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1 online resource (140 pages) |
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Table of Contents; An Ode to Foreign Eyes; Fascinated by Foreign Eyes; Understanding Happiness; Perception Is Reality; Nervous, Alone and So Excited ... ; Scraping Clouds from a Wolkenkrabber: Portrait of Life as a City Girl in Utrecht; One Good Day; It Must Be the Broodje Kaas; In Search of My Own Time; Discovering Utrecht through the Senses; Cycling through Snow; Utrecht by Night -- Utrecht by Light!; Where Surrealism Unleashes; On People and Sunlight; Bicycle Diaries: Racing in the Land of Giants; Letter to My Friend; In a Map of Time; Students from Utrecht; Utrecht's Climate in Shorts |
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ContrastMy Spacehopper; Out on the Town; The Devil Is in the Details; Lessons for Life; A Semester of Swayings (Uncensored); The Missing Dimension; Six Months below Sea; Translations of Mottos; About the Authors; Acknowledgements |
| Summary |
Annually, hundreds of students fromall over the world come to study atUtrecht University. To commemoratethe university's 375th anniversary, currentand past international students wereinvited to refl ect on Dutch culture. Whatdo they consider particularly noteworthy, surprising, incomprehensible or charmingin their Dutch academic life? From a personalperspective and in their own words, the students share their experiences andcomment on remarkable, frustrating andfascinating features of Dutch culture. Curtainless windows, delicious stroop wafels, a scent of freedom in the streets, canalsrefl ecting |
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In English with mottos in numerous languages at the head of chapters |
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Universiteit Utrecht
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Universiteit Utrecht. fast (OCoLC)fst01997316 |
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Culture.
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Ethnology.
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Minorities -- Netherlands -- History -- 20th century
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National characteristics, Dutch.
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History.
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Social sciences.
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Students, Foreign -- Netherlands
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Dutch.
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ethnology.
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social anthropology.
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history (discipline)
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social sciences.
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Dutch.
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History
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Culture.
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Ethnic relations.
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Ethnology.
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Manners and customs.
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Minorities.
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National characteristics, Dutch.
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Social sciences.
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Students, Foreign.
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Netherlands -- Ethnic relations
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Netherlands -- Social life and customs -- 20th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh89000653
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Netherlands.
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History.
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9789048514052 |
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9048514053 |
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128325929X |
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9781283259293 |
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9789085550457 |
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9085550459 |
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