The thing is I should have little to complain about. Netherlands is one of the worlds richest countries, everything is arranged pretty well (but a bit bureaucratic and lots of rules). There's no natural disasters, no dangerous animals, the weather isn't too bad. It has some lovely old cities. The government isn't as corrupt as many other countries and quite transparent and there's a pretty fair income based tax-system. Most politicians are complete rubbish but that goes for every nation. They're all egoic, hypocrite, mudthrowing, two-faced liars. But such is the nature of politics and you can't change that.
I dislike the mentality. Dutch people love to complain, the fault is always someone else's and most people aren't humble enough to forgive someone for their mistake or admit their own mistake. Most of the young people my age are arrogant, loud, egoic, judgemental, materiaistic and boorish and overall in bad taste.
You're regarded almost like a freak here if you're not really outgoing and drinking beer every weekend for college aged people. Culture and art is either extremely snobby elitists or on the other spectrum troglodytes who hate art and intellectualism or the simpletons who have awful taste in music and entertainment.
Most people in general don't seem to give a $hit about one another. Also, we are one of the worlds most overpopulated countries. There's hardly any nature. You can't even walk into the woods without meeting someone. The language and way people talk also strangely sounds harsh and awful to me. I prefer English or French.
Also I don't want to sound racist but this is my opinion: mass immigration really turned some neighbourhoods in the Netherlands and Belgium into complete muslim zones. It's like entire neighbourhoods completely lost their identity and turned into these isolated muslim enclaves with lots of freeloaders on welfare checks. There's people hanging out on the street 24/7. Some don't even speak Dutch. Don't they have jobs? Some are very unfriendly and the younger guys are very provocative towards Dutch people, and they have an awful macho culture. I've had many angry looks and guys making remarks.
I will never vote for a rightwing extremist like Wilders, because he's an idiot who breeds hatred, but it goes without saying there's a lot wrong with multicultural society in the Netherlands, and Europe in general. I don't like saying this however, because you're immediately branded a racist by the politically correct-brigade. It's also hard because there's lots of hardworking and friendly people amongst them, but I can't help to think there's also a rather disturbing amount of freeloaders and rotten apples.
This rant is pretty bad and harsh on my own country, and I dislike myself for disliking and being hypocritic in a way, but these are some of my thoughts that sometimes occur and I can't help them. I try to be aware of these bad thoughts and be convinced that positive change starts with myself. Also tend to forget the truth is often far more nuanced then the little stories and concepts I create of what our society and its people are like, based on my own generalizations and underbelly feelings. Also there's absolutely a lot of well natured and friendly/funny/ people.
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