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Watching Topless Woman Bathe is required for potential immigrants to the Netherlands
Originally posted by KrazyHorse
Yeah, making immigrants watch a film showing somebody eating a ham sandwich would be fine...
that wouldnt work, it wouldnt keep out muslims.
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I think it is tolerance in prospective citizens they are looking for, not nudists and pork eaters.
see my response to Az.
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Just as with the gay people and the nudity, you don't have to practice it yourself. You just have to be ok with people doing it.
Care to rephrase?
There's a difference between approving of something, and allowing people to do something that you disapprove.
The last is what tolerance is all about.
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Who says "that wouldnt work" was a reference to your goals, as opposed to those making immigration policy in the NL?
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Who says "that wouldnt work" was a reference to your goals, as opposed to those making immigration policy in the NL?
While there's almost certainly an aspect of religious intolerance in operation here, there are also valuable goals which might be attained through this sort of process...
So topless bathing is an essential part of Western culture? The Netherland didnt become Western till when, 1960 or so?
I'd argue that the Netherlands was one of the first Western cultures. For a start it is in Western Europe, secondly we were one of the ones exporting European values across the globe in the 16th-17th century and we had one of the largest/most valuable set of colonies in the business.
We were at the forefront of a lot that Western society stand for, such as capitalism (exploitation of Indonesia, slave trade), exploration (Tasmania, New Zealand, founded New York etc. etc.), enlightment (highly tolerant of jews, non-religious art etc) and is one of the main centres where the protestant faith (especially Calvinistic strands) as developed.
And not even mentioning recent developments (forefront of EU and NATO, "liberalisation" of drugs/sex/euthanasia (i.e. removing the government from the home)).
As for the video, it's a citizenship test. If you don't stand for the ideals that made the Netherlands why should you be able to become Dutch.
I think he meant that if topless bathing apparently is part of Western culture, he wondered when Holland really became "Western" given that criterium.
I think the video is stupid, the test is moronic and the immigration minister is a good-for-nothing cold-hearted ***** (as a minister, I'm sure she's just swell in person ). I'll be much happier when the socialists win the next elections next year like they did the local elections this month.
Originally posted by Mercator
I think he meant that if topless bathing apparently is part of Western culture, he wondered when Holland really became "Western" given that criterium.
Yup. Im trying to imagine all those guys in those Rembrandt portraits watching this film.
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Originally posted by Mercator
I think the video is stupid, the test is moronic and the immigration minister is a good-for-nothing cold-hearted ***** (as a minister, I'm sure she's just swell in person ). I'll be much happier when the socialists win the next elections next year like they did the local elections this month.
Hey, we have enough of these scary looking people already. They all talk funny, they all eat strange stuff, they all watch stupid tv programs with their ugly looking satellite dishes and they are all going to their mosques that are sprouting all over the (our!) place.
I miss the times when we were a proud white nation of hard working calvinists.
I guess we didn't learn from our history. I mean, every one knows what happened when we let all kinds of people in during the 16th and 17th century.
Within weeks they'll be re-opening the shipyards
And notifying the next of kin
Once again...
Bah. If they want to keep Muslims out, be honest about it an just demand they renounce their religion before immigrating. Or bleach their skin or whatever.
Why can't you be a non-conformist just like everybody else?
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So what about certified whiteys that also don't like homosexuality and topless bathing? To assume the "proper" Dutchmen are homogenous in their ideas and customs is ridiculous.
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