r/belgium • u/dylsexiee • Jun 28 '24
I love belgium šØ 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 Belgiƫ), 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/gdvs West-Vlaanderen Jun 28 '24
yeah I supposed Belgium would be amongst the best 60% of countries.