Do you like Flanders?

Do you like Flanders?

I like West-Flanders, but I'm not sure about East-Flanders

Crazy race this year. It's nice the muur is back.

stooppid sexy flanders

It's a normier version of West Flanders. West Flemish people are cool

Ik hou van Vlaanderen. Beste qts in Europe.

Adopteer aub

yes

mijn neger
west flanders = best flanders

agreed

Yeah it was awesome. Happy for Gilbert but I supported Greg Van Avermaet

I think it's pretty great that there is a region in the world whose regional governing body is outside of said region.

Well, thanks! Are you a proper El Salvadorian? Have you been here?

Ja. Ik heb gewoond in je land.
>dgw je gent mis

Nah the thing is that modern day "Flanders" =/= medieval Flanders. It's another dumb Belgian meme: the Frenchies just started to call every Dutch speaking Belgian Flemish, while people from Antwerp and Limburg aren't Flemish ofcourse. Southern Dutch is the correct name, but then again, this would infuriate people that want Belgian to remain existing

Oh wow, great. I'm from Gent. Did you study or work here? For how long?

I'm not talking about the shift in meaning of the name, I know.

I just mean the whole Flemish parliament being in the Brussels capital region while the Wallonian one is in Namur/Wallonia.

The nationalists adopted it early, as Flemish was considered synonymous to Southern Dutch.

Also most people prefer confederalism above separatism, the latter is just a meme. Cultural autonomy is where it is at.

Also the idea of joining the Dutch makes most people cringe here, even most separatists, be honest.

I hate them

Brussels is he capital of the Flemish community (there are still Flemings living there). The gov't and parliament of the Flemish region and the Flemish community merged, so that's why our unified parliament is located in Brussels.

Wallonia still has a parliament and gov't for the Wallonian Region and a parliament and gov't for the Francophone community

Belgium is just terribly inefficient as it is right now. I'm not really a Flemish nationalist, but I just want a more efficient, smaller gov't apparatus. IF Flanders ever secedes it should immediately join the Netherlands

If we made Antwerp the regional capitol, their ego's wouldn't fit through the door anymore.


and its not like there's anything else that counts as a city in flanders

W-why? We appreciate France

lol I was just going to post that orangophile separatism is mainly an Antwerp thing, and that they are Hollanders in pocket format anyway, but you beat me to it.

Anyway I agree mostly but still think of confederalism as a better possibility, Swiss style.

Those who think the Walloon fuck us now and think the Dutch will not fuck us even more the moment we join them, doesn't know the Dutch well.

Old West-Flemish proverb: Als je van een Hollander niet gekloot bent, is het teken dat hij het vergeten is. (If a Hollander hasn't fucked you over, he must have forgotten it)

What about Central-Flanders?

Hi Antwerp

Holland=/=Netherlands
All Dutch people that don't live in the Randstad hate Randstad

the Antwerp thing is mostly because the idea of a unified Antwerp-Rotterdam harbor complex gives certain folks a raging economyboner

that said if belgium ever were to split up the only plausible scenario is an independent Flemish republic, Brussels as a city state under direct EU government and Wallonia trying to form a republic for a while, then desperately trying to get annexed by France

>he believe that i don't know that Flemish have a deep-bone hatred for French

For the Walloons maybe, but not for the French.

I know, I like the Southern Dutch (Zeeland, Brabant, Limburg), they are culturally more like us.

But join NL and be cucked by the Hollander. So better to rule over the Walloons than be cucked by those herring-chucking calvinists.

We're not ruling over the Walloons mate. It's a fucking stalemate even though we're the majority and have waaay more shekels

that is old stuff, realisticly Brussels as a EU ministate doesn't bring much advantage for the EU, especially if things keep deteriorating as they are. It would be up to all member states to throw money into that cesspool, they could as easily move elsewhere.

And don't underestimate the Walloons.

I don't know.

Should I like Flanders?

People in Gent, and I think most Flemish people in general, dress quite well.

I was able to tell apart a Hollander from a Fleming just by the way the clothes he/she wore. Hollanders honestly have no sense of fashion (or are too cheap to get decent clothes).

not true, only for Walloon socialists

France is our preferred travel destination, people here generally really like the French (country side people that is, real Frenchmen).

Even our separatists are huge frenchboos. One of the more extreme ones wrote a loving book about your ex-president under the pseudonym Vincent Gounod.

>even though we're the majority and have waaay more shekels

exactly

this is true desu

I once had a conversation with a well known VB politician and he told me exactly what I heard often before from their corner: we love France, French culture in general and the language, but it is because we love it and know it so well, that we also fear it. Because we know what happens when a minority culture gets absorbed by France (eg. French-Flemings, Occitans...) and we do not want to lose ours. The French will look down on this as patois and what not, but as is natural: my child, beautiful child.

I am not a separatist myself, but I could find myself in his line of reasoning. It is true that a great culture as theirs, with the Roman centralisation urge that goes along with it, would crush ours like a fly. Hence it is only natural that we must act if we want to protect and preserve.

I am Greek

I hate and love Flanders at the same time.

We always had a tsundere relationship with each other.

They're ok as long as they don't plunder our Christmas markets and stores.