The Undutchables - Colin White
- In english. First published in 1999. 6th edition 2008.
The UnDutchables is a very revealing treatise about us; the Dutch... This book in a very exact yet funny way discloses all the secrets about us that we really would have preferred to keep to ourselves. In other words, they hang out the dirty linen...
The authors have clearly looked much farther than wooden shoes and tulips... Even the way we stir sugar in our coffee has not escaped their notice and not until you read this book from cover to cover do you understand how much our behavior, that we consider as completely normal ourselves, borders on insanity for a non-Netherlander.
-> Danes and Dutch have a lot in common; the size of their country is about the same (but for the number of inhabitants), they are the tallest in the world, their attitude at work is pretty relaxed, and their mother tongue is closer (at least in writing) than one think, to name just a few. Along the lines, I have discovered even more common traits than I knew of, which led me believe that small, northern european, protestant and merchant countries develop similar views of tings and the world...
The UnDutchables is a very revealing treatise about us; the Dutch... This book in a very exact yet funny way discloses all the secrets about us that we really would have preferred to keep to ourselves. In other words, they hang out the dirty linen...
The authors have clearly looked much farther than wooden shoes and tulips... Even the way we stir sugar in our coffee has not escaped their notice and not until you read this book from cover to cover do you understand how much our behavior, that we consider as completely normal ourselves, borders on insanity for a non-Netherlander.
-> Danes and Dutch have a lot in common; the size of their country is about the same (but for the number of inhabitants), they are the tallest in the world, their attitude at work is pretty relaxed, and their mother tongue is closer (at least in writing) than one think, to name just a few. Along the lines, I have discovered even more common traits than I knew of, which led me believe that small, northern european, protestant and merchant countries develop similar views of tings and the world...