--- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, "Keith Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > In what way are (is?) The Netherlands headed the Hollywood route? In > terms of treatments of peoples of color, or just in general? If the > former, is it portraying us as from the stereotypical 'hood, or the > unrealistic good guys?
The first two. The term for a non-Nederlader is Allochtoon, which translate to 'the other'. Nearly all the ills of society is the fault of the allochtoonen. The immigration laws are being geared towards keeping non-western immigrants out. These people have buy a Dutch course and then have to prove via a telephone test (They must pay for the course and test themselves and it ain't cheap) that they know enough dutch culture and language to pass a pre-entry test before they can get permission to enter the country, and the ones that do make it in has to jump through the hoop of the Dutch inbergering course (A course that a majority of the Dutch failed, when they aired the national inbergering couse program on tv recently. It seems to take years to learn enough to pass the course, only because they assume people taking the course are uneducated. The main scapegoats are Muslims, Turks, Antilleans and Surinamese. > > By the way, does "Netherlands" mean anything in the language? It means 'Lowlands' and since a good portion of present day Netherlands is below sea level thats a perfect name for it. btw. 'Holland' the name that most people know the country by is really just the name of two province of the Netherlands, North and South Holland. >I know > "nether" usually refers to the lower or hidden regions of something, > such as the nether regions of Hell or the nether regions of one's body > (no offense meant by either!) > None taken. According to some ex-pats both explanations would be correct. If you want to see how some expats feel about the country check out the forum of this expat site. http://tinyurl.com/syjyj It gets pretty heated in there at times. Meta Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scifinoir2/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
