Someone here is from belgium? A question?

Question

Someone in the political section is from belgium and is posting anti-american sentiments. I love america and our great products, movies, and people.

If this person would be so bold, could he name something....anything....notable from belgium.

Waffles?

Jean-claude Van Dam (a truly oscar caliber actor)?

Not to be rude, just trying to put things in perspective.

Answer 1

LOL! One of my fave parts from Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery regarding Belgium.

Dr. Evil: The details of my life are quite inconsequential... very well, where do I begin? My father was a relentlessly self-improving boulangerie owner from Belgium with low grade narcolepsy and a penchant for buggery. My mother was a fifteen year old French prostitute named Chloe with webbed feet. My father would womanize, he would drink. He would make outrageous claims like he invented the question mark. Sometimes he would accuse chestnuts of being lazy. The sort of general malaise that only the genius possess and the insane lament.

Answer 2

Just as in the US every one can have a own oppion in Belgium. His oppinion does not stand for all Belgians.

Famous : never heard of Rubens, Van Dyck, Van Eyck, ... (all famous painters), Emperor Charles V, Father Damien (ask the Hawain people), Baekeland who invented the first plastic and lived later on in the US, King Albert I, Diamonds (Antwerp is the world center for diamonds), for the us gun lovers : FN invented the Minimi used by the US forces as a SAW.

Beer : we have more different types of beer than there are brands of beer in the US.

Frites are Belgian and not French or Liberty frites.

Something notab for the US : Bastogne.

A lot of town full of art : Brugge, Gent, Antwerp, Brussels.

There are a lot of interesting things.

Answer 3

I'm an American, but IMHO Belgium makes some of the best beer on the planet. Thats all I'm aware of though.

Answer 4

I love Belgium, it has Bastogne. And Bastogne has Nuts the restaurant. They have very good deserts there.

Answer 5

I really like Stella Beer from Belgium.

But that nut posting his whiney snooty stuff well.. thats another thing.

Answer 6

I'm not from Belgium, but...

They have really good chocolates...
And lots of good beer (Stella Artois, Chimay, Duvel, Orval... to name a few...

Answer 7

He doesn't faze me. The US liberals who agree with him tick me off.

Answer 8

I'm Dutch living in Belgium but fair enough.These figures are from the CIA factbook,an American source
Belgium
Economy - overview:
This modern, private-enterprise economy has capitalized on its central geographic location, highly developed transport network, and diversified industrial and commercial base. Industry is concentrated mainly in the populous Flemish area in the north. With few natural resources, Belgium must import substantial quantities of raw materials and export a large volume of manufactures, making its economy unusually dependent on the state of world markets. Roughly three-quarters of its trade is with other EU countries. Public debt is more than 90% of GDP. On the positive side, the government has succeeded in balancing its budget, and income distribution is relatively equal. Belgium began circulating the euro currency in January 2002. Economic growth in 2001-03 dropped sharply because of the global economic slowdown, with moderate recovery in 2004-06.
GDP (purchasing power parity):
$330.4 billion (2006 est.)
GDP (official exchange rate):
$367.8 billion (2006 est.)
GDP - real growth rate:
2.5% (2006 est.)
GDP - per capita (PPP):
$31,800 (2006 est.)
GDP - composition by sector:
agriculture: 1%
industry: 24%
services: 74.9% (2005 est.)
Labor force:
4.89 million (2006 est.)
Labor force - by occupation:
agriculture: 1.3%
industry: 24.5%
services: 74.2% (2003 est.)
Unemployment rate:
8.1% (2006 est.)
Population below poverty line:
4% (1989 est.)
Household income or consumption by percentage share:
lowest 10%: 3.2%
highest 10%: 23% (1996)
Distribution of family income - Gini index:
25 (1996)
Inflation rate (consumer prices):
2.1% (2006 est.)
Investment (gross fixed):
19.4% of GDP (2006 est.)
Budget:
revenues: $195.7 billion
expenditures: $195.5 billion; including capital expenditures of $1.56 billion (2006 est.)
Public debt:
90.3% of GDP (2006 est.)
Agriculture - products:
sugar beets, fresh vegetables, fruits, grain, tobacco; beef, veal, pork, milk
Industries:
engineering and metal products, motor vehicle assembly, transportation equipment, scientific instruments, processed food and beverages, chemicals, basic metals, textiles, glass, petroleum
Industrial production growth rate:
3% (2006 est.)
Electricity - production:
80.22 billion kWh (2004)
Electricity - consumption:
82.41 billion kWh (2004)
Electricity - exports:
6.8 billion kWh (2004)
Electricity - imports:
14.6 billion kWh (2004)
Oil - production:
10,690 bbl/day (2004)
Oil - consumption:
641,000 bbl/day (2004 est.)
Oil - exports:
450,000 bbl/day (2001)
Oil - imports:
1.042 million bbl/day (2001)
Natural gas - production:
0 cu m (2004 est.)
Natural gas - consumption:
17.06 billion cu m (2004 est.)
Natural gas - exports:
0 cu m (2004 est.)
Natural gas - imports:
16.88 billion cu m (2004 est.)
Current account balance:
$6.925 billion (2006 est.)
Exports:
$335.3 billion f.o.b. (2006 est.)
Exports - commodities:
machinery and equipment, chemicals, diamonds, metals and metal products, foodstuffs
Exports - partners:
Germany 19.4%, France 17.3%, Netherlands 11.7%, UK 8.2%, US 6.4%, Italy 5.3% (2005)
Imports:
$333.5 billion f.o.b. (2006 est.)
Imports - commodities:
machinery and equipment, chemicals, diamonds, pharmaceuticals, foodstuffs, transportation equipment, oil products
Imports - partners:
Netherlands 17.8%, Germany 17.2%, France 11.4%, UK 6.8%, Ireland 6.5%, US 5.4% (2005)
Reserves of foreign exchange and gold:
$9.626 billion (August 2006 est.)
Debt - external:
$1.053 trillion (30 June 2006 est.)
Economic aid - donor:
ODA, $1.072 billion (2002)
Currency (code):
euro (EUR)
note: on 1 January 1999, the European Monetary Union introduced the euro as a common currency to be used by financial institutions of member countries; on 1 January 2002, the euro became the sole currency for everyday transactions within the member countries
Exchange rates:
euros per US dollar - 0.7964 (2006), 0.8041 (2005), 0.8054 (2004), 0.886 (2003), 1.0626 (2002)
Fiscal year:
calendar year

You have to take into account we have a population of about ten million people.