April 2023 | Written by – Willem Van Hoorn Often, my blog posts are about the Dutch and the Dutch culture in particular. And they explain one or another aspect of that to internationals (or ‘new locals’, if you prefer). Not this time, though. The topic of...
Back to an old Dutch quality? November 2022 | Written by – Willem van Hoorn The Dutch were long known for (and prided themselves on) a particular quality. Since several decades that quality has more or less gone obsolete. Yet, under the current circumstances, it may...
Shine a Little Light October 2022 | Written by – Willem van Hoorn If, in the last weeks, you have spent any time at all in Eindhoven during the evenings, it can barely have escaped you: the many hundreds of light objects along many streets, that together make-up the...
What Do You Mean: ‘Keep the Water In’? September 2022 | Written by – Willem van Hoorn It is September, and we are gradually rounding-off yet another hot and dry summer. Whether we like it or not: these summers are in line with climate scientists’ predictions,...
Building a Career in Brabant one Piece at a Time July 2022 | Written by – Ariel Slaughter Every month the ‘We are Not Alone’ Newsletter (WANA) delivers a fountain of helpful resources and information to the inboxes of thousands of internationals and Dutch...
I am busy, you know. July 2022| Written by – Willem van Hoorn I’ve mentioned it in earlier blog posts: when you talk cultural differences, you talk ‘comparison’. The characteristics of a particular culture are usually not defined in absolute terms, but in relation to...
