Netherlands Explained!

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The Dutch are also known for being extremely direct/honest/blunt, and there's an interesting backstory to it:
It is suspected that the Dutch are so brutally honest because of the nation's history. Most European countries were (mainly) ruled by nobility, where how you're perceived by other nobility was hugely important for your status in life. This led to extreme politeness (the English gentleman for example) and intense code of conduct, which ultimately trickled down to the lower class as well.
The Netherlands on the other hand was primarily a merchant state, where efficiency and trust amongst partners was vital for good business. As such, there was no benefit in sugar-coating your opinion or worrying about how you might be perceived. The most beneficial attitude was to always speak your mind and be to the point, which ultimately led to the culture of brutal honesty the Dutch are known for today.

You can still see the legacy of New York being Dutch for a while in a lot of names there;
Harlem = the Dutch city of Haarlem
Flushing meadows = the meadows of Vlissingen (a town in the province of Zealand)
Wallstreet = former Dutch street called de Walstraat
The Bronx = named after the Dutch farmer family Jonas Bronck’s farm
Brooklyn = a Dutch town called Breukelen
And another fun fact; Yankees are named after the Dutch because a lot of Dutch men were called Jan and Kees and the Brits called the Dutch the JanKees’s to mock them (later spelled as Yankees)

Fun fact about the war with Spain: When spain came to overtake Amsterdam in the winter, The Dutch people didn't have the armies to resist them. But evacuating thousands of citizens on short notice with winter coming wasn’t possible either. So the Dutch created "The ice brigade" When the Spanish army tried to attack the dutch ships on foot (walking over the ice towards the ships) hey were confronted by a horrifying apparition. Wave after wave of Dutch soldiers ice-skate across the surface of the ice with incredible speed, flitting into range just long enough to fire a musket before retreating again behind walls of ice and frozen snow. The Spanish soldiers had never seen anything like it: “It was a thing never heard of before today,” the Spanish Duke of Alva recounted with grudging admiration, “to see a body of musketeers fighting like that on a frozen sea.”
Source: Neatorama: Ice skates won the war

To be honest, as a Dutch girl, I really like this video. It's pretty damn correct. Also, yes about the bicycles. Everyone owns at least one, since it's the primary source of transportation for a lot of people. Cities are designed for bike paths. In my city, bike paths run through the centre and cut through passes, which means that often you get to places faster by bike than by car (because cars have to go around). Also, no parking issues! I own 2 bikes, because at 32 I've never owned a car! Never needed one. Go to work by bike. I have a spare one in case something happens with my first one, since I can't get around well without one!

Besides the stock exchange the Dutch also invented: the submarine, wifi, bluetooth, microscope, telescope, electrocardiogram (ECG), fire hose, cassette tape, compact disc/cd, four wheel drive, gin (jenever), and sadly also the speed camera.
The Netherlands was also the first country in the world that legalized same-sex marriage and euthanasia.

We also made ‘flevoland’ out of nothing. We just drained a part of the ‘Ijselmeer’ and build a whole new province out of it. With this project we showed the world that we know a lot about that stuff. So, for example, we made the palmtree islands in Dubai.

I live in Amsterdam since 2017 and this country became my everything. I can’t even think about a life out of here. I live my neighborhood, my bike, my cloudy/rainy/windy/sunny days…The dutch are the best. I’m Brazilian and We’re welcoming happy people and the dutch are exactly the same in their own way. You will NEVER regret visiting The Netherlands 🇳🇱❌❌❌

Im from Aruba, we have our own main language btw (Papiamento). We can speak Dutch though as well as English and Spanish.

The enthousiastic way of telling made me feel hyped. As a dutchie i am of course very proud of our tiny country. Fun fact the nethetlands has won 3 times in a row when it comes to be the best english speakers within all non native english speaking countries. And always fun to know that the dutch also discoverd australia and New Zealand (named after the provence zeeland)

The Netherlands is also the 2nd largest exporter of food in the world, the USA is the biggest. Many of the world's most famous painters are Dutch, not just Rembrandt or van Gogh...many, many more! We are probably the most advanced at sea defense in the world, New Orleans is now protected against the floods thanks to Dutch engineering. The Dubai islands were made by the Dutch. The list goes on and on! Proud to be Dutch!!

What I miss in this video about NL is that our struggle for saving land from sea lead to sharing our unique knowledge on water management worldwide to countries regurlarly flodded by the sea, lakes and rivers. We also have the largest dredging company in the world.

My daughter has lived in Harleem nl for 3 years. She and husband moved here 3 years ago from Oviedo, Spain. We get