Belgium makes no sense.

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Résumé

TLDRAquest relat narra l'experiència d'una trobada de subscriptors a Brussel·les i explora les sorprenents complexitats de Bèlgica. Des de la diversitat cultural entre les comunitats flamenca i francòfona fins a la singular estructura política del país, el narrador reflexiona sobre la identitat belga, destacant la seva rica història i la fascinant coexistència de cultures. La història inclou moments divertits i observacions sobre el menjar belga, així com la importància del xoc cultural i la dolçor del xocolate. En definitiva, es presenta Bèlgica com un país dinàmic carregat de contradiccions, un lloc on les diferències es poden convertir en un únic encant.

A retenir

  • 🇧🇪 Bèlgica és un país divers amb comunitats lingüístiques flamenca i francòfona.
  • 🗳️ El govern belga és complex amb múltiples parlaments regionals i comunitats.
  • 🍻 La menja belga és exquisida, especialment el xocolate i les fries.
  • 📚 Bèlgica té una rica tradició en còmics, incloent Tintin i Els Barrufets.
  • 😅 Un encontre inicial pot provocar moments de incomoditat, però pot ser divertit.
  • 🕰️ Bèlgica va tenir el rècord de més temps sense govern (541 dies) el 2011.
  • 🇧🇪 La majoria de la població és flamenca, però l'influència francòfona és prevalent en la cultura.
  • 🧩 La identitat belga és un trencaclosques cultural en constant evolució.
  • 🍽️ La cuina belga, amb musclos i cervesa, és un element essencial de la seva cultura.
  • 🤝 La coexistència cultural a Bèlgica és sorprenent i fascinant.

Chronologie

  • 00:00:00 - 00:05:00

    L'orador comparteix una experiència personal a Bèlgica, on va organitzar una trobada amb els seus subscriptors a Brussel·les. Durant la trobada, va adonar-se de la tensió entre les comunitats de parla flamenca i francesa, però va aconseguir superar la incomoditat i fomentar un ambient amigable, reflexionant sobre la singularitat cultural de Bèlgica.

  • 00:05:00 - 00:10:00

    L'orador explica com Bèlgica sovint no és la destinació principal dels turistes europeus, comparant-ho amb Nord Dakota per als americans. A més, destaca l'apartament de la platja que no és característicament turístic i descriu Bèlgica com un país amb certes peculiaritats i una identitat complexa que mai s'acaba de resoldre, implicant factors històrics i arquitectònics que la fan única.

  • 00:10:00 - 00:18:53

    La complexa estructura política de Bèlgica s'explica amb l'impacte de les llengües i les comunitats culturals. Es menciona que el país està dividit en regions i comunitats lingüístiques, cada una amb el seu propi govern, cosa que resulta en un sistema de govern singular i atípic. Finalment, l'orador destaca la capacitat de Bèlgica per mantenir-se unida malgrat les seves divisions internes, subratllant la seva riquesa cultural i l'atractiu d'aquesta diversitat.

Carte mentale

Vidéo Q&R

  • On va tenir lloc la trobada de subscriptors?

    A la Grand Place de Brussel·les.

  • Quina és la situació lingüística a Bèlgica?

    Bèlgica té dues comunitats lingüístiques principals: la flamenca i la francòfona.

  • Com es composen els governs regionals a Bèlgica?

    Bèlgica té tres regions: Flandes, Valònia i Brussel·les, amb governs separats per a cadascuna.

  • Quin és el rol del rei a Bèlgica?

    El rei té un rol ceremonial i designa el primer ministre.

  • Per què Bèlgica té un govern tan complicat?

    Degut a la seva diversitat lingüística i cultural, que ha portat a múltiples reformes estatals.

  • Quines són les característiques de la societat belga?

    La societat belga presenta una barreja única de cultures, amb una tensa però rica coexistència entre francòfons i neerlandòfons.

  • Quina menja és famosa a Bèlgica?

    Bèlgica és famosa pels seus xocolates, fries i cuina de musclos.

  • Quant temps va tardar Bèlgica en formar un govern recentment?

