Dutchies in Capetown

It doesn’t matter if there’re here for 8 or 50 years; Dutch people stay Dutch and they like to meet and interact with other Dutch. They don’t integrate with other South-African cultures, even if they are naturalized. They hold on to their  Dutch traditions. The place where I recognised this was just like a place in Holland: ‘Het Huis der Nederlanden’. They had ‘kroketten’, ‘erwtensoep’ and ‘stroopwafels’, there was a library with Dutch books and a Dutch market were they can buy Dutch brands. They were also talking in Dutch, they didn’t forgot it after 50 years. I also heard about a Dutch retirement home in Johannesburg, where is also Dutch market and they watch Dutch television and play Dutch games. Dutch people seek each other. “It is not easy to make friends in South-Africa, everyone has his own culture and it is hard to fit in there, now I don’t have to make adjustments”. So that’s why they just do the conventional. Conventional is a good fallback position isn’t it?