“Rico Badr what time?” That seems to be one of the most used search terms by ‘the common man’ on Google. The average Dutch person drinks, does not smoke, can be recognized by a gray second-hand car, and so on. Hardly anyone identifies as average: everyone feels special, millennials par excellence. But who is that infamous common man? Kitty and Elif go in search of him/her with the help of social geographer Josse de Voogd. Josse knows the Netherlands like no other and argues that the elite deviate too much from the average citizen. And in the section Het Nostalgiemoment, Heleen van Royen looks back at an excerpt from De Wereld Draait Door in which she was ‘slutshamed’ more than 10 years ago – by today’s standards.
Podcast Unfiltered with Kitty and Elif
