Amsterdam's expats don't live in a bubble, it's a glass cage

During the Second World War, the refrain about American servicemen in Europe was that they were ‘overpaid, overfed, oversexed and over here’. The issue wasn’t that they were wealthy: it was that they flaunted it, and did it “over here”, swaggering around like they owned the place. A similar sense of grievance is growing up around international residents in Amsterdam, to judge from a recent survey by NH Nieuws. Expats were denounced as “parasites” and “a plague on the city”,...