• KrupskayaPraxis@lemmygrad.ml
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    With me living in the Benelux, it amazes how little I hear and know about Luxembourg. I feel like as someone living in the Netherlands I feel like I still don’t know enough about the country, even though I was there for a couple of days last summer

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      A tax haven full of french speaking germans. The left-wing movement died once the steel industry went kaput.

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      do they even have culture of their own? i always seen them as a belgium larping as another state for tax haven reasons.

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        They speak their own language called Luxembourgish which developed from a German dialect but it seems they speak French more. When I was in Luxembourg I heard more French. Kind of a shame.

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          Luxembourgish is basically the dialect they speak in trier but with more french loanwords mixed in - it was constructed post-ww2 for obvious reasons. French is more popular due to the large Portuguese, french and belgian diaspora/commuters, so luxembourgish is only prioritized by like the local right-wing culture war people.

          Fun fact its also spoken in Arlon in belgium but is practically extinct there.

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      I mean it’s a country with a population the size of Rotterdam only most of them are living pretty comfortable, so no real outrageous shit happens there.

      Last I heard they do have free public transport though. Good hiking trails too.

      Also: Belgium has a part of Luxemburg too. Nothing ever happens there either. Just small villages in between rolling hills.