Geography Now! Belgium
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I'm from Belgium and even I don't understand our politics.
Niemand verstaat ze...
Same
inderdaad
i don't think anyone understands our politics... not even the polititians...
Belgium is mainly about turtletaxes and stuff. Like... Sugar tax, solar panel tax, alcohol tax and even taxes on wat you earn from your job (RSZ).
In Belgian there's a saying "If you understand Belgian political system, it means they explained it to you wrongly"
Sounds about right
I didn't know Belgian was a language
Seems right
Lol
@@Lucas_Ficz I dont think the "Belgian" meant to be specifically a language, but rather a terms for what Belgium had - poltical system as stated.
Came here to learn about Belgium, leaving totally confused.
So, he explained well
Same, mn hoofd ontploft jong
The country is confusing so that's normal that ur confused xD
im from belguim and even im confused
i am from belgium, don't worry... i think even the politicians don't really get it to be honest.
I learned more about my country than I did during my studies
fk ing waar (true)
So go n study....
@@eyan1114(almost) Everyone in Belgium would learn more from this then from school, they really don’t learn you that much about Belgium except some important stuff.
@@maticelieben7768Ok....
Well , you are just a vassal of The French at the end.
Thank god he didn't forget the most important thing: Fries! Are not! From France!!!
Personally I never think of France when I think of Fries. I think either of Belgium or the Netherlands :D Joppy Sauce for the win!
There seemed to be a difference between french chips and belgian fries or something like that
@@dr_j0nes you know it!!! Preach!
France actually invented it but they couldn’t do it and belgium took it over made it good but like totally changed but like the idea came from France
@@noraxxx6342 Nope
He forgot belgiums biggest joke. Our minister of public health
Hihi good one
Nah, for me as German, the Blitzkrieg is the funniest thing at Belgium
no you guys don't understand our minister of *public health* is *OBESE* bruh let that sink in
and you also forget that a decade ago, during a small interview, the reporter asked the minister if he knew the national anthem and he sang the Marseillaise.
I m belgian and thats true 😂😂😂
I'm a Belgian and I'm very offended because you forgot the most important thing. WE HAVE THE BEST BEER!!!!
As a Dutchman I fully agree!
JUPILER!
@@urban_stories cara pils
Belgian beer is more campus than German beer.
Dude, i qould love to go to Belgium only to eat fries and chocolate all the day
Why does nobody ever mention Adolphe Sax, designer of the saxophone?
It’s “just” an instrument i guess. But plastic is a BIG invention!
@@maticelieben7768 i am from belgium and didn't know this. i thought e invented blues but we also created plastic.
Wasn't he born in Dinant ?
Idk rutger
Hey Rutger we have the same names
"Belgium is a beautiful city"- Donald Trump, 2015/16.
I think he meant to say Brussels.
i am Belgian and lived for a few months in Orange County LA. Some Americans thought Belgium was the Capital of Brussels.... Lol BTW i loved living over there...
Trump is my favourite singer
And he said "Brussels is like a hellhole" before xD
Viktor6665 Brussels is a bad neighborhood.
Nothing about Belgian beers? That’s a major part of their culture
more like chocolate
Beers, chocolate, wafles and fries are the only thing that make belgium a country
@@fablb9006 abruti.
@@fablb9006 Belgian history goes all the way back to the roman empire so you are wrong
@@MegaApiapi Dude, it's just a joke.
Barbs: "Belgium is divided into three regions..." My Latin-traumatised brain: "Gallia est omnis divisa in partes tres..."
I am from Argentina, and I studied that text too in my latin classes.
OMG 😂
Thta's ma boi Caesar
I also had that tekst just some weeks ago!!!!!
Curiosly, there was a Roman province called Gallia Belgica
I were in Belgium back in 2006. Had the best highway food i have ever tasted and the chocolate were amazing ofc. Huge respect from Denmark to Belgium 🇧🇪🇩🇰
Love back
Ah huge respect to Denmark too
Some would say that the highway food is better than the highway itself Belgian surrealism strikes again, I guess
Your English m8
@@Mary-pc1jn ?
This guy has taught me more about my own country in 10mins than my school did in 6 years...
Same.
lol you must not have been paying attention in school. Not that i blame you. Very easy to zone out when the political BULLSHIT comes up.
detaart Nope we legit didn't get taught at least 50% of what he said at school
+Nils Cassiers Wow, seriously? What kind of school do you go to? I mean, I learned all these things in my last years of elementary school and in middle school.
S. Mukobo-Pandu Somewhere in Antwerp haha, but that doens't mean I didn't know most of the stuff, I mean, most of these are basic knowledge for Belgians
Logic stops when Belgium starts
What do u mean¿??
That's richt mi broda
Waut Dooghe I know xD
Waut Dooghe 😂
Belgen waren m.n. katholiek. Nederland calvinistisch. Was wel een dingetje in die tijd.
I am an English truck driver, I spent loads of my life passing through Belgium, of the all the time I spent travelling around Europe, Belgium is the place I miss the most, Antwerp is fun, the belgian people are friendly and fun to drink with, they are lovely and a bit mental. Of the 32 countries on 4 continents I've been, my lovely belgie is my favourite.
