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\"\"Yesterday<\/strong> I was listening to the radio on the way home from class. There was a guy being interviewed by another guy. \ud83d\ude00 sorry, I don\u2019t remember his name\u2026Dutch names don\u2019t tend to stick in my brain.\u00a0 Anyway, one of these two guys had just written a book about America. He called it Mijn Amerika <\/em>(my America). He said he named it that so as not to offend people\u2026that he was only talked about his personal experience. I respect that, and he didn\u2019t say where he\u2019s gleaned this personal experience. But I always find it little bit confronting to hear people talk about my home country (especially the Dutch)\u2026I get a bit protective. I know the US is really going through some stuff\u2026maybe that\u2019s making me feel extra sensitive about it.<\/p>\n

The truth is, even though I live a totally integrated Dutch life and really<\/strong> appreciate how organized the Netherlands is, I also really miss where I came from. There are a lot of things I miss. There are the typical things, like the food, familiar places, and the weather (oh my goodness, the weather<\/strong>). But there\u2019s also something I can\u2019t explain. It\u2019s an intangible thing\u2026I can\u2019t say it\u2019s home, but it\u2019s like a deep soul feeling. A feeling of warmth, familiarity and also I guess, belonging that I feel when I\u2019m there\u2026.that I\u2019ve never really felt in the Netherlands.<\/p>\n

So, when I hear two Dutch guys with their ABN Nederlands*<\/em> coldly analyze a pick apart the US, part of me just cringes, and I\u2019m like \u2018how dare you talk about my country that way, you snot\u2019 But there\u2019s another part that thinks\u2026\u2019well, this is how I talk about the Netherlands, so I guess we\u2019re even.\u2019 When you don\u2019t grow up somewhere, your perspective is just different. Nothing is a given, and everything is up for analysis \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

But that being said\u2026my America is completely different from his \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

\u2026and involves a lot of baking!<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/p>\n

*ABN is the dutch version of the Queen\u2019s English. aka, snooty Dutch \ud83d\ude09 typically spoken by people with een hoger denkniveau.<\/em> haha okay, now I\u2019m just ranting\u2026that\u2019s another Dutch term that makes me crazy. Anyway\u2026\u00a0 find out more at: https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dutch_Language_Union<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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