Sea Air: Work Experience and Brick Houses

sea air: In the last years, too many people have come to Holland with no education, no work experience, and they are coming here only for money from the government, and enough is enough, he said, according to The Chronicle Herald. We lost our country. When Van Vliet, a friendly bear of a man, leaves the quiet confines of Duindorp, with its neat brick houses, fresh sea air and cackling gulls wheeling overhead, and travels the few miles kilometres into the centre of The Hague to the city's more culturally diverse neighbourhoods, the cook sees a Netherlands not enriched by immigration, but ravaged by it. Such views make this corner of the Netherlands one of the epicenters for the disruptive wave of populism sweeping across Europe, gate-crashing its politics, testing its institutions and clouding its future. Of the Netherlands' 17 million people, just over one in five now has a foreign background. European populist leaders are exploiting the concerns of people like Van Vliet that immigration, particularly Muslim immigration, threatens to swamp them and their traditions, with the eventual risk of them or their children becoming strangers in their own lands. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.