other could develop and that one is know the richer and is kind of being an ass about it. Their is also a stubborn asshole child that wants the parents to split up (you know, the vast majority of flemish people don’t want to split).
we just never get along, it never was a happy marriage. The dutch speaking part of belgium wants to split but our laws tells us that both the french and dutch should agree with a secession. The french part is really poor compared with the dutch part so they dont wanna split because a lot of money from the dutch speaking part flows through the governement to the french part and ontherwise they’d lose al that money
We tend to bash on eachother all the time, saying the other side sucks, they are lazy or stupid or whatever, but as a person from flanders I do enjoy going to wallonia sometimes, there is a lot of beautiful nature there and I love going there to just shut off.
Also we don’t split because neither of us want to join france or the netherlands, thats just a worse option than just dealing with eathother
I don’t think you could sum it up any better.
Maar doodslaan deed hij niet. Want tussen droom en daad staan wetten in de weg, en ook weemoedigheid, die niemand kan verklaren en die des avonds komt, als men slapen gaat.
It’s true for Walloon people. Flemish people on the other hand, i know more than enough who would totally encourage the split and feel no affinity with the “Belgian” identity but feel Flemish.
In my experience, most Walloon people feel more Belgian.
Source: i have family and have worked on both sides, grew up bilingual
After Reading a lot of the top comments ans responses i’m really happy to discover that there are a lot more of flamish that aren’t separatists or racists towards walloons than i thought.
I barely knew anything about flemish, exemt for the elections : the last results of the VB scared me of an actual tearing of the Belgium
It is mostly political and economical actually, The problem is that if Wallonië and flandern split up their economy would pretty much get ruined, Both parts actually need the other one to survive economically that is, meanwhile they blame eachother for poverty or taking the others’ Money through government etc…
(My fb is run over by these kind of issues, i had to block a few governmental pages, that i didn’t even follow, there cause i kept getting pings etc..)
I wonder who the German-speaking community resembles in this analogy…
Can’t be the lover hiding in the wardrobe.
Once I was stopped by the police leaving the airport in Brussels and they seriously believed I had faked my ID because it was German first. I was only saved because I told them the king even speaks German in his Christmas address. 😅
Very accurate. I complain about my wallloons, but they are MY walloons and don’t you dare say anything bad about them ’cause I will punch you in the face.
Loads of creative ideas. But history based, it’s just the French speakers, and the catholic community that wanted to separate from the power king Willem (Netherlands) tried to force on them. They joined forces against him and created a nation, like nothing ever seen before at a speed that is exactly the opposite of how we form our governments today. our beautiful history is unknown by many. We should take a good look at the past. Belgium has become a state that organises almost everything for its citizens and for that reason the taxes skyrocketed. Life could be easy, but our leaders make things complicated. And then there’s European legislation. Who knows the supranational institutions might be what joins us all one day. I hope so. We are all citizens of the world. I prefer seeing things in a broad perspective. So yes, a lot of us are hospitable. 🙂
I don’t get the hatred between the two sides. It’s all love on my side. 🙂
If we could agree how to split, we wouldn’t need to.
I disagree. The linguistic barrier we have is purely political.
To be clear, I was raised in dutch and french, in and around Brussels. Since I’m living away from my parents I lived near the linguistic border and my siblings spread themselves in flanders and wallonia. I think I’m well placed to have a clear view on the matter.
Besides a handful of individuals we don’t know racism between “Flamand” and “Walen”. We appreciate each other!
Flemish people go to the Ardennen and Walloons go to the Vlaamse kuststeden.
We all do our best to speak the other language o
If we can.
I don’t even dispute with them. People from Antwerp are different from people from Limburg, from West Flanders, from Brussels. We’re all just one family that happens to have 3 native languages. The political class only wants us to think that we are ‘2 different cultures’.
31 comments
I would rather say that we’re an old married couple that lost interest in eachother and just pursue our own interests and hobbys without caring much for what the other does. People then ask why we are still living together and the response would be that it’s just too complicated to get divorced and sell the house. And even though we sometimes complain about eachother and talk about getting divorced and sell the house, deep down we all know we just can’t be bothered.
Nah Belgium is that weird guy on the bus with 6 split personalities who keeps hitting himself and then blames it on another personality. When you ask him why he doesn’t see a doctor he starts shouting that you would never understand because of his complex history
I agree 🙂 much love to everyone.
More like two roommates that play FIFA and yell at each other because of it.
Brussels is an unsolvable problem. That is why
Just wait til you hear Francophones complain about the French or the Flemish complain about the Dutch. The two linguistic sides of Belgium are definitely kindred spirits in many ways.
We rather stay together then join France or the Netherlands
Not really, its more that a divorce is more complicated so they slowly drift apart over the years.
I once saw an interview in class (2018-2019) in which they interviewed Belgian youngster whether Belgium should split or not.
One answer was a definite no because Flanders would then lose Eden Hazard as a soccer player.
Dude got his priorities straight.
