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Comment by lnxg33k1

I've been in NL for 4 years, but I also lived in Germany and UK, so I can do some comparison.

I think in NL there is a kind of humour that could be hard on foreigners, my friends circle was composed of indians, malaysians, irish, italians, and chineses.

It is common to hear natives mimicking indian's accent, asking asians if they eat dogs, etc.

For example, I stopped going to the office, as italian because my manager would come to my desk every now and then to say in front of others: "Oh he doesn't like pizza with pineapple make sure you don't eat it" or "can I have cappuccino or it's forbidden at this hour?"

But I had also a couple of friends from outside EU who needed jobs in order to stay, who were assigned tasks with deadline on Monday, on Fridays.

I think it's a kind of humour that could come from good will, but in the end results in a overall exploitation to make you work extra time without overtime or to force you to do weekends.

For me it's very multicultural, I've loved it during remote working as I was able to don't have much contacts with natives, but I couldn't find anything that was fully remote so I should've been forced to go to the office outside my friends' bubble

parent lnxg33k1 3 years ago

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