Program(me)
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- Expectations, objectives, hopes and apprehensions
- Interactive analysis of the participants’ personal culture shock
- Images and assumptions; mutual perception & self-perception
- From Dutch Courage and Hans Brinker to Dutch Disease and Geert Wilders
- Dutch language and culture as a ‘mirror glass building’
- Myths & Truths
- History & Politics: the Colo(u)r Orange, ‘pillarization’, The War, Polder Politics 1945-2002
- 1965-2002: the Permissive Society, the Netherlands as a 'Social Laboratory'
- Recent developments
- Dealing with the Dutch (business culture)
- Geography, the struggle against the sea
- Happy in Holland: lekker, leuk, gezellig
- Food and drink
- Things to see & do
Optional topics
- Friends, acquaintances, colleagues (about social customs, do’s & don’ts etc.)
- The Dutch and their languages: Dutch, English and ... Dunglish
- Dutch Courage (To Dutch or not to Dutch ...)
- Telephoning
- Practicalities: housing, health, tax, education ...
- Dutch popular culture
- Sports
- The arts
Find out all there is to know about daily life in the Netherlands, about the customs and mentality of its people and much more ...
What participants said about the workshop...