Just correcting a little thing, Wallonië isn't flat... Flanders is flat
It kinda is for the northern part
You are flat !
@@simvreux no
More like limburg is flat
Ye
1. I am from Belgium and I don't even get the politics 2. Tintin = Kuifje in Dutch 3. Where my fellow Belgians at?
Here
Hier
Here! Long live Belgium!
Hallo!
Vlaanderen boven!
As a Dutch person living in Antwerp (Flanders) I have given up on understanding Belgium.
Join the club! (St.Niklaas here)
indy smet sint niklaas en de rest is parking
Shanty van den Wijngaard the same but i love it (Ottignie Louvain la neuve)
Hela Schunnebroek is geen parking ma Antwerpen wel 😂😂
ik denk dat niemand dat begrijpt buiten politiekers
I feel less informed about Belgium after watching this.
Imagine living in the country. The more i discover the more it feels like I'm living in a made up country. And I've lived in Belgium my whole life!
here in belgium we get less informed every day about our country
Is this understandable? Because I gave up when I was about 5
Don't we all?
He didnt mentioned Eden Hazard nor Kevin De Bruyne .___.
I'm French and even I say french fries are Belgian. And I have a headache.
The BELGIAN fries was invented something like 400 years ago,... on (later) Belgian soil. Problem,... ? Belgium didn't exist not yet, so they call it French fries,... and of course,.. REAL Belgians don't like that..... In the Netherlands they TRY to make Belgian fries and for soooo many years,... but until now, they STILL cannot do it.....
@@willemlambert5019 the country doesn’t exist at this time but the belgian community does so technically we are (belgium) the creator of the french fries
@@willemlambert5019 Correct... But the french factually make fries that are less good than ours.
@@willemlambert5019 At the time of the discovery of Fries, Americans troops came in and thought they were in France ( they were actually in Walloonia ) because everyone spoke French, they decided to name them French Fries because of that.
Tu te trompes mon ami
In Belgium, we go from a solution to a problem
Provocateur nah they're a bit loud..
Seppe De Coninck spreek voor u eigen over het weed gedeelte ;)
F4Wildcat fooock youuu dolphiiiiiin , ur avatar
but then, where would you import your weed from? (i don't get the belgium-dutch weed trade, it gets grown in belgium illegally, shipped to the netherlands to get sold legally, then bought by belgians to be taken back over the border.
@Provocateur no
Me as a Flemish person. I laughed so hard with how you pronnounced Brussel Halle-Vilvoorde....
It's a bit annoying that he made a lot of mistakes in the subject though. It's definitely not a French zone xd. The Francophones keep migrating to the area though.
@Kira Van Troyen ik ook
@@r.v.b.4153 The problem is that BHV is in flander, but there are many people who moved (not migrate) there because brussels was too expensive, so yes, there are more french speaking or even people who don't even speak french nor dutch there than dutch people.
Me to
True, I'm from Brussels and as soon as you come into Brussel's borders everyone speak flemish :p
9:36 That rivalry is so true man, especially on Reddit!
haha north-flanders! we are not south-netherlands hahaha
I'm flemish, if we don't want to go bake to the netherlands is because after all the years alone we build a culture who is quite different as the one from the nerthlands, so we don't really feel from the netherlands, we only speek the same language ( exept when we use dialects because than nobody understand us).
French fries are def from Belgium. The "french" does not reflect on the country of origin, but on the way they are prepared. The fries get frenched, so it's called french(ed) fries.
I think you might be wrong here. During world war 1 the official language of the Belgian army was French, so American soldiers stationed in Belgium called the fries, French fries
+EnjOy! yes.. lately that story has been going around. might also be true
NOPE! the reason they are called french fries is becouse the wallonians speak french. So american soldiers tought they were french when there not. And I know couse i'm Belgian.
+Bluefrog2000 grappig dat ge zegt "I know because I am Belgian"..precies of dat het ons word geleerd zoals een nationaal volkslied..lol
"it is called" by whom? In Belgium they speak French, Dutch (Flemish) and whatever that weird language is they speak in the east. So they don't use an English term for it. Americans or English (but probably Americans) gave them the name french fries probably because they heard people speak french when they ate them....
Belgium won't split man. Flanders has a love-hate relationship with Holland (honestly, Flemmings will NEVER agree to be part of the Netherlands, we would hate it) and although there are political problems between Flanders and Wallonie, the citizens themselves don't hate eachother (which the media likes us to believe).
Josie B True that. My best friend is a Walloon and I am from Flanders so...
Josie B Let it be known. Peace.
So true! I live in Ghent, but most of the time I work in Wallonia. I kind of like it there more 😜 So yeah, I'm Belgian, not Flemish
Josie B ik heb niets tegen walen. maar de accenten van hollanders zijn... speciaal
VolvenIV Don't rly care much at the moment
Salut de l'Azerbaïdjan! J'adore la Belgique. Et bien sûr, j'aime certaines entrées de la Belgique au concours Eurovision de la chanson.🇦🇿❤🇧🇪
Salam Azerbaycan Gardaşım 🇹🇷🤝🇦🇿
He forgot to mention that most of the time we don't have a government. In 2010 we were 541 days without a government. And today (28 january 2020), we are at 385 days without government... and counting. Don't worry though, we do fine without one.
what you are doing without a government?
