[niemandhier]

That changed in the last decade, among other things the population is dissatisfied with immigration.

I cannot tell you if that is justified, but I can say from personal experience that in some cases the praised Dutch directness turned to racism. Things like, people not believing that you have a phd, or refusing to take your credit card because the color of skin does not match the ethnicity of the name.

[jjmarr]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zwarte_Piet

[brnt]

> but I can say from personal experience that in some cases the praised Dutch directness turned to racism

It always was a thin line. What has changed is that victims are now speaking up, and a silent majority realizing that brutish-directness always was a subgenre that somehow kept being taken as representative of directness.

One can be direct and courteous (and not racist), but the Netherlands (as in Holland) isn't the best place to find that.

[account42]

> The Netherlands seems like the most sensible country on earth.

> population is dissatisfied with immigration.

I don't see the contradiction.