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Brussels is a city of contrasts: Poverty-stricken areas are struggling right next to the affluent EU governmental district. But this is meant to change.
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  • @emotivelyy_
    @emotivelyy_8 ай бұрын

    I was in Brussels today and the area I was at today was fine... I suppose with only a few small papers and cigarettes on the ground everywhere... But as I went to a neighbourhood that had steep roads... I was absolutely mind-boggled. There were rubbish bag piles almost everywhere on the ground you could land your eyes on, hundreds of cigarettes scattered everywhere on the ground, there was graffiti all over the walls of the buildings and the poles and the shops were in very poor condition.

  • @stefanhaeussler821

    @stefanhaeussler821

    7 ай бұрын

    I think you got there in a trash collection day or afternoon, however you can ser the difference between neighborhoods very clearly

  • @dirmanbw336
    @dirmanbw33611 ай бұрын

    Molenbeek is NOT multicultural. It's mostly north African

  • @petepotr4078

    @petepotr4078

    11 ай бұрын

    Some do not want to learn to be European…are we seeing the best students or the lazy ones… the ones that did not put effort during elementary and high school?

  • @St-lan

    @St-lan

    11 ай бұрын

    Bull.

  • @phillustrator

    @phillustrator

    11 ай бұрын

    ​@petepotr4078 It's nice to see the Belgian racism on display. Much easier to point out when it's in the open like this

  • @osis3694

    @osis3694

    11 ай бұрын

    It's european problem because they voted liberal politicians in

  • @ammkr2757

    @ammkr2757

    11 ай бұрын

    What exactly do you think multiculturalism means?

  • @noelmaher4633
    @noelmaher463311 ай бұрын

    Molenbeek, famous for its lively multiculturalism, and other famous actions...

  • @AL-grhvc
    @AL-grhvc11 ай бұрын

    4:00 go and do that in your own country, north african arabia needs it more.

  • @metodiusm428

    @metodiusm428

    11 ай бұрын

    @@humnnn Seems bs. China is very poor in comparison to Belgium.

  • @metodiusm428

    @metodiusm428

    11 ай бұрын

    @@humnnn Like said before, seems bs.

  • @geoffoakland

    @geoffoakland

    11 ай бұрын

    ​@@metodiusm428it's possible. Per capita income is much higher in Belgium, but in China there are 100 times more millionaires and billionaires

  • @mingkobe1149

    @mingkobe1149

    11 ай бұрын

    ​@@metodiusm428hahaha,keep dreaming

  • @metodiusm428

    @metodiusm428

    11 ай бұрын

    @@mingkobe1149 Dreaming about what? China is poor in comparison to literally all EU countries. 1.3 billion people and the Chinese economy is barely bigger than the EU

  • @mike.B.1
    @mike.B.111 ай бұрын

    This huge gap between rich and poor is everywhere in Europe. Both in West and East. Wild capitalism with no regard for merits. Just urge for money

  • @dibble2005

    @dibble2005

    11 ай бұрын

    Agreed . Its called aggressive neoliberalism.

  • @klapsigaarenbasgitaar1931

    @klapsigaarenbasgitaar1931

    22 күн бұрын

    Many prisoners of the welfare state as well. Why work if you can get benefits and be better off? You will however stay in Molenbeek forever and so will your kids.

  • @mariamelnitskaya4493
    @mariamelnitskaya449311 ай бұрын

    Underfunded schools is a shame for such a developed nation as Belgium. A that there’s a chance for an adult not to receive a school diploma…. just terrible. We’ll never solve poverty without a good school system

  • @civilization57

    @civilization57

    11 ай бұрын

    Here in the USA, we spend more per capita on education and rank #39 worldwide. Vietnam has now surpassed us. Education is far more about student character than student funding.

  • @MrWhitmen1981

    @MrWhitmen1981

    11 ай бұрын

    Not underfunded more like over crowded with mass migration.

  • @jorik41

    @jorik41

    11 ай бұрын

    My sister works in a school that is Flemish on the edge of Brussel 90% of the students are from Brussels, Because the quality of the school are just better in flanders. The problem is that having the ability to move your child every day out and into the city for education requires more flexible hours and typically a car. So this is mostly done by the more wealthy families. The problem is not Belgium the problem is Brussels things like education and welfare programs are run by the region and Brussels is its own region separated from Flanders and Wallonië.

