Immigrants can be so amusing! First they want to replicate their home cesspools abroad, then complain when they don’t like the resulting diversity. Go figure!
THE HAGUE, 25/03/10 – Many immigrants themselves consider there are too many immigrants in the Netherlands. Turks are even more negative than the ‘indigenous’ Dutch, according to a survey by the Socio-Cultural Planning Bureau (SCP) commissioned by the integration ministry.
Among Turks, 58 percent feel there are too many immigrants in the Netherlands, compared with 44 percent among the ‘indigenous’ (white) Dutch population. This view is also ascribed to around one-third of the Moroccan, Surinamese and Antillean Dutch.
About one-third of the Turks (35 percent) and Moroccans (29 percent) in the Netherlands have no contact with white Dutch people in their free time. Among the Surinamese, the figure is 14 percent and among the Antilleans, 17 percent. The other way round, 52 percent of the Dutch have no contact with non-Western immigrants in their free time.
The ethnic composition of the neighbourhood influences the degree of inter-ethnic contact. Migrants who live in overwhelmingly ‘black’ districts have contact less often with white Dutch than migrants living in mostly ‘white’ districts, the SCP concludes.
The white Dutch assess Moroccans most negatively. On an assessment scale of 0 to 100, the Moroccan group comes bottom with 45 points, followed closely by the Antillean group (48 percent). The Turkish group gets 55 points and the Surinamese, 58 points.