NEITHERLANDS

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part of the Contemporary Dutch exploration by Florian Braakman (2018)

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Signals from Home

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I think it’s really sad that this move from the anthem not being compulsory at school to it being essential, is very politically motivated. It’s for political parties that understand that there is an identity crisis, and I think that this shows that only if you don’t know where you are anymore, you will try to hold on to the most obvious symbols

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Het Wilhelmus

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Trots Op Nederland (2010) by Yuri Veerman

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Early version of the Wilhelmus as preserved in a manuscript from 1617

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The Netherlands, NATION Series by Otto Snoek

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questions often asked on Google

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Bird's-eye view of the Nagasaki bay, with the island Dejima at mid-left by Kawahara Keiga

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Huis Ten Bosch, Nagasaki, Japan

“Huis Ten Bosch (ハウステンボス Hausu Ten Bosu) is a theme park in Sasebo, Nagasaki, Japan, which recreates the Netherlands by displaying life-sized copies of old Dutch buildings ... Its location reflects historical relations between the Netherlands and Japan, which began in 1609 when a trading post was opened by the Dutch”

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The iconic Dutch snack bar paper bag

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On the way to Utrecht

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I know that if you go to a village here or there or different parts of the city, you will experience different cultures and subcultures everywhere — even languages. There are various languages and dialects that I can’t even understand, for such a small country. This is what is damaging about the symbols. It pushes out all the mini symbols. You might go to a village here and they do things differently, so I think this is the problematic and interesting things about the symbols. If it has a shape, then it automatically excludes all the other shapes that are different. In the end, every country is multi-faceted and multilingual, but how to deal with this or how to represent this? It’s an interesting question.

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What is the Dutch identity?

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part of the Contemporary Dutch exploration by Florian Braakman (2018)