    El 2011, Bèlgica va establir el rècord mundial per la formació de govern més llarga, amb 541 dies.

  • Quina és la majoria lingüística a Bèlgica?

    La majoria poblacional és flamenca, representant aproximadament el 60%.

  • Quins còmics belgues són destacats?

    Alguns còmics belgues famosos inclouen Els Barrufets, Asterix i Tintin.

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    years ago I went to Belgium for the
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    was really cool meeting you guys I got
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    to talk with a lot of you guys and then
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    I remember there was a moment and if you
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    were one of these people you'll remember
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    that I did this we all stood in like a
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    big circle and I told all my Belgian
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    subscribers I'm like hey guys I'm glad
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    you guys showed up I'm glad you're here
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    it's nice to meet you I just have a
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    little question I'm just curious how
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    many of you guys are from the Flemish
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    speaking community and about half of the
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    group raised their hands and I'm like
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    okay how how many of you guys are Woon
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    or the the French speaking community and
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    of course the rest of the group rolls
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    their hands and in that moment it was
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    like the world froze over time Stood
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    Still everybody just like tensed up wide
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    eyes they were staring intensely at the
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    linguistic counterparts of their fellow
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    countrymen they're like hesitating
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    waiting for the next one to make a move
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    it was at this moment I realized I kind
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    of lit the fuse for like an atomic bomb
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    of awkwardness and I'm like okay dude I
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    got okay I I'm like I got to diffuse
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    this situation somehow and so like after
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    I don't know like three excruciatingly
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    Eternal seconds later I just like perked
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    up and I'm just like well you guys are
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    all belgians in in a split second just
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    like a light switch everybody was just
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    like they relaxed they started smiling
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    they're like yeah we are belgians and we
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    all became friends and then we went to
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    delirium bar and then I got I remember I
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    got a beer that was like 133% alcohol I
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    don't even like beer I don't like beer
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    but like when you're in Belgium you kind
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    of have to I don't know my my rule for
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    alcohol is like if I absolutely must
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    drink it then like you got to hit me
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    hard and fast because that that sounds
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    wrong but no I'm serious because like
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    that's the way I like it doesn't help
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    the point is away from the alcohol stuff
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    the point is after I did that weird like
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    French Flemish Fiasco experiment thing
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    that was just like the first little
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    taste I got of realizing how
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    frighteningly unique Belgium is let's
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    have a joger
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    talk hey jogger peeps oh my gosh golly
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    Jolly toddly wones what have we here
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    it's a geography now blood of those who
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    fat F the freedom shirt a lot of my new
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    subscribers are probably like what the
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    is that shirt why is there blood on it
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    it's it's an old joke if you don't
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    understand it to that I just say
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    don't question it just get it Destiny
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    will reveal itself in time geography
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    now.com lot of cool stuff do it blah
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    blah blah it's not selling out if it's
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    your brand and it's my brand so I'm not
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    selling out anyway let's move on when
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    most people around the world say I'm
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    going to Europe nine times out of 10
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    they're probably just going to go to
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    like Italy Spain or France maybe the
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    more like Broody pensive slightly
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    pedantic people will go to the UK or
