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speeding_snail  ·  4397 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: One year after the french burqa-ban
Which is pretty much what you would expect from someone who lives in a western country. There are people who really don't like muslims, but my guess is that for most people the problem lies with the immigrants not wanting to adapt. For example, when the first work-immigrants came to the Netherlands, they expected to move back to their country of origin within considerable time. And as such, they didn't immerse themselves in the dutch culture. However, they did not leave and let their wives and kids come over. But since they didn't know otherwise, they just did what they have always done. They lived their lives according to the costumes in their homeland. They didn't learn dutch etc. Most people now have adapted, however, there are still some who think that it is their right to live their lives the way their parents used to, because they were born in the Netherlands. It is their country too. This brings some rather hard problems with it and because of the 2 extremes (natives and second generation immigrants who don't want to adapt), the problems still aren't solved.

Just a bit of background rambling.