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Dutch Sense !
The Uncommon Sense
Its Roots and Impacts on our modern world
by Ayodeji O. Drs. MA. B.Sc.
Author of
'Civic Encyclopaedia of
Surprising
Origins of Words & Names'
Prepared at the
Factuality Research Library
Published
by PERC Rotterdam
© All Copyrights Reserved Ayodeji 2005
ISBN 90-802457-6-3 (Non-fiction)
ISBN-13: 9789080245761
New Second Edition
Published by PERC 2003 2005
Expanded after the third reprint
Jolly
Folly
World Wisdom or fashionable Delusion!
Who's
fooling who in our sapient world?
by Ayodeji O. Drs. MA. B.Sc.
Author of
'Civic Encyclopaedia of
Surprising
Origins of Words & Names'
Prepared at the
Factuality Research Library
Rotterdam London
© All Copyrights Reserved Ayodeji 2005
ISBN 90-802457-5-5 (Non-fiction)
Civic Encyclopaedia of
Surprising Origins of Words & Names
Of Places, Peoples, Ideas and Practices
around the World
with
vivid insight into their meanings
Researched & Compiled by
Ayodeji O Drs. MA. B.Sc.
Prepared at the
Factuality Research Library
Published by PERC
ISBN 9080245747 Rotterdam
Product of the European union
(Extract
from) Surprising Origins of Words & Names
“There
is a story behind everything, if only one knows!”
W.Wordsworth
The aim of this book is to unravel some of the misgivings entangled in many common notions of our world, by giving the reader clear unbiased insight into the origins of words and names with commonly assumed but wrong meanings. One distinguishing feature of this book is that it does not limit itself to the views of Anglo-Saxon or western writers, but in unbiased tone includes terms and names often excluded in most other dictionaries and encyclopaedia's. In encyclopaedic fashion, it offers the story behind many of the words and names of countries, places, peoples, rivers, mountains, ideas and practices now in use around the world. It uses historical facts of etymology to pin down the story behind each word or name presented. Why are Africa and Asia so-called? And Greek, German, Negro, English, Russian, Hebrew? What is the story behind words like academic, dollar, essay, banana, music, agony, paradise, school, Frank, Saxon, Paris, school, physics, soldier, Ghana, Egypt, Adam, bless, amen, Mali, Wednesday, technique, vandal, Britain, or matrimony? The story behind these and thousands more will be found here in this book.
The underlying idea behind this book is to enhance the reader's memory and insight by providing the historical facts behind our common words and names, what most dictionaries do not cover, and many encyclopaedia's often confuse in too much detail. Tracing etymological roots from historical facts requires considerable research not just in desk-type literature in libraries, but also visits to several musea and archives in many cities in different countries, plus interviews with many intellectuals in different well-known universities and establishments. This book is the result of years of such intensive effort.
The book is presented in encyclopaedic form for ease of reading and searching through the often unexpected roots of words in common usage around the world. Specific attention is given to words that have acquired new meanings either in technical context (as in strategy), or have been twisted in usage to their exact opposites (as in bless), or are widely wrongly held to come from a popular source (as in cheese or coffee). Even names are explained which are commonly used but whose roots are deemed to have been lost (as in Africa), or are wrongly explained in most other sources (as in German and English).
Na Lie !
The
Age of DECEIT
in
World Politics and Global Business
by Ayodeji D. Drs. MA. B.Sc.
(Author of Studying Effectively)
(and Dutch Sense)
Program Director of Special Projects
© All Copyrights Reserved Ayodeji 2003
A Factual Reality Book
ISBN 90-802457-2-0
This new 420-page second edition comes with surprising new revelations about Dutch roots, their ways, their lost tribes, Dutch origins of the English language and of American culture, and much more. Apart from its good appeal to wide circles of general readers at home, it is useful course-book with academic potential. This book has revelations that interest musea, libraries, tourist and travel-advice bodies, embassies and universities, and certainly the makers of TV-documentaries on European and western heritage. More than any other book, this one shows the Dutch origin of Old English and the very word English, and the Christian source of the confusion about the Angles in Anglo-Saxon history. Most of all, it relates much of the uniqueness of Dutch social attitudes, achievements and culture to their peculiar history from pre-Roman to modern times.
