Dutch directness has a side effect of coming across as arrogant, its merely a difference in culture[0].
For example, if you are Dutch and your friends are Dutch, you don't go on and ask "how are you?" to the people that aren't close to you.
The question "how are you?" is actually there for you to show genuine interest in someone else's life at that moment. The polar opposite of it is the US version i guess, where a "how are you?" results almost always with a "fine and you?".
On another note, i think the main reason(i might be very wrong here) that they had this clash is Alan Kay being a pioneer in object oriented programming. And Dijkstra's counter-discourses against it and sometimes those discourses were harsh[1]. (Although we can agree oop is garbage :D, that is certainly not the best way to put it.)
[0]: Although i have met some Dutch people that were being rude and trying to cover it with "Directness"
http://www.iamexpat.nl/read-and-discuss/expat-page/articles/...
[1]: http://harmful.cat-v.org/software/OO_programming/
For example, if you are Dutch and your friends are Dutch, you don't go on and ask "how are you?" to the people that aren't close to you.
The question "how are you?" is actually there for you to show genuine interest in someone else's life at that moment. The polar opposite of it is the US version i guess, where a "how are you?" results almost always with a "fine and you?".
On another note, i think the main reason(i might be very wrong here) that they had this clash is Alan Kay being a pioneer in object oriented programming. And Dijkstra's counter-discourses against it and sometimes those discourses were harsh[1]. (Although we can agree oop is garbage :D, that is certainly not the best way to put it.)
[0]: Although i have met some Dutch people that were being rude and trying to cover it with "Directness"
http://www.iamexpat.nl/read-and-discuss/expat-page/articles/...
[1]: http://harmful.cat-v.org/software/OO_programming/