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    Scandinavia whereas the competitive
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    tripsters that are always trying to
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    boast about new hidden gems that they
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    swear they discovered they'll probably
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    be like oh well I discovered a secluded
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    beach off the coast of Albania that
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    nobody's heard of except for the locals
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    but almost no one practically no one
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    ever screams to the group oh my God guys
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    we're going to
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    Belgium for my fellow Americans the
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    equivalent to that would be like oh my
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    God guys we're going to North
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    Dakota no [ __ ] on North Dakota by the
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    way you guys got a lot of interesting
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    stuff too like that Enchanted Highway
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    you got like one of the highest
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    concentrations of Buffalo you got the
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    Sue tribe with their cool traditions and
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    performances like North Dakota is
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    actually kind of cool but the point is
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    Belgium is kind of known for being like
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    that like it's not exactly known for
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    being like a beach resort country I mean
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    they do have like 65 km of beach on the
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    cold North Sea and like for 3 weeks of
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    the year they have like nice sunshine
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    and for the rest of the year it kind of
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    just looks like this speaking of which
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    you would think it would make sense for
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    this area to belong to Belgium but it's
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    actually a detached exclave of the
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    Zealand province in the Netherlands and
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    see that's just one part of what I see
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    as the real true charm of Belgium when I
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    think of Belgium I kind of think of like
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    it's it's like a puzzle that never gets
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    solved cuz once you get close more
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    pieces get added to it and then you can
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    never finish the puzzle and you're doing
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    the puzzle while bouncing on a unicycle
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    on a tight RPP and you're like trying to
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    solve a Rubik's Cube with your other
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    hand first of all dissecting the concept
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    of the Belgian identity is already
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    complicated enough as it is why I don't
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    have time to explain just watch the
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    Belgium episode no I got to explain
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    Belgium is like a fusion country so
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    basically it's made up of the the north
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    Flemish speaking side and the South
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    French speaking side so like here's the
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    deal I'm not going to waste your time by
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    giving you like an 847 hour lecture
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    about Belgian history because like trust
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    nobody nobody not even Belgian people
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    want to do that okay so I'm just going
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    to give you like the very quick
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    cliffnote summarized version okay
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    basically Romans came in the Latin
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    speakers bada bing bada boom that's how
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    the French stuff evolved then like
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    Germanic peoples came in I think in like
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    the 9th to 10th centuries or whatever
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    that's how bada bing bada boom the
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    Flemish people evolved from that done
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    and then like over the CES they were
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    taken over by various kingdoms and
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    Empires blah blah blah 1830 comes along
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    they find some German guy to be their
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    King and they become Belgium and in the
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    world of monarchial Ascension 1830 is
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    actually considered pretty late like
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    only two other countries actually
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    adopted a monarchial system after
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    Belgium it's like UAE and Bhutan
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    technically but then you know some
