EUROPE FOR DUMMIES: ONE CHAPTER MORE.
- AND WHAT ABOUT BELGIUM, THE HEART OF EUROPE? EVEN IF YOUNG BELGIUM KIDS ARE RAISED WITH THE FAMOUS COMIC BOOK "TINTIN EN AMERIQUE" WHICH IS A STRONG SATIRIC VIEW OF THE USA, BELGIUM HAS SOME LIKENESSES WITH THE USA.
AS A FRENCH I AM SURPRISED BY THE LIBERTY YOU HAVE TO EXPRESS YOUR OPINION IN PUBLIC IN BELGIUM EVEN IF IT IS NOT THE COMMON ONE. WE HAVE LAWS IN FRANCE THAT PROHIBIT SOME OPINIONS ON HISTORY. I COULD NOT SAY FOR EXAMPLE IN A FRENCH RESTAURANT THAT I DO THINK THAT CHURCHILL IS A CRIMINAL AS MUCH AS HITLER. IN FACT I MADE THE EXPERIENCE AND THE PEOPLE STOPPED EATING AROUND ME AS I UTTERED AN ENORMOUS BLASPHEMY. THE SUCCESS OF FRENCH POLITICIAN LE PEN COMES MAINLY FROM THAT: SAYING WHAT PEOPLE ARE NOT ALLOWED TO SAY OUTSIDE.
BELGIUM IS MORE FREE. AND BELGIUM, ESPECIALLY BRUSSEL, IS BASED ON DRUG AND ANTIQUES TRAFFIC, EVERY KIND OF TRAFFIC, LIKE USA ARE. THAT IS THE REASON WHY THEY CAN NOT SEPARATE EVEN WALLON PEOPLE HATE FLEMISH PEOPLE THAT GIVE THEM IT BACK.
BUT BELGIUM CULTURE IS DEPENDING A LOT FROM PAINTING TRADITION AND NOT HOLLYWOOD CULTURE LIKE THE USA. THAT IS THE REASON WHY I WOULD SAY BELGIUM PEOPLE ARE 'SMART YANKEES'.
Commentaires
J'ai peut etre pas bien compris mais... On peut tout dire en France!
Faut juste avoir le courage!
D'où viennent les droits de l'Homme? Nan mais...
Quand on n'a rien à dire, on peut tout dire, en effet.
Vous vous méprenez : Les Flamands haïssent les Wallons, qui eux, ne savent pas qui ils sont et donc singent la hainent en retour par politesse.
Par ailleurs, en effet, en Belgique, vous pouvez dire ce que vous voulez dans un restaurant à propos de l'Histoire, la nôtre n'étant bien souvent que l'extension de celle des autres, elle ne représente qu'un enjeu modéré.
La "haine", z'aurez corrigé vous-même, pas vrai ?
Should we comment your English posts in English so that you feel less alone making awful mistakes ?
I have noticed something about French-speaking white countries (Québec, Wallonie, Suisse romande) ; the Church and the educational institutions are way more "progressist" than ours. The shame of being white and christian seems really stronger, I have no idea why. Perhaps our obsession of "culture", that is, our culture, as ideological and vain as it may be, is a strong remain of what was, little time ago, a country with a soul or something like that (nation ?). But they are right : once you enter the terminal phase of your cancer, the sooner you die, the better, I guess. Anyway, it is not in our hands ; in whose hands is it, by the way (I am asking about school and church, not cancer) ?
(Please could you stop this capital letters new custom of yours ? we have a hard time seeing you shouting out in the desert like that.)
Merci pour la nuance, Philograph. Je connais un Wallon qui a marié sa fille chérie à un Flamand ; le père et la fille ne se voient plus étant donné que le père est tout simplement incapable de trouver un sujet de conversation entre son gendre et lui.
You are sure you are not mistaking 'progress' with the hypocrit american religion?
A little story what happened to me in Bruxelles in a - supposed to be - catholic church. In his preach the priest explained that the rich young man was not really... rich; his father was, not him; due to his age, he certainly dit not inherited at that time!
Is that what you call 'progressism'?
US' stupidity is for sure the best help for revolution but there is no revolution without revolutionnaries.