@@bettyblue7441 nothing
@@bettyblue7441 Our business :p Our live :p Because it is a complicate country, the politician have a lot of fight, but the poeple are doing great without them
I just hope every country in Europe including urs would start deporting illegal immigrants. All of ur money are paid in taxes but just benefits the illegals better than the natives and even I as a non European hate that.
8:02 don't you dare to call it french fries ever again
french fries as in "frenched" fries, -> in stukjes gesneden
@@Tyranwyn Americans speak of French fries, a term that appears in print for the first time in 1856 in the cookery book Cookery for Maids of All Work by E. Warren. However, this translation causes confusion, with which it seems to indicate that French fries are originally French. However, the name comes from the Old English verb to French, which means cutting lengthwise.
@@IanAmeye Thank you sir, I can now live in peace.
@@zineke gotchu bro
TZIEK FRIETN
OMG now people will know about us
FINALLY
Alicia This is the firt video I see about Belgium
Alicia yee im belgium!
Waffles
You don't want your country popular lol
There's a few misconceptions here. Belgium is not an artificial country without a former identity, we trace our history back thousands of years to a confederation of tribes living in Northern Gaul that the Romans called the Belgae. The name Belgae comes from a Proto-Celtic word meaning "to swell up (with battle rage)" and you can still see that in Belgians when we get angry, we turn red and our faces swell up ^^ Our oldest city is Tongeren and is 2000+ years old, built by the Roman Empire to try and control the surrounding tribes, who had lives there for 500+ years. So the history of Belgium dates back at least 2500 years. Fries were not invented in Belgium though even though people like to claim that without proof. Probably comes from Spain as they were the first to import potatoes and the Mediterranean was the first place to deep-fry things. They're not French either, their name comes from "to french" meaning to slice. And yes the political system is complicated but its more logical than presented here. Gemeenschappen (linguistic gov) has jurisdiction over things like education, sports, events, ... while the Regional govs control urban planning etc. The Congo was a dark time, but it wasn't a Belgian colony at the time, rather it was a private colony of king Leopold ll as the gov refused to colonize it when he asked them to do so. Not saying that Belgium is completely innocent there though. Antwerp is the diamond capital of the world today because of the Congo and more than half of the world's cut diamonds pass through it, and 80%+ of rough diamonds. Hope that clears a few things up :) always fun to see an interest in my country though!
2:20 "Brussel Halle-Vilvoorde" is Dutch but you pronunciated it in French haha that was funny to hear
the people there are speaking french
Thats true
It sucks that he skipped over known Belgian monuments or inventions. Belgium may be small but it definitely has left a big mark in history.
yea.. i was like: Y THE FUCC U NOT TALKIN BOUT DA ATOMIUM!!!11!1!1!11!1!1!111!!1!!11!!!111!!11!11!1
You are so right!!!
@Get Banged no probelm
Or the big bang theory 😊
Or the electric car
I have some friends from Belgium, She was Flemish and he was from Walloon. They met in college here in the US. She doesn't know French and he doesn't know Dutch. Their common language is English. They ended up getting married and moved to Brussels after living a few years here in the US. They have a kid now and the kid had to learn Dutch, French and English. English is still the only common language in their household.
+ikeknights That's the most Belgian thing I've ever heard. :)
+ikeknights Almost all Flemish people speak French. I'm just 14 and I speak Dutch, French and English. It is very true that the people from Walloon and a big part of Brussels people don't speak Dutch.
+Emiel Verbeeren Actually, it's not anymore. Recent studies have shown that it has become the other way around. Walloons speak better dutch than Flemish speak French. (Ik geef het zelf niet graag toe, maar mijn eigen ervaring komt hier wel mee overeen.)
Samuel R. When we have exchange with French students, it's the other way around. Normally when we go to Walloon we speak French and when they come to us, they NEED to speak Dutch but they usually just keep talking French to us, it's really frustrating XD. I'm sure there are Walloon people who speak better Dutch than the other way around.
+Samuel R. My experience with belgians has been very different from what you say. My flemish friends speak perfect french while the walloons are like "Flems? Je m'en fou!"
Hi, I'm Belgian, small correction, most people don't speak both languages. The language issue is very important. And the majority of Belgians speak "vlaams" which is a Belgian style Dutch. Otherwise it's very well informed. Just as we were originally a unitary state. It was only later that we became a federal state.
If u have school in Flanders u have to learn French and German but if u live in Walloon u can chose between Dutch (Flemish) or German
@@ericb9882 no. In flanders you chose between french or english. But "vlaams" speak often french en english.
Yes, the language difference is very important. Also there are different dialects in flemish (the dialect of dutch). Every Province has a dialect with each town in it pretty much also having a subdialect in that dialect of the dutch dialect. Kinda like you have British and American english, but in American english you also have like for exemple a New York accent and a Texas accent, and it's not the same at all. That's kinda like the accents here in flemish, but more... Antwerps being only for royalty and the others for regular folks. Also Antwerp is Low-key the real capital of Belgium...
