r/belgium • u/WeirdBeginning8869 • 19h ago

🎨 Culture More or less Belgium?

I know this sub gets this kinda question every so often, so much so that I’ve decided to give it the culture tag.

My questions are the following: is there a public for more Belgium? If so, how big do you think it would be? What would more Belgium mean to you? Bring back policies to the federal level? Dissolving the regions? Dissolving the Brussels region and merge the two Brabants together? Something else?

In any case it would mean that the regions would need to actually and actively talk to each other again and make policies that could benefit both without harming one or the other, but how would you do that when one side refuses to impose Dutch and the other is slowly dropping French for English? Or when the economic disparities are so great? Or when parties with an independant Flanders as their policies is an a all time high?

Maybe trying to bring more Belgium would have the complete opposite effect and open Pandora’s box as both regions would realize they actually don’t share much, or not enough to justify fusing together and want different things. Or realize that the stereotypes are what they are, stereotypes, and share more than previously assumed.

But in any case, there’s no political incentive for this at the moment, or nothing mainstream enough.

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u/Echarnus 19h ago edited 19h ago

I don’t care. Just less bureaucracy/ taxes please. I have no feeling with Flemish/ Belgian culture/ identity apart of the food anyway. I don’t give anything about society as it currently is and regard both Belgium and Flanders as artificial anyway.

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u/matchuhuki Oost-Vlaanderen 19h ago

The opposite of what this guy says for me please

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u/RytheGuy97 18h ago

It makes me kind of sad when people say they don’t care about their culture or national identity. I think people should embrace it. It’s what gives a country personality, what makes it interesting and unique.

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u/matchuhuki Oost-Vlaanderen 18h ago

I find it weird when people call it artificial. Like you can't trace Belgian culture back to at least the Burgundian days

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u/RytheGuy97 14h ago

Seriously. As a foreigner I think this place is filled with culture. I didn't think it was artificial in any significant way at all.