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@EvaVlaar: The EU has given the Dutch government the green light to buy out 3000 #DutchFarmers offering them 120% of the market value, ‘incentivising’ them to sell ‘voluntary’ (if they don’t, they’ll be expropriated...…
Some suggest to buy a huge property in South America with the money so they keep producing goods.
There is a Dutch community in Argentina that has been there for generations.
Interesting!
I had a student from Madrid who worked for me in New Jersey (he was a blonde Spaniard) and he found a girl to date who was also blond but she spoke Spanish. She was a descendant of Dutch settlers in Argentina.
I wonder if that Dutch settlement can successfully grow their tulips there? I grew up in a small Dutch community in Iowa. It was an unspoken rule that you MUST plant tulips in your garden :-)
I believe they are Afrikaners, to be precise.
Could be. I never asked.