why French became the dominant language socially speaking in Belgium

Has nothing to do with it. It was the Bourgeoisie responsible for this. Back in the day when Flemmish mayors spoke French in order to administrate their towns. The Flemmish Bourgeoisie spoke French to distinct them from the common men and to classify them as elite.

It was widely accepted that French was the language of the rich and Flemmish the language of the poor.

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Well by socially speaking I was talking about the elite too. The nobility and bourgeoisie were leading in the Francization of Belgium in a similar way in what happened in French regions such as Brittany or Occitania when the nobility and bourgeoisie chose French instead of their native language to be distinct from the people.

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Wallonia really is arrogant with their forced “frenchification” policy, thinking they are more elite as francophones and therefore not wanting to learn dutch. Next to that, they think there socialism is superior while there social system only exist on the grants of the Flemish economy.

Belgian Gentleman, defending Belgium is like defending this utterly wrong situation where Flanders is paying the social system of Wallonia and being Gallicised by them at the same time.

Wallonia fits better with france not only from a linguistic view, but also on political view, and Flanders would financially be better without Wallonia.

http://i.imgur.com/n62HkRt.png

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^
This is gold.

Orange did you pay attention to what I wrote? Walloons aren't responsible, the ones to blame is the Belgian state and its elites particularly the Flemish bourgeoisie who spoke French and despised Flemish. Again another Angry Dutch with truncated views. Instead of being arrogant and attacking the Walloons for no reason would you please open a history book?

Lol Clement I already saw this one, it perfectly illustrates the situation x)

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Well done, Tom Igodt, you created another topic full of prejudice. I'm failing to understand why you create lightning rods like this. Topics like these will only get you trolls and people full of prejudice. Even seemingly intelligent people made very onesided statements based on limited information, dragging everyone down into the swamps of useless internet banter.

Belgium's history and current system (including money flows) are awfully complicated and there are few black-or-white truths about the Flanders <-> Wallonia <-> Brussels interactions both current and in the past with many individual people from different communities to blame for some of it not working as it should in an ideal world while many others, from those same communities trying to work things out and often not agreeing with (some of) their political representatives. But hey, accepting a gray truth is difficult, isn't it?

In general:
(*) If one person does something wrong, it's so much easier to blame the complete ethnic, religious, linguistic, ... community they belong to, isn't it?
(*) But when someone does this, it's just so much easier defend the complete group, completely ignoring that this one person actually did something that may be unacceptable or unfair and that parts of the community may agree with this.
(*) It has been shown that, confronted with adverse opinions, people will cling to their opinion more strongly. This topic will therefore only serve its adverse effect: make people look even more negative on Belgium. So I'll finish like I started: great job creating another trainwreck, Tom Igodt.

Belgian, you're sounding like andreas now.

https://www.warlight.net/Forum/88174-buyling-warlight-against-greece?Offset=0

LOL

Thanks for this thread, Ox. Never seen it before and really should have had =)

I mean come on look at all this stuff that belgium has

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c6/TE-Collage_Brussels.png

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