@@therealbeausmellers4939bs
Well I didn't have a choice: I learned both English and French. I thought that was mandatory in all of flanders...
0:25 that’s how belgium works
As someone living in Belgium, I can say this video only touches the tip of the iceberg in terms of how complicated Belgium is.
Vraetzught he forgot the Atomium
Haha true, i mean how lany "ministers" and "partijen" are there, an the period of i think 4 years? We had no government
isn't that typical for our country? to make things difficult and complicated?
What language is more useful in Belgium ? French or Dutch ?
+xxdulce What do you mean by that ? For work ? undoubtedly Dutch, as the economical heart of Belgium is Flanders (To the great annoyance of my fellow Walloons => long story short, Wallonia has still not recovered from the fall of its heavy industry ... and thanks to the buffoons acting as politicians in the region, full recovery is not going to happen soon, sadly), even through French would allow you to have a chance in France, a significantly larger job market. To visit ? I would say that historical Flemish cities are more beautiful than their Wallonian counterparts, while for landscape its the other way around ... but you should be able to go by with just english.
In fact "French fries" are from Belgium. In WWI the belgian people served fries to the American soldiers fighting the Germans. But back in the day French was the official language of the Belgian army. And since the American soldiers didn't know where they were, and the Belgian army spoke French, they thought they were in France. But actually they were in Belgian being served Belgian fries but called them French fries. I'll never get over it :p
+MrZombieSlayer Yes, the right awser!
+MrZombieSlayer Actually it comes from 'Frenched (vegetables)" which means cut into thin strips. www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/frenched
Why do the British people call them "chips" then?
MrZombieSlayer THANK YOUUUU SO FREAKING MUCH
It's just a different way of calling it, in french & US english chips are fried potato slices.
That opening with the analogy about roommates is hilarious. I love the silent pauses as you’re focusing closer and closer on the eyes.
"The weird reason" why Flanders & Wallonia just can't seem to let each other go is Brussels. None of them wants to give up Brussels because, of course, it's a very important city. Not only serving as the capital of Belgium itself, but also as the capital of Europe. If Brussels wouldn't have been a problem, Belgium would probably have split some time ago... But as long as Brussels actually "exists" haha, Belgium will probably stay together.
Don't underestimate Belgian national pride, it's not very strong but even without the Brussels problem I'm pretty sure the country wouldn't want to split. I sure don't myself
@@funnySIMON99 Totally agree
@@funnySIMON99 Same here
@@funnySIMON99 I really hope that Belgium will never split. My sense of Belgian nationalism is rather strong. Because without Wallonia, Flanders will not be much. And vice versa. I think Belgium has the potential to get even better in terms of governance. I would also like to have government reform. And preserve the traditional architecture and estate. Instead of placing concrete cubes. A stricter urban plan. And I don't like Vlaams Belang. :) But I would vote for NVA if they don't want to dismantle Belgium. And if they want preserve the Belgian Characteristics. But my question is: why is there no Belgian party. Instead of Flem/walloon?
@@danilvanlaethem9463 There's only 1 unitary Belgian party but it's anti-patriotic : PTB/PVDA. It's not like Ecolo/Groen who are technically two different parties but that always always work together, you can vote for a Walloon from PTB/PVDA in Flanders and vice-versa. I share the exact same sentiment as you, as a Walloon I would vote NVA too if it wasn't an anti-Belgian party ruled by an Orangist. We should destroy that wall we call "regions" that divide us in two and be a united country again
Verdomme! I didn't know we had a chinese colony!
Tijd om ze terug te veroveren
Weer wat bijgeleerd dan hé!
Ik ook nie hoezo zelfs hahaha ik heb echt veeeel geleerd over mijn eigen land
@@JustMe-zn3wf leer een beetje spellen lol
@@JustMe-zn3wf ah ja een beetje respect ben je ook vergeten
Well I am from Belgium and I thought our country wasn't that hard to understand. Until I saw this.... We messed up big time :p
We love laughing about how it sucks and it is so complicated
Eh, I think the only real issue are the weird enclaves.
Shari Van Der Haegen something against my country
Hey, we had no government for over a year, and we still did fine, so SOMETHING must be put well together ^^
We actually have more governments that were described here xD and the fact that back then, the flemish didn't speak french is quite wrong, since we were oppressed by the french for a long time (effects still shows itself in administration etc)
Belgium was not formed out of the Flemish and Walloon regions. At that time (1830), they were just undefined linguistical zones (no political identity). Both regions had historically been part of other countries, but mostly together. They were called the Spanish and Austrian Netherlands throughout the 16th to 18th centuries and governed, mostly with the exception of the Prince-bishopry of Liège. The historic county of Flanders is geographically different from the current linguistic and political region of Flanders (which consists of most the county of Flanders, parts of the duchy of Brabant and the Belgian part of Limburg). The regions came to prominence after WW I and mostly since the 1960's, when they gained political prominence. Also, the idea of reattachment to either France or the Netherlands has been a goal for minor political groups, but has not of yet been a subject of a referendum with the population. It was mostly the French-speaking elite in both Flanders and Wallonia who wanted independence of the Netherlands in 1830, because they were not allowed representation in Dutch parliament because of their language, despite being the richer and more industrialised region in the United Kingdom of the Netherlands.
