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more irrelevant trivia (Announce)

posted by Rugxulo , Usono, 11.10.2018, 16:05

> It usually depends on how far you go back. The most recent large waves of
> Europeans are already 70 years ago (forties, fifties). People that are old
> enough to remember the homeland are 80+ probably.

Well, we've definitely had more than a few immigrants (locally) in recent decades. So it's not only old-timers from world wars.

> Do you know the series Allo Allo? If you want English with German (or
> French) accents and WWII quotes, that is the one to see :_)

I'm mostly only familiar with things like Red Dwarf, Are You Being Served?, Chef, Monty Python, and Keeping Up Appearances. (But even that's been more than a few years ago.)

> Then there is a contingent "other Dutch". Former Indonesians (very aging
> since came over in forties, mostly ex-government workers or colonial army),
> people from Suriname (big wave during independence in 1975) and from the
> Caribbean islands.

Two more famous "examples":

Sarah Chalke (from tv show Scrubs) is Canadian (now American?), but her mother is from Germany.

Mark-Paul Gosselaar (Zach Morris from tv show Saved by the Bell), his parents are actual Dutch (okay, with a tiny bit of Indonesian and German).

Complete thread:

• Interresting DOS forum in german - Laaca, 30.08.2018, 23:25 (Announce)
  • Interresting DOS forum in german - rr, 03.09.2018, 20:01
  • Interresting DOS forum in german - Rugxulo, 11.09.2018, 01:08
    • Interresting DOS forum in german - marcov, 11.09.2018, 16:48
      • Interresting DOS forum in german - Rugxulo, 12.09.2018, 02:06
        • Interresting DOS forum in german - marcov, 12.09.2018, 12:17
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                  • random trivia (sorry for off-topic) - marcov, 21.09.2018, 16:49
                    • random trivia (sorry for off-topic) - Rugxulo, 24.09.2018, 04:58
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                          • Sleeze Beez - marcov, 04.10.2018, 22:17
                        • Sleeze Beez - Rugxulo, 03.10.2018, 04:14
                      • random trivia (sorry for off-topic) - Rugxulo, 11.10.2018, 17:13
            • Interresting DOS forum in german - marcov, 19.09.2018, 16:37
              • Interresting DOS forum in german - Rugxulo, 21.09.2018, 12:55
                • Interresting DOS forum in german - marcov, 21.09.2018, 15:56
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                      • more irrelevant trivia - Rugxulo, 06.10.2018, 04:04
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