I have had this conversation with many white Dutch people, and their defense of Zwarte Piet always boils down to "Americans get offended because of THEIR history with slavery, but we're different", and like... ...do Dutch kids not take history classes?https://twitter.com/harikondabolu/status/1077746135043923973 …
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Another point: our colonies. Why do we have them? How did they gain independence? Why not all of them? Some time is spent on this, but nothing in-depth. It was not even close to time spent on the 80 year war with Spain, or the two world wars.
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Sorry for dumping all this unsolicited. It's been a major frustration for me for a while. There's a certain level of historic unaccountability engrained in Dutch culture that doesn't sit well with me. And I suspect it might have something to do with how history is taught.
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