Serious question: why does this country still exist?
From what i understand, it's a bi-cultural state where the two main cultures absolutely hate each other. The northern Flemish speak Dutch, while the southern Walloons speak French.
So why not give Flanders to Netherlands and Wallonia to France? Wouldn't that work way better then creating this arbitrary dysfunctional country?
>why does this country still exist?
They existed solely for the purpose of creating butthurt over voting down that bill.
And split Switzerland three ways too, one for France, one for Germany and one for Italy.
Buffer state for the eternal anglo
Looking at the map, it actually looks like a decent idea.
the 2 cultures don't hate eachother at all, if we really hated eachother the nation wouldn't have lasted as long as it did
yeh sure there's some back and forth bitching but both groups have a lot in common as well, more than with the french (wallonia has, outside of napoleon's rule, never been part of france) or the dutch (flanders has been united with the dutch for exactly 15 out of the last 400 years
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the USA isn't going to split up either because California and Texas don't get along
There is a thread about the last guy who actually tried to do this
Walloons don't like French either, and as far as I know, Dutch can't stand the Flemish.
French don't give a flying fuck about the Walloons, but probably wouldn't go out of their way to annex them or anything.
It was a Frankenstein country built as a buffer zone. Now, it's a landing deck for IS and DRC migrants. What a dream place it is.
the difference is that Switzerland is actually able to function as a nation, and unlike the Belgians they know their place quite well
GIVE CLAY BACK TO HOLLAND
The Dutch part of Belgium was like 15 years part of the Netherlands in its entire history
retard
Swiss cantons are a collection of Flanders and Wallonias, with the difference that at least the Belgian ones havent been at war with each other every now and then like the Swiss have.
Their Confederal government is also extremely peculiar.
What keeps them together is exactly the same thing as Belgians; despising their foreign neighbor countries more than their own.
Give catholic Brabant and Limburg back to Belgium.
Fuck that, Switzerland is the perfect country. France, Germany and Italy will never been even close to it.
to piss off map autist like us
Belgium in itself is a meme. And this is comming from a Belgian, did you know that the countries motto is 'strenght in unity' but that we as a country have 7 different goverments that constantly try interfere with eachother.
But spiliting belgium between france and netherlands wont do much either, besides how much Bart De Wever comes in the news with his 'Muh confederacy, muh flanders independance' most flemish and waloon people have nothing against eachother and prefer this above being part of France or Netherlands
Serious question: why does this country still exist?
From what i understand, it's a tri-cultural state where the two main cultures absolutely hate each other. The anglos speak English, while the francos speak French.
So why not give French Canada to France and the Yukon and Northern Territories, with parts of over provinces to the Indigenous? Wouldn't that work way better then creating this arbitrary dysfunctional country?
We've had some attempts by the French to separate (the last referendum was about as close as the Scottish one) but they didn't.
The reality is France probably wouldn't take Quebec (even without the "everyone hates quebec" it's just a politically stupid move) and without the fed government literally propping up the French language Quebec would probably anglicize a lot faster independent than part of Canada. The Feds are basically catering to things like bilingualism and allowing Quebec to do their own thing. We have all sorts of laws for product packaging, bilingualism in the federal government, permitting discriminatory provincial laws in Quebec because they favor French culture, etc.
Generally though "absolutely hate each other" is pushing it. There's a lot of bitterness but not to a violent extent (saving a few cases of quebecois terrorism you could count with one hand).
As for the natives up north when you look at populations they're not really a threat to anybody.
For a simpler answer
>why not give
Because the fed doesn't want to partition the country.
>Wouldn't that work way better then creating this arbitrary dysfunctional country?
It's got tensions but not to the extent of "dysfunction", it'd be about as valid as America giving the south independence or letting blacks have their own state.
Also I know the guy was being ironic in reply to the OP but fuck it nobody talks about Canada.
It's kinda hard not to. Do non -trudeauist liberals even like Justin?
Bassarabia was around 25 years a part of Romania, in it's entire history, but that doesn't mean it is not a land mainly populated by romanians, speaking romanian, and having same roots and traditions as the romanians from Romania.