  • @Broodplank86

    @Broodplank86

    11 ай бұрын

    @@civilization57 I think taking the US education system as an example and blaming bad results on mentality of the students is extremely short sighted. The issues of the US system are notorious, where examples such as decreased access to good public education on basis of geography, overall decreased effectiveness of the public system due to underpaid teachers and understaffed schools, poor metrics to measure success of students with linked unmatched prescribed federal curriculum, and overall a 'pay-to-win' mentality seeping through it all having obviously much higher consequences than 'student mentality'. Just have a few looks at countries that can get proper results (sometimes even with less costs), and you'll see that it is a structural and not a mentality problem.

  • @civilization57

    @civilization57

    11 ай бұрын

    @@Broodplank86 How many years have you taught in public schools? I'd guess zero. 12 for me. Taxpayers spend a fortune on schools, more now than ever, and yet learning has collapsed. Here in Oregon, only 25% of our students can pass a math test and only 35% can pass a science test. Yes, the teachers union is a HUGE reason for this but mainly it is a collapse of the American family and, thus, student character.

  • @klapsigaarenbasgitaar1931
    @klapsigaarenbasgitaar193122 күн бұрын

    'The lack of opportunities in Molenbeek'. Molenbeek is contrasted here with the European quarter. The creators fail to mention that to get from Molenbeek to the European quarter takes literally 10 minutes (!) by metro. We are not talking about worlds apart here. You can go work there and have a commute of about 15 minutes.

  • @1112viggo
    @1112viggo11 ай бұрын

    Every time media talk of "multiculturalism" and "diversity" you see those pictures that looks like they could have been from Baghdad or central Africa. No Asians, no South Americans, no Latino, no western Europeans or even native Belgians in sight. It seems to me like a single culture is still dominating the others in our little diverse utopia, its just no longer the native peoples culture.

  • @622PSS

    @622PSS

    11 ай бұрын

    Standard genre of western MSMs.

  • @acans7958

    @acans7958

    11 ай бұрын

    Price of colonialism.

  • @1112viggo

    @1112viggo

    11 ай бұрын

    @@acans7958 How so? We did not see a street full of angry Congolese people demanding reoperations from king Leopold´s descendants. We saw middle eastern people milling about what looked like a bazar. I fail to see the connection.

  • @acans7958

    @acans7958

    11 ай бұрын

    @@1112viggo Who have mentioned people from central Africa (Baghdad too) in the first place? Me or you?

  • @1112viggo

    @1112viggo

    11 ай бұрын

    @@acans7958 Sure i mentioned those are the people you generally see in "multicultural" societies, but i still don´t understand what that have to do with paying the price of Colonialism? Most European countries never even had a colony in Africa or anywhere else for that matter.

  • @CuracaoRevisited
    @CuracaoRevisited11 ай бұрын

    speaking only French and having no interest in either Dutch or English does not help either (unemployment in Flanders is on a record low)

  • @timchromecast

    @timchromecast

    8 ай бұрын

    Indeed, there's tons of job opportunities in Flanders for those people (no higher education needed) but they refuse to work. Companies need to hire people from North of France and eastern Europe, while there are so many unemployed in Brussels, Charleroi & Liège!

  • @slipknotboys3

    @slipknotboys3

    4 ай бұрын

    For that we need to have a better system for teaching us dutch, i remember my teacher in school for dutch was not good, we just received a list of word, the only instruction was read and remember but how do we say these word ? the teacher pick up the old radio from the 70's/80's with a speaker broken and play a old tape try to learn something with that all i know in dutch is from the primary school where i had a great teacher after that it was awful. So is not that we are not motivated to learn it, is that we don't received the correct tools for learning it .

  • @onikamaraj1239

    @onikamaraj1239

    2 ай бұрын

    @@timchromecastNo that’s not true, it’s simple because if you don’t speak Dutch you don’t get the job so stop lying

  • @timchromecast

    @timchromecast

    2 ай бұрын

    @@onikamaraj1239 for many jobs you don't have to be fluent in dutch, just some basic knowledge of the language.

