The language barrier is clearly understood as a badge of tribal belonging. Northerners, at the flemish theyare called hard working, their doer and thrifty. The southerners o get all the kind of classic southern stereotypes. And one of the extraordanry things as an outsider is that belgium is so very small. So think of famous artists like stroma and his son, tafet dac das.
The flood of people out of cities is unlike anything since the suburbanisation of the 1950s; we examine the inevitable economic and political consequences. After years of reporting our correspondent concludes that the mutual disdain of a country’s northern and southern halves is a curious human universal. And a sojourn to fact-check Julius Caesar’s accounts of his triumphs in France.
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