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Cake day: August 26th, 2023

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  • Okay fine even if the housing market problem isn’t the fault of expats, that they don’t want to be part of the local community and don’t even learn the local language is just straight up disrespectful. Why move abroad then? And I’m not asking them to speak the local language at a high level. They even refuse to learn the basics. I know many expats who live here in the Netherlands for more than half a decade and they can’t even string a basic sentence together. And these are people who pride themselves for being educated and having master degrees. It’s just elitism, they don’t see themselves as immigrants so they feel like integrating is beneath them since that’s what immigrants do. If these were brown working class immigrants people would call them out immediately for their lack of effort, yet because these are white high educated expats it’s somehow okay. And before you say “but their kids will learn the language” Nope these elites even feel the public education system is beneath them so they send them to private international schools where they barely learn Dutch. So even their kids can’t speak Dutch. I’m a son of immigrants and my parents had to work hard to integrate and learn the language and fight for respect and their place in the community. That these expats don’t give a shit about it all and everyone thinks that it’s fine is just a slap in the face of immigrants like my parents.









  • Yeah that’s true and also movies are expensive as hell. Many in that production line of producers and artists have to make concessions on their artistic vision simply to keep the movie within budget.

    Exceptions are the few successful auteur directors like Tarantino and Miyazaki or even Christopher Nolan who probably just gets a blank check to do whatever he wants.






  • I have a first name that is of Saxon origin but this name has also developed in Sanskrit independently from the Saxon name and the name is very common in India. One of my email addresses is [firstname]123@gmail.com I often get email directed to some Indian bloke. And it’s always for a different guy. I think these people don’t have an email and just make one up when they signed up for something. I even get someone’s banking communications.