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    people will argue well actually the UAE
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    was just a separate community of shakeds
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    that already had a hereditary monarchial
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    system set in place whatever the point
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    is most countries don't adopt monarchies
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    post 19th 20th century okay anyway we're
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    getting off topic but the crazy thing is
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    it's always been divided when you go to
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    Brussels you really see this being
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    portrayed it's almost like the whole
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    city has an insane amount of deliberate
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    Fusion you walk down one alley and
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    you'll notice Alleyways with the skinny
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    narrow buildings with the step and Bell
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    gable roof facades very iconic of
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    classic Dutch architecture it feels like
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    you're in a neighborhood of Amsterdam
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    but then you go like two blocks away and
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    then suddenly you're in a wide Avenue
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    neighborhood with French cream colored
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    Stone manian buildings it's like you
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    just stepped into Paris it's almost as
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    if the whole city is like fighting with
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    itself to see which side of its dual
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    identity will become more dominant it's
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    weird but once you step out of that
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    whole like culture Clash thing you start
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    to realize this city is really cozy
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    immediately you're hit with both the
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    sweet and savory smells of the copious
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    amounts of chocolate waffle shops next
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    to the m fre restaurants that sell
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    buckets of muscles with fries that you
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    can dip in special mayonnaise by the way
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    my opinion I don't care I'm just going
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    to say it Belgium makes the best
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    chocolate in Europe Switzerland I've
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    tried your chocolate meh Belgium oh my
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    damn Belgium wins fight me on that I
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    don't care the belgians beat the Swiss I
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    know the belgians will fight you on it
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    and they're going to win cuz they have
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    better chocolate sorry Switzerland you
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    lose try to be neutral on that fight I
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    just pissed off like 9 million people
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    wouldn't be my first time and in
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    addition you have like those small cozy
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    book shops that sell like old antique
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    books and they have so many comic book
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    shops as well because they're like
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    famous for their comic books like Smurfs
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    and asteris and Tintin they even have an
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    entire metro station devoted to Tintin
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    which by the way fun fact I have read
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    every single Tintin comic even the
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    extremely racist one that they had to
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    revise and give you know a disclaimer
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    for contemporary audiences look they
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    made the comic in the' 40s like let's be
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    real so I'm not Belgian and I can't
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    speak for belgians and if you're Belgian
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    please by all means correct me if you
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    think I'm wrong for what I'm about to
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    say I'm just someone observing from the
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    outside but like if you meet Belgian
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    people and if You observe Belgian
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    Society you'll notice that there's kind
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    of like a topic that's kind of not
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    really comfortably discussed a lot but
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    it's a really well-established known
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    part of their social structure it's like
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    if you look at Belgian culture and
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    Belgian media and Belgian historical
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    figures and whatever encompasses the
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    influence that Belgian has ever procured
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    for themselves over the years there
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    always kind of seems to be like a
