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Originally Posted by Mynydd
A rare thing to see a Walloon. You often hear others speaking about them, but people has never seen one. As if they were a legend. 
Now seriously, the only Walloon that I remember having ever met around here is the Consul of Belgium. Which is funny since nearly all of the Belgians resident here must be Flemish, and they are quite a large community. And if I didn't know that he is a Belgian, I would think that he is French.
And well, since the Flemish are the largest ethnic group in Belgium, I guess that we will have to blame them for the bad driving skills for which the Belgians are known.  |
Yes I know, reading what people have to say about Walloons, I almost feel like we are some kind of an alien race
It's possible most french-speaking Belgians associate with the French, without actually identifying themselves as French at all. Some of my friends went to Tenerife a week ago, and there were a lot of Flemish, and a few French, not many "walloons". One of my friend has a distant Spanish ancestry and he is quite tanned under the sun, and a bouncer didn't want him to enter a club because he looked spanish
. He asked "what nationality?", he answered "Belgian, why that?... " "ok then..."
We thought, that's weird, spaniards are rejected in their own country?!
As for the driving skills, I was chatting with an American once... I told him about the bad reputation the Belgians had on the road, and he said "they can't be worse than those guys in Albany, New York."
What's funny is, Albany, NY was founded historically by...Belgians.
There must be a pattern...