For foreigners, it provides ample guide to the origins of specific Dutch taboos to avoid, for more satisfactory living amidst the Dutch. For Dutch natives, it provides a rich reassessment of the roots of many of their practices, for more effective social and political awareness. For the enlightened Dutch who appreciate more insight into their own lost ancestry, this book provides vivid details of their lost ancestors, how they vanished, why their borrowed language blurs their present view of their past, and why family tradition disintegrated in their community, yielding apathy, which makes them collective easy targets of political manipulation by an elite artful in medieval tactics. This book also tells the story behind the names of their cities, and unfolds the longer-term pattern of their social changes which they so badly often miss.
This
book contains four sections or main parts that build progresively on each other.
Part-1 illustrates Dutch Sense, part-2 presents
Dutch culture, social and family attitudes, Dutch corporate wheeling and dealing,
'Pillar' politics and Polder-Model. Part-3 gives the ancient origins
of Germanic languages, medieval processes behind West-European identities, pagan
ways and barbarian roots of Christian traditions, Christmas, Easter, and of
the names of the days of the week. Part-4 shows the international
impacts of Dutch trade, foreign policy, colonial prowess and commercial zeal.
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This book explains how the Dutch wrongly call themselves Germanic because their tongue is, having lost all sense of who their ancestors really were and where they came from; victims of massive Roman-inflicted genocide. It tells how the Dutch won not only the fight in mud and silt, and also won the heart of the world with flowers, fruits, drinks and food they took from others as if their own. It shows that they squeeze rivers of milk out of a cow, and money out of even shit and the wind, with schemes no genius can decipher. They'll sell God or smuggle Him into your mind, even while you are fully awake, just to indulge your buying spirit. Yet you won't even suspect they did.
It praises Dutch achievements, and reveals their slickness at home, at work, in trade, in religious faith, in love, and in their leisure. Few other folks match their impact on your life and on the modern world as a whole. World language, world religion, world commerce and finance, world politics, but also your life as consumer, as worker, as parent or child, as patient, as fun-seeker, cannot escape their influence. Unknown to you, and often unknown to them too, you are fully in the grip of their commercial spirit. Their true story is mysterious like a fairy tale, except that every bit of it was and still is very real. Here is that story, with astounding facts about these elusive people, and most important how to understand and cope with them. Dutch natives will learn about their lost tribes, the origins of their city-names, language and much more, from pre-Roman to modern times; what no other book has so put together before. To Top
Right in the vomit of the sea they live, like the otters, badgers and rabbits that gave one of their ancestral tribes its name 'Cananefaten', meaning 'Rabbit-catchers', as the Romans once called the indigenous people of today's Dutch province of Holland. Overly excited and deluded by the colour of orange which they cannot grow, ruled by an essentially German monarch with a French title that has long been lost, they now wrongly call themselves Germanic because their tongue is, having lost all sense of who their ancestors really were and where they came from, victims of massive Roman-inflicted genocide. Yes, I said vomit, that's right. For, I have lived in their cities on land regurgitated from the sea and continuously under threat of being swallowed again by the very same sea - the North Sea.
Is Dutch Sense rational? That, is the big question with an answer that is not so obvious until one becomes familiar with the modes of expression of what constitutes Dutch Sense, the circumstances of its expression, and the cultural roots of its development. By delving cogently into these, it is hoped that this book will provide enough material to enable you, dear reader, to judge for yourself how rational you find Dutch Sense. Most of all, you will gain new insight into Dutch mentality, their culture, their history, and their untold influences on western life and on the world by reading this book. To Top
In very great measure, I am indebted to many authors and contributors. . . . .
With great appreciation of the access I was afforded to their resources for my research, I thank the following establishments.
