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I believe you are a wise person. We are actually very proud that our daughter is bilingual. We talk French at home and she goes to school in Dutch. She loves it, she loves her school. We also try to read books in Dutch with her at home. And she is actually a little bit upset because our Dutch is very poor. She would like us to speak Dutch like her. I am thinking about taking Dutch lessons.
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There is a significant number of Fransquillons in Flanders. I am myself from a Fransquillon family originally from Limbourg. One of my friends, the count Xavier de Bergeyck, told me once that he was invited for dinner in a Fransquillon family in Antwerp and Bart De Wever was invited too. He gladly spoke French, like everyone else.
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I totally concur! It may sound paradoxical, but I think that although there are obvious differences between the two ethnicities, which seem insurmountable, the Flemings and the Walloons have a lot in common and I think there is even a "Belgian spirit".
Genetically, they are quite the same I think, they share the same religion, Catholicism, which shaped and in a way unified their culture, for example in an artistic point of view. For ex., several "Flemish Primitives" came from the territory of Wallonia, several of the essential Flemish writers wrote in French and there is definitely a Belgian spirit, a certain "belgitude", with an off-the-wall gaze on things, a sense of surrealism that they enjoy cultivating.
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Flemish and Walloons are collectively more genetically related to eachother than anyone else. Only politicians can be blamed for friction.
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