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    domineering emphasis on the French side
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    of things despite the fact that the
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    Flemish are actually the majority of the
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    country at about 60% even during
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    colonial times when they had colonies in
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    the DRC and Rwanda and Bundi they
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    imposed the French language not the
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    Flemish one on the colonies when you
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    come across any Belgian comic books or
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    like literature or whatever it's always
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    the French ones that are prioritized to
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    be on display and distributed first not
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    the Flemish or even Dutch ones why is
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    that that's because historically French
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    was kind of seen as like the
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    aristocratic language that was used by
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    the high class Society whereas flamish
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    was more of like The Agrarian quote
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    unquote subclass Society language the
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    thing is because of this linguistic
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    demographic Oddity so to speak Belgium
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    has always had a very complicated way of
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    managing itself which eventually led to
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    the country having six State reforms
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    since the 1970s which would eventually
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    lead them to being the country with
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    quite possibly the strangest form of
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    government on Earth I would argue even
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    more than bosnan and heroina because at
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    least those people are all like cousins
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    that have family drama the belgians are
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    like two complete separate technically
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    three families we'll get into that it's
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    so complicated I have to make a motion
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    graphic visual to help you guys cuz like
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    you know funny colorful pictures help
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    people learn brain here you go today the
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    country is broken down into three
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    regions Flanders the Dutch Flemish
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    speaking side Walia the French speaking
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    side and Brussels which is essentially
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    the capital city Brussels which is
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    officially a bilingual region all
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    services must be offered in both
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    languages despite having a French
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    majority speaking population at about
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    80% and despite being completely
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    enclaved within Flanders which makes
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    things more complicated and in that
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    regard belgum also has governments set
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    in place for the three linguistic
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    communities for all citizens the Flemish
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    Community French community and the third
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    German community for the small German
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    speaking areas that are found in the
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    Eastern parts of alunia sometimes
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    referred to as ipen M that's right the
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    German areas are considered part of
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    alunia they do not have their own region
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    however they have their own Community
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    status despite only making up about 1%
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    of the population oh but we're not done
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    there are certain municipalities that
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    are located in a region that speak the
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    opposite language of that region and are
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    allowed linguistic services and
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    Facilities to accommodate they are
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    mostly along the borders currently there
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    are almost 30 of them four Flemish
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    speaking municipalities and two German
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    speaking municipalities in wallonia
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    whereas there are 12 French speaking
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    municipalities for French speakers in
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    Flanders and nine in the German
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    community areas now here's the grand
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    finale each of these regions and
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    communities has their own separate
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    Parliament that share equal status with
