Sunday, December 12, 2004, 12:14 GMT
Imagine this :
-You're beeing discriminated by the French government
-You're beeing forced to speak French
-If you tell anyone you speak Flemish at home, teachers will beat you up
-The French are giving you names like : The Collaborateurs Of The North ....
-They absolutly forbid you to act Flemish
-Your children only speak French, so your language is doomed ...
This was and still is the situation in French-Flanders , my homeland ...
We are seperated from our families across "the border", which we call : " de schreve " . People in West-Flanders ( Belgium ) and Zeeland ( Holland ) speak the same Zeelandic language and share our history, and culture . Yet, we can't communicate anymore because our flemish/germanic way of thinking is beeing washed out and replaced by French !This makes my very angry ! Do people in Calais ( Kales ) speak Flemish ? No, NOT ANYMORE... Will you hear a single soul in Bourbon(Borborch) say he's flemish in flemish ? No, NOT ANYMORE...
Well , I'm sick of it ! I won't let my flemish heritage go to waste because the french are telling me so . Too bad, I'm already 70 years old and nobody seems to care anymore ...
Keep flemish alive, before it's too late , my time has almost come , so I beg the french government, please , let us be flemish again ...
(I won't go on , because this is to emotional for me )
-You're beeing discriminated by the French government
-You're beeing forced to speak French
-If you tell anyone you speak Flemish at home, teachers will beat you up
-The French are giving you names like : The Collaborateurs Of The North ....
-They absolutly forbid you to act Flemish
-Your children only speak French, so your language is doomed ...
This was and still is the situation in French-Flanders , my homeland ...
We are seperated from our families across "the border", which we call : " de schreve " . People in West-Flanders ( Belgium ) and Zeeland ( Holland ) speak the same Zeelandic language and share our history, and culture . Yet, we can't communicate anymore because our flemish/germanic way of thinking is beeing washed out and replaced by French !This makes my very angry ! Do people in Calais ( Kales ) speak Flemish ? No, NOT ANYMORE... Will you hear a single soul in Bourbon(Borborch) say he's flemish in flemish ? No, NOT ANYMORE...
Well , I'm sick of it ! I won't let my flemish heritage go to waste because the french are telling me so . Too bad, I'm already 70 years old and nobody seems to care anymore ...
Keep flemish alive, before it's too late , my time has almost come , so I beg the french government, please , let us be flemish again ...
(I won't go on , because this is to emotional for me )