Cultural Communication Practices

Cultural Communication Practices
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Cultural Communication Practices
The Netherlands, also known as Dutch or Holland, is a densely-populated nation in Western Europe. The term Netherlands means a country's flat geography and low land where much of its land was obtained from the sea. The country has been known for several years as the biggest exporter of flowers globally. Besides, the Dutch's open economy and social tolerance history have made it a globalized, liberal, and progressive nation. Due to several interesting facts about The Netherlands, gaining more insights into its history and people is essential and beneficial. This paper focuses on presenting a study on the people of the Netherlands, Dutch music, and their culture and social etiquette.
People of Netherlands
Widespread belief claims that the Netherlands consists of Saxons, Frisians, and Franks. Reasonable populations of the country comprised Germanic and pre-Germanic population collections covering Western Europe's main deltaic area. Key organizations depending on various ethnic unities led to the emergence of the Saxons, Frisians, and Franks in the 7th and 8th centuries (Britannica, n.d.). The Republic of Netherlands, patented from unenlightened statelets and its lawful heir, The Netherlands Kingdom, has enticed numerous immigrants. Individuals with Chinese heritage in Holland develop a relatively closed-knit society designed around their ethnic group. Being the 5th biggest group with non-western heritage in the Netherlands, they range from 77,000 to 150 000 people (Daussà & Qian, 2021). Approximately 66% of the people's roots are in mainland China and Hong Kong, while the rest originate from other nations such as Suriname and Indonesia (Daussà & Qian, 2021). However, the presence of Muslims from Morocco and Turkey has influenced the country to embrace diversity and become more tenuous.
The language spoken in the country is Dutch, also called Netherlandic. Afrikaans is an irregular of Dutch spoken by emigrants from the Zeeland and Holland areas in the 17th century. Furthermore, the inhabitant of the northern province of Friesland communicates using Frisian, which is faster to English than German and Dutch (Daussà & Qian, 2021). Apart from Dutch, Low Saxon is an authorized provincial language in the country. The local provinces and governments of Groningen, Friesland, Gelderland, Drenthe, and Overijssel signed an agreement to work together to safeguard, foster and promote Low Saxon in 2018( Braat, 2020). In the major cities, numerous people speak several languages fluently, reflecting the nation's geographical position, tourist attraction, and occupation history.
The substantial hospitality the Netherlands exhibit has its root in the humanism spirit, which was distinctive in the 16th to 18th century. Desiderius Erasmus and Hugo Grotius in the 16th and 17th centuries epitomized the spirit. As a result, the spirit led to a pragmatic way of thinking which has been dominant in the Dutch bourgeois community since the 16th century. On the other hand, modern urbanization in the country occurred in the 20th century, where over 50% of...