Belgium: spitting on the face of its descendants

[Pedro-NF]

My father was the son of an Irish man (with all his ancestors also Irish) and a Belgian woman (with all her ancestors also Belgian). My Belgian grandmother, born in 1900, immigrated to Brazil because of the first world war.

I have Irish citizenship because Irish citizenship legislation is very simple and fair, considering that a person is Irish if, at the time of his birth, one of his parents was Irish. So, in my case:

1 - Grandfather = born in Ireland to Irish parents = Irish.
2 - Father = born in Brazil to an Irish father = Irish.
3 - Me = born in Brazil, son of an Irish man also born outside of Ireland = Irish after having registered my birth with the Irish Embassy.
4 - My (future) children = even if born outside of Ireland, will also be able to register as Irish citizens, since at the time of their birth I will be an Irish citizen. In case I hadn't registered myself as an Irish citizen before their birth, however, the "link" would have been broken and my children wouldn't be automatically entitled to Irish citizenship.

In the Belgian case, which I consider a complete absurd for the immoral discrimination against Belgian women:

1 - Grandmother = born in Belgium to Belgian parents = Belgian.
2 - Father = born in Brazil to a Belgian mother = does not have the right to his mother's citizenship uniquely because, until 1967, Belgian women didn't pass their Belgian nationality on to their children, no matter where the children were born (in Belgium or abroad) - only fathers passed their nationality on to their children.
3 - Me = since my father wasn't entitled to Belgian nationality because of this immoral, discriminatory legislation, which to date has not been corrected by Belgian legislators, I wasn't entitled to Belgian citizenship by descent either.

Now, what is even more absurd and unfair about this: people without any Belgian ancestors, who have been living in Belgium for at least 3 years, are entitled to apply for Belgian citizenship by naturalization. Children born in Belgium to immigrant parents without any Belgian descent, but whose parents have been living in Belgium for a determined period of time, are automatically Belgian. In other words, immigrants without any real BLOOD link to the country have more right to Belgian nationality than me, who am one fourth Belgian by legitimate Belgian descent.

I am proud of my Belgian descent and would like to be able to be a citizen of the country simply because of this pride - my Irish citizenship already allows me to live in any European Union country, including Belgium - but, unfortunately, the country values immigrants more than descendants of their own people, in an inexcusable insult to the memory of people like my grandmother.

Pedro Corbett