POL 3109 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Flemish Movement, Biculturalism, Protestantism
2 Aug 2018
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Support for independence in flounders is very low. North of belgium is dutch speaking and south of belgium is french speaking but now its monolithic with exception of the brussels which is capital of the country and then later the capital of the eu. Brussels was not a dutch speaking town for a long time. Strong nations in flanders but not support for independence. Challenge in belgium to grow government because of different parties see the country differently. The socio-linguistic structure of belgium: different languages because its controversial to say it has one language being the capital of the eu. Belgian independence (1830: the french speakers of belgium along with dutch speakers both opted to leave netherlands, dutch speakers left a dutch country to form a country with francophone because of religion. Religion is important than language and belgium(cid:495)s are catholic and dutch kingdom was: creation of a new state which is a french speaking state and that(cid:495)s protestant.
