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First Europeans, that is. Everybody thinks it was the Dutch, we even use their flag, but it was the Walloons, we beat the Dutch here by six somethings. Months. Hours. Whatever. Point is, we were here first. Second. Before them, anyway.
When you're the Belgian kid in a pretty insular family, you know this stuff. You drive all your teachers and classmates batty. This is how I spent high school. And intermediate school. And probably elementary school, too. Oh, yeah, and college. Somehow, the subject manages to come up, and then I end up having to tell people that, no, people don't speak Dutch, they speak Flemish, and no, French fries are from Belgium, and no, it's not the "Flemish and the French", heaven save us from such a fate.
It wasn't just me. Jenn did this stuff too in class. It's a wonder how it can come up in math, but it does.
When you're the Belgian kid in a pretty insular family, you know this stuff. You drive all your teachers and classmates batty. This is how I spent high school. And intermediate school. And probably elementary school, too. Oh, yeah, and college. Somehow, the subject manages to come up, and then I end up having to tell people that, no, people don't speak Dutch, they speak Flemish, and no, French fries are from Belgium, and no, it's not the "Flemish and the French", heaven save us from such a fate.
It wasn't just me. Jenn did this stuff too in class. It's a wonder how it can come up in math, but it does.
