The Netherlands is a rich country. The language, Dutch, is just a bit shallow. ‘We’re just straightforward,’ is the excuse of the Dutch. ‘We don’t need so many words.’ But there is one word that colors our language: ‘samenleving’. Sounds different from society, sociedad or societé. Living together. That is the word the Dutch should […]
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Passport and cito score
Children of parents with a migration background perform better at school if they have a Dutch passport in their pocket. This is evident from research conducted by PhD student Marie Labussière. She studied more than 287,000 second generation children, who were born in the Netherlands, but not their parents. The parents of the children in […]
Where does culture fit into the digital world?
The digital world is such a mix of cultures, it’s basically culture-less. It’s an equal society where people of all cultures can both knowingly and unknowingly communicate. We can imagine how this can be intentional, such as Amazon (an American company) coming into the Egyptian market, or unintentional, such as a little Japanese boy who […]
