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 […]
Sofa Gate
De (persoonlijke) verhoudingen binnen de EU en de NAVO laten vaak scheurtjes zien onder het vergrootglas van de cultuurverschillen. De affaire van de Sofa is daar weer een mooi voorbeeld van. Onderzoek (Hofstede) geeft aan dat België veel meer waarde hecht aan hiërarchie dan Duitsland. Duitsland, net als België overigens, meer aan protocollen. Maar protocollen […]
