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Well Sadly this is far from the Truth, dutch people do Not pay taxes So that International students Can study in the NL, As said in episode it is far from Cheap to study As an International As Well As to housing it is Almost impossible! To get any housing. In addition, I would love to ask You How International students ruin dutch culture? Dutch people are very xenophobic to that it is impossible to even have a conversation with them since they have a prejudice hatred towards any foreigner.

Well Sadly this is far from the Truth, dutch people do Not pay taxes So that International students Can study in the NL, As said in episode it is far from Cheap to study As an International As Well As to housing it is Almost impossible! To get any housing. In addition, I would love to ask You How International students ruin dutch culture? Dutch people are very xenophobic to that it is impossible to even have a conversation with them since they have a prejudice hatred towards any foreigner.

@@LegallySpeaking_NexusPodcast You don't know anything about the Dutch. The Dutch are very welcoming but international students are actually a lot more like tourists, American tourists when it comes to the attitude. They tend to think they are very special because they stepped on a plane and everything is new and exciting, that's not mutual and they fail to notice they are just one of a mass of them. You are the main cause of the student housing issue, but any self reflectection in that is too much too ask too I guess. This affects Dutch student culture because they used to live in student houses with social cohesion. Studying in Dutch and even being eloquent in it sometimes was also part of Dutch student culture. Speaking foreign languages too but preferably with native speakers, not only having to speak a foreign language but also at a lower level than your own, there is simply not much good in it for the Dutch students. Btw, legally speaking higher education in English other than by exception is illegal. The absence of a law enabling it allowed for it to happen, because when you change the law properly there would have been a debate about the consequences and there would be seen no merit to it, so there would only have been a few foreign students.

Thank you for reaching out and discussing this, because this is a very important topic and there is a lot of debate around this subject. Firstly, I want to mention that prejudice toward foreigners should not be tolerated in any part of the world. Comparing any and every international student to American tourist is not only degrading, but also ignorant. This would mean you have not taken the time to get to know international students. I have worked at a lovely dutch place for over a year, where all of my colleagues, who are dutch, are lovely and very nice and kind, in addition I do make an effort to speak and learn the language as well as the culture, yet this is very difficult even for foreigners who speak dutch, because they feel as well as a lot of other foreigners excluded from society. Therefore, it is very difficult not only to integrate into the Dutch society, but also find common ground because of the prejudice like you already stated. You argue that international students are the main cause for the decline and difficulties in student housing. This is simply not true. If you look at the statistics given by the Universities as well as the Municipality, you would see how many houses are owned by Dutch sororities and fraternities as well as friends, who group up. You talk about social cohesion, the truth to the matter is that Dutch students are not welcoming in general to foreigners. That is sadly the truth, because Dutch people stick to their own and through a built up of xenophobia over years and years it is no wonder that the Netherlands has chosen a right winged government. Legally speaking, if you watched our podcast, you would understand that there is a policy giving foreign students the possibility of studying in the NL in English. Furthermore, as aforementioned Dutch students if they even speak English (sadly not many do) and I do not blame them, do not interact with foreign students, so I put it to you to ask yourself how can an international student "ruin the Dutch culture" if we there is no communication between them? Lastly, I must mention that it is truly sad that most dutch people are not welcoming and open as you allege, I have met some dutch people who are complacent and very kind as well as open, but Groningen as what international students foregoes is not a warmhearted city. It goes without saying that if you want to research this topic more or have a civil discussion about this you would be more than welcome to join us on our podcast. In addition, if you are a student yourself please make use of the University recourses and see for yourself what stance they take in the matter, since most of the budget for the University comes out of the pockets of the international students.@@DenUitvreter

@@LegallySpeaking_NexusPodcast I already knew you based your prejudice against the Dutch on the international political news. We can objectively establish there has not been a more international and welcoming people than the Dutch, but that's being taken advantage of for many years now and people are fed up with it. I asked for some self reflection, but you seem under the impression that the Dutch have not only speak a foreign language to accomodate foreigners chosing to go to their country, they should also make an effort to make it pleasant experience for them. Because that's all it is, an experience for passers by, like tourists only for longer, and obnoxiously entitled a American tourists stereotypically can be. No, of course they don't want to get to know you, why would they? You don't even understand what social cohesion is. You have no clue, I've studied in Groningen myself, wiht something over 95% of the university students being Dutch. Those were also mostly passsers by, gone after 5 or 6 years, not part of the regular social fabric, peaceful coexistence as a success. That is how the basic relationship between the relatively small city and the relatively big student population has always been and that has not fundamentally changed with the huge increase of the numbers of students. If you want to know how welcoming they are you'll find out in case you come to stay, not just a passer by, commit to it, learn the language. And don't be as entitled, you decided to move here. together with tens of thousand of others, simply taking it all for granted, completely unaware of your collective effect, complaining about the housing you caused, taking the favours the Dutch do you and the privileges handed for granted. Did you ever even question what you have to offer? Did you ever put yourself in the shoes of Dutch student having to speak English all day at university for you lot, and then having to explain everything to a foreign housemate in English too? Of course they prefer Dutch housemates.