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Originally posted by MagiK:
Unfortunatley I don't even comprehend people who can say they hate americans, or germans, or puerto ricans. I have never been anywhere in the world where the people were all the same, and forme hate is such an intense emmotions, I would be exhausted if I tried to hold onto it for longer than 15 or 20 mintues.
I just htink it is sad forpeople to waste so much energy on such a negative emmotions. (who'd a thunk you would hear me say something this mooshey?)
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I agree... There are a lot of anti-foreigner sentiments in our country just the same. Not necessarily racism, but at least an unhealthy and narrow-minded bias against other people's culture, ways, opinions *and* presence. Sure, there are some criminals among those foreigners (or actually most of them already have the Dutch Nationality, but apparently some people can't help but call people "foreign" for simply having a different skin colour
); just like there are criminals in every society, race and religion. It's just that generalizing has become so "normal" and "accepted" in our country, up to a point that it makes me feel sick in the stomach when I turn on the News. Every loud-mouth can just yell whatever he/she wants, never mind that it's highly generalizing, unfair, biased and against any law or International resolution whatsoever.
For example... We have politicians who are against expansion of the European Union, which is fair enough, as long as the argumentation is a bit sound. But no, this politician (Winnie de Jong) is against this expansion because she doesn't want all those gypsies from Eastern-Europe to travel freely to our country because "they're all criminal" (!). And that's a
politician, apparently representing a part of our Society...
[ 11-01-2002, 07:47 AM: Message edited by: Grojlach ]