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Minorities in Belgium Floren De Rop Ellen Van Snick.
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Minorities in BelgiumFloren De Rop Ellen Van Snick
Language conflict/ divide
Flanders: Dutch
Wallonia: French
German-speaking Community: German
Brussels
De Wever (Flanders) vs. Di Rupo(Wallonia)
Flanders independent? Flanders: agree Economically great stand alone community Don’t want to keep investing money in the poorer part of the country
(Wallonia)
Wallonia: disagree Harldy good economy in wallonia Isolation from distribution and transportnetworks from Flanders: ports,
coast line,… less income from international trade Afraid to lose Brussels http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eV2wEyi8938
Holebi’s LesbianGayBisexualTransgender
Gay bashing Marriages are allowed in Belgium
Gay bashing in Anderlecht
http://deredactie.be/cm/vrtnieuws.english/videozone_ENG/archive/2.3815/1.1394717
Protests against gay bashing in Aalst
http://deredactie.be/cm/vrtnieuws.english/videozone_ENG/archive/2.3815/1.1378368
Immigrants
The image
Minority -> 23% North Africa Big cities: Antwerp, Temse, Brussels Comparison Bad things
Belgium Turkey
Morocco
Statistics2004
2007
From 8% to 32% and back to 23%
Examples
Personal experience Asking the way Media Jobs Never ending circle http://deredactie.be/cm/vrtnieuws.english/News/1.1766596