Nearly half the parents of underage children in the Netherlands are not eager to have a son-in-law or daughter-in-law of immigrant origin, according to a recent poll. RNW asked teenagers whether they share that sentiment.
In the poll published by popular parenting magazine J/M, 600 native Dutch parents specified how frequent their contacts with children of other ethnic groups are. The mothers and fathers were also asked how they prepared their children for life in a multicultural society.
Most parents said they thought it beneficial for their child to be raised in a multicultural environment. But 43 percent of parents said they would not like it if a daughter brought home a boyfriend from an immigrant community. 38 percent of parents said they would find it hard to accept it if their sons brought home an immigrant girlfriend.
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Living in Greater Vancouver we are used to mixed relationships. Our kids, who are now in their 50's and 40's have never had problems with friendships with people from other races and cultures. Our son's partner is a doctor from Turkey and our daughter, who is the son of British parents, has several Chinese friends. My husband and I were born in the Netherlands, the children were born in Canada.
Good for them! Europe is being filled with violent, stupid people from the most dangerous places on earth--the result, we are assured, will be paradise on earth. It's a transparent attempt to destroy western civilization; they're quite right to resist the destruction of Europe.
Very tricky issue: you think differently when you are young and in love, and differently when you are old and parents to young children..Both are right in their views..
Thank you for your halp!
Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education; they grow there, firm as weeds among stones.
I was always told: LOVE IS BLIND.That is why I use always my darkest eyeglasses when i approach my wife.
That ugly?
It is a shame that Geert is just exercising his right of free speech and he is threatened with murder by people who have the same right in Holland and elsewhere where they have a higher standard of living than most other nations,have work and can exercise free speech themselves. It sems these people don't belong to any nation but only to their religion and must only in lands that follow that religion in its laws; nowhere else should they be sheltered unless they can conform.
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