Efter mordet på först politikern Pim Fortuyn, sedan regissören Theo van Gogh har många holländare reagerat starkt. En konsekvens av morden har blivit en känsla av otrygghet och bristande framtidstro. Således söker sig många holländare, med kvalificerade utbildning och yrken, nu till andra delar av världen.
Om detta skriver brittiska Daily Telegraph i flera artiklar i december 2004:
"DUTCH DESERT THEIR CHANGING COUNTRY
An exodus of native-born Dutch in search of a new life abroad has reversed immigration flows for the first time since the post-war era.
Last year more people left the Netherlands than arrived as migrants or asylum seekers, e..."
"Lawyers, accountants, computer specialist, nurses, and businessmen are lining up for visas to the English-speaking world, looking to Australia, New Zealand and Canada as orderly societies where people have the space to breathe.
The new wave of 'middle-class flight' has quickened this year following rising ethnic violence and crime committed by and against immigrants, and in response to fears that social order is breaking down. In the first six months there was a net outflow of 13,313 people.
They are disengaging from a multicultural experiment once hailed as the model for the world but now stretched to breaking point. They are also escaping traffic jams and chronic over-crowding.
Requests for visa information have exploded since the murder of Theo van Gogh, a Dutch film-maker and acerbic critic of Muslim views on women.
An all-party report by the Dutch parliament this year concluded that the country's immigration policy had been a failure, leading to sink schools and ethnic ghettoes.
The Netherlands has been transformed in barely 30 years from a tight-knit Christian society into a polyethnic state, with three million people of immigrant background."
Översättning i sammanfattning:
En utvandring av infödda holländare har för första gången efter kriget vänt migrationsflödet. Förra året var det fler människor som lämnade Nederländerna än som kom, som invandrare eller asylsökare .
Det handlar om advokater, dataexperter, sjuksköterskor, affärsmän mm, som söker sig till engelskspråkiga länder som Australien, Nya Zealand och Kanada.
Den nya vågen medelklassflykt tog fart 2004 efter ökningen av etniskt våld och av brott förövat av och mot invandrare. Under årets första sex månader var nettoutflöder 13.000 människor.
De tar avstånd från det multikulti-experiment, som en gång hyllades som ett föredöme för världen.
En tvärpolitisk rapport i nederländska riksdagen detta år har kommit fram till landets invandringspolitik varit ett misslyckande, som resulterat i slumskolor och etniska ghetton.
Ur en annan DT-artikel i december 2004:
"EXODUS AS DUTCH MIDDLE CLASS SEEK NEW LIFE"
"The new wave of educated migrants are quietly voting with their feet against a multicultural experiment long touted as a model for the world, but increasingly a warning of how good intentions can go wrong."
"Ellen, 43, a lawyer and banker who votes for the free-market Liberals, said the code of behaviour regulating daily life in the Netherlands was breaking down.
'People no longer know what to expect from each other. There are so many rules, but nobody sticks to them. They just do as they want. They just execute people on the streets, it's shocking when you see this for the first time,' she said. 'We've become so tolerant that everybody thinks they can fight their own wars here. Van Gogh is killed, and then people throw bombs at mosques and churches. It's escalating because the police and the state aren't doing anything about it.'
'There's a feeling of injustice that if you do things right, if you work hard and pay your taxes, you're punished, and those who don't are rewarded. People can come and live here illegally and get payments. How is that possible?'
'We didn't think about how we should integrate people, to make sure that we actually talk to each other and know each other, instead of living in ghettoes with different rules.'"
"Unlike most earlier waves of migration to the new world, this one is not driven by penury. The Netherlands has a per capita income higher than Germany or Britain, and 4.7 per cent unemployment.
'None of my clients is leaving for economic reasons. ..."
Översättning i sammanfattning:
Den nya vågen av välutbildade utvandrare röstar lugnt med fötterna mot det multikulturella experiment som tjänat som en modell för världen, men som ni i allt högre grad utgör en varning om hur goda intentioner kan gå fel.
"Ellen" uttalar sig om att folk inte längre vet vad de kan förvänta sig av varandra. Det finns en känsla av orättvisa, att de som sköter sig straffas och att folk kan komma utifrån och visats olagligt i landet, men ändå får utbetalningar.
Ingen av de som utvandrar gör det av ekonomiska skäl. Nederländerna har högre medelinkomst än både Tyskland och Storbritannien, och en arbetslöshet på 4,7%.
