Dutch Design
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- janne760
it's the liberal history and nature tat roots deeply inside the Dutch. Even though we have officially one or two political parties claiming liberal point of views openly (on the right: VVD, on the left: GROENLINKS), i think compared to many nations abroad almost any political party in NL has fairly strong liberal qualities to them.
Just like the Jews coming from Portugal and beyond to our big harbour city and called it MOKUM (=safe harbour. Now Amsterdam), as they hailed it for its liberal trade and governing, nowadays you can still view the Netherlands as being one of the most open countries regarding trade, multicultural lifestyle and society and global political and military engagement.
This makes that The Netherlands ultimate identity doesn't really exist as our princess Maxima recently said. It's basically an identity that's built on unstable soil consisting a history of cultural clashes and mergers. Just like the unstable wetlands the Netherlands was cultivated on.