  • @jme104

    @jme104

    20 күн бұрын

    @@timchromecast Maybe people don't want to go to Flanders. I can understand because Flanders is of course full of Flemings . Those people have a bad pangermanist mentality and despise non germanic people .

  • @SeeLasSee
    @SeeLasSee11 ай бұрын

    DW titled this video Poorly.

  • @duncansmith7562
    @duncansmith756211 ай бұрын

    The Mollenbeek crowd just need to observe how Asian immigrants do it, with their work ethic and stable family backgrounds and dedication to learning,

  • @joejohnson6327

    @joejohnson6327

    11 ай бұрын

    Why would they do that when they can drop out of high school & live on welfare?

  • @nvmtt1403

    @nvmtt1403

    11 ай бұрын

    to be fair, very few europeans are willing to put in as much effort as an indian or chinese. They want the results but not willing to accept the culture and mentality that comes with it. Despite seeing the results, the first thing they do when it comes to geopolitics is try to conform these nations to their model.

  • @apoplast3885

    @apoplast3885

    10 ай бұрын

    Duncansmith = Russian Bot - 1k + comments in a year lol. Mostly on the ukraine war...

  • @duncansmith7562

    @duncansmith7562

    10 ай бұрын

    @@apoplast3885 you wouldn't be able to spot a "russian bot" if a russian bot came sprinting up to you, slapped you in the face and shrieked "i'm a russian bot", BTW, were the emergency services ever able to extract your member from so deep inside the rectum of Denis Nikitin?

  • @Julle399

    @Julle399

    2 ай бұрын

    IQ is heritable

  • @anmnou
    @anmnou10 ай бұрын

    Multi-culturalism, lol!!! Mono-culture, that is...look at all the covered women.

  • @vishalgupta7522
    @vishalgupta75223 ай бұрын

    I visited brussels recently i could find 90 Percent foreigner mostly arabs and then native population they may be also mixed sad state of Belgium who was once a very good country when i visited several years before with my faimily

  • @windsong3wong828
    @windsong3wong82811 ай бұрын

    Give it time……….it will erupt like Paris. 🔥

  • @CurtisELeMay-wr5mi

    @CurtisELeMay-wr5mi

    11 ай бұрын

    Hopefully NOT🚫 .

  • @Hoppenoffer
    @Hoppenoffer11 ай бұрын

    These news articles about poverty are missing the commentary of the rich who are causing the poverty.

  • @klapsigaarenbasgitaar1931

    @klapsigaarenbasgitaar1931

    22 күн бұрын

    The rich (meaning the Flemish )are paying their welfare benefits. Nowhere in Europe you will find so many people on welfare as in Brussels and Wallonia.

  • @NataliaBazj
    @NataliaBazj11 ай бұрын

    Emigrate from Brussels to New York!

  • @Maruwasa
    @Maruwasa29 күн бұрын

    I find it surprising that so many don't finish school - that's incredible!

  • @davidjackson4181
    @davidjackson418111 ай бұрын

    A wonderful programme - wishing Hinder and Hyat every success 👏

  • @drakenkraken8455
    @drakenkraken845511 ай бұрын

    Two Belgiums - one is European, one belongs in African Union.

  • @BLACKSTA361

    @BLACKSTA361

    11 ай бұрын

    Morocco and Congo will take over Belgium and Bruxelles. Keep crying 😂😂

  • @Puddingtops

    @Puddingtops

    11 ай бұрын

    @@Lorenzo-wh4wcIt’s true so what’s racist about that you 🤡

  • @sidious36

    @sidious36

    11 ай бұрын

    @@BLACKSTA361 not where it matters 😂😂😂

  • @JelloShots-wg6tz

    @JelloShots-wg6tz

    11 ай бұрын

    All of Europe has been reverse colonized. Sounds like justice.

  • @xxvxxv5588

    @xxvxxv5588

    11 ай бұрын

    ​@@chishiochishio8031 They may be born in the EU but their hearts and souls are more connected to other lands and countries.

