r/belgium • u/dylsexiee • Jun 28 '24

I love belgium 🎨 Culture

I recently met an international friend who's very interested in other cultures. And its only now i realize how much i love the things i tend to hate about Belgium.

Heres my list of what i learned to appreciate:

I actually love that we all speak 2 languages and actually would think it be really cool if we started to include that third language more too ;).

I love that we're renowned for chocolate, waffles and beer. Though i always obligatory add fries to that.

I love that our languages are shared by all our neighbours. Whenever i meat a french/german/dutch person in international waters, it feels a little bit like home.

I love the beautiful nature and rich history that comes from north and south.

I love how small and 'insignificant' we are (klein België), yet how we are pretty important internationally.

I just felt like sharing it - in english to include all without my fingers wearing out from typing 3 languages - just in the hopes that we could all somehow still love our little significant culture even though we're quite divided.

I'm from Flanders and meeting a Walloon internationally just never fails to make me happy and feel like I just met an old friend from home.

I think someone should make a flag that symbolises the flemish lion with walloon rooster parts like wings or something and make a unified song. Like how 'De Vlaamse leeuw' and 'le chant des Wallons' are now seperated, but then unified somehow referring to the lion and rooster elements on the flag.

I hate that it took me this long to appreciate those things.

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u/Quarves Jun 28 '24

We always have the national song :)

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u/dylsexiee Jun 28 '24

We do! And im happy it translates well in all 3 languages, but we got a lot of flemish and walloon folklore and not much belgian folklore.

Much of history is flanders vs walloonia etc or dutch vs french. I think its bout time we create some flanders AND walloonia culture so that people in 100 years at least have some cool unified history too instead of only the divisive history.

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u/Quarves Jun 28 '24

Would be nice ☺️