Friday, September 21, 2007

Flanders vs. Wallonia

Radical Flemish separatists like Mr. Dewinter want to slice the country [Belgium] horizontally along ethnic and economic lines: to the north, their beloved Flanders — where Dutch (known locally as Flemish) is spoken and money is increasingly made — and to the south, French-speaking Wallonia, where a kind of provincial snobbery was once polished to a fine sheen and where today old factories dominate the gray landscape.

- NY Times (read full story here)

This is why no one speaks Belgian anymore.

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