Didn't last week write about a trip, the Destination Dutch Embassy hosted The Dutch Day Out in Foxton, the opening ceremony of the annual Dutch Week in New Zealand? This Dutch day out last year grapefruit wanted to go, and then New Village suddenly self-improvement lockdown, did not go to success. The whole of April this year was in Zhang Luo, and it seems that he is still quite Dutch. Last week, I wrote a big article, without mentioning the right thing, today I will add about the Netherlands Week and the surrounding stars.
That day, grapefruit roared and rushed to the center of Foxton Town, the small square under the big windmill.
In the new village mixed for a few years, basically they do not have much expectations for the battle of activities, think about the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games, on this sense of ceremony that requires a high degree of cooperation from the explosive force of the whole people, few countries, PK has china. The biggest bombardment I've seen in Newtown over the years was the gay parade in Wellington a few years ago, which calmed me down from color to appearance, which was the innate joy and free and happy expression of a particular group, and had nothing to do with the scale of the battle.
Then there are the large and small Christmas parades, Christmas song parties, all of which are quite atmospheric, characterized by the fact that the participants are self-consistent with those who are around or jubilant or indifferent. Other kinds of painting exhibitions, opening ceremonies, said to have made a party, basically quietly small and small to do, what press conference, ribbon cutting, banquet, basically ignored, generally a room of people standing alone with a glass of wine, buzzing and chatting.
Some poking wood board games
The event of the dutch embassy is similar. The square centered on the big windmill, no flags and no gongs and drums, some traditional Dutch toys made of wood, traditional sports venues, street food cars, the most lively place, should be the orange Dutch café next to the square, indoor and outdoor full of customers, and later found that most of the guests are waiting to participate in the activity, first silently come to a cup of coffee.
Just stand and have a meeting
The Dutch ambassador to New Zealand and the New Zealand Dutch-born MPs also came to speak, but they were very short, saying a little bit of harmonic melody and tease, there was no seat in the meeting, everyone stood there, listened politely, and officials must politely say a few words and not take up too much time. Foreigners are crazy, build a stage, they can be good on their own, do not need the atmosphere of gongs and drums, flowers, and large and small leaders to speak at length.
No matter how short the meeting, I don't like to drive, and as soon as the short-haired ambassador began to speak, I slipped into the Dutch Museum by the big windmill.
This Dutch museum grapefruit has been mentioned many times because he is the carpet supplier of the museum, and when I went in, the grapefruit stood outside with Tara and shouted at my back, don't forget to look at the carpet. It's a very ordinary carpet, dark gray, with irregular thick ochre red lines, and that's it.
Grapefruit brand carpet
Take a good look at the exhibition.
Dutch immigrants arrived in New Zealand after several months of voyage, and they were all in good order.
After World War II, the Netherlands, which had been bombed and occupied by Germany for three years, was a devastated and sad place. At that time, the New Zealand and Dutch governments, which were in need of immigration, signed an agreement to provide free ferry tickets for Dutch people who wanted to leave their sad lives and turn over their lives, encouraging Dutch to immigrate to New Zealand. So many Dutch people who are eager to forget the pain and look forward to a new life are on the road, the sea voyage for several months landed in the southern hemisphere, the government let you go wherever you want, Foxton is one of the government-designated Dutch immigrants to live, so there are windmills and orange Dutch cafes, is the little Netherlands in New Zealand. There are many places like New Zealand, such as Akaroa near Christchurch, which is a small French in New Zealand, with French architecture and French food. This is the interesting thing about the immigrant country, behind each immigrant, there must be a sense of home and country, for that generation after generation, eternal sustenance and expression, ethnic gathering and life reproduction, is one of the ways.
These home accessories and even furniture were brought over by the first generation of immigrants.
Back at the Dutch Museum, the exhibition has photos of the first generation of immigrants landing in New Zealand, tired from the journey, but everyone is dressed decently, has a happy expression, and looks forward to the new life in the new world. There are also the homes of the first generation of immigrants, generally have paintings with Dutch landscapes and street scenes brought by their hometowns, which is a figurative concern for their hometown.
