Reply With QuoteWhat I mean is that in Aruba you can be openly corrupt or doing something wrong and it's socially and officially acceptableOriginally Posted by tercio67
And I don't think I'll ever learn what it takes to be Dutch.
Pfff, you still haven't learned what it takes to be Dutch, you only tell if you are caught....It's just a Dutch hobby, and it shows in the military as well (a good thing)
If I wanted to do something in Aruba I did it first then told I told the government, and if they disagreed they were too lazy to do anything about it anyways unless it was about booze
What I mean is that in Aruba you can be openly corrupt or doing something wrong and it's socially and officially acceptable
And I don't think I'll ever learn what it takes to be Dutch.
That is actually something you can not learn, as it is a state of mind...
It's also in India's financial capital, Mumbai.
I wonder what kind of a state of mind I've got, probably an American one since I spend more money than I earn and not the (Dutch) other way around
Re: statues,
they just put up a statue of Willem van Oranje and Marnix van Sint-Aldegonde in Antwerp. In case you didn't know Marnix van Sint-Aldegonde wrote the 'Wilhelmus'. Do you think the time has come for...?
http://www.demorgen.be/dm/nl/2907/Ma...n-Oranje.dhtml
BAF found this. Article says it's an initiative by a Dutch foundation, and part of me thinks it's also because van Sint-Aldegonde was the Mayor of Antwerp.
We could do with more statues of William here as well. Still think there should be one on the Dam.
I always thought that Lamoraal's statue looked rather good, but that's just my personal preference.
For someone that used to own/govern a considerable chunk of Noord Holland, you see rather little of him these days...
His death was the proverbial drop so to speak.
Posting Permissions
