How are the Dutch such an amazing ethnic group?

Question

Honestly, I love you people! I never felt such warmth or love than the week I visited your entire gorgeous nation. Everyone from my host brothers and families to Ferry Corsten is incredible, loving, open, sweet and beautiful. I almost felt ashamed! They did not mind my presence at all, since I said I was one of those hippy New Yorkers, and am all about free-love and peace and environmental actions. And your country is so clean my goodness! I did not see one piece of dirt anywhere! Just so you know, I visited: Amsterdam, Maastricht, Utrecht, Den Haag and Gronigen. I changed how I eat, work, play, and just generally live my life. You should be the world's role models. I love your news too!

"Now some soccer highlights, and more soccer, and the soccer recap, and scores and highlights from soccer...

here is a list of people that died...

...and now more soccer!"

Please keep sending over your DJs, chocolate, sprinkles, mustard and STROOPWAFELS! I love you all! ~Nickki~

Answer 1

thanks!
what a wonderful thing to read.
i am dutch and now live in canada but go back every year just to exhale.

although biased, i love that little country very much as well.

glad to hear you love all the goofy food they eat too... and even if they are not known as the gourmands of the world, there is no better country for snacking!

and yes, the "voetball" (soccer)...

and isn't the colour orange just the nicest, happiest colour you ever saw????

Answer 2

I agree. I won't attempt to answer how; something to do with a long tradition of tolerance and living together in high density population for several centuries, I think.

I spent 5 months working in Venlo in Limburg (same province as Maastricht) in 1974 and 3 months in Utrecht in '75. I've been back for short times since. The best people in Europe, if not the world (though where I am now, in Vietnam, they're amazing too).

I much preferred Venlo to Utrecht, Utrecht too hard-headed, Venlo much more open-hearted.

Answer 3

well thank you very much, i feel all flattered by your complements here. glad to hear you had a great great time while visiting. i live just outside of utrecht and can't immagine you didn't see any dirt around in that city hahahaha

anyways, hope you will visit again sometime.
i been to NY i must say, i have the same feeling about NY, i love it, love the people and i didn't think it was as dirty as some make it out to be, i felt really at home there and i was in the bronx mostly.

enjoy your weekend

Answer 4

Obviously they're very stressed of their pondering in this factor; at the one hand they are saying "Judaism is a faith any individual can convert to" then spin proper round in that dizzy method of theirs and say "sure,we're an ethnic organization" which wholly contradicts the thought that they're a faith to which any individual can convert. In any occasion if it is outlined as a faith then what the hell are so-known as "secular Jews"? The truth is they do not have any practical thought as to who or what they supposedly are as a "folks' so that they can not reply intelligently. No,they aren't an ethnic organization,so no,they've no declare to the Holy Land and all the zionists founders weren't even jews to start with.

Answer 5

Well, I live in Holland and I did notice a lot of warmth to people from other countries. But I also noticed that they tend to judge other countries quickly and then stick with their opinion no matter what. My parents have travelled around much(I myself was born in the US, but raised in Holland) and they also noticed this. Dutch peolpe just like their own country and it's hard for them to understand the way other people in other countries live. However, when foreigners are travelling around, they will always have a good welcome to our country.
ps The soccer stuff drives me crazy, but hey, that's just me.