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Yes there is, another example: Jean-Claude Van Cauwenberghe is a Walloon politician, Geert Bourgeois is a Flemish one.

The big problem should be between flanders and walloon, the 2 big parts of the country.

It exists, like on the geoportal [0] of the Walloon Region (south of Belgium), but this time it's really unprecedented.

Nowadays people think I'm a Walloon (French-speaking from Belgium, while I'm Dutch), which is a great compliment to me!

But many of my colleagues are walloon and I have absolutely no problem with them at all, why should I?

However Walloon people definitely feel Belgian and have a Belgian pride.

Growing in Belgium, we learned that our Walloon brethren use septante (70), quatre-vingts (4 * 20 or 80) and nonante (90).

As a Flemish person, I wouldn't say Flemish and Walloon have the same accent in English, but I guess I'm not the one to judge.

What's interesting and weird to me: both Dutch and French speakers from Belgium (so, Flemish and Walloon people) often sound like they have the same accent when speaking English!

My Walloon friend calls tape Scotch, but I don't.

We have 6 distict governments: federal, flemish, walloon, french, german and brussels.

A lot of Dutch people come on vacations in Walloon (french speaking part of Belgium) and they never ever can be seen riding a bike because our hilly landscape make it a tiresome activities.

Just like Arabic al-, Dutch van and der are grammatical particles; Johannes van der Waals is "John the Walloon".

But Belgium, in spite of its small size, has a hypercomplex democratic system which is also fairly split between a "Flemish part" and "Walloon part" who will essentially battle each other.

Just off the top of my head for countries that also track ethnicity/race in government statistics: Belgium (because the Walloon/Fleming ethnic divide is so central to its politics), Germany (under the euphemism "migration background"), Russia, Israel, Lebanon...

> Just off the top of my head for countries that also track ethnicity/race in government statistics: Belgium (because the Walloon/Fleming ethnic divide is so central to its politics), Germany (under the euphemism "migration background") That is the point.

Have you ever seen a non-French(/Walloon/Monegasque/French Swiss) person work in French civil service?

I do not know enough about the Belgian (i.e Flemish and Walloon) channels to say whether they do or don't.

Belgium is almost a 'failed political state' (literally 100's of days in a row without a government) and the 'division' is 100% because of Flemish/Walloon divide.