Germans: "Belgium is like live, we have to go trough that" xD
Life*
Our little brothers down south, love to belgium from the Netherlands
Fiery Gaming love to you 😊😁
Dank u .
Hi big brother don’t watch us
Wait, there so long ago. You the dutch was the belgiup
Fiery Gaming Netherlands, Our little brother down south. Love from the north 🇸🇪. Skål!!
french fries are called french fries because some english guy was in walonie and discovered the food and thougt he was in france because of the language!
BraveFox no beacause france is fake country
"france is fake country" champion
I call them Belgian fries :-D
Well. French fries is from Belgium and France. The actual "form" of the fries come from Belgium, but the recipe with oil and potato come from France. Belgium know the french fries because a French immigrant who lived before in Paris. The way to eat french fries is different in Belgium and France, the french fries in France are eaten in accompaniment. The Belgians eat their fries as a main food.
That is actually not true. French is a way of cutting food
Yess talked about Baarle! I live there and my house is the only belgian house in a Dutch street.
Hallo aus Aserbaidschan! Ich liebe Belgien. Und natürlich mag ich einige Beiträge Belgiens zum Eurovision Song Contest.🇦🇿❤🇧🇪
Then why are u speaking german?
Belgium 🇧🇪 "Boom" the King of Tomorrowland every country is welcome to that event btw I'm from NY 🇺🇸 see you next year Belgium 👍🏻
Luis Reyes ewa tomorowland for lyfe and for its not far its likr in my backjard😂
Luis Reyes sorry typing skills die somethimes
Oh dude that's awesome I wish I were you you are so lucky bro #TomorrowlandForLife
Boom just like the bass drop :^) Now u know why
Dour Festival > Tomorrowland
French fries are a Belgian dish, it was a mistake of the American soldiers in World War I. The American soldiers ate for the first time French Fries at the border of France in Flanders but because we speak in Belgium French to, the thought that it were French soldiers but in were Belgian soldiers.
Wrong. That's a nationalistic claim from belgians.
Can you back this up ?
It should also be noted that, shortly before the potato became popular in France, the Franco-Austrian war was going on (also known as the War of Austrian Succession), much of which took place around modern day Belgium. So it’s possible that the French soldiers were introduced to fries by the Belgians at this time and, a couple decades later when the potato became popular in France, these former soldiers then introduced the preparation method to the rest of France. Or it’s possible the French came up with the idea on their own and spread them to Belgium around the same time; or that both came up with the idea independently.
@@romain6275 I can actually back him up on that, and you can easily find the same answer on the internet so I won't have to write a whole essay for you
Romain Paul No it’s not, it’s simply a fact.
I love your channel keep up the great stuff
En Belgique, l'endroit où il y a le plus de vaches c'est le Primark de Marcinelle
Truth. XD
Oui
Imagine doing this series 250 years ago, and trying to understand the Holy Roman Empire.
rataflechera Jesus, why?
HRE was a mess
The HRE was a large 'empire' which was in modern day Austria, Germany, Poland, Switzerland and Italy mainly. It technically was a democracy were small city states were all ruled by a emperor which also Was a leader of one of these nations, he ruled until he died when a few selected city states voted for who would be emperor. city states were semi independent states which were aloud to declare wars on each other but if another country outside of the HRE declared war it would be the emperors job to protect it. The emperor could also order states to give back land they might have won in a war. The HRE is also called the 1st reich. It started because of feudalism. It was dismantled by napoleon and his empire whilst conquering Europe. I've learnt all of that from EU4
rataflechera Not holy, nor Roman, nor an empire
rataflechera rip mind
I visited Bruges around 4 years ago and its still one of the most beautiful cities I've ever been to. Hi from the UK 🇬🇧🇧🇪
J'ai visité Coventry il y a à peu près trois ans de cela et j'ai trouvé que c'était une des plus charmantes villes où je suis allé. Salut de France 🇫🇷🇬🇧
I live in bruges
I'm sorry to say it but Brussels isn't the same anymore...it changed alot and it started like 10 years ago when the ppl from Marocco and Turkey came to Belgium (mainly Brussels). Its like you walk in another country if you're from Belgium and go to Brussels 😢
@@quintensteurbaut3022 brussels was like 75% french and 25% dutch now its 5% french and 5 % dutch the rest is just arabic and the rest of people from other countries, Belgium aint the belgium anymore like before
Thanks for saying it, I'm from bruges. Only don't take the risk to ride with a car in the centre of bruges= to dangerous with the Asian tourists
1. Belgium was not fused from a "Flanders" (not part of the Netherlands) and " "Wallonia" (not part of France) but has been a consistent geographical unit since the 16th century (part of Spanish and later Austrian Empire); 2. The Belgian flag pre-dates the German one; 3. Which are these multiple independence/secession referenda you talk about ?; 4. No mention of Belgian beer ?
So fun you’re doing an episode about South-Netherlands!
