So you fall in love with a foreigner (or alien as people from another country are sometimes called in the English-American language). A foreigner is somebody who is not born in a part of the area that is part of your country. That is a big mistake buddy. WARNING to all persons under the legal age: it is strongly recommended to fall in love with a person who lives in the same country and who has a passport from the same country. Not following this advice most certainly leads to emotional damage and will cause you a lot of difficulties.
Personally I never gave a rat's @ss about someones nationality. To me that whole nation-state thing is way overrated. The idea of nation-state is in my view just a faulty construction to unify people. However the fundaments of this construction leads to often very strong polarisation between insiders and outsiders (read Elias' work on this in his book "The established and the outsiders, 1965). The nation-state leads to a strong internal cohesive feeling (which may of couse differ between states), sometimes leading to wars, often with less visible consequences (patriotic feelings).
This internal cohesion can possibly lead to a misplaced superiority feeling by the insiders. Especially if outsiders execute (unwanted) action this may accumulate into political polarisation. Wait a minute..........didn't this happened over the last 6 years in the Netherlands (apparently my homecountry, at least according to my passport)
Wednesday, March 21, 2007
Croc croc in da house
This blog will tell you about getting your partner from abroad to the Netherlands. It will tell about the crazy Dutch system. It will enrich your life with substantial words as "inburgeringscursus" , "dubbele nationaliteit" , IND and of course the purple crocodile.
I called this blogspot after a famous commercial in the Netherlands, depicting a tragic scene of a city worker who is the ultimate example of bureaucracy, autocracy, inflexibility and de-humanity. It also (probably) a portion of power-madness. Over the next period I will try to give some livid examples of this.
(this commercial is online available at:
www.ohra.nl/nl/demo/commercials/tv_zwembad.html).
I called this blogspot after a famous commercial in the Netherlands, depicting a tragic scene of a city worker who is the ultimate example of bureaucracy, autocracy, inflexibility and de-humanity. It also (probably) a portion of power-madness. Over the next period I will try to give some livid examples of this.
(this commercial is online available at:
www.ohra.nl/nl/demo/commercials/tv_zwembad.html).
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