For centuries, a hospitable people
Racial violence and government responses in Netherlands (1950-2009)The quote in the title of Rita Verdonk, which also found that Dutch 'it did not have potential to discriminate'. Political scientist White show in this study that racist violence, vandalism and threats in the Netherlands for decades systematically prevents. And this is that the government even regularly deny that such crimes have a racist nature. The victims and the type of violence changed over the decades continually; in the years 50 en 60 were threats and graffiti directed against immigrant workers - first against Indian returnees, then against Italians and Spaniards, in the later years 70 against Turks, Surinamese and Moroccans - scheduled for. In the years 80 en 90 were mainly asylum seekers and refugees the target and from the nineties to now the Islamic institutions and Islam in general, who must pay for. Structural problem is the lax response of local governments, partly because they just can affect the occurrence of racist violence. In the preface, the chairman of the Dutch Association of Mayors noted that he is shocked to learn that more Moroccans (64%) feel rejected in Netherlands, dan in Spanje, France, Belgium, Germany and Italy.
