Dutch Sense! The Uncommon Sense

Title: Dutch Sense! The Uncommon Sense
Author: Ayodeji O.
Publisher: PERC Rotterdam
Copyright: Ayodeji 2005
External links: my memo for this book
Table of content: 

CONTENTS

LIST OF MAIN FIGURES

PREFACE
Preface to the Second Edition of Dutch Sense
What led me to Dutch Sense?
Acknowledgements

INTRODUCTION
    The Scope and Structure of this book

PART-1 WHAT IS DUTCH SENSE?
    Essential Definitions
    Dutch People – Germanic and Celtic?
    Is Dutch – Holland, Netherlands or Low Countries?
    Achievements and Peculiarities of Dutch Sense
    A Quick First glimpse of Dutch Sense
    Impacts of Dutch Sense on Language
    Religious Yankee Impacts of Dutch Sense
Elements and Roots of Dutch Sense

MANIFESTATIONS OF DUTCH SENSE
    Dutch Ingenuity – Conditioned Originality
    Features of Dutch Sense
    Perception and Labels of 'Dutchness'
    Dutch Lunch and other Dutch Labels
    Mata Hari – the Mind-set of a Dutch Spy
Intriguing Local Impacts of Dutch Sense
    "Criminal! Arrest him! But not so quickly!"
    Armed Robber Sues Victims and Wins
The Deaf Pot – Condonation Ploys
    Tokenism and the Gate-lock Pre-emption Tactic

PART-2 CULTURE OF DUTCH SENSE
    Generous Dutch Contribution to Aid Others
    Dutch Internal Social Conflicts
    Secrecy Begets Public Deceit and Apathy
    Dutch Silence and Other Hidden Tactics
    Dutch Temperament and Tendencies
    Conflicting Dutch Attitudes
Dutch Society – Individualistic, Atomic
    Motivation Exploration and the Expansion Drive
    Family, Kids, Manners and Parenting
    Confusing Dutch Multi-Ethnic Mix
    Dutch Males
    Dutch Women
    Dutch 'Me' Culture – Children and Education
    Public Behaviour
    Dutch Work Culture
    Low Social Participation among the Dutch
Dutch Liberalism – A Malleable Society
    Dutch Permissiveness – Sex and Drugs
    A Dutch Man's House is His Castle
    Dutch Transportation and Travel
    Morals, Ethics – Apathy not Tolerance

DUTCH COMMERCIAL ZEAL
    Tulips Cheese Dairy Flowers – How Dutch?
    Dutch Zeal – Merchant Shipping, Banking, Insurance
    Dutch Industrial Awakening
    Corporate Climate – Dutch Style
    Rewarding Failure – Praising Shoddiness
    City Cheats Home-seekers
Corporate Deceit – Dutch Wheeling and Dealing
    Seller Pays to Buyer? – Odd
    German DASA's Trick on Dutch Fokker
    Philips Technology Lease-Back Tax trick
    Dutch Royal KLM Flirts Away from Grace
    Sabena's Ride on Bumpy Flight aboard Swiss-Air
    Shoddy or Fraud – the Ahold Case
    Reward, Don't Penalise Failure
    Curbing Executive Pay Excess at Dutch Multinationals
    Chicken Sales Fraud
    Dutch Elitism – Bastion of Pillars
    Widespread Executive Rigging of Shareholder Votes
    Born with a Silver Spoon
    Bilderberg Group –Global Power Brokers
Dutch Democracy – Pillar Politics
    Pillar Politics – Calvinist Reformist Pressure
    Weary Consensus – Dutch Politics
    Dutch Political Parties and Media Power
    Public Distrust of Dutch Political Parties
    Pim Fortuyn's Political Sparks
    Election Loser Dictates in New Dutch Government
    The Polder Model – Wim Kok's Legacy
    Dutch National & Foreign Policy Practice – 20th Century
    Hidden But Powerful Political Support
    Dutch Politics Weakens Education Policy
    Weak Dutch Policy Development Process
    Needed Remedy
    Dutch Condonation Policy – Cornerstone of Polder Model
    Foreigner by Any Name
    Defining Away Drug Addiction and Sex Menace
    Dutch Disappearing Act
    Sector-wide Fraud by Big Business
    Fraud in Dutch Rail Line Projects
Oddities – Awkward Police, High-level Laxity
    Fraud by Police Agents
    Fraudulent Health-care Services
    Guilty until Otherwise Proven?
    Policing Dutch Style
    Dutch Tax Office in Forgery and Fraud
    Wasteful Spending by Social Welfare Office
    Bottomless Holes in Funding Dutch Football Clubs

