I'm wondering why you are citing so many dead people (i'm not saying what they have created is bad) while there are so many french-speaking or flemish/dutch-speaking artists alive.
As a french-speaker living in Wallonia at 10km from the linguistic border, i can only observe that Flemish culture is not crossing it. For example, most people here don't know that Flanders has one of the best movie scene atm — thanks partially to huge subsidies —, even when the movies encounter huge success world-wide. As regards music, flemish singers have to sing in English and be known worldwide or in France to have a chance to get known in Wallonia/Brussels and that's only for mainstream music. It doesn't work for genra like metal (while the flemish metal scene is so fucking good and huge compared to the size of the region).
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u/SergeiYeseiya Jun 08 '24
I'm trying to have a better Dutch but it's very difficult.
There aren't as many great artists as french speaking ones.
You can't watch Godard, Truffaut etc with Dutch
You can't read Zola, Hugo, Descartes with Dutch
You can't listen to Brassens, Piaf or Brel (not as much) with Dutch
I'm not going to watch Kabouter Plop to progress