The Dutch are new arrivals, empty-handed, do any hard work, do not care about wages, they do not join the union, do not breathe with the union workers to share the fate, as cheap and easy to use labor, the work is good and cheap, a large number of kiwi rice bowls, it is very comfortable and accustomed to the local people excluded, but quite popular with employers. Such a thing is a forever cycle of back and forth, and now the threat to the jobs and employment opportunities of Europeans and kiwis, including the Dutch, is the Asia-Pacific immigrants, so New Zealand, a country that relies heavily on immigrants, in terms of immigration policy, often today and tomorrow fifteen, immigrants put in more, kiwi said to rob them of their opportunities and resources, immigration tightened, teachers nurses and technicians pick kiwi workers are all in a hurry. There is never a time of balance.
Turning east and west from a week trip back from Foxton, Sunday night also caught up with Devonpor's Dutch Week closing film, Promise of Pisa. Grapefruit booked tickets online at Devonport's century-old Victoria Cinema. In new village, there is basically no nightlife, and it is not cold to go out at night, afraid that Tara will not figure it out, and explain and appease it. Daddy goes out to dinner, then watches a movie, you look good, sleep and come back. The dog looked at us with tears in his eyes, meaning that it was useless to say so much, anyway, you are not going to take the dog and throw the dog at home. Give us guilty ah, is really spoiled, 3-year-old dog, equivalent to a human 21-year-old person, how can not stay at home for a night ah.
Before going out, Grapefruit asked me what I wanted to eat, and I said I would eat Korean food or Japanese food. People say yes, and later say that they are booked, and the Thai restaurant opposite the cinema. I'm angry, saying that your English listening is not good, or your eyes are the integration of greater East Asia. I'm not interested in Thai food and think it's too sweet. When ordering, I specifically told the boss, don't be too sweet, come and spice it. The result was spicy for me, a handful of snot and a handful of tears. Grapefruit rejoiced and said I had received revenge from Thai food.
After eating and sneaking to the cinema, the hall was crowded, basically all New Village Dutch, and everywhere was a warm hug and a heartfelt story. Grapefruit said, how they seem to know each other, I am most unaccustomed to immigrants only mixing with their fellow villagers, then what is the meaning of immigrants, still stay at home or not. Immigration is all about new experiences, new atmospheres, new friends. I said in my heart, you don't mix with your fellow countrymen, you don't mix with anyone, I haven't seen you have any friends, and any country is counted. Of course, that is, the nagging of the heart. Usually, there are so many fights that are just needed to quarrel, and some of these do not occupy the quarrel share. This does not have a public name, you can spit for free.
Because it was the closing ceremony with Holland Week, the Dutch female ambassador to New Zealand came again, and before the movie was released, she also spoke, saying that she herself would immediately step down and return to China, thank you for this, thank you for that, I hope that such a beautiful Dutch week can be carried out year after year forever. Grapefruit was unhappy to be spoken before watching the movie, and kept nagging there very unculturedly, just starting the bloody movies.
I regretted eating the spicy old baby's meal before watching the movie, and I bought two boxes of popcorn at my own expense. From the speech of the female ambassador to the process of watching the movie, the male waiter wearing a tuxedo passed a tray of cheese, a tray of cookies, a tray of red wine and beer, simply eating a movie, and the mouth has not been idle. In Shenzhen every year to follow the French Film Week, German Film Week, British Film Week, European Film Week... Embassy officials will also come, and I have interviewed the deputy ambassador of France on the spot, and I have never been treated as being fed while watching. In particular, the excessive eating and drinking of the big night is too a disaster for the country and the people.
Talk about the movie, Promise of Pisa – the promise of pizza.
The film has never been more focused, because the Dutch lines, English subtitles, I have to concentrate on capturing the picture and subtitles at the same time, fortunately the plot is not complicated.
