A sidenote from this article on the recent Dutch elections:
In a move interpreted by some Muslim groups as an attempt to further discourage religious Muslims from moving to the Netherlands, the application packet for new immigrants includes a two-hour video on Dutch culture with scenes of women sunbathing topless on Dutch beaches — “People do not make a fuss about nudity,” the narrator reports — and two men kissing in a meadow, illustrating that homosexuals have the same rights as heterosexuals in the country.
Am I the only one that finds this amusing? From an American perspective, it seems like such an incongruous strategy for right-wingers to take: “Don’t come here, we’re sex-crazed perverts and damn proud of it!!”
If it works, will they just go all out and fill their intro video with hardcore porn?
ooooooh now i want to move there…
im inclined to think its a good idea to show videos like that; if sexual and cultural freedom is what the dutch want to broadcast as their culture, then it seems reasonable to make sure that anyone trying to enter accepts it (or at least can sit through two hours of it without flying into a rage). it seems a better option than ostracizing or subjugating groups with different mindsets who actually do manage to immigrate (not that the dutch do that, but it could theoretically happen).
im all for immigration pornos! good times.