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iandhr

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11. The only reason I brought up the language thing

Reply to Bad Dog (Reply #8)

Tue Mar 22, 2016, 05:46 PM

Mar 2016

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Is this article in The New York Times after the Paris attacks. The New York Times after the Paris attacks

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/11/25/world/europe/its-capital-frozen-belgium-surveys-past-failures-and-squabbles.html?_r=1&referer=http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1014&pid=1386040

i'm an American who knows the difference between Flanders and Wallonia.

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At least 31 dead in Brussels attacks; Islamic State group claims responsibility yuiyoshida Mar 2016 #1

That's the least surprising thing about the whole sorry episode. Bad Dog Mar 2016 #2

It's hard when you don't have a common language to commutate in. iandhr Mar 2016 #3

And that's just Belgium. Bad Dog Mar 2016 #8

The only reason I brought up the language thing iandhr Mar 2016 #11

It's more a sense of nationhood. Bad Dog Mar 2016 #12

But if I understand correctly in terms of the sense of nationhood iandhr Mar 2016 #13

Belgium's been having an identity problem for a bit. Bad Dog Mar 2016 #14

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