NETHERLANDS CULTURE

THEY HAVE A DIVERSE GROUP AND REGIONAL DIFFERENCES.  THE DUTCH CULTURE HAS PLAYED AN IMPORTANT ROLE FOR CENTURIES IN THE GOLDEN AGE.  DURING THE 1500'S MANY PAINTERS FLED TO NORTHERN NETHERLANDS FOR RELIGIOUS REASONS.  THESE REGIONS WERE GROWING ECONOMICALLY.  SOME GREAT PAINTERS WERE FROM HERE BY VINCENT VAN GOGH.  BY 1581 NETHERLANDS WAS FREE FROM SPAIN.

THEY MAINLY SPEAK DUTCH WHILE THEY ALSO SPEAK DIALECTS OF LOW SAXON.   NETHERLANDS HAS SEEN WHERE FOLKS HAVE MOVED WHO WERE FLEEING FROM DISCRIMINATION.  THEY ALSO DREW REFUGEES FROM THE WAR COUNTRIES IN THE 1900'S.  THE PEOPLE LIKE TO ENJOY CULTURAL DIVERSITY.  THEY HAVE BUILT DIKES AND DUNES TO PROTECT THEIR LAND FROM STORMS .  THEY HAVE 12 PROVINCES AND IT IS THE MOST DENSELY POPULATED COUNTRY IN EUROPE.  THEY ALSO SPEAK CREOLE IN SOME PARTS.  THEY ALSO TAKE GREAT PART ININTERNATIONAL COMPETITIONS.  PEOPLE RAISE ORANGE FLAGS TO BE PATRIOTIC AND HAVE A GOOD FEELNG OF THEIR ATHLETES.  THEY HAVE A BIG FESTIVAL ON QUEENS DAY TO CELEBRATE HOPE AND UNITY DURING WAR.  THE QUEEN BRINGS THEM HOPE AND UNITY DURING WAR.

IN 1940 TO 1945 THE DUTCH PEOPLE WERE OCCUPIED BY NAZI GERMANY.  THEY SHELTERED 25,000 FOLKS INCLUDING NAZI GERMANY.  THEY THEY SHELTERED 25,000 FOLKS INCLUDING JEWS.  OVER 100,000 JEWS WERE DEPORTED  TO CONCENTRATION CAMPS.  ANNE FRANK AND FAMILY WAS HARBORED BY 2 YEARS BY DUTCH FOLKS BEFORE BEING BETRAYED BY DUTCH COLLABORATORS.

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