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Fun game. Hmm. Poutine van der Windmill.
Nobody does anti Dutch racism quite like the English. Comes of them being conquered by William of Orange back in the day.
sorry but that has to be Win der Mill
Have to capture the Dutch-Canadian.
There are two things in the world I can't stand: people who are intolerant of other people's cultures... and the Dutch.
Nobody does anti Dutch racism quite like the English.
Really? I don't know many Brits who have a bad opinion of the Dutch. I certainly don't; I've never met a Dutch person I didn't like.
Comes of them being conquered by William of Orange back in the day.
Billy the who now?
The Anglo-Dutch wars. William of Orange landed troops in London in 1688 and took the throne with Mary II. It's more complicated than that, but it was a whole Thing. Charles II died, leaving James II in charge, but Catholicism was on the way out, and conveniently, William of Orange, a Protestant, was married to Mary II.
The undercurrent of anti-Dutch sentiment started back then still has remnants in the language. See "going Dutch" "Dutch courage" "Dutch treat" "Dutch uncle". :)
I'm mostly teasing. It's more funny than serious.
Hrrrm. But, going Dutch and Dutch courage don't have any specifically anti-Dutch connotation in modern usage and I've never heard of a Dutch treat or a Dutch uncle. At least you chaps aren't French!
Amen. About the only thing that unites Quebec with the rest of Canada is a mutual distaste for the French.