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People outside of the USA: What are some interesting, cool, or fascinating aspects of your country you'd like to share with the world? (lemmy.world)
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[โ€“] 3 points 2 years ago (5 children)

Your country is my favorite in all of Europe. I definitely wanna spend the rest of my life over there.

Everyone who thinks this is a bad idea, get your downvotes ready.

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Well we do have the 'index' mechanism: all paychecks and wellfare adjust magically and automatically when stuff in shops gets more expensive. There's worse places to live, I guess.

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  • [โ€“] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    I've heard a lot of opinions about Belgium, but never that it was someone's favorite place. That's really nice to hear :)

    ^Is ^it ^the ^chocolate? ^Did ^we ^win ^you ^over ^with ^the ^chocolate?

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 2 years ago

    Belgian chocolate really is delicious. Although if I say that it's the best chocolate, the Swiss people are gonna raid my house.

    Let's just say that Switzerland and Belgium are tied for having the best chocolate.

    But in all honesty, many countries in Europe have the simple "one ethnicity, one language" at least for the most part. For example, in Germany there are Germans who speak German. In Estonia there are Estonians who speak Estonian. Minor ethnic communities and languages certainly exist in these places, but that's what they are; minor. They don't influence the country they live in that much.

    Switzerland does have a linguistic divide, but this is all for the sake of neutrality, and nobody really identifies as anything other than Swiss. Belgium on the other hand is a political mess where everything is essentially split between French and Dutch, everyone identifies as Belgian AND as Walloon/Flemish, sometimes only one and sometimes only the other, but mostly both. And then there's Brussels, where both sides have control. No other country has the balls to do something like this, and I love Belgium because of it, it kinda makes it unique in a way.

    I know that for some, Belgium sucks because of this, but I'm a weird person who likes weird things. Everything is so fun when you decide to spice up the way the country is run.

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