Belgium was created after the Belgium revolt , Flanders and walonia both where part of the Netherlands
You mean the other half called Flanders was from Netherlands
would be great if flanders could just unite again with the Netherlands, I'd love to call Amsterdam a city of my country lol
Albania Ball Both Wallonia and Flanders were part of the Netherlands
Thank u
no it wasnt
Everything you need to know about Belize: 1. Its really small 2. It has a way lower population than the rest of Central America 3. Its inexplicably anglophonic despite being surrounded almost entirely by hispanophonic countries. 4. It used to be part of Guatemala and Guatemala is still butthurt about losing Belize. And... that's about it. That's everything you really need to know about Belize. There you go Paul, I did your work for you.
HipsterShiningArmor Belize was never a part of Guatemala. Basically: the area was claimed by Spain, but was never occupied by the Spaniards. English pirates came along and occupied the coast. Upon hearing of this, the Spaniards were upset but the English were allowed to occupy specific areas. The English kept on asking for more and more land areas to occupy. The Spaniards eventually became upset and there was a "battle" at St. George's Caye. The Spaniards were unaware of the barrier reef, and some of their ships were damaged by the reef. The Spaniards retreated. When Guatemala eventually became independent, they claimed that Spain had promised them the area that had become the British colony of British Honduras.
And it's the only English-speaking country in mainland Central America.
Vat19Nvjds it invented gum.
HipsterShiningArmor inexplicably speak English? They were an old British Colony.
Andrew Bustard Yes. And they're still part of the British commonwealth meaning Elizabeth II is still technically the ultimate head of state (But doesn't carry any real influence)
On vous aime nos chers Belges ! 🇫🇷❤🇧🇪
10:02 If Luxembourg is the little brother of Belgium, how has he "been there with Belgium since the beginning"?
Homer Simpson: Stupid Flanders The people of Flanders: What did you say?
Dutch people: sit down
soviet people : shut up like netherlands says
*What you call me?!*
The poeple of flanders: wat heb je gezegd?
@@GZoneChannel eerder: wa zeide
okee now you just made me mad you forgot the most important elementy of belgium our BEER !!!!!
He actually mentioned the chocolat but he didnt told anything about the brewerys and the beers :) but otherwise its a pretty awsome video :)
boy belgium is the worst beerland
how can it be the worst beerland ? i mean water is more expentive than beer in our pubs xD and We won the awards for best beer several times those last years did you only tried carapils ?
Theoempire haha aldiii
Theoempire
I'm from Belgium and your research is top notch! I think 95 procent of Belgians don't know all of this stuff. Nice man!!
The flag has a very pleasing kindy cooky and cute design. It's hard to explain but it really screams Belgium. Just like how Ghana and Japan's flags kind of seem like perfect fits for their respective countries. It's not anything technical. They just seem to give the vibes of those nations
As far as i know there's never been an official referendum about splitting Belgium up.
Er zijn twee politieke partijen 1 in Vlaanderen en 1 in Wallonië die willen scheiden
@@janodeblauwer8692 wallonië wil dat niet als wij weg gaan van wallonië san is wallonië fuckt
@@Aaron_broeckaert da is waar maar ze willen dan wel met Frankrijk vereniging
@@janodeblauwer8692 ofc anders houd hun overheid het nie vol
@@Aaron_broeckaert Ben daar niet zeker van. Misschien zal vlaanderen falen zonder Wallonië. Vergeet niet dat wij de balans houden (Rechts vlaanderen, links wallonië).
You didn't mention Belgian beer. How could you not mention Belgian beer, the best beer in the world?
damn ..now i have to dislike the vid !...thnx bro :p
thats because Belgian beer is NOT the best beer in the world
Öööhm don't forget the German beer you're not even the second Country of the best beers in the World because of Austria. 1. GERMANY
@@pommes0078 in your dreams Belgian beer is de best
@@Aaron_broeckaert 😂😂😂😂😂 ask the whoole world
Greetings from Persia (Iran).
The Netherlands Belgium and Luxembourg brothers for life! ❤🇳🇱🇧🇪🇱🇺❤
No
BELGIUM GOT FRANCE NOT NETHERLANDS
About the borders...It's so funny! A friend of mine actually has her house in the Netherlands but when she goes into her back yard she's in Belgium.
Wow
i hope we all experience that
so is she a belgian resident or a dutch resident because like hmm yeah what? Lol
@@maple494Dutch, her front door is in The Netherlands
@@tebarovski okay thank you for specifying but if her front door is in netherlands but other part of the house is in belgium isnt she kind of both
want to make things worse: national dish of belgium actually ALSO differs in each region xD
THANK YOU
yes, and some cause cancer up the butt
I'm from Belgium. Impressed how accurate your information is.
This is my favorite video on this channel
You forgot the beer, and that is also the anser how we stayed so long togetter. I's that what roommates do? :-)
Hahahahaha, completly true ;)
haha nice one! you actually made me laugh with that comment!
the netherlands: cheese french: wine and bread germany: BEEEER belgium: Fries, beer, chocolate, etc...
magnety I like cheese 1 like- I'm from the Netherlands.
magnety most people don't know this, but we also have great strawberries (during the season)
Belgium changed its status to 'It's complicated'. Yeah, don't worry guys, even we from Belgium don't understand it completely
ja ik weet het
Yes you're right !!!
