Maastricht - Post Report Question and Answers

Frustrated and home sick. There is such a distinct anti-immigrant sentiment in the Netherlands, it's hard to ignore. I've had friends who have been evicted for speaking "foreign" in the garden. Friends who have been criticized for buying "their foreign" food in the supermarket and our own kids were denied a place in the local school as they were "too difficult to teach" as they hadn't learned enough Dutch at that point. When I pointed out that in the UK and US, the public schools have to take non-English speaking children, they told me that had a hard time believing that was the case. - Oct 2011