I think that people living in small (underdog?) countries are usualy quite patriotic (or chauvunistic) about their country so I was really proud when Larian released Divinity.
First and foremost, I am proud Belgium can produce a title such as beyond divinity BUT I don't think belgium is a patriotic country. Quite the opposite in fact.
Maybe because of a short history, I don't know, but I can't imagine any of my friends or family feeling "proud to be a belgian". If anything, I feel flemish, but belgian? no. Patriotic feelings seem to be reserved for great sporting events (such as the current olympics), and not so important the rest of the year. If you compare the celebrations in the netherlands on queen's day and such events to our national holiday... And even in the sports, if they play the national anthem when belgium wins (not that that happens a lot <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/winkwink.gif" alt="" /> ) the belgians are usually one of the only countries who don't actually know the text of the anthem (and neither do I, actually -> well I know a part of it...).
Who is a Belgian? Either a French, just less romantic or a Dutch, just less efficient
Just because we speak French or Dutch, doesn't mean we ARE French or Dutch. Americans or Austrialans aren't english just because they speak that language.
Furthermore, if you want to make the separation: French-speaking belgium: Wallony (inhabitatants: Walloons); Dutch-speaking belgium: Flanders (inhabitants: Flemish).
I for one am kind of offended by the notion of me being a less efficient Dutch...
To my humble self, Belgium is very famous, especially for many great battlesites. Regrettably, none of them had the honour to be fought on by any Belgian armies
Many great battlesites...
If you're talking of the battle of Waterloo, it's kind of impossible for a belgian army to have fought there, since the battle of waterloo was fought in 1815 and belgium was only founded in 1830 (fifteen years later).
As for the world wars, belgians did fight and die there alongside the french, the brits, the americans and other allied troups. Off course we didn't have as much soldiers as those other countries, since we are after all a small country with not that much inhabitants (now about 10.000.000 I believe)