I went to Belguim and I loved it very friendly people from Phillppines
Fun fact: Belgium used to own a part of Guatemala at Santo Tomas (after failing to diplomatically colonise Texas) and a part of Guinee at the Rio Núnez river.
he's right, I live in Belgium and it's a mess that appears to work..
a mess with fries, waffles, chocolate, beer, street lamps at every highway and bad internet in the German Speaking Community
Working is an overstatement tho
A massive overstatement
Appears to work? It doesn't work lmao. That's why 8 months after elections we STILL don't have a federal government AND we are 13 Billion euros in debt. Belgium is falling apart, revolution is needed ASAP.
I works best when there is no government, which is most of the time.
Antverp: i haz diamonds Liège: i haz .50 cal machine guns Brussels: i haz Atomium Eupen: Was ist los ? Manneken: i pee on you all
Bhahahah beste comment
@@monab7874 It is the capital for Belgium's German-speaking Community.
Wtf is dit zelfs
BAHAHAHAAHA
You forgot the beer industry in Belgium:)
I came this video because Jean-Claude Van Damme a martial artist actor who was born in Brussels, Belgium and now I'm interested about this country (Belgium) even it has 3 languages (Dutch, French and German) searched in Wikipedia. I wish to travel Belgium someday....
Many of the *Dutch* names were pronounced in a bad French way... lol.
Yes they where
BHV :p
He cava manneke😂
Hello, A little addendum to all that's been said in the video. As a Belgian, I value compromise so I first want to precise that I don't want to enter any political debate which is generally pointless if it's done through youtube comments :) 1. You don't really mention that the creation of the country is a result of an international discussion that tended to make Belgium a buffer state between Germany and France. Belgium was supported by the UK in that regard. It might be interesting to point it out as to understand the complicated territory particularities. There is of course more on that subject but let's keep it simple. 2. In Brussels most people don't speak both French and Dutch. It's mainly French, the vast majority. You can find many numbers, all approaching 90%. 3. You do talk about Regions (language: Flamish-speaking, French-speaking, bilingual Bruxelles-Capital, German-speaking) and Communities (territory: Flanders, Wallonia, Bruxelles-Capital) but you don't state that Belgium is a federal State, which is the main thing ^^ 4. Glad you love Tintin :D 5. We host a part of EU buildings but also NATO's 6. We are also quite friendly with China as we built the first railway over there. 7. Congo, no comment, we all know what happened with Leopold II. 8. ABSOLUTLY NO REFENRENDA WERE PASSED IN BELGIUM : referendum is just not in the Constitution so we couldn't have passed any ;) You may refer to surveys but they are legally not binding. 9. As most royal families in Europe are cousins, our royal family also is acquainted with the brit's for instance ^^ 10. We kept on together through value of compromise ^^ Nice video ! Good job understanding Belgium to that extent and presenting it on a video, you have my best regards ! Keep up :D if you ever come to Belgium, don't hesitate to comment here, first beer is on me :D
Hey how come the royal family is still a thing... considering Leopold was basically Hitler. Like why let those psychos still have any wealth or power?
@@jer2689 Our royal family now aren't psycho's at all. Maybe look up how our political system works in Belgium (very complicated to explain in this answer) and you'll understand why there's still a royal family.
@@astridcaestecker5420 so what everyone just forgets that the kings grandpa was a worse version of Hitler?
@@jer2689 no that's not what I'm saying.
@@astridcaestecker5420 but like how is it necesary to have those rich sons of monsters around? The govt should confiscate all their wealth and distribute it
one big mistake, Wallonia was also part of the Netherlands when Belgium became independent. But the revolution against the Dutch monarchie was a farce that was initiated by the staging of an opera (De stomme van Portici / La Muette de Portici). At first, the Belgians wanted to establish a republic like in the US, but the surrounding countries did not agree, so they made the first crooked Belgian compromise. It became a republic headed by a king.
Belgium actually didn’t really have their own colony it was Leopold 2 (Belgium’s second king) who had this colony the cruelty originated from him and when Belgium inherited the colony they loosened it until they didn’t claim it anymore
Um… actualy🤓☝️
Belgian girl here, You learned me more in 10min than my school does... PS you forgot the beer
And the Atomium
Ellen Van de Voorde you're beautiful and your country seems very nice and pretty :)
Ellen Van de Voorde He did something wrong. He said Belgium is flat but he did not mention that Walon is not flat.
I so simpathy related to Belgium. The princess consort of Brazil Christine Orleans-bragance and Ligne is a Belgium princess. She is from Wallonia part. She is married with Prince Antonio de Orleans and Braganza, prince of Brazil.
One of the most important aspects of our culture
Probably the most fun place In Europe. if you are into beer
Uncle Chuckles whitout doubt i would have voted for him too, but what has to do with the subject belgium?
and chocolate, we got chocolate too
Also with highest number of Jihadis
Uncle Chuckles and fries and chocolate
Uncle Chuckles nah dude it's germany
Oh the beautiful Belgium. Love from Greece
Belgium is a beautiful city!!!
