#Belgium is an insular country. It lives like history happens outside of it
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When the leading Belgian newspaper #De_Morgen, which styles itself as progressive, published an image of Obama and his wife as chimps and passed it off as satire, they did not expect a backlash. They assumed that their readers would laugh and move on, and it would be business as usual. This assumption was rooted in two facts.
