Why is discrimination increasing more in the Netherlands than anywhere else?

Yesterday, on 21 May, UNESCO organised the World Day for Cultural Diversity worldwide. It is a day on which the UN organisation draws attention to the value of cultural diversity and to ways of living together harmoniously. And this is certainly not unnecessary, because recent research shows that, in the Dutch labour market, diversity is often paid lip service, whilst a great deal of discrimination still takes place.

Increasingly more is being done to combat discrimination. But evidently, even more is needed.

For example, discrimination in France has been declining rapidly in recent years, whilst in the Netherlands it is actually increasing rapidly. This is worrying, now that around a quarter of the working population is already of foreign origin, and increasingly more is being done to combat this discrimination. So, more is needed, it appears. Perhaps something like the Equal opportunities in recruitment and selection Act, which is currently before the Senate.