Minorities in Belgium Floren De Rop Ellen Van Snick

Minorities in BelgiumFloren De Rop Ellen Van Snick

Language conflict/ divide

Flanders: Dutch

Wallonia: French

German-speaking Community: German

Brussels

De Wever (Flanders) vs. Di Rupo(Wallonia)

Flanders independent? Flanders: agree Economically great stand alone community Don’t want to keep investing money in the poorer part of the country

(Wallonia)

Wallonia: disagree Harldy good economy in wallonia Isolation from distribution and transportnetworks from Flanders: ports,

coast line,… less income from international trade Afraid to lose Brussels http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eV2wEyi8938

Holebi’s LesbianGayBisexualTransgender

Gay bashing Marriages are allowed in Belgium

Gay bashing in Anderlecht

http://deredactie.be/cm/vrtnieuws.english/videozone_ENG/archive/2.3815/1.1394717

Protests against gay bashing in Aalst

http://deredactie.be/cm/vrtnieuws.english/videozone_ENG/archive/2.3815/1.1378368

Immigrants

The image

Minority -> 23% North Africa Big cities: Antwerp, Temse, Brussels Comparison Bad things

Belgium Turkey

Morocco

Statistics2004

2007

From 8% to 32% and back to 23%

Examples

Personal experience Asking the way Media Jobs Never ending circle http://deredactie.be/cm/vrtnieuws.english/News/1.1766596