The Dutch city's government announced that it would be accepting the proposal to make the city's street names more "diverse" a year after the initiative was put forth by left-wing party Democrats 66 (D66), the GreenLeft, and the Labour party, Dutch newspaper Telegraaf reports.
Councillor Nadia Arsieni, of the D66 party, was the one to initially recommend the proposal and said she was happy the local government had accepted it saying, "A sample showed that a large number of the streets were named after men of Western origin. That does not fit in the Rotterdam of today."
Deputy Mayor Bert Wijbenga explained that diversity was the main motivation for the move and said,
"In order to give substance to more cultural diversity, the policy rules stipulate that the attribution of names of women and other underrepresented groups from society should be preferred for personal names," and added, "diversity is at the forefront."Wijbenga also announced that there were no intentions to rename existing streets stating that, "there will always be room for the great men of Rotterdam."
Rotterdam is one of the most heavily migrant-populated cities in the Netherlands and has struggled with the integration of certain minorities such as Turks who rioted in 2017 after Turkish ministers were refused entrance to the Netherlands during a campaign for a referendum in Turkey.
The issue has become so pervasive that the mayor of Rotterdam Ahmed Aboutaleb, a Muslim himself, said in 2015 that Muslims who "do not like freedom can pack your bags and leave" in the wake of the Charlie Hebdo massacre in Paris.
Islamist ideology has also crept into the cities local politics with the Islamic extremist party Nida briefly having a coalition with several left-wing parties ahead of last year's local elections. The alliance collapsed after a tweet from Nida surfaced comparing the state of Israel to Islamic State.
Chaos being the condition in which overwhelming force plays out the saviour.
By all means honour the guest - but if they have come to stay then they come into a relationship, and a cultural tradition. There's is to honour those traditions AS the greater family into which they are joining. But the incitement to victimhood as a means for taking offence - is not native to the home country - but is insinuated into the European psyche with the intent of its destruction.
So the call is not to be guilt-ridden for one's race or history, but to re-engage with all that is is and gives, as an embodiment of life.
What otherwise happens by default is equal and opposite reaction - albeit expressing in shifting forms.
Corporate guilt is not felt, faced or repented of and released in action from a new place - but is outsourced to the populations or everywhere and dumped on the living world. If we feel guilt for what 'leaders or corporate cartels' do - then be curious as to where exactly our resonant correspondence is - and change.
Guilting others as a weapon - and guilting them into then emulate the guilting of their fellows - as if an act of caring - is the nature of a mind-capture. Guilt and fear operate a mind-capture - but also open a back door to be hacked. Be vigilant for your peace - but then first you need to let peace rise to your willing awareness. What is the nature of the restlessness of thinking that will divert or deny you your rest? Is it not guilt? And fear? - along with their progeny.
The first order is to get straight - not to react from an old posture that cannot be worthy of you or it would not have been open to be usurped.