There has been a public debate in The Netherlands whether a black man from Africa can be a real Frisian Northerner. The man had been adopted as a 1-year-old child by his white Frisian parents. He was raised on a farm and speaks the dialect perfectly.
Some say the man still isn’t Frisian (myself included), others say he is. But the debate disclosed a gre…
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