Avondvierdaagse walking festival linked to Dutch children's wellbeing
No, it's because only 3.1 percent of the Dutch population live in poverty as opposed to 20 percent of the British population. The Guardian really needs to stop publishing irresponsible lifestyle crap as news. (The Avondvierdaagse is a nice tradition though.) www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
josie w.105nijmegen citizen here. the walking events are nice, but that’s only four days. I think it’s much more important that we don’t have prison walls around our schools, kids are listened to and trusted to play outside, the dutch love work/life balance, and indeed most of them are not living in poverty.
Alex P. Tobin 🎷25They also constantly manage to find 'stories' from 'over here' that are presented as huge news, while nobody here has ever heard of them. Absolutely agree that this is a nice activity, but it's comparable to saying people in Gloucestershire live long and happy lives because they roll cheese.
Luke Turner18there’s been a massive uptick in Nature Woo Therapeutic type articles in recent months - of course a walk and a bit of green can be helpful for some, but the way they cover it is annoying. Tho the number of #wildswimming #blessed articles seem to have gone down given how deadly it has been of late
Marie Phillips16For those who asked re my stats: I am obviously no expert. I am just someone who has lived in UK and NL, noticed less wealth disparity in NL, and who googled "percentage living in poverty in UK" and "percentage living in poverty in NL." Exact stats may be off, but there are more poor kids in the UK.
The Unfinished15They also don’t actively hate & legislate against the existence of children. They give them spaces to play in, they welcome them into every day life & provide a rounded education that doesn’t leave them saddled in debt. Or is it just some silly thing they do one day a year? Who knows?!
Iain12Also I believe wholeheartedly it's because this counts as breakfast
Alex P. Tobin 🎷11And yet we're world champions... at complaining. 😀
Dr Will Ball11Reducing poverty: one weird trick - capitalists hate it!
Jonathan Portes10You should delete this. It's nonsense. The Dutch figure is about 13%(on the same basis as the UK 20% one)
Sally8The thumbnail has "Is this word you can't say why..." and I did wonder why the media have to package their twee observations on other cultures with a side of sneering.
Murali Thoppil6Are you sure? This chart from the OECD says there is not much difference for young people
Gas Station Susie4The 3.1% Dutch figure and 20% UK figure use different poverty definitions, so the comparison doesn’t work. Using the OECD’s harmonised measure, the Netherlands is at 7.4%, the UK at 11.8%, and the OECD average at 11.7%.
Joachim Heijndermans4Also, it's not like we do the avondvierdaagse year round. That's some 'one day of christmas ought to do it for the workers in the coal mines' mentality right there.
Stephen Cox3Guardian being a proper grown up newspaper challenge.
Christopher Mims3that seemed like a shockingly high figure so I looked it up, grimly, at least one source pegs it at a record 31%: cpag.org.uk/news/child-p...
Lucien Ey2This One Weird Dutch Trick Might Fix Britain . . .
Tulia 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈2I mean, in general journalism is lazy, but when did it become *this* lazy?
Jackie❤️☮️🇵🇸🇪🇺🏳️🌈🏳️⚧🎵🖤♿2A country where 1 in 5 live in poverty, versus a country with 3 in 100, and the people are happier? Wow, wild concept.