  • @mgithaiga1
    @mgithaiga111 ай бұрын

    My sister has been to Belgium

  • @merlinjoy1776
    @merlinjoy177611 ай бұрын

    I am a Student. Through this Video I can learn English

  • @barriewatson
    @barriewatson10 ай бұрын

    You probably mean between the Belgians and the others , Belgium is a reason not to embrace multiculturalism and Britain is going down the same road.

  • @schlammkanister2654
    @schlammkanister265411 ай бұрын

    If only there would be a way to focus on education and search for jobs outside the 100m radius of your home base...

  • @taq85
    @taq8511 ай бұрын

    Molenbeek is so lively and multicultural that's it's a real EXPLOSION.

  • @harrycallahan6623
    @harrycallahan662311 ай бұрын

    Same as Johannesburg. The ANC guys live in homes with corrugated iron roofs. A City in a Failed State with massive crime and corruption.

  • @maxs5685
    @maxs568511 ай бұрын

    What do you expect? In order to score good job you need education and the only fault for that is the person who does not want to graduate.

  • @Metonymy1979
    @Metonymy197911 ай бұрын

    Most people just need the opportunity and will succeed.

  • @duncansmith7562

    @duncansmith7562

    11 ай бұрын

    nonsense. the same opportunities are present to Asian immigrants and to North African immigrants that come to Europe. One of those groups seizes the opportunities Europe offers with open arms and dedication to succeed. The other doesn't and moans endlessly about racism, poverty and being disadvantaged.

  • @stijndelie1458

    @stijndelie1458

    9 ай бұрын

    ​@@chishiochishio8031"science and data". Appealing to authoritative disciplines and buzzwords does little to make your case. The fact is that Asian and Indian immigrants in west Europe, Oceania and north America Ara all more successful by all metrics than the majority of their native populations. Africans and parts of the middle east can be there for generations and still be hopeless.

  • @stijndelie1458

    @stijndelie1458

    9 ай бұрын

    @@chishiochishio8031 I think a lot of what you say has merit. I agree mostly. I was just stating this thinking that in context of the video you meant that it's a racial thing. But yeah you're right that there is still a significant class rift which pushes a lot of people to the point of desperation.

  • @northindian344
    @northindian34411 ай бұрын

    The next burning paris 😊🥸

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    @mohitsuniara11 ай бұрын

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  • @TheHandThatBites
    @TheHandThatBites10 ай бұрын

    The way the world is going. The haves and have nots.

  • @duncan.o-vic
    @duncan.o-vic11 ай бұрын

    again blaming the poor for being poor

  • @hst2476

    @hst2476

    3 ай бұрын

    No,blaming the rich for overestimating their integration capabilities. Look at the Asian communities here in California, educated and clean.

  • @duncan.o-vic

    @duncan.o-vic

    3 ай бұрын

    @@hst2476 what are you even talking about?

  • @Julle399

    @Julle399

    2 ай бұрын

    Poor for a reason.

  • @duncan.o-vic

    @duncan.o-vic

    2 ай бұрын

    @@Julle399 and the reason is so that the rich can get richer.

  • @personalemail9329

    @personalemail9329

    Ай бұрын

    ​@@duncan.o-vic plenty of opportunities out there for jobs, you online keyboard warriors maybe should for once stop crying and go outside and stop deluding yourself that you can live on government handouts.

  • @edwinhuang803
    @edwinhuang80311 ай бұрын

    Why the families didn't let their children finish high school? DW News should ask questions about the girl's mom why did that happen to her daugher and what does she view parents' responsibilities.

  • @CoffeenSpice

    @CoffeenSpice

    11 ай бұрын

    Exactly! How is it that some children are "forced" to be the best version of themselves while others are "let" to do whatever they want without consequences.

  • @user-vm5ps6be9x
    @user-vm5ps6be9x11 ай бұрын

    ❤❤❤

  • @nathancortes3722
    @nathancortes372211 ай бұрын

    The problem is the beer. Belgians will never beat the Bavarian breweries.

  • @Synathidy

    @Synathidy

    11 ай бұрын

    Monks brew tons of beer in Belgium. And you can't stop monks. Who can tell a monk to stop brewing beer in their monasteries? No one. No one would even want to. And that's why they've been able to keep brewing Belgian beer for centuries.

