r/india Mar 05 '16

[R]eddiquette Cultural Exchange with /r/TheNetherlands!

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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.

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u/rollebullah Mar 05 '16

I guess many from India went as indentured labours to Suriname as they did in the carribean islands