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<blockquote data-quote="Rebekka" data-source="post: 53215192" data-attributes="member: 176899"><p><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /> What you're used to is an important factor - goes for the healthcare issue too. (Hey, I'm conservative - even though I am socialist - so I do understand that people oppose changes.)</p><p> </p><p>The history of the Netherlands is a bit complicated. At the moment catholics are a minority because there are more secular people, but catholics are the second largest group, and historically we've always been the majority <span style="color: red">in numbers</span> until the secularization started in the 1960's. Now I did say in numbers - because for centuries, catholics were oppressed here (the American attitude towards England/monarchy/taxes etc - see the healthcare thread - reminds me of my own resentment towards that black period! The calvinists exploited the catholics, they didn't have a say in government, we were kept poor. I say "we" because my family have been catholic forever, and have been poor forever, until the 1960's actually because things change only slowly).</p><p> </p><p>So to answer your question, a minority, yeah, actually, and no. (Now that's vague!)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Rebekka, post: 53215192, member: 176899"] :) What you're used to is an important factor - goes for the healthcare issue too. (Hey, I'm conservative - even though I am socialist - so I do understand that people oppose changes.) The history of the Netherlands is a bit complicated. At the moment catholics are a minority because there are more secular people, but catholics are the second largest group, and historically we've always been the majority [COLOR=red]in numbers[/COLOR] until the secularization started in the 1960's. Now I did say in numbers - because for centuries, catholics were oppressed here (the American attitude towards England/monarchy/taxes etc - see the healthcare thread - reminds me of my own resentment towards that black period! The calvinists exploited the catholics, they didn't have a say in government, we were kept poor. I say "we" because my family have been catholic forever, and have been poor forever, until the 1960's actually because things change only slowly). So to answer your question, a minority, yeah, actually, and no. (Now that's vague!) [/QUOTE]
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