Depends on who you ask
It’s moreso that a large part of the population doesn’t want to split but only tals out loud when someone suggests we should
If you want to know what youtube video this is: It’s the Tim Traveler – [The Belgian City That Built A Metro Line… And Never Opened It](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QeMJBqU_eYc)
Or watch the followup about the crossing of rails.
The Flemish have more in common with the Wallons than with the Dutch. The Walloons have more in common with the Flemish than they have with the French.
Off course there are differences some fierce and divisive… untill you show a picture of a quality beer being poured in the wrong kind of glass.
pretty accurate
It’s more like “married with children” where one party steals all the money from the other one, constantly berates them and does everything they can to humiliate and counteract them with the other one too weak and resigned to even try and resist. They’re basically only still together because of ‘the baby’ Brussels. Which in reality is more of a horrible mother in law than a poor baby.
There’s more that unites us than divides us. And i say that as a bilingual Brusseleir, so i’d say i have a more neutral point of views than most here (it tends to get rather flemish leaning over here in this sub). Problem is that many just dont really visit the other parts or know many people from the other regions and just go off on stereotypes of each other…
it’s more like a married couple who have different interests and capabilities. Their is one of the people who suffered some of it’s wealth so the other could develop and that one is know the richer and is kind of being an ass about it. Their is also a stubborn asshole child that wants the parents to split up (you know, the vast majority of flemish people don’t want to split).
we just never get along, it never was a happy marriage. The dutch speaking part of belgium wants to split but our laws tells us that both the french and dutch should agree with a secession. The french part is really poor compared with the dutch part so they dont wanna split because a lot of money from the dutch speaking part flows through the governement to the french part and ontherwise they’d lose al that money
We tend to bash on eachother all the time, saying the other side sucks, they are lazy or stupid or whatever, but as a person from flanders I do enjoy going to wallonia sometimes, there is a lot of beautiful nature there and I love going there to just shut off.
Also we don’t split because neither of us want to join france or the netherlands, thats just a worse option than just dealing with eathother
I don’t think you could sum it up any better.
Maar doodslaan deed hij niet. Want tussen droom en daad staan wetten in de weg, en ook weemoedigheid, die niemand kan verklaren en die des avonds komt, als men slapen gaat.
It’s true for Walloon people. Flemish people on the other hand, i know more than enough who would totally encourage the split and feel no affinity with the “Belgian” identity but feel Flemish.
In my experience, most Walloon people feel more Belgian.
Source: i have family and have worked on both sides, grew up bilingual
After Reading a lot of the top comments ans responses i’m really happy to discover that there are a lot more of flamish that aren’t separatists or racists towards walloons than i thought.
I barely knew anything about flemish, exemt for the elections : the last results of the VB scared me of an actual tearing of the Belgium
It is mostly political and economical actually, The problem is that if Wallonië and flandern split up their economy would pretty much get ruined, Both parts actually need the other one to survive economically that is, meanwhile they blame eachother for poverty or taking the others’ Money through government etc…
(My fb is run over by these kind of issues, i had to block a few governmental pages, that i didn’t even follow, there cause i kept getting pings etc..)
I wonder who the German-speaking community resembles in this analogy…
Can’t be the lover hiding in the wardrobe.
Once I was stopped by the police leaving the airport in Brussels and they seriously believed I had faked my ID because it was German first. I was only saved because I told them the king even speaks German in his Christmas address. 😅
Very accurate. I complain about my wallloons, but they are MY walloons and don’t you dare say anything bad about them ’cause I will punch you in the face.
Loads of creative ideas. But history based, it’s just the French speakers, and the catholic community that wanted to separate from the power king Willem (Netherlands) tried to force on them. They joined forces against him and created a nation, like nothing ever seen before at a speed that is exactly the opposite of how we form our governments today. our beautiful history is unknown by many. We should take a good look at the past. Belgium has become a state that organises almost everything for its citizens and for that reason the taxes skyrocketed. Life could be easy, but our leaders make things complicated. And then there’s European legislation. Who knows the supranational institutions might be what joins us all one day. I hope so. We are all citizens of the world. I prefer seeing things in a broad perspective. So yes, a lot of us are hospitable. 🙂
I don’t get the hatred between the two sides. It’s all love on my side. 🙂
If we could agree how to split, we wouldn’t need to.
I disagree. The linguistic barrier we have is purely political.
To be clear, I was raised in dutch and french, in and around Brussels. Since I’m living away from my parents I lived near the linguistic border and my siblings spread themselves in flanders and wallonia. I think I’m well placed to have a clear view on the matter.
Besides a handful of individuals we don’t know racism between “Flamand” and “Walen”. We appreciate each other!
Flemish people go to the Ardennen and Walloons go to the Vlaamse kuststeden.
We all do our best to speak the other language o
If we can.
I don’t even dispute with them. People from Antwerp are different from people from Limburg, from West Flanders, from Brussels. We’re all just one family that happens to have 3 native languages. The political class only wants us to think that we are ‘2 different cultures’.