Some orange said😂
fuck waffles, talk about our beer :)
Sir Bob Beer is just fine...with waffles :D
Martin Schmiedt oh hell yeah I love wheat beers and Belgium oh they're the best!
Don't forget about the German beer of your big neighbor, Dude. ;) :D
Sir Bob haha Karl Subjtanic, if you ever try the Westmalle tripel (belgium.beertourism.com/belgian-beers/westmalle-tripel) or the Rochefort 10 (@2360), you will never drink any German beer again... Haha, German beer, you're such a joker!!!
August Adamczyk lol nope i tried belgian beer an i am never gonna drink it again german beer ist the best
The Dutch/Flanders rivalry is similar to the French/Waloon rivalry.
True. We have rivalry in sport events until either is out. Then we support each other for the rest of the tournament.
For French, ALL Belgium is a part of France.
No, in France we don't have rivality with wallonia and Bruxelles. We think that all Belgium is french.
@@Maxmax-vk7jh we're not even that close to france modern day?? We have stronger economic, political and militaristic ties to the netherlands and luxembourg. We're almost a country because we're so close together. The benelux was the foundation for the european union, also what has flanders to do with france? We don't even speak the same language, btw there are more dutch speakers in belgium than french speakers.
@@Maxmax-vk7jh and that's why Flemish people HATE French people
la belgique existe depuis 2000ans sa s'appelait Belgiqua chez les romain alors que la France n'existait pas encore
Et dire qu'à ce moment-là, la Belgique était un grand pays un très grand pays, qui recouvrait la totalité des Pays-Bas et du Luxembourg, +/- 35% de l'Allemagne, +/- 40% de la France. La Belgique d'antan allait même jusqu'à la Suisse francophone et bien d'autres territoires de pays européens actuels. Si on avait moins eu les testiboulles molles lors de notre indépendance au lieu de coloniser l'Afrique, on aurait pu être plus grand en reprenant une plus grosse partie de nos terres d'antan (la flandre française jusqu'à la Lorraine, le Brabant et le Limbourg néerlandaise (tout en leur laissant un bout territoire pour leur future seule), garder la totalité du Luxembourg "le pays". Et reprendre notre la partie allemande quand le Saint Empire romain germanique était à la phase finale de son déclin. Nous Belge, on peut dire que nous sommes encore colonisés pour nos voisins limitrophes et bien plus loin. Comme je l'ai dit, les aïeux nos parents auraient dû avoir plus de roubignoles. Mais maintenant il est trop tard, il fallait être méritocrate et ne pas attendre au miracle.
"Most of the people in Brussels speak both Dutch and French" lol good one more like 3% CAN speak Dutch and the rest doesn't want to or can't
Ey I'm one of the 3 %
Yeah i live in Brussels and I never even heard people speaking dutch in the street, no one really speaks dutch, except in advertisements, where they are ALWAYS speaking dutch, and it’s pretty frustrating for a French guy like me, seeing « NIEUW IN DE BIOSCOOP » in every single film trailer and it’s pretty annoying when you know most of people speaks French.
@@gonz_8100 public transport personel spoke Dutch, fortunately. Honestly I wonder why Flanders doesn't just yield Brussels to the south since Dutch language clearly didn't prevail there - and then by doing so end the only reason to remain in union. Please realise this within 9 years and then we can potentially celebrate reunion exactly 200 years after splitting up. :P
@@theetherealwatcher2953 they don't because Brussels is an economic superpower. half a million flemish people work in the proximity or in Brussels every day.
Being a French native speaker makes you automatically impaired to learn a second language.
UPDATE!! There was an audio glitch in the first video and I had to fix it. I think it's good now. Enjoy.
Geography Now read my last coment when u have time. cheers
***** Wow, wanting to start a real war here I see huh?
Geography Now I wonder where do you get all this info?
Geography Now Serbia next!!!
Geography Now this video comes out so fast but can you next episode show after friend zone then enemies please i want to know
Thanks for the french fries Belgium! ❤😘😗😙😚
No problem :)
French is short for frenched. So French does not link to the country France but to "Frenched Fries"
+DizzyAssassin hmmm might be true, but people will always mistake it for the wrong thing.
frenched means that they are fried twice.. to get that crispyness everybody wants, They're Belgian! haha
Completely right :)
That's Belgium for you 😂😂 Great job! Kudos from Brussels!
well done in your work, seem pretty well accurate overall 😉
Love you belgium 😙🇧🇪
Me 2.
I'm glad to hear that, bro :)
thanks, im proud of our country
Inderdaad
Cato devriese Yeah me to :D
Love to Belgium 🇧🇪 from Sweden 🇸🇪
Thx you
Pewds!!
@Sigmund Falkner ...
Lukaku send love to Ibrahimović too ahaha
Love to Sweden It is a beautiful country
the netherland and belgium also used to have little bits of land on the other side of the maas river, not long ago they agreed that all land on the dutch side is for the netherlands and on the belgian side for belgium, so it would be easier to maintain.
Just love the ned flanders reference at the beginning 🤣 he waves like that guy