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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.
The culture of the Netherlands is diverse, reflecting regional differences as well as the foreign influences built up by centuries of the Dutch people's mercantile and explorative spirit. The Netherlands and its people have long played an important role as centre of cultural liberalism and tolerance.
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) intangible cultural heritage elements are the non-physical traditions and practices performed by a people. As part of a country's cultural heritage, they include celebrations, festivals, performances, oral traditions, music, and the making of handicrafts. [1]
Located on 65.5 acres in the country’s southernmost province near the town of Margraten, the Netherlands’ only American military cemetery honors about 10,000 US soldiers who died in World War II.
Dutch-American culture (6 C, 2 P) Dutch-Australian culture (1 C, 4 P) Dutch-Canadian culture (2 C, 6 P) Dutch-language culture (2 C) Dutch-South African culture (5 P)
Overall, she liked that the culture was more focused on collectively raising kids. This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Marianna Sachse, a 45-year-old from Washington, DC, who's ...
In the first half of the twentieth century, the Dutch language was hardly spoken in North America, with the exception of first generation Dutch immigrants. The marks of the Dutch heritage — in language, in reference to historical Dutch people (for example Stuyvesant ) and in reference to Dutch places — can still be seen.
Dutch immigrants also exported the Dutch language. Dutch was spoken by some settlers in the United States as a native language from the arrival of the first permanent Dutch settlers in 1615, surviving in isolated ethnic pockets until about 1900, when it ceased to be spoken except by first generation Dutch immigrants.