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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Dayuhan who wrote (2665)	1/23/2001 11:29:35 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

It is a very interesting country. But it has a long history of assimilating new ideas and goods and languages- and it has been much more cosmopolitan in many ways than other countries. The dutch don't have the sense of overweening pride the French have- nor do they have an obsessive desire to keep their culture "pure", they don't have the suspicion of foreign ways that the British had for so long, and they aren't a thing like the Germans. There was a very good book I've recommended before called "The Embarrassment of Riches" about the Dutch. The Dutch are a fascinating people.