Italy has Colosseum, France has the Eiffel Tower, Belgium has ....the Manneken Pis! It is Dutch for “little man urinating”. The most famous monument of the country is a 61 cm tall boy in bronze pissing. What does this say about Belgium? Well, maybe a lack of ambitions and no delusion of grandeur. At least, it cannot be blamed for being pretentious.
The small boy pissing also has fashion ambitions that can be generalised to the Kingdom of Belgium.
Not only human beings pissing are merited a statue in central Brussels. According to me, the focus on urinating creatures is somewhat narrow.
The second national pride, which also not is subject of pretensions, can be combined with the pissing young man. How does it feel that the national dish number one is named after another country? French fries!
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