• Greetings: always 3 kisses. • Dad is the cost winner in house, the mother takes care of the children. • Small families with 1 or 2 children. • 13 is a unlucky number. • Business meeting: always shake hands. • Never plan a meeting in holidays such as Christmas, Carnival, Easter or Summer. • Always be on time. • When your late somewhere, give a call. • Worktime: 9 till 5 o'clock. • Dutch are known for their creativity.
• Hospitality, Dutch are known for their openess, honestness and they will always give you a place to stay. • If your invited at a Dutch home, always take something like chocolate, flowers. The same with birthday’s, if you get an invitation, you never enter the party without a present. • If Dutch people receive presents they will always open it right away. • Only use first names such as Karin, Kees, Maria, Johan. • Sunday is a relax day, normally a day to go to the grandparents.
• Breakfast, lunch and Saturday is bread. • Dinner is always at 6 o'clock so between 5:30 and 7:00 people don’t answer their phone. • We eat so early because when we go out we go out at 10 till 3 oclock. • Because Holland is so muliticultrual, we don’t only eat dutch food. • The places to party are bars, with dutch music, the only places where they have big discotecas is in big cities. • When we finish partying we mostly gonna eat a pizza, fastfood or a sandwich. • Mariuhana is just legal so you can smoke where you want.
Dutch people use a lot of proverbs. We have sentence such as • He will end up back on his feet (it will end up good) • The monkey comes out of the sleeve (the truth will come out) • Who not want to hear, must feel (Those who will not listen, but must bear the consequences) • Wearing the pants (The boss in house) • Hoi – Hi • Hoe gaat het? – How are you? • Doei – Bye
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