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    the federal government except the
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    Flemish Community because they decided
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    to merge with the Flemish region and
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    operate as one so effectively that makes
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    five parliaments as well as the federal
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    government making up six entire entities
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    with co-official and equal status but
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    each one has distinct roles that cannot
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    not overlap the other so what do I mean
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    by they can't overlap each other all of
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    the parliaments are co-equal okay but
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    they each have their own distinct roles
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    think of it like this imagine a retail
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    store okay you got three employees
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    they're all paid the same wage but one
  • 00:10:42
    person works the cashier one person
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    folds the clothes the other person
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    stocks the shelves they all have their
  • 00:10:47
    own individual duties but they are all
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    equal in their wages and employeeship I
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    don't know maybe the cloes folding
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    person is kind of lazy and they're just
  • 00:10:54
    not doing their job very well but they
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    maybe they need to be cut I don't know
  • 00:10:57
    that's basically Belgium's government so
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    for example the federal government they
  • 00:11:01
    are in charge of Defense foreign policy
  • 00:11:03
    justice social security finance and
  • 00:11:04
    Railways the regions are in charge of
  • 00:11:07
    making the laws for their economies
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    Transportation environment housing and
  • 00:11:11
    infrastructure whereas the communities
  • 00:11:13
    are in charge of making laws for
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    Education culture Media Health and
  • 00:11:17
    language policies and that means things
  • 00:11:19
    like the federal government can't do
  • 00:11:21
    anything about education the regional
  • 00:11:22
    governments can't make laws on foreign
  • 00:11:24
    policy the community government can't
  • 00:11:26
    make laws for transportation they are
  • 00:11:28
    co-equal but distinct in their duties
  • 00:11:31
    and speaking of governments let's talk
  • 00:11:32
    about the federal government and this is
  • 00:11:34
    going to blow your mind because imagine
  • 00:11:36
    all the craziness we just discuss you
  • 00:11:37
    know the Flanders Woon the communities
  • 00:11:40
    the French Brussels grab all of that and
  • 00:11:43
    then shove them all in a room and tell
  • 00:11:45
    them to try to agree on things that's
  • 00:11:47
    the federal government Belgium is a
  • 00:11:49
    federal parliamentary constitutional
  • 00:11:51
    monarchy yes as we mentioned they have a
  • 00:11:53
    monarch or a king whose role is mostly
  • 00:11:55
    ceremonial but he does have some certain
  • 00:11:57
    powers like he appoints the prime
  • 00:11:58
    ministers and he signs certain laws but
  • 00:12:01
    then it gets really twisted and weird
  • 00:12:03
    because in order to form a government
  • 00:12:05
    they have to do a lot of for this I need
  • 00:12:06
    a Belgian person so guys say hi to my
  • 00:12:09
    number one go-to Belgian that I randomly
  • 00:12:11
    met in turkistan jul hi barbs nice of
  • 00:12:14
    you to call how are you doing oh I'm
  • 00:12:16
    good I'm just pre-recording all this
  • 00:12:17
    footage pretending like we're having a
  • 00:12:18
    real conversation in real time but I'm
  • 00:12:20
    just stitching up all the clips together
  • 00:12:21
    making it look like we're having a real
  • 00:12:22
    dialogue I feel you bro I'm just reading
  • 00:12:25
    the part you sent me so that's great so
  • 00:12:27
    jeel explain to me like I'm a brain
  • 00:12:29
    damaged 7-year-old kid who wants to
  • 00:12:31
    understand how the Belgian government
  • 00:12:33
    works well first of all that's going to
  • 00:12:35
    be quite impossible for you I mean the
  • 00:12:37
    brain damage kit will be fine what the
  • 00:12:39
    Belgian Federal Parliament is by Camal
  • 00:12:41
    it's mandatory for belgians to go out
  • 00:12:43
    and cost their vote and when all votes
  • 00:12:45
    are accounted for in a piece each party
  • 00:12:47
    knows how many seats it has obtained
  • 00:12:49
    Weir side note a party is mostly only
  • 00:12:52
    represented on one side of the language
  • 00:12:54
    barrier so that means whether you live
  • 00:12:56
    in Bonia or flounders May entire change
  • 00:12:59
    your voting ballot and who you can vote
  • 00:13:01
    for or what party you can vote for does
  • 00:13:03
    the king have any role in all of this I
  • 00:13:05
    was literally about to explain don't Dr
  • 00:13:07
    please what the the king now appoints a
  • 00:13:09
    format typically the party leader of the
  • 00:13:12
    party with the most seats in the chamber
  • 00:13:13
    but this can differ this person goes
  • 00:13:15
    dating around with other party leaders
  • 00:13:17
    to try and see who would like to form a
  • 00:13:19
    coalition he goes dating around what do
  • 00:13:21
    you mean by dating around because in
  • 00:13:23
    Belgium to form a government that is
  • 00:13:25
    functional you'll need at least 76 seats
  • 00:13:28
    in the chamber of of Representatives
  • 00:13:30
    otherwise a 50% plus one majority of
  • 00:13:33
    votes you'll need to pass an ordinary
  • 00:13:35
    federal act in the chamber parties need
  • 00:13:38
    to compromise and argue over everything
  • 00:13:41
    and until they are done arguing we have
  • 00:13:43
    no government and that's not quite
  • 00:13:45
    uncommon Belgium has been without a
  • 00:13:46
    government a lot of times in the past
  • 00:13:49
    decades oh yeah and didn't you guys have
  • 00:13:50
    like a world record for not having a
  • 00:13:52
    government thing 500 something what was
  • 00:13:54
    that about our golden football
  • 00:13:55
    generation they might have not won the
  • 00:13:57
    World Cup but at least we're still world
  • 00:13:59
