Comments on: Meeting people http://www.typically.nl/7/meeting-people/ All things Dutch Thu, 27 Oct 2011 00:25:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Van Gaffe http://www.typically.nl/7/meeting-people/comment-page-1/#comment-72 Van Gaffe Tue, 11 Nov 2008 19:57:44 +0000 http://www.typically.nl/?p=7#comment-72 Hello R.van Winkel, ouch! You hit the nail right on the head! Here's another example to show that Dutch etiquette is Superior: 'When stopping in the street to chat with an acquaintance, a younger Dutch person especially will not take the trouble of introducing an accompanying friend.' (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_customs_and_etiquette) No wonder this country is having so much melting-pot-troubles with immigrants. 'Integratie' as the cloggies call it, is a completely failure. Who is to blame? Right, those rude, uncivilized buitenlanders! Hello R.van Winkel,

ouch! You hit the nail right on the head!
Here’s another example to show that Dutch etiquette is Superior:

‘When stopping in the street to chat with an acquaintance, a younger Dutch person especially will not take the trouble of introducing an accompanying friend.’
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_customs_and_etiquette)

No wonder this country is having so much melting-pot-troubles with immigrants.
‘Integratie’ as the cloggies call it, is a completely failure. Who is to blame? Right, those rude, uncivilized buitenlanders!

]]> By: R. van Winkel http://www.typically.nl/7/meeting-people/comment-page-1/#comment-71 R. van Winkel Mon, 10 Nov 2008 22:09:39 +0000 http://www.typically.nl/?p=7#comment-71 ‘Meet’ the Dutch…and witness your Dutch host not taking responsability! Why don’t Dutch hosts introduce their guests but instead stand aside like dead zombies? Who else than the host of a company can eliminate the embarrasment of strangers meeting for the first time? How difficult is it? How long does it take: 20 seconds, half-a-minute? ‘Hey people, say hello to X, X please meet A & B, C & D, E, F and G’. Basic and sensible etiquette in the remotest parts of the Roman Empire except in Polder Country. Do as the Dutch do? Nee, dank je wel! Be prepared to be offered a seat at a table and to be given a drink, so far so good...and then to be left dangling on a string. While waiting for the thing to happen you shrink, shrink and shrink:‘Is my presence irrelevant, or perhaps even unwanted?’ Meanwhile you will be closely monitored by ‘third eyes’and you will hear Dutch thinking aloud: ‘what a peculiar, rude fellow...’ Peculiar and rude: it’s the world turned upside down! The Dutch lack basic savoir-faire. ‘Meet’ the Dutch…and witness your Dutch host not taking responsability!
Why don’t Dutch hosts introduce their guests but instead stand aside like dead zombies?
Who else than the host of a company can eliminate the embarrasment of strangers meeting for the first time? How difficult is it? How long does it take: 20 seconds, half-a-minute?
‘Hey people, say hello to X, X please meet A & B, C & D, E, F and G’. Basic and sensible etiquette in the remotest parts of the Roman Empire except in Polder Country. Do as the Dutch do? Nee, dank je wel!
Be prepared to be offered a seat at a table and to be given a drink, so far so good…and then to be left dangling on a string. While waiting for the thing to happen you shrink, shrink and shrink:‘Is my presence irrelevant, or perhaps even unwanted?’
Meanwhile you will be closely monitored by ‘third eyes’and you will hear Dutch thinking aloud: ‘what a peculiar, rude fellow…’ Peculiar and rude: it’s the world turned upside down!
The Dutch lack basic savoir-faire.

]]> By: Birthdays for grown-ups | typically.nl http://www.typically.nl/7/meeting-people/comment-page-1/#comment-51 Birthdays for grown-ups | typically.nl Tue, 19 Aug 2008 17:35:50 +0000 http://www.typically.nl/?p=7#comment-51 [...] and greeting Nederlanders is covered on a different page, but should you be invited to a Nederlandse birhday: fear not. They can be quite, shall we say, [...] [...] and greeting Nederlanders is covered on a different page, but should you be invited to a Nederlandse birhday: fear not. They can be quite, shall we say, [...]

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