Dutch people

Dutch people are a Germanic ethnic group native to the Netherlands. They share a common culture and speak the Dutch language. Dutch people and their descendants are found in migrant communities worldwide.

Hollanders are not a nation to rob another of its property, but desire to live in friendship with all people, and trade with them. ~ Jan van Riebeeck

Quotes

• I am thinking about something a Dutch historian once told me about the cultural revolution that swept over the Netherlands in the 1960s. It had been such a settled, orderly, bourgeois nation. The Second World War and the Nazi occupation shattered something deep in the Dutch. After the war, they tried to rebuild what they had, but it was a feeble replica. When the winds of the counterculture began to blow, the establishment institutions collapsed, as if the revolution were inevitable.
  • Rod Dreher, "America’s Dostoevskian Moment" (2 July 2020), The American Conservative

• Spaniards and Dutchmen, and Frenchmen and such men,
  As foemen did curse them, the bowmen of England!
  No other land could nurse them
  • Basil Hood, "The Yeomen of England"

• Hollanders are not a nation to rob another of its property, but desire to live in friendship with all people, and trade with them.
  • Jan van Riebeeck, Precis of the Archives of the Cape of Good Hope (c. January 1656 - December 1658), as quoted in Riebeeck's Journal (1897), by H. C. V. Leibrandt, Cape Town, p. 67

• The Dutch example shows that when people overcome their fear, David can defeat Goliath.
  • Geert Wilders, Marked for Death: Islam's War Against the West and Me (May 2012), Ch. 13: "How to Turn the Tide", p. 208

• When things go sideways in this unhappy world, nobody cries out in the dead of night: “For the love of God, somebody call the Dutch!”
  • Kevin D. Williamson, "Governance Envy" (May 2020), National Review

External links

• Encyclopedic article on Dutch people on Wikipedia