Belgium: Equal rights but not EQUAL rights

Belgium is a hotchpoch of diffrent ethnic groups, most of them coming from every part of the world. Attracted by the 'flexible' social welfare system and the bussness oppotunities the European capital region brings.

In this entire collection 2 groups stand out: the Flemish and the Walloons. Both ethnicities are local.

The Flemish live in the north of Belgium, in an area called Flemish and according to the latest cencus there over 6 million Flemish in Flanders. Flanders is a relative young term, the current Flanders consists of the Belgium provinces that were part of the County Flanders and the Duchy of Brabant during the most part of the middle ages. Flemish people speak a language called Flemish which is a form of Dutch, that is suppondly more related to the original Dutch then the language in the Netherlands. The earliest mention of the Flemish can be found in the 10th century AD, between 1831 and 1968 the Flemish had little to no rights in Belgium and were severly exploited by the Walloons during this period.

The Walloons occupy the souther part of Belgium called Wallonia,according to the latests cencus there are 3.6 million people who call them self Walloon of Belgium Francophones.The term Walloon is derived from a late 18th, early 19th century reference to people, in southern part of what is now Belgium, that spoke Waals, a dialect form of French. Between 1831 and 1968 they held most positions of power in Belgium, historic texts even suggest that they wanted to culturaly cleanse Belgium from any Germanic influence a.k.a the Flemish.

After 1968 things changed for the Flemish and they were appointed 'some' attonomy and equal rights. In the 50 years that followed Flanders transformed itself from diapalated poor region to one of the richest in Western-Europe, while Wallonia turned from being among the richest to the poorest region in Western Europe.

In all the ethnic diversions the Belgium goverment decided at the end of the 1980's to create a organisation to delegate and judge cases of racism and ethnic tensions, they called the Center for Equal oppotunities and Racial discriminations.

Now comes the really hurtfull bit, this center has judged that any form of hatred/rascim or discrimination of Flemish person by a Walloon is not a valid reason, while the opposite is.

In lamens terms a Walloon may make racist comments about a Flemish but a Flemish may not do the same about a Walloon