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glenndebacker
11y ago
Another person from West-Flanders here :-)
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11y ago
I heard it is a very difficult language to master if you are foreign. It took my mother some time to be fluent at it. Also have some former colleague's - Bulgarian/Russian - who even after 10 years of living here still have diffic
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glenndebacker
11y ago
Language is an extremely touchy subject in Flanders, not something exclusive for West Flanders. Not everybody in Flanders is like that, but it is certainly not a minority also. My father is (West-)Flemish and my mother is French so because
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glenndebacker
11y ago
In Belgium it is a criminal offence to 'insult' a police officer, they call it "Smaad aan de politie" in Dutch/Flemish. I know because I got a verbalisation once and I didn't need to say a lot to get it. Thankf
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11y ago
>> You have killed them off To be honest I find your idiotic remark disrespectful. I live in a country that suffered a lot under two world wars. While I certainly acknowledge that jewish people suffered a lot it certainly wasn't
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> The support given is purely selfish as Israel is the only nation in the region which mirrors the values the US wishes to promote Call me cynical but I think it has more to do with the million of dollars that an organisation like AIPAC