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CBSE Class 10 Social Science, Revision Notes, Political Science Chapter 1, Power Sharing, , 1. With this chapter, we resume the tour of democracy that we started last year., , 2. An intelligent sharing of power among a legislature, executive and judiciary is very, important to the design of a democracy., , 3. We start with two stories from Belgium and Sri Lanka., , 4. Both these stories are about how democracies handle demands for power sharing., Belgium and Sri Lanka:, , 1. Belgium is a small country in Europe., , 2. It has borders with Netherlands, France and Germany., , 3. 59% in the Flemish region speaks Dutch., , 4. Another 40% people live in Wallonia region and speaks French., , 5. Remaining 1% of the Belgians speak Germany., , 6. In the capital city Brussels, 80% people speak French while 20% are Dutch - speaking., 7. The minority French - speaking community was relatively rich and powerful., , 8. This was resented by the Dutch-speaking community who got the benefit of the economic, development and education much later., , 9. The tension between two communities was acuter in Brussels., 10. Like other nations in the south Asia region, Sri Lanka has a diverse population., , 11. The Sinhala speaks are 74% and Tamil speakers are 18%