What is your opinion about the Dutch?

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Reverend Blair

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RE: What is your opinion

When I think of the Dutch, I think of dairy farmers. We've had several European farmers move into Manitoba...land here is almost free compared to what it costs in Europe. The farmers from Holland and the Netherlands set up these incredibly efficient modern dairy operations...open parlours, cows on conveyor belts, computerised feeding systems.

I was raised spending most weekends on one of two dairy farms and when I visited these places suddenly the only thing I knew how to do was get out of the way.
 
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Rick van Opbergen

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Well it's true a lot of Dutch farmers left the Netherlands the last decades in search for better opportunities. A large amount left for Canada (and the US). Meanwhile, we are also notorious in Denmark and Germany, and there is also a large amount of Dutch farmers in countries as South Africa and New Zealand.

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Andem

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Hrmm. What do I think when I think about the Dutch?

To be honest, it's another European country.. But Canadians have a special relationship with the Dutch dating back to mid-WWII when soldiers managed to liberate many Dutch towns from the German Wehrmacht and Waffen-SS troops.

Each year, the Dutch plant hundreds of tulips in our capital city, Ottawa.

That's usually what I think about when I think Dutch. I also live in downtown Toronto, so every now and then I come across some Dutch people in the shopping centre. They're always very very friendly and even chatty where most people in Toronto are not.
 
Dexter Sinister

Dexter Sinister

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RE: What is your opinion

Interesting forums (fora?). Finally decided to stop lurking and join up.

My opinion of the Dutch? When I was a wee lad, the Dutch were held up as examples of thrift, industry, and hard work that we should all emulate. Many years later (I'm in my late youth now...) my impression hasn't changed much, and since one of my best friends happens to be a native Rotterdammer and I've actually visited the place, I think I can speak with some authority. The Netherlands is a sane and civilized little place that I like very much, and a great place to visit if you're a Canadian. They still remember the liberation in WW2, and celebrate it regularly. I suspect most Dutch school children know more about that bit of Canadian history than most Canadian adults. And my friend tells me quite seriously that the Dutch are so thrifty they make the stereotypical cheap Scots look like profligate wastrels.
 
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Dexter Sinister

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peapod said:
I have scots in my family welcome to the board sinister...I like your name 8)
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Me too, plus Irish, French, German, and probably Iroquois, though we've never been able to really prove that last one, the evidence is just circumstantial. On the wrong side of the sheets, perhaps... Thanks for the welcome, and the compliment. I thought a long time about a name, and chose it because it represents what I like to think of as my balanced approach to things; they're the Latin words for right and left.

Hmm... probably should have put that in the "Why not introduce yourself" thread...
 
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