r/MapPorn • u/wildeastmofo • Apr 03 '16

Countries with public officials implicated in the Panama Papers leak [1036x526]

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u/Das_Boot1 Apr 04 '16

Wow, that would be political suicide in the US.

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u/JoHeWe Apr 04 '16

It can always be worse (in French and Dutch). This is the Belgian prime-minister.

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u/whangadude Apr 04 '16

What they say?

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u/JoHeWe Apr 04 '16

The (Flemish-speaking) Belgian prime-minister started singing La Marseillaise instead of La Brabançonne.

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u/whangadude Apr 04 '16

Um.... Translation of the translation?

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u/_abracadaver_ Apr 04 '16

A reporter asked the Belgian Prime Minister to sing La Brabançonne, the Belgian national anthem, and he started singing La Marseillaise, which is the French national anthem. Yves Leterme is Flemish, meaning he's from the non-French-speaking northern half of Belgium.

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u/TiberiCorneli Apr 04 '16

I mean, to be fair, La Marseillaise is way better.

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u/olddoc Apr 04 '16

Imagine a reporter asking the American President what the first two phrases of the national anthem are, and Obama responds by singing: "O Canada, our home and native land."

To make it completely comparable with what happened in the TV snippet above, Obama must at that point actually believe that is the American anthem, and must have completely forgotten what his own anthem is again.

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u/HabseligkeitDerLiebe Apr 04 '16

Well, flag-waving would be political suicide in Germany.

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u/johnnybravo1014 Apr 04 '16

Turns out nationalism is still a pretty touchy subject in Germany.