A Dutch-speaking Flemish person living in Belgium
Introducing myself as #Belgian during my studies abroad usually caused one out of the two following reactions: either the other person didn’t really know where #Belgium was, or they did, in which case they most often remembered it had something to do with #Brussels and think everyone speaks #French. In the first case, people would often be a bit embarrassed and apologetic, which prompted me to put them at ease and laugh it away – after all, my own geographical knowledge is cl