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Why do Dutch people want to be called Dutch?

Updated: 8/17/2019
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They generally don't prefer Dutch. Most "Dutch" people refer to their country as themselves as 'Nederlanders' for the people and 'Nederlands' for the language. Since Dutch (the language) is 'Nederlands' in Dutch and the people are 'Nederlanders' in Dutch. Another reason to call them like this is to avoid confusion with the Germans and the German language (Deutsch).

They also generally don't prefer that the country is called 'Holland' or that the people are called 'Hollanders' and that the language is called 'Hollands'. Since that's not correct and is more an offensive.

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