The whole Shia-Sunni thing has overshadowed another, arguably more pressing ethnic conflict--Flemish and Walloon. As it happens, Belgium, an adorable little country that you never hear about except in connection with beer and sometimes the EU, is in the middle of a major existential crisis because the Dutch-speaking Flems (ha) and the French-speaking Walloons really don't get along. It is unclear why they don't like each other, especially since you'd think that they'd be united in an overall inferiority complex about being Belgian. Seriously--it must be rough living in a country that the Economist dismisses as a "freak of nature."
Amazingly enough, the country is currently functioning without a government. Even more amazing, nobody in the rest of the world seems to care, so much so that a Belgian guy recently tried to sell Belgium on Ebay in a desperate attempt to draw some international attention to the issue. As Wonkette pointed out, the unintentionally hilarious AP headline--"Someone tries to sell Belgium on Ebay"--kind of captures the spirit of the thing.
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