Freedom+and+tolerance

Hi!  We have to write about the freedom and tolerance here in Holland. I think the rules about freedom and tolerance are very good in Holland. Perhaps to good, because there is a freedom of speech here. That means actually that you can say whatever you want, also everything about all religious and the government, because you just have the right. I think this also means a lot of trouble.. Example: There was a movie, made by a very weird man, Geert Wilders. He shows in his movie how bad he thinks the Islam is. It was very shocking and discriminating. There were lots of discussions about this movie, so I think the freedom of speech isn’t always so easy as it seems to be. I also think Holland is a very free country when it goes about immigrants. They just have the same rights as 'Dutch people'. That's why Holland is a very multicultural country.

People in Holland can wear all kinds of clothes, can follow their own religion, and it doesn't matter if you're gay, lesbian, bisexual of just hetero. I think that's very good.

Using drugs is legal here. And you can buy cigarettes and alcohol from your sixteenth. And you may not drink in the streets, but you may smoke in the streets.

How is it all in America? I think it's much stricter, isn' it? Is there much discrimination there?

Greets, Josie.