Brusselians
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Brusselians (French: bruxellois; Dutch: Brusselaars) are the residents or natives of the Brussels-Capital Region. They live both in the capital itself (about 0.6 million people or 60% of its population) and on its periphery, where many moved during the process of suburbanization. In addition to native Brussels residents, the city is home to a significant number of labor migrants (0.3 million) of the early and late wave (Morocco, Turkey, etc.), as well as international students and business expatriates (about 0.1 million).
Self-awareness
The Brusselian people are a relatively young ethnographic group that formed in the conditions of unitary Belgium after the revolution of 1830. Modern Brusselian people are predominantly French-speaking, which is explained by the gradual francization of the capital. They included local Dutch-speaking Belgians; French-Dutch bilinguals and members of mixed families[1]; groups of diverse European immigrants from different eras from France, Poland, Russia and other countries; Walloon peasants and workers who came here in search of work; South European migrants of the first half of the 20th century (Italians, Spaniards, Portuguese); late migrants from former French-speaking colonies (Congo, Morocco, Algeria) and new EU member states (Romania, Poland, etc.). The people of Brussels were formed as a result of the synthesis of heterogeneous elements in a highly urbanized metropolitan environment, which chose French as the lingua franca. They are very cosmopolitan.
Their culture, identity and worldview set them apart from the Walloons, who are also French-speaking. In the second half of the 20th century, the self-consciousness of the Brussels people distanced itself even more from Walloon due to the fact that Brussels became one of the three subjects of the federal kingdom and, moreover, after drawing the language border, de jure turned into a language island, although de facto it is not.
However, the political leanings of Walloons and Brussels, as well as their views on the future of Brussels and Wallonia in the event of the collapse of Belgium, differ significantly.[2]
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- ↑ "L'actu en images Comment vivent les couples flamand-wallon ? L'amour à la belge - Elle". elle.fr (in français). 2010-10-20. Retrieved 2023-01-16.
- ↑ "L'identité bruxelloise prend de l'ampleur pas l'identité wallonne | RTBF INFO". web.archive.org. 2009-05-07. Archived from the original on 2009-05-07. Retrieved 2023-01-16.
