The enormous Dutch influence on America

[Messy]

Don't forget their favorite, slavery ​

Yes my great great great grandmother was a slave in Surinam. She's in a slave register. She had a relationship with a slave owner and got a kid from him. That sounds better than: my great great great grandfather was a slave owner lol. It's all online now, all the documents.

He doesn't sound like an evil monster who raped her and the family said it was a relationship, but they were not allowed to legally marry. His dad got a kid with a slave and she 'married' an English man who said this:



The name. Asdot. Asdod is a Biblical place in Israel. They changed it cause it was actually aspot: ashtray, ash pot.

 

[George1959]

Sometimes I call the people of the Netherlands "Käspatscher" (cheese stompers). I mean this affectionately .

 

[George1959]

The Germans of decades ago were very stoic in their traditions and beliefs. When I met my late hubby's grandmother she refused to
call me by my name (his 2nd marriage) if she spoke to me she called me "Lady". To her his wife was Rita not Sharon. It never changed.

Germans are well known for their stubborness .