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The Dutch also minimise ostentatious displays of status and wealth difference, and have a low power distance. [29] They accept the need to follow rules, but combine this with tolerance of difference and respect for privacy. As the country's watery geography dictates, the Netherlands has a strong nautical culture.
Addressing the Dutch in their native language may result in a reply in English.This phenomenon is humorously discussed in White and Boucke’s The UnDutchables: . If you take a course in the Dutch language and finally progress enough to dare to utter some sentences in public, the persons you speak to will inevitably answer you in what they detect to be your native tongue.
immigrants must always lose their own culture - that is the price of immigration, a "brutal bargain" (quote from Norman Podhoretz). Scheffer approvingly quoted the Dutch sociologist J.A.A. van Doorn as saying that the presence of immigrants in the Netherlands had "put the evolutionary clock back" by fifty years or more.
Overall, she liked that the culture was more focused on collectively raising kids. One of my first enduring memories of the Netherlands was a stranger asking to cradle my baby.
In art, Dutch and Flemish Renaissance painting went from the strange work of Hieronymus Bosch to the everyday life of Pieter Brueghel the Elder. In architecture, music and literature too, the culture of the Low Countries moved into the Renaissance style.
World War II expert Arie-Jan van Hees, a local resident and retired member of the Dutch military, provides guided tours of the cemetery. He and his family adopted a soldier's gravesite in 2005.
The countries that comprise the region called the Low Countries (Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg) all have comparatively the same toponymy.Place names with Neder, Nieder, Nedre, Nether, Lage(r) or Low(er) (in Germanic languages) and Bas or Inferior (in Romance languages) are in use in low-lying places all over Europe.
Dutch folk culture (4 C, 1 P) Food and drink in the Netherlands (7 C, 1 P) Dutch furniture (2 C) G. Gardens in the Netherlands (3 C, 13 P) H. Cultural heritage of the ...