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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The issue is that the Netherlands wanted guest workers in the 60’s and 70’s so invited workers from Turkey and Morocco to go to the Netherlands and work. Add to that immigrants from Muslim former Dutch colonies like Indonesia. These immigrants were welcomed to work but not really integrate. There are really few under 5 to 10% intermarriage between Dutch and Moroccan immigrants.

So if you don’t feel welcomed you stuck with your own. The right wingers believe from a leading Dutch right winger- 
“Islam is not only a religion, it is a way of life. In this, its vision goes counter to the liberal separation of church and state.”[/quote]

I lived in the Netherlands during second generation of Turkish guest worker immigrants.

I think what you say is true - however, another part of it is that the guest worked were generally poorly educated  manual workers (eg a Rotterdam Harbor, which is the largest and busiest harbor in Europe and why the Nazis bombed it to smithereens to get the Futch to surrender during WW2). The Turkish guest workers and their descendants tended to be far more conservative than Turks themselves who modernized public dress codes for women and moved closer to mainstream European values.

Indonesian immigrants were better integrated from what I could see.

Part of the fear of immigrants is related to fear of losing their societal tolerance for gays/ bi/ trans people, legal prostitution and legal recreational drug use (even though most Dutch don’t use drugs, they prefer to keep it legal and taxed). They have generous social welfare programs and low teen pregnancy rates due to education and strong reproductive rights that they are afraid of losing. They are intolerant of intolerance.

MAGA single issue anti immigration voters tend to support other right wing culture war issues such as unfettered gun rights, anti GBTLQ, anti abortion etc.

So I don’t think the Dutch who oppose unbridled immigration are literally equivalent to MAGA anti immigration single issue voters.

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