- Theme Park Archeon, Alphen aan den Rijn Netherlands
- Alkmaar Municipal Museum
- Archaeological Museum, Leiden
- Gorcums Museum, Gorinchem Netherlands
- Basilica, Onze Lieve Vrouw 'Sterre de Zee', Maastricht
- KIT- Royal Tropical Institute, Amsterdam
- StadsMolen, Hulst Netherlands
- Volendam Museum, Volendam
- Black Tulip Museum, Lisse To Top
- West-Friesland Museum, Hoorn
- Fries Museum, Leeuwarden
- Archaeologisch Museum, Harlem
- Folks Museum, Rotterdam
- Amsterdam City Museum
- Limburgs Museum, Venlo
- North Brabants Museum, Den Bosch
- Breda's Museum, Breda
- Ekenstein - Historie Landgoed Ekenstein Groningen
- Rubenshuis Collections, Paul Ruben's Art Museum, Antwerp
- World-Museum Rotterdam To Top
- Historical Museum of Zuid Kennemerland, Haarlem
- Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem
- Grote Kerk, Dordrecht To Top
- Dordrecht City Archives
- Provincial Gallo-Roman Museum, Tongeren, Belgium
- Provincial Archaeological Museum SE-Flanders, Velzeke
- Flemish Heritage Institute Limburg, Tongeren Belgium
- Institute for Archaeological Heritage, Tongeren
- Provincial Archaeological Museum Ename, Ename Belgium
- University of Ghent Library, Belgium
- Dept of Archaeology, University of Ghent, Ghent Belgium
- Roman Archaeological Museum, Vieux France
- Château de Martainville, Martainville-Epreville France
- Abbaye du Mont St. Michel, Mont St. Michel France
- Musée de Normandie, Caen France To Top
- House of Alijn Museum, Ghent, Belgium
- Tourist Information Office, Breda
- University of Amsterdam Library
- City Archive of Breda, Netherlands
- Brabants Heem Foundation, Den Bosch
- Valkhof Museum Nijmegen, Netherlands
- Gelders Archaeologisch Centrum, Nijmegen
- National Museum of Ethnology, Leiden
- Municipal Museum 'De Lakenhal', Leiden
- Museum Boerhaave, Leiden
- Archaeology Institute Library, University of Leiden
- University of Leiden Main Library, Leiden
- National Museum of Antiquities, Leiden
- Groningen Institute of Archaeology, University of Groningen
Ayodeji O. 2005 Rotterdam.
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Dutch Sense – the Uncommon Sense
The
main focus of this book is to help not only foreigners but also nativeborn Dutch
people themselves to understand those often amazing practices and mentality
that set their community apart, by digging deep into their lost roots and revealing
their strong impact on our modern world. From explaining what Dutch Sense is,
and discussing different aspects of Dutch culture, the reader is taken to the
very earliest roots of the lost Germanic folks and Celtic tribes that created
the society and the language we now call Dutch or Flemish. This book offers
many astounding facts, reveals the origins of Dutch people themselves and Germanic
folks in general. To Dutch natives it shows their lost tribes, the roots of
their city-names, the origins of their language and a lot more, from pre-Roman
to modern times. To foreigners, this book shows many hidden Dutch values and
traditions unknown to the non-Dutch, such as their religious slant, what pitfalls
to avoid among Dutch friends, colleagues and neighbours, and how to avoid dubious
official Dutch help.
No other book explains why the Dutch do not know their own specific tribes, why ambition and ostentation are taboo among the Dutch, how pillaring has ordered their society, why Dutch windows are the largest, why hard work prevents devoted staff from higher pay, how shit-banking is lucrative Dutch business, how silence is an articulate instrument of Dutch strategy, how a seller pays to the buyer oddly enough, and why Dutch teuting, freedom and fanatic pride without personal contribution all go together. How Dutch originality comes to its best in their political art of defining away problems rather than solving them, is shown in their drug policy and the deaf-pot. Their financial ingenuity is shown in the Philips case and in the wide range of financial market products originated by them. To Top
This book presents the original meanings of many practices now commonly called West-European, and Christian, which in fact predated both Christianity and the very notion of nations. It treats the peculiar process from adaptive Christianity to politics by pillarisation (not a misspelling), the foundation of Old English, the perception of freedom not understood by other folks and why, Dutch financial ingenuity, and the misleading wide assumption that many products originated in Holland when in fact the Dutch only traded in them and thus effectively hijacked those products from other cultures.
Most important is the link drawn between early Germanic and Dutch sentiments plus temperaments, and such behaviors as are evident in football-fanaticism, inexplicable obsession with Orange, condonation wrongly called Dutch tolerance, and a fancy for almost anything American or British to the point of an inferiority complex.This approach enables one to better understand the liberal Dutch policy on drug abuse, homosexuality, prostitution and euthanasia, but also their seemingly permissive child-rearing and weak family bonds. It also helps you to better understand the mind of a Dutch husband, wife, lover, employer, employee, friend or neighbour better, without limiting you to theory. The reader will be shown the substance of those peculiarities of the Dutch which characterise their rather strong impacts on much bigger regions of the world, including the strongest, leading western nations like the USA and the UK.
