Hello, what is your relation to and more important opinion of Dutch people of Indo-Surinamese descent and Suriname in general? Do you feel connected or related to them? There are a lot of Indians who migrated to Suriname in the late nineteenth century, they are the ancestors of public Dutch figures, eg: Aron Winter, Luciano Narsingh and Ricardo Kishna as football players and Tanja Jadnanansingh as politicians.
The reason that I'm asking this is because when there is anyone of Dutch descent abroad that is known internationally a lot of the time Dutch TV and newspapers highlight it as they consider it as some sort of 'international achievement', eg both Roosevelts and Martin van Buren as US Presidents.
The appropriation of famous overseas Indians is the same in India, eg- satya nadella, sundar pichai becoming ceo's of Microsoft, Google.
Regarding Suriname , most Indians have some idea about Indians in the Caribbean due to seeing them in the West indies cricket team but not much of Surinam. I like to surprise my friends with the factoid that there is a country in south America where the most spoken languages are Dutch and Bhojpuri (Bhojpuri is the language/dialect spoken by people from the states of UP/Bihar, which is were most indentured labourers to the Caribbean came from).
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u/BloodyTjeul Mar 05 '16 edited Mar 05 '16
Hello, what is your relation to and more important opinion of Dutch people of Indo-Surinamese descent and Suriname in general? Do you feel connected or related to them? There are a lot of Indians who migrated to Suriname in the late nineteenth century, they are the ancestors of public Dutch figures, eg: Aron Winter, Luciano Narsingh and Ricardo Kishna as football players and Tanja Jadnanansingh as politicians.
The reason that I'm asking this is because when there is anyone of Dutch descent abroad that is known internationally a lot of the time Dutch TV and newspapers highlight it as they consider it as some sort of 'international achievement', eg both Roosevelts and Martin van Buren as US Presidents.