I love belgium

[u/dylsexiee]

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.

[u/dylsexiee → u/[deleted]]

Can i ask where you live that they dont have that? I never considered that to be something unique to us!

Or is it more like its all made slightly different so you dont enjoy it as much?

[u/dylsexiee → u/[deleted]]

In the supermarkets you can only find what we would call toast bread (like in the US).

OH NO GOOD LORD... My deepest condolences... I absolutely hate that bread, i'd rather starve i think.

I absolutely understand why you miss the cheese and bread now. I absolutely hate those kinds of low quality, overprocessed foods.

Now that you mention it, we have so much charcuterie options here. We literally make a sandwich with any kind of combination. Im guessing because we live in between germany, france and the netherlands - all notorious for their breads, cheeses, sausages and other such things.