BRUSSELS (CN) — A few weeks before the new year, Marie Jeanne went to a theater show in the Marolles, the old working-class quarter in the belly of Brussels. The performers were North African by heritage, Belgian by birth — second generation, raised on these streets. They called themselves Marolliens, slipping between French and Dutch, spinning their parents’ stories into something that belonged to the neighborhood.
“We had tears in our eyes,” she said. “They carry all these layers — like a cake. And they feel at home here. That’s not nothing.”
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