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Or when the Dutch traded the occasional slave but Surinam was an orderly place that it was ok?

But when they first came here (just before Surinam became independent) there was a lot of outcry about this.

This then - predictably - led to exactly the same levels of xenophobia about the Surinam people coming to NL.

In 1996 Surinam lost many of their government archives after a fire burned the building down.

The most memorable of these for me, by far, was the Surinam Toad on the cover of Windows XP Annoyances by David Karp.

I can recommend the Indonesian and Surinam restaurants, both are former colonies so many people from there moved to NL.

Turkish, Morrocan and Surinam immigrated to NL in the '70s and '80s.

That's exactly what the Dutch did with Surinam for instance (And with Indonesia, which was in many ways far, far worse and which caused massive bloodshed).

As for that 'Dutch Experiment': it isn't limited to the Netherlands, and by and large the Surinam immigrants have disappeared into background noise on account of their relatively low numbers.

By the way, if you do have this to the point of phobia, don't look at images of the Surinam Toad, whose young grow out of holes in the mother's back.

Wow, I hadn’t heard of the Surinam toad.

Interestingly, at the time when this happened there was due to the fact that Surinam people were considered to be citizens a massive influx of Surinam people to NL, the ones that saw the writing on the wall and realized that there would be a less-than-optimal situation post dutch pull-out.

From the RFS entry on Surinam, position 22: "“public expression of hatred” towards the government is punishable by up to seven years in prison under a draconian defamation law.

My second early incident was seeing the cover of the O'Reilly book "Windows Annoyances", which features an image of a Surinam toad with young embedded on its back.

"A set of elaborate engravings of insects and their floral environs which the naturalist encountered on her travels to the Dutch colony of Surinam, forming one of the first natural histories of the region."

My country has a rich history of slavery as well, but we never started calling people "Black" it's always "African", "Nigerian", "Surinam".

Surinam is a bit of a melting pot, FYI but his family line has remained relatively purely Indian.

In NL plenty of people feel roughly the same about Surinam.

The Langeled underwater pipeline, carrying natural gas from Norway to the UK, is a bit longer than the Barbados-Surinam distance (at 1200 km), and cost approx.