There is a country that has been dominated for centuries by the Spaniards, where party politics is sprawling, where the black economy is 20% of the total, where undeclared work is accepted by a third of the population, where centuries of domination have created mistrust towards foreign anarchist rules and authorities often and where to get something you need to know the right path.
This is not Italy, at least not this time, but in Belgium as an article describing the latest issue of Le Vif . The article listed 10 things that raccomunano still, despite everything, the two national communities. I do a quick rundown:
1. Brussels .
One piece of bilingual Belgium. The two ethnic languages \u200b\u200bare mixed and there are neighborhoods and neighborhoods Flemish Walloons. Its people feel very little belonging to one or the other communities of Belgium.
2. A common history.
Flemish, Walloons and brussels are part of the same policy for a very long time. Belgium match, excluding Luxembourg, with the southern part of the ancient Catholic and the Netherlands came under English rule after the secession of the Protestant north (now Holland) in 1581.
3. The North Sea and the Ardennes.
4. The monarchy.
5. Merckx, Jacques Brel, Damien.
6. A plethora of beers.
7. A brick on the stomach.
That is not due to such as beer and frites would be more reasonable to expect that. It refers instead to the tendency of every Belgian construct their homes. Not necessarily beautiful, but large, deep and massive.
8. Social security and debt.
.. then the last two points. Definitely the most interesting
9. Party politics.
Belgium has, with Italy, the highest level of partocrazia in Europe, the report said. The dead hand parties on the state apparatus remains an element of real resemblance between the three regions. iperpresente PS in Wallonia. In Flanders the criticism of party politics in 90 years pushed the parties to distance themselves from civil society, in the cities. In the countryside, the CD & V (Christian Democrats) is sprawling.
10. Mistrust of authority.
The Belgian company is crossed by anarchic undercurrents, see uncivilized.
"When the Dutch moved to Belgium's biggest culture shock is affected discover the importance of the unofficial sectors. To get something you need to know the way."
"Having living under rulers who came from elsewhere, we see power as a foreign body in suspicious rather than as an organ of the nation. "
now is that I finally start to feel a bit 'more like home ...
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