  • @severusrogue259

    @severusrogue259

    9 ай бұрын

    Agree to disagree haha. Belgian beers rocks 🇧🇪❤️

  • @nathancortes3722

    @nathancortes3722

    9 ай бұрын

    @@severusrogue259 I can respect that, and agreed

  • @GHTZ41
    @GHTZ4111 ай бұрын

    Simple Simple Simple

  • @dibble2005
    @dibble200511 ай бұрын

    Its not the individual. Its the system that creates these conditions. Its structural injustice not the individual. We have these abusive employment programs in Ireland too and all they do is exploit people and leave as they found them.

  • @CoffeenSpice
    @CoffeenSpice11 ай бұрын

    Hinder wants to "make it big"? But wants to be a social worker? Darling you need to choose one 😂

  • @Cocoisagordonsetter

    @Cocoisagordonsetter

    11 ай бұрын

    Getting skills is a good place to start. I think she's amazing and a lot of people will bring her down in her environment. I've lived in Brussels.

  • @CoffeenSpice

    @CoffeenSpice

    11 ай бұрын

    @@Cocoisagordonsetter I understand I just wanted to say that social workers don't make that much money so she would need to choose which one she wanted more...

  • @Cocoisagordonsetter

    @Cocoisagordonsetter

    11 ай бұрын

    @@CoffeenSpice My high school bff is a social worker and has gone up the ranks to be a successful woman. If she is good with her money, which most people aren't, then she's doing very WELL now. I don't know if you're European or not, but USA has lots of social mobility for smart people willing to sacrifice. The governor of my state was a social worker by trade. We aren't limited by things we did as kids in USA. (our choice of studies)

  • @Driziationz1

    @Driziationz1

    11 ай бұрын

    Well "make it big" can mean a lot of things for each people. One small step at a time, and you'll realize that you've been walking for so far.

  • @Roksan4
    @Roksan42 ай бұрын

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    @xy_reels397911 ай бұрын

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  • @AngelaVlahos
    @AngelaVlahosАй бұрын

    really

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    @nannoddd394311 ай бұрын

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    @Alex-pr6zv11 ай бұрын

    Success is borne out of wherewithawal and desire. You have create your own opportunities. The rest is just bs and excuses.

  • @themanwnoname3454
    @themanwnoname345411 ай бұрын

    Education has a vital roll to play. I wouldn’t teach in the USA for all the money in the world. I’d teach in Europe for free 🥂♥️

  • @edmerc92

    @edmerc92

    21 күн бұрын

    Lol, the spelling mistake...

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    @firmanprawirawardhanafirma564411 ай бұрын

    same indonesia rich and poor like that. go see there soon.

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    @dirmanbw336

    11 ай бұрын

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  • @Traveljetsetter954
    @Traveljetsetter95410 ай бұрын

    Same as in united states but worse

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    @cloud_gaming911511 ай бұрын

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    @dedyzee11 ай бұрын

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  • @manatee2500
    @manatee250011 ай бұрын

    They could learn Dutch instead of only speaking French.

  • @civilization57
    @civilization5711 ай бұрын

    Easy. Get a skilled job. Get a husband. Combine your incomes, live with thrift, and buy a house!

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    @prajwalkannadiga873711 ай бұрын

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    @gigachadsitler11 ай бұрын

    As a man from Europe, we Europeans support Ukraine more than our own life. Slava Ukraine.

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    @prajwalkannadiga8737

    11 ай бұрын

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    @harrycallahan6623

    11 ай бұрын

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    @gigachadsitler11 ай бұрын

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    @gigachadsitler11 ай бұрын

    My profile pic gives me protection from Russia. Slava europe .

  • @willberry6434
    @willberry643411 ай бұрын

    Way too many immigrants

  • @ARYAN-jn4dk
    @ARYAN-jn4dk11 ай бұрын

    Why germans not giving them jobs

  • @zbynekII

    @zbynekII

    11 ай бұрын

    They don't want jobs, working is bellow them, yet they want money.

  • @filippo.diberardino2863

    @filippo.diberardino2863

    11 ай бұрын

    @@zbynekII is welfare very strong in Belgium? that's why taxes are very high right?

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    @Skankhunt668

    8 ай бұрын

    ​@@filippo.diberardino2863it is

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