Why does half of Belgium speak French while the other half speak Dutch?

Why does half of Belgium speak French while the other half speak Dutch?

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After Napoleon lost the war and shot himself, the allies wanted to create an artificial buffer state between France and the Netherlands

Are there schools in the USA?

because of us

The Netherlands were part of the buffer state you fucking idiot

So you can differentiate between the good ones and subhuman f*ench speakers

excellent post

No need to be so rude, buffer-kun.

No it's not half/half. Part Walloon French part Flemish Dutch and part German languages.

WTF? So there is no Belgian people or language?
Why is it allowed to exist?

What the fuck is going on with my flag!

Cause neither the Netherlands nor Spain wanted to properly finish the 80 years war

It's called being a non-country

piss off snownigger you're even more irrelevant than us

Well it's the name the romans gave to the people living in the low countries.

We can still continue. For freedom and stuff.

whoa

Because the Dutch forced the Belgians to speak their shitty Germanic language, but in their hearth and blood they're French.

Only true perhaps for the Walloons. The Flemish are als proud Flemish dutch speaking people.

NEVER

Shit happens lad

Typical Dutch
Every time you act like a colonialist and don't allow the (Flemish) natives to speak in their name.

You call Spain, I'll become protestant
highly KEK-worthy
Walloons were still speaking their own language when Belgium became independent and adopted French later.

it's the other way around senpai

And they can speak properly french, the contrary isn't true.

French is a celt-german-latin bastard language to be Frank.

the Flanders used to belong to the kingdom of France desu lad, upt to Zeeland was France and for centuries the western part of Belgium was flourishing due to its ties with France, unlike the agrarian inbred mongrels from the east that swarmed the west during the industrial revolution and poluted the walloon genepool

you stated:
>Because the Dutch forced the Belgians to speak their shitty Germanic language, but in their hearth and blood they're French.

Considering you've successfully eradicated the Dutch language in French-Flanders i strongly believe your claim is quite wrong
Also the walloons didn't speak French untill the 20th century

DUDE SPLIT SUCCESSIONS LMAO LET'S GIVE LOTHAR THE MIDDLE BIT THAT'S COMPLETELY INDEFENSIBLE AGAINST TWO RIVAL BROTHERS NOTHING CAN GO WRONG AND WON'T LEAD TO CENTURIES OF WARFARE BETWEEN THE DESCENDANTS OF THESE ROMANCE AND GERMANIC SPEAKING PEOPLES
t. Charlemagne

German is a Celtic Pre Indo-European bastard language to be Frank

Monarchic darwinism desu, only the strong should prevail

>all french posters are the same people

France annexed the territory that is now called Belgium during the Napoleonic wars and frenchified the Southern Romance-speaking part of it.

After Napoleon the territory was given to the Netherlands to keep it away from France.

The French really wanted to continue expanding their territory to the East though so they actively supported and funded the Belgian revolution.

Those "revolutionaries" actually used French flags for their movement until France told them to make their own as to not arouse suspicion from the other powers in Europe.

The rest of Europe saw what France was doing though so they agreed to give Belgium independence but only on the condition of strict neutrality so that it could never be annexed by France.

TL;DR Belgium is an artificial entity created by a failed French attempt to regain the territory they had during Napoleons time

this is mostly correct, but the split already happened during the 80 years war

>tfw will never have an alternate europe where there is only one humongous empire on the continental european plain stretching from the atlantic to the oder

The good part became France, the middle part became a proxy battlefield for everyone, the bad and swampy party became England's finest cuck and the east of the Maas part became the nostalgic bit of the Deutschlandlied.

I think it turned out pretty well desu.

So this is what they mean when they say Belgium is a non-country?

I have to agree, honestly

Bad posts. Consider suicide.

>to be frank

I CAN FEEL IT

at least we're not a former colony that's still sucking england's cock

Belgium and Netherland was Spain, Netherlands became free and Belgium not, easy

but we created belgium too?

dude europe lmao

You're even less than a colony lmao

but you didn't? see

t. a country's identity that is basically "we're not american"

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what about the county of Flanders of the Kindom of France you dumb Kraut ?

>The County of Flanders (Dutch: Graafschap Vlaanderen, French: Comté de Flandre) was a historic territory in the Low Countries. From 862 onwards the Counts of Flanders were one of the original twelve peers of the Kingdom of France. For centuries their estates around the cities of Ghent, Bruges and Ypres formed one of the most affluent regions in Europe.

>Up to 1477 the area under French suzerainty was located west of the Scheldt River and was called "Royal Flanders" (Dutch: Kroon-Vlaanderen, French: Flandre royale). Aside from this the Counts of Flanders from the 11th century on also held land east of the river as a fief of the Holy Roman Empire, an area called "Imperial Flanders" (Rijks-Vlaanderen or Flandre impériale). Part of the Burgundian Netherlands from 1384, the county was finally removed from French to Imperial control after the Peace of Madrid in 1526 and the Peace of Ladies in 1529.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom_of_the_Netherlands
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belgium

At least read some history before spouting nonsense

oh, they are americans :^)

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Because it's a non-country

>mfw Flanders is the only region that managed to break free from France

you are the 1% that fucks up Sup Forums stats

>Sacro
>Imperio
>Romano

we didn't want you anyway, you have no honor and smell of spoiled wheat, also the best beer is from the west

KEK at all of this
You know his kid done fucked up right? Charlemagne had been dead for a while