[cheapphenonline]

The German-speaking Community of Belgium feels more connected to wallons or flemish ? And if Belgium is divide in two country, they will prefer to go with flemish or walloons ?

[Beriilosal]

Well, it's kinda hard to answer... because I've met "German Belgians" who had family connection with Wallonia and studied in Wallonia, spoke french and felt at home in Wallonia, but I met others who I really felt were really Germans and different.
If the country split they would rather join Germany or Luxemburg... but not Wallonia (culturally different) or Flanders (geographically not connected).
And I think Wallonia is a political mess, they wouldn't want to join it.

I lived 2 years near St-Vith and it felt like Germany/Luxemburg.

[Tnzxovoz]

The interesting part is that they are very pro-Belgian in general, contrary to what you might expect. This is despite the fact that they underwent massive repression right after WWII. They don't want the country to split up and they certainly aren't interested in rejoining Germany. However, I agree with Tchekitchek that they probably wouldn't want to remain Walloon either in the case of a break-up. They'd be caught between a rock and a hard place. That's why their preferred solution is a united Belgium.

[bF8CCmmr]

The interesting part is that they are very pro-Belgian in general, contrary to what you might expect.

I think this is because they are rural of a people and less opinionated. People from small places usually just go with the flow I believe. Pro-Belgian is more 'carelessness' than anything else. They certainly don't seem to enjoy being called Walloons (source: a Liégeoise) and they seem to also be - albeit slightly - annoyed by the slowly growing French influence in their towns (source: German-speaking Belgian in Dag Allemaal, yeah laugh). If we're truly honest: people in our country aren't known for their high rate of political participation in society.

By the way, one year ago when I was reading the forum of Le Soir there was one German-speaking Belgian who really didn't want to have nothing to do with Belgium and hoped he'd join Germany one day. They do exist apparently. I cannot find it back again.

[advabHixavoip]

The German-speaking Community of Belgium feels more connected to wallons or flemish ? And if Belgium is divide in two country, they will prefer to go with flemish or walloons ?

From my experience they feel and are (work; family) more connected with the wallon part. In case of belgium split up, I think they would join Luxembourg.

[sirmzereigMix]

So in fact they would prefer to join Luxembourg than to stay , with their wallons brothers ?

[nasdfrdg]

So in fact they would prefer to join Luxembourg than to stay , with their wallons brothers ?

Its the fear of being a sole tiny minority. Entirely dominated by the french speaking.

[joanbertis]

Its the fear of being a sole tiny minority. Entirely dominated by the french speaking.

They already are a tiny minority . Majority of peoples in the world (even in Europe) don't know there is a german speaking minority in Belgium

[interbaoui]

Its the fear of being a sole tiny minority. Entirely dominated by the french speaking.

They only 80,000 and they're the polyglots. It's for the same reason Luxembourg is glad to not be part of Belgium (well, when talking about it culturally they have other reasons as well, of course). It would have ended up like the East of the Belgian province with the same name (previously German-speaking).

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They already are a tiny minority . Majority of peoples in the world (even in Europe) don't know there is a german speaking minority in Belgium

The fact they're part of Belgium gives them the sense of 'protection' for their language. Because Belgium in itself isn't a one-language state, even though it neither is a trilingual state, but a state with monolingual regions who live very separated from one another. It's true that German-speaking Belgians, currently being part of the Walloon Region, have more contact with Walloons than we have, though. Maybe it's a false sense of 'protection'. I don't know much about this.