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The Politically Correct Netherlands - Since the 1960s (Hardcover, Annotated Ed)
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The Politically Correct Netherlands - Since the 1960s (Hardcover, Annotated Ed)
Series: Contributions to the Study of World History
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In the 1960s, the Netherlands became known as an anarchists social
laboratory, producing one of the earliest examples of political
correctness. Strong taboos in areas such as governmental control,
privacy, and racial relations were the rule. While the Netherlands
has become a country with a large degree of personal freedom, the
ideas that originated in the openness of the 1960s have since
spilled over from the private into the public sphere, resulting in
an era of anxious conformity. Vuijsje, a Dutch journalist, examines
why notions of political correctness became so strongly ingrained
in the Netherlands and how the results have not always been
positive. The ideology of political correctness created totems and
taboos that made it difficult to deal with, or even signal the
presence of, the real problems in Dutch society. This has often led
to a worsening of the situation for precisely the social groups
that society wanted to protect, such as racial minorities. Vuijsje
traces this issue back to historical conditions that include: the
public feeling of guilt about the large number of Dutch Jews killed
in the war; the scope and duration of the baby boom; and the
continuing Dutch prosperity. This study is an essay on the way that
the Dutch government and its officials have functioned over the
last thirty years and on the changing relationship between the
authority of the state and its citizens. Fully annotated to make it
accessible to those less familiar with Dutch society. Vujisje's
book offers a perspective of the issue of political correctness
that has been muted in the American discussions of the issue and
that is especially refreshing. His book is of interest not only to
student of the Netherlands but also to students of Western society
as a whole.
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