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Americans Are Fake and the Dutch Are Rude!

Even to me, as a cultural psychologist who studied emotions for a living, it was impossible to see my own emotions as products of culture, until I had a real stake in being part of another culture.

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The Story of Manuel de Gerrit de Reus

Join FEEST! on September 10th to hear Jean-Marc Superville Sovak lecture on the life of one of New Amsterdam’s first freed slaves, Manuel de Gerrit de Reus, supported by historical documentation from the New York Archives.

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The Fishy History of Dutch Herring

In the latter half of the 14th century, a series of technological developments as well as ripe social and economic conditions saw the foundations being laid for the future Dutch takeover of the northern European herring industry.

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Q&A with Anna Enquist

De Thuiskomst/The Homecoming by bestselling Dutch author Anna Enquist was translated and published earlier this year. We have asked our members and newsletter subscribers what they wanted to ask Anna Enquist if they could ask her one question.

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