Being racist to Asians is the new black Greetings dear readers. I hope that while cycling headlong into Storm Ciara that you survived. I sometimes like to write about trends in the Netherlands so am happy to let you know that the latest and hottest trend in this windy flat …
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A Moroccan mother suing a school in Amsterdam for discrimination Amsterdam has 180 nationalities and god knows how many kut tourists and expats. It’s like that old song, “what we need is a great big melting pot’. Living in Amsterdam I see people from all over the world even while …
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Only people of Dutch origin allowed to rent an apartment As we all know, the Netherlands is THE MOST TOLERANT COUNTRY IN THE WORLD. In spite of this, it does appear that in some situations that if you’re not of Dutch origin, that this could be a disadvantage in some …
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How to get into nightclubs in Breda if you’re not white What happens if you take three identically dressed white Dutchmen, Dutch-Moroccans and black men, and send them to clubs in different parts of the Netherlands to see if they can enter? That was the premise of a recent episode of Undercover in …
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As a black foreigner living in the Netherlands, I went through several phases when I first came across Zwarte Piet. Prior to moving here, I’d never heard of ZP, so you can imagine my surprise the first time I saw a group of white guys blacked up and dressed as Zwarte …
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Amsterdam Confessions of a Shallow Man Life in the Netherlands through the eyes of a sarcastic expat