PART-3 ANCIENT ROOTS OF DUTCH SENSE
    Pre-Roman West Europeans
Germanic and Celtic Ancestry of the Dutch
The Lost Tribes of the Low Countries
    Celtic Tribes among the Dutch
    Origin of the terms German, Netherlands, Alemagne
    Germanic Folk-Groups
    The ancient Teutons 133 – 19 BC, and the Cymbri
Early Germanic Folk Traits
    Tribal Lack Linked to Germanic Freedom
    Rather Hell than total Strangers
    Early Germanic Ways Means Religion and Values
Dutch Frisian Ancestry – Saxons and Franks
    Germanic Folks among the Dutch
    The Frisians
    Frisian Roots of Drenthe and Zeeland
    The Lost Gennanic Tribe
    Frisian Land Shrinkage and Aquatic Specialization
    Frisian roots of Holland & Groninger towns
    Hollanders – earlier Frisians
    Dordrecht and the Drecbtsteden
    Leiden from Celts to Roman to Gennamc hands
    Zoetenneer
    Gorinchem and Woudrichern
    Loevestein Castle
    Bergen-op-Zoom
    Groningers – East & West Friesland
    Limburg –A Burgundian root of the European Union
    Brabant – Frankish wasteland or Rebel's fortune
    Population shifts within the Low Countries
    Other Dutch towns from Roman times
    Nijmegen – Batavian New market, Imperial resort
    Flevoland – virgin province dug out mid lake
    Cananefats – Rabbit hunters
    The Angles
    The Saxons
    The Franks as Salian and other bands
    Franks overcame the Frisians
Ronan encounters in the Low Countries
    Early Batavian Intrigues for power
    Legacy of Roman Tyranny and Genocide
    Barbarian Invasions of the Roman Empire
    Lingual ancestors of the Germanic people
The Roots of the Germanic Language Group
    Modern Celtic-Germanic Cultural Frontiers
    Origins of the Dutch language
    Origin of Flemish, Flanders
    Rough Dynastic roots of the Dutch language
    Modern Dutch and Flemish – One Language
    Modern German – Deutsch Language versus Dutch
    Native Dynamic changes in Dutch
How modern European Nations formed
    France Italy and the Netherlands
    Germany
    Normandy and England
    Scotland Ireland United Kingdom
    Denmark and Scandinavia
    Sweden and Russia
    Spain Portugal Iberia
    Middle-age Dutch people before their Rebellion
DUTCH Religious Slant – roots and impacts
    Teuton-pagan origins of Christian Celebrations
    Pagan Yuletide, Day gods behind Xmas, Easter
    Pagan Names of Week-Days
    Erasmus of Rotterdam, Martin Luther, John Calvin
    Dutch Calvinist Impacts and Po1itjcal Culture
    Commercialised Churches
    Bless Believers, Condemn Unbelievers
    Dutch polarization – Pillaring 'Verzuiling'
Dutch Rebellion – battling for Nationhood
    The World setting then
    Religious Upheaval across Europe
    Spanish Lordship over the Low Countries
    Benefaction Triggers Ambitious Rebellion
    Religious Revolt – Iconoclastic Dutch Sea-Beggars
Dutch Republic born amidst Calvinist polarization
    Dutch Calvinists suppress Catholics
    Dutch Republic at war with mighty Nations
    Batavian Republic, Napoleon rabbit king, Funny Surnames
How Dutch Democracy Emerged
    Dutch republic united, Belgium breaks off
    How Dutch is Dutch Monarchy?
    Orange Positioning
    Orange Conflicts Split Dutch Republic
    Funding the 80-year Dutch Rebellion
    Later Orangist impressions
    Arithmetique Hollandaise – Belgian Breakaway
    Summary of Orange Identity Conflicts

PART – 4 DUTCH IMPACTS ABROAD
    Dutch National Image Abroad
Forces that Propelled Dutch Sense towards trade
    Traits that shaped Dutch foreign image
    Holland's glory – Foreign Trade
    Water-Windmills – World Rescue Technology

DUTCH COLONIAL PROWESS
Dutch VOC – in India, Ceylon, Malaysia
    Dutch – Gold Coast African Ankara Mauritus
    The Dutch East Indies Indonesia
    Dutch Tasmania, New-Zealand
    Japan's Nakamura Loots Indonesian Jewellery
    South Africa – Dutch Boer's Orange-Free State, Transvaal
    Surinam – Dutch Guyana, the Dutch Antilles
    Dutch Arnericans – The real Yankees
    Dutch family Bos now America's Presidents Bush
Dutch Sense goes Lingual abroad
    Dutch Language spread around the World
Dutch Origins of 'Old ENGLISH' – Welsh place-names
    Dutch Teutonic influence on Old English and Place Names
    Dutch Roots of 300-year Irish Orange Order Tension

POSTSCRIPT AND CONCLUSION
    For foreigners facing the Dutch
    Outline of Dutch Sense
    World-view and civilization

APPENDICES
    Behind some Dutch Town Names
Ayodeji – EXTRACTS FROM MEDIEVAL TIME CHARTS
    Ayodeji Time Chart f: Ancient Civi1isations BC
    Ayodeji Chart II: Medieval Time Period AD
Bibliographic References
    Bibliography in alphabetical order by author
    City Support of Dutch Football Clubs

REVIEWS: DUTCH SENSE –SURPRISINGLY EDUCATIVE

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
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