On April 19. 2007. the United States and the Netherlands will mark 225 years of unbroken diplomatic relations. It is the United States longest existing diplomatic relationship. My parents emigrated to the United States from the Netherlands when I was 3 years old. I am deeply proud of my Dutch heritage and feel that I have a special connection to both countries. As Russell Shorto notes in "The Island at the Center of the World." Americans are indebted to the culture of tolerance that was present in 17thcentury Dutch Manhattan. where men and women of diverse races and religions lived in relative peace for the first time in the New World.
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