QUEENSDAY in Amsterdam..

In my journey in "understanding" the concept of cultures..Please join me in "Queensday"..Netherlands..30 April so "today"..
If you did not know where would you had "landed"..what would you think this is?? Brasil maybe??
Yet it is just my hometown Amsterdam.. Right downstairs where I live...(forget the windmills and cloggies)..

Every second inhabitant of my hometown Amsterdam (so 50%) can be considered "not originally Dutch".

Some of our festivals or holidays might leave our new "co-country folks"..untouched..like Christmas or Easter having little meaning to a Muslim.. or a Hindu..apart from "the day off"..

But "Queensday"..the most Dutch holiday of all, leaves nobody out or "untouched"..and we seem all "one"..all of a sudden. Queensday means "free market' so everybody can go out, sell what they like on the streets.. make music.. organize games... sell "home-food"..All this without the licenses otherwise needed for any street sales or performance at all..

The 3 boys I asked to "pose for me"..as "multicultural pals"enjoying the day..The colorful grandma in wheelchair I asked..Her, not her pushing daughter, telling her she looked beautiful, if I could take a picture and she smiled and agreed....All the rest "represent"my neighbourhood just as it is..

Fancy to join me next year???