1. Minorities in Belgium Floren De Rop Ellen Van Snick

3. Language conflict/ divide

4.  Flanders: Dutch  Wallonia: French  German-speaking Community: German Brussels

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

6. 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

7. Holebi’s L esbian G ay B is exual T ransgender

8. Gay bashing  Marriages are allowed in Belgium

9.  Gay bashing in Anderlecht  http://deredactie.b e/cm/vrtnieuws.en glish/videozone_EN G/archive/2.3815/1.1394717 http://deredactie.b e/cm/vrtnieuws.en glish/videozone_EN G/archive/2.3815/1.1394717

10.  Protests against gay bashing in Aalst  http://deredactie.be/cm/vrtnieuws. english/videozon e_ENG/archive/2. 3815/1.1378368 http://deredactie.be/cm/vrtnieuws. english/videozon e_ENG/archive/2. 3815/1.1378368

11. Immigrants

12. The image  Minority -> 23%  North Africa  Big cities: Antwerp, Temse, Brussels  Comparison  Bad things Belgium Turkey Morocco

13. Statistics 2004 2007 From 8% to 32% and back to 23%

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