Belgium.
Belgium is not a “nation-state.” It is home to two major national groups or communities, approximately 6 million Dutch-speaking Flemish and 4 million French-speaking Walloons. There are also seventy thousand members of the German-speaking community. In addition, during the second half of the twentieth century Belgium received a large influx of immigrants from North Africa. Politically the country in the 1970s and 1980s devolved into a state of linguistically based regions or communities.... ...
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