Tolerance

I'm rather disappointed at the ideas the people I have been talking with have here about immigrants.

I know that my aunt has a thing about Muslims and has talked about how there are too many here and that they will take over the country. Yesterday the whole table of people we were sitting with talked about how the people from Turkey are taking over Holland. They are buying land bit by bit and as my aunt says in 50 years the Dutch will be under the authority of the Turks. Of course the complaint is also that the government gives out all kinds of handouts to these people and that the government is wrong to do so.

I have a really low tolerance for this kind of talk. I suspect that the refugees from Turkey are getting thrown into this discussion. I also suspect that everytime a Muslim is seen in the street that it is assumed they are from Turkey. Fact is this is a very Caucasion country from what I have seen so far. I have seen less then ten or 12 blacks the so far. There are some Muslims but not nearly the tidal wave that people talk about.

What really bothers me is that my aunt says that we must remember the war and be "alert". Talking about Turks coming into the country, taking the land and controlling the marketplace and that they are threat to the national security of the Dutch sounds very familiar doesn't it?!