Anything fun or interesting going on? Relaxing, doing chores, listening to music, playing games, reading? I wanna hear about it!
Anything fun or interesting going on? Relaxing, doing chores, listening to music, playing games, reading? I wanna hear about it!
Heh, I posted about that history a while back. In the Netherlands we have a large community of Indonesian, Dutch West Indies and Surinam people, all with wonderful culture, music and food.
I used to overstuff my rotis and have the same result as you, but after much practice got the hang of it. I also make flabreads that are much easier to make, like parathas and chapatis. Also delicious.
Cheers!
I love all the quick breads, since I can make them up quickly whenever something calls for some. It’s also fun to mix in random ingredients to suit my mood. Breads are some of my favorite foods in general.
I can’t understand why people still get so hung up on immigration. We have the rich and modern cultures we have because we haven’t stayed in one place and kept to ourselves. We move about and share the best of our ideas with each other and find ways to make even greater things. Food, music, stories, science, and so much more. Never have I learned something about another group of people and felt I was worse off than before. Even if it isn’t something I would enjoy for me, it shows me something I had never considered before.
Hear hear.
We Dutch can enjoy these cultures now because of the ruthless exploitation of Indonesia and (North) African country’s for centuries and there are Dutch people still having a hard time showing immigrants any respect or hospitality, and where I live in growing numbers. It is disheartening but I am glad not to be like them.
Most of my cooking skills comes from learning from friends and family with Indo, Surinam and North African backgrounds. My sisters are all married to people from non Dutch cultures, so I am lucky there too. Also we live near the largest importer/distributor of Asian, Indonesian and Surinam foods in Europe. Very lucky.
My mother is a racist though, we don’t see her.
I’m in the US, so we learn (some) about African people that were brought here and to the Caribbean. It is terrible what happened, but they came up with many great things to help them get through. They brought with them foods, music, and traditions that now feel engrained in the greater society here, regardless of one’s origins.
We still have a very long way to go on fixing people’s biases, but many people have much more foreign influence in their daily lives than they might be aware of.
With pending uncertainty of the effects of climate change, who knows who the next group of immigrants will be, and those people should hope that they have shown good treatment to those seeking help in the past.