    champion and longest government
  • 00:14:01
    formation it took us 541 days in 2011 to
  • 00:14:05
    finally form a government that's quite a
  • 00:14:07
    while during Times Like These it's not
  • 00:14:09
    like Belgium freezes to death or
  • 00:14:11
    something like that life goes on people
  • 00:14:13
    don't care and often times even a
  • 00:14:15
    caretaker government steps in and
  • 00:14:17
    handles the essential Affairs by the way
  • 00:14:19
    if you're ever elected into parliament
  • 00:14:21
    in Belgium I hope you're fluent in Dutch
  • 00:14:23
    and French because otherwise you won't
  • 00:14:26
    understand because it's a mixup over
  • 00:14:27
    here nominal loger
  • 00:14:37
    does like a random German guy from the
  • 00:14:39
    German community ever come up and like
  • 00:14:40
    speak in German in the parliament well
  • 00:14:42
    of course he can but is anyone going to
  • 00:14:43
    listen to a minority I can imagine it's
  • 00:14:45
    like okay yeah that's cute now sit down
  • 00:14:47
    mommy and daddy Flanders and Woon are
  • 00:14:48
    speaking you're lucky we bend over
  • 00:14:50
    backwards for you
  • 00:14:51
    1centers and I just pissed off 880,000
  • 00:14:54
    Germans thanks for having me bars and if
  • 00:14:56
    I just may have the attention of the
  • 00:14:58
    geography for a few more seconds fine if
  • 00:15:01
    you're fluent in Dutch and between the
  • 00:15:03
    ages of 18 and 35 then may I introduce
  • 00:15:06
    you Mundo Travel Mundo is a travel
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    company that allows you to travel the
  • 00:15:10
    world I'm currently a two guide over
  • 00:15:12
    there and I'm loving life so if you're
  • 00:15:14
    interested on one of our tours we would
  • 00:15:16
    love to have you in 2025 or Beyond
  • 00:15:18
    thanks again Paul see you buddy J you're
  • 00:15:20
    a tour guide now when I first met you
  • 00:15:22
    weren't you like working for you got a
  • 00:15:23
    new job yay cool congrats jul mandero
  • 00:15:26
    travel he's a tour guide there that was
  • 00:15:27
    also kind of weird how you asked for
  • 00:15:29
    Dutch speakers but you were saying the
  • 00:15:30
    whole thing in English we could have
  • 00:15:31
    added captions if you wanted to you know
  • 00:15:32
    what it's it's done and done whatever
  • 00:15:33
    thank you jeel for being in the video so
  • 00:15:35
    we've just discussed all of that
  • 00:15:37
    legislative complication stuff about
  • 00:15:39
    Belgium right but you know what's even
  • 00:15:40
    crazier the story doesn't end cuz it
  • 00:15:42
    gets even more complicated because there
  • 00:15:44
    are sections of Belgium that are
  • 00:15:46
    nonsensically chopped up and Scattered
  • 00:15:49
    in the most in congruent ways all across
  • 00:15:51
    the whole country and their neighbors if
  • 00:15:53
    you zoom in on the East part of the
  • 00:15:55
    country Germany has five enclaves within
  • 00:15:57
    Belgium but are only only separated by a
  • 00:15:59
    single train track only a few meters
  • 00:16:01
    wide that belongs to Belgium so you can
  • 00:16:03
    literally walk a straight line in
  • 00:16:06
    Belgium in between two parts of Germany
  • 00:16:09
    along the Lee River along the border
  • 00:16:10
    with France they have strange tradeoff
  • 00:16:13
    pen enclaves on the opposite sides of
  • 00:16:15
    the river for each other then of course
  • 00:16:17
    there's the famous town of barl nasau in
  • 00:16:20
    which borders literally intersect entire
  • 00:16:22
    buildings and the rule is you pay taxes
  • 00:16:24
    to whatever country your door is on so
  • 00:16:26
    you could technically reconstruct your
  • 00:16:27
    door on the other side if you wish to
  • 00:16:29
    change your taxes and on top of that
  • 00:16:30
    Brussels has an entire Province called
  • 00:16:32
    Luxembourg which is larger than the
  • 00:16:34
    entire country of Luxembourg and you
  • 00:16:36
    know what's even crazier a long time ago
  • 00:16:38
    a bunch of luxembourgers moved to
  • 00:16:40
    Wisconsin and they named the town
  • 00:16:42
    Belgium and it's even crazier a bunch of
  • 00:16:44
    belgians moved to Wisconsin as well and
  • 00:16:47
    they named their Town Luxembourg and
  • 00:16:49
    what's even crazier is just North of
  • 00:16:51
    both of them there are two more towns
  • 00:16:53
    called Brussels and namore namore being
  • 00:16:55
    the main city in wuna to be fair though
  • 00:16:58
    Wisconsin is the drunkest state in
  • 00:16:59
    America so it's like it's not a shocker
  • 00:17:01
    that they either drunkenly name places
  • 00:17:03
    like frog station Sugar Bush bolt and
  • 00:17:06
    Random Lake or if they just got lazy and
  • 00:17:08
    stole a bunch of other place names like
  • 00:17:10
    Alaska Denmark Poland Moscow Vermont
  • 00:17:14
    Wyoming and Little Chicago oh my God I
  • 00:17:17
    love Wisconsin people i' I've said this
  • 00:17:18
    so many times on the channel every
  • 00:17:20
    American needs at least one friend from
  • 00:17:23
    Wisconsin that I've never met a
  • 00:17:24
    Wisconsin person that hasn't been able
  • 00:17:25
    to like make me crack up and laugh
  • 00:17:27
    anyway this video is not about Wisconsin
  • 00:17:29
    look I'm just going to end with this
  • 00:17:30
    okay look Belgium I know it's kind of
  • 00:17:31
    like a common theme for like other
  • 00:17:33
    countries in Europe to kind of bag on
  • 00:17:35
    you guys and you're like uh you're kind
  • 00:17:37
    of bland you're not that you're not
  • 00:17:38
    interesting enough and I know sometimes
  • 00:17:40
    even you guys are like very
  • 00:17:41
    self-deprecating you're like oh my
  • 00:17:43
    country blah blah blah but I'm going to
  • 00:17:45
    be honest like I when I went to Brussels
  • 00:17:47
    and I even drove a little bit in wallia
  • 00:17:48
    but when I checked out your country I
  • 00:17:50
    was fascinated I've never seen a place
  • 00:17:52
    that had such a stark demographic
  • 00:17:54
    dichotomy Clash but was still able to
  • 00:17:57
    maintain some kind of sense of I guess
  • 00:18:00
    Poise and dignity amongst it all it's
  • 00:18:03
    crazy cuz it's like you guys should fall
  • 00:18:05
    apart but you just won't something about
  • 00:18:08
    you guys just you need each other and
  • 00:18:10
    you keep staying together it's the
  • 00:18:13
    weirdest thing ever and I really think
  • 00:18:15
    that's your biggest charm that's kind of
  • 00:18:17
    how I see Belgium you're the most
  • 00:18:19
    chaotic thing that works and that type
  • 00:18:21
    of stuff fascinates me and I wish the
  • 00:18:23
    world would see you guys in that type of
  • 00:18:26
    confusingly unique light if that makes
  • 00:18:29
    sense all right that's my video hope you
  • 00:18:30
    guys liked it cheers stay cool stay
  • 00:18:32
    tuned
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