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Old 31st Mar 2009, 12:02
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I know where this kid lives: in the council flat (section 8 housing for us Yanks) seen in the background. I also recognize his rotten attitude. Every big city in Holland is plagued by the phenomenon of "hangjongeren" -a typically Dutch word, roughly translated as "juvenile loafers"; groups of (mostly Moroccan) kids who terrorize their neighborhoods.

To be sure, every country has their teenage miscreants (we have our gangs, armed not with rocks but with automatic rifles) but the Dutch are (or used to be) especially permissive of this type of behavior -a holdover of the idealistic liberal illusion of the eighties that a large influx of immigrants would somehow enrich Dutch society -it hasn't.
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