This is a really super video up loaded last year in July 2011. There were celebrations to mark 100 years since the arrival of Chinese immigrants in the Netherlands.
The Lion Dance symbolizes happiness, prosperity, agility and endurance; fitting for an acknowledgement of past generations.
The first immigrants in 1911 were employed as ship workers in the Port of Amsterdam; by all accounts a difficult and poorly paid life. It's hard to believe it was only 100 years ago; since then the Chinatown area has grown and thrived with the first restaurant opening in the 1920's
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