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!
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.