Original sentence: Dutch nationalism, and support for a traditional national identity, never disappeared, but were not visible.The Netherlands has now attracted international attention for the extent to which it reversed its previous multiculturalist policies, and its policies on cultural assimilation have been described as the toughest in Europe.The elite consensus on multiculturalism co-existed with widespread aversion to immigration, and an ethnic definition of the Dutch nation.When these factors re-entered political debate in the late 1990s, they contributed to the collapse of the consensus
Edited sentence: In the late 1990s The Netherlands attracted international attention for the extent to which it reversed its previous multiculturalist policies, and its policies on cultural assimilation have been described as the toughest in Europe.Political consensus nevertheless prevailed by a system of political correctness, by which opposition to multiculturalism became a political mortal sin.The multiculturalist's wish to replace traditional Dutch identity by something new had always been restricted to the cultural and political elite and was never shared by the majority of the population.Yet when immigration climbed to unprecedented heights in the 1980s and 1990, political correctness crumbled and opponents of multiculturalism re-entered the political debate