I was speaking with a Dutch friend about our impending visit to Ireland, and how the anger and resentment are still near the surface, and how this reminded me of nothing so much as Romania and Hungary. I took a chance and said it was a bit the same in the Netherlands with the Frisians being resentful. "Oh yeah, they grumble about everything" he laughed, and I knew he was poking fun at himself. "And the Belgians. There's barely a difference between all the NW European populations genetically," (think of the North Sea as a large lake with trading ports with only a few farmers behind each of them), " but they hate each other."
"Ja. Ja," he said, in mock accent. "It's almost as if we have sinful nature or something, isn't it?"
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