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The present-day Netherlands has a large Muslim population, though the majority of them are the descendants of Turkish and Moroccan guest workers rather than immigrants from the former colonies. Religious and social tensions are almost exclusively focused on Turkish and Moroccan labour immigrants, who were supposed to just stay a few years and help the ailing textile industry. Of course they didn't need to learn the language, since that would only encourage them to stay. The heavy industries are gone but the low-education labour immigrants are still there.
 
The Netherlands also have a "homegrown" linguistic minority in the Province of Frisia (also called West Frisia by foreigners[[hottip:*:<ref>To make things more complicated, there is actually an area called West Frisia, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Friesland_<!-- 28region29%28region%29 that's not in Frisia]]. Try to explain that to the international community.]]</ref> because East and North Frisia are in Germany). Frisian, which is spoken there and on the North Sea coast and islands of Schleswig-Holstein, is the West Germanic language most closely related to Old English. -->
 
A founding member of the [[European Union]] and [[NATO]], it is also home to the International Court of Justice and the International Criminal Court in The Hague, the latter also being the origin of the famous Hague Conventions.
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