Dutch Caribbean, Curaçao
Who Gets to Wait at the Harbour
The head of the taxi drivers' union on double-decker buses, foreign-owned shops, and the mentality he wants his island to shed.
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Dutch Caribbean, Curaçao
The head of the taxi drivers' union on double-decker buses, foreign-owned shops, and the mentality he wants his island to shed.
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An official from the youth and adult education department on tumba, forgotten instruments, and a culture policy that never quite met the tourism one.
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Curaçao's youth on emigration, uniforms, and the carnival parade tourists still don't understand.
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A Curaçao tourism expert on the friars, the stereotypes that outlived them, and what changes when the visitors stop being only Dutch.
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Everyone in Punda's market calls her Zus — "sister" — a name she's carried since she was a girl small enough to disappear behind the pots. Her mother started the stall decades ago; Zus never really left. Now the government wants to tear the market down.
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