The Dutch
Centraal Bureau voor de Statistiek (CBS) used the definition that at least one of the parents is not born in the Netherlands. A first distinction was made between first-generation and second-generation newcomers. • A
first-generation was a person living in the Netherlands but born in a foreign country and who had at least one parent also born abroad. The 'country of origin' was the country in which that person was born. • A
second-generation was a person born in the Netherlands with at least one parent born in a foreign country. When both parents were born abroad, the 'country of origin' was taken to be that of the mother. If one parent was born in the Netherlands, the 'country of origin' was the other parent's country of birth. Note that someone who was born abroad, but with both parents born in the Netherlands, was an . A further distinction was made between "Western" and "non-Western" people. A
non-Western was someone whose 'country of origin' was or lied in
Turkey,
Africa,
Latin America and
Asia, with the exception of
Indonesia (or the former
Dutch East Indies) and
Japan. This last distinction was made because the official definition of deviated from the common use in popular speech, where people referred to someone as only when that person was an immigrant or an asylum seeker who was clearly distinct in
ethnicity (i.e. physical appearance or skin colour), clothing or behaviour from the traditional Dutch society. However, in the official sense, the largest group of people were of
German ancestry. The groups that people usually thought of when they heard the word were those of
Turkish,
Moroccan,
Surinamese and Dutch-Antillean ancestry. As of 2006, the first three groups comprise roughly 350,000 people each, together constituting just over 6% of the population. So a new term was introduced that lied closer to that meaning, "", which excluded people from Europe, Japan (a developed high income country) and Indonesia (a former colony), but not those from the
Netherlands Antilles and Suriname, even though the Netherlands Antilles are part of the
Kingdom of the Netherlands and those from Suriname immigrated when that country was still part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. This definition coincided better with the popular conception of the word as signifying people of low socio-economic status who are "different from us". Although some viewed the usage of as a stigma, several members of the
Dutch royal family and all past monarchs were officially people, as one of the parents was foreign-born. This includes 'western-allochtoon'
King Willem Alexander as well as 'non-western allochtoon'
Queen Máxima and their children. As of November 1, 2016, the Statistics Netherlands stopped using the terms and . Instead, it distinguishes people with a migrant background and people with a Dutch background. ==Criticism==