In the 1967s, Moroccans from North Africa immigrated to the Netherlands in large numbers, similar to the Turkish labor force into Germany. Immediately, various social problems such as racial contradictions and public security were triggered. This film is about a pair of Moroccan brothers in the Netherlands, and the story takes place in the present, after 2000.
Sam is a musically gifted boy whose brother is a gang of robbers. The two brothers have a good relationship, the younger brother's instruments are stolen by the older brother, and the day Sam was admitted to the top Music Academy in the Netherlands, the older brother was imprisoned for robbery.
Sam is a handsome guy who falls in love with his conservatory classmate Annelies. Annelies looks like a savage and energetic version of Emma Watson, a rich Dutch woman who lives in a deep mansion compound with a maid's garden and a large indoor pool. Presumably this film cannot be imported in China, the scale is too large, and the Dutch people are really physically and mentally free. Annelies took Sam home and said swim? Then crackle and dive, where the bodies of youth become each other's paradise. Since then, heaven has become a code word for both of them, and I miss heaven for a while.
The gap between the two sides is huge, misunderstanding is inevitable, the two were once separated, Sam made friends with the boys in the class who stuttered, fell out with his parents, went to the stuttering boy's house to ask for shelter, was treated with courtesy, the stuttering boy's mother frowned at Sam, and it was difficult to help himself from kissing, of course, mainly to ensure that Sam could help his son play a small copy. Sam is separated from his girlfriend and has another gun friend, Annelies, who is hurt. Sam helped the stuttering boys pass the exam and got a diploma. Annelies finally at the Party, and Sam Ice to release the previous suspicions, at this time the stuttering boy and Sam's gun friends also joined in, four people paradise, no taboos.
The Dutch deal with these expressions of youthful desire, very selfless and wide in their hearts, calm and open to accept, the money is out, there is no condemnation and surprise. Fan Deng said that in Chinese society after 20 years, the crowd will be relatively divided into three categories, people who are married, people who do not marry, and people who are open to marriage. These three conditions have long ceased to exist in the Netherlands that need to be explained. The way they live with human desires already fate is to face them naked.
At the end of the movie, Sam and the stuttering boy go to New York for graduate school, which is also arranged by the stuttering boy's mother. Annelies parents rented her an apartment in Amsterdam. Annelies asked Sam if he would come back and this apartment will always have your place. Sam said, maybe. But I love you. There is no sadness, no sorrow, no commitment, only love.
The film is almost between chicken movies and literary films, involving some social issues, mainly youth has you, love song 2018.
It is felt that the Dutch nation is very interesting, open and inclusive, can pinch and calculate, but also can bear hardships, unlike the countries in southern Europe, pure enjoyment, drinking big wine is easy to misunderstand.
Back of the bootleg:
Because of Holland Week, Grapefruit has been talking to me about Holland lately. He said the Netherlands has always been sensitive to ethnic issues because of its African immigrants, including Morocco. Similar to the black life incident in the United States, once from racial discrimination to oversensitive neuropathy mode, sensitive to not mentioning black words, mentioning is humiliation and suspected discrimination. For example, in the Netherlands, there is a cookie with a delicious chocolate cream heart called black kiss, because black was asked to stop production. The Netherlands has a traditional holiday that is more lively than Christmas, and on November 15, the dutch people's families give each other gifts and eat a festive feast, which is because of the legend of a black chivalrous guest. Just because the black letters were removed. Later, because the left went too far, the rightists who emphasized the rights and interests of whites and the superiority of whites began to have a market, similar to the emergence of Trump in the United States, dividing immigrants into three, six, nine, etc., suspecting that the poor love the rich, driving out low-end immigrants, emphasizing that the interests of Americans are above all else. Then the contradictions intensified, wars, upheavals, death and sorrow.
Human history has always oscillated back and forth. As Hegel said, the only lesson that man can learn from history is that he never draws a lesson from history.
Yes, in addition to the nonsensical quarrels between grapefruit and me, we often caress the past and worry for the ancients, which is the standard of immigrant families.