The Netherlands manages to be radical, sensible and quaintly staid. If you are between the ages of four and eighty, you own at least one bicycle and use it, too. For more details on this topic, see Music of the Netherlands. The husks come loose and the grain softens the grain then tastes delicious!. The Turkish imams arriving in the Netherlands are usually government employees who have only taken a short language course in Turkey, says Yasar Ustuner.

The Netherlands is the first country in Europe to demand immigrants take an integration course and 300 hours of Dutch language training. You think human rights should be most important in foreign aid decisions. Check out what other travellers are saying about Netherlands. You also know enough German to get by, and watch German television. For Moroccan imams who are sent to the Netherlands through private organisations, there are other pressures.

Although often the clerics are surprised at how their own people live in the Netherlands. You know the capitals of Europe, but you know the leaders only for the larger countries. You think of opera and ballet as somewhat elite entertainments. There are people in your country who have very strict religions. You see no contradiction in having both a democratic government and a queen who is head of state. Islam has begun to gain a foothold and mosques are being built. Most Muslim immigrants are from Morocco and Turkey who arrived as guest workers in the sixties and seventies. Having successfully led a military operation is not an advantage in a political career.

You couldn't name the last four wars that your country was involved in. This makes getting a drivers license very expensive. Antilles are part of the Lesser Antilles island chain. You consider people with Indonesian ancestors Dutch. Unless you're Muslim or Jewish, you spend it with your family, and put up a tree.

If an American tells you things are better in the US, you just think that he's arrogant. Labor Day is the first of May, but it is not a holiday. You expect marriages to be made for love, not arranged by third parties. The government should protect you against such people. And, naturally, a man gets only one wife at a time, and vice versa. The police are armed, but not with submachine guns. But in such a progressive context, conflict between personal beliefs and social mores is quite common. There is a state church where the coronation takes place, but this has no practical consequences.