As a Dutchman, I'm so damn ashamed the overwhelming majority of this country is so openly ignorant and dismissive about other people's thoughts on our tradition. What would be considered a racist mockery of minorities in countries like the US, gets a pass here for the sake of it being a tradition. Like, ok, I get it, it's a holiday we celebrate every year of our life, but do we really have to aggressively and desperately try to defend white people painting themselves black with afros and big red lips? It's perfectly reasonable for people to feel offended, and instead of opening ourselves up to that, look how we can solve it and stop the overwhelming controversy, we have to fume over everyone having a say about this.
Pathetic.
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