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The Importance Of Dutch Migration To The Netherlands

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Many people migrated to the Netherlands since 1940 (Coello, 2010: 32). This event coincided with the end of Dutch colonialization to Indonesia. Many Indonesians, especially those from the Moluccas who were brought to the Netherlands and eventually made their family there. This the beginning and the forerunner of the Netherlands has a new ethnic and not a native Dutch. After 1945, the Dutch were widely abandoned to emigrate to Australia, Canada, the United States and South Africa, while immigrants who moved to the Netherlands generally came from former Dutch East Indies (Coello, 2010: 50). Since the early 1960s, immigration policy has actively invited immigrant workers from countries like Italy, Spain, the former Yugoslavia, Turkey and Morocco …show more content…

This diversity is the beginning of tolerance there. At first, the discourse on tolerance has not been fully established. If it defines tolerance as "If one objected to something, but voluntarily accepts it," then the definition of tolerance developed at that time is still very simple (Burg, 1998: 228). The value of tolerance that developed in the Land of Low is only a belief that in this region everyone has the right to do their respective business without any parties interfering. The condition changed after an event known as the Dutch Revolution (Shetter 1971: …show more content…

One of their early ideas about the ideal state concept was a religionless (Catholic) state in it. This idea arises because most of the Dutch who fought against Spain were Protestants who felt oppressed by Catholics (Zgorin, 2003: 77). After some destruction and looting of the Catholic Church, the new Dutch government formulated a formulation that was considered more appropriate in ensuring the sustainability of this new state. The formulation is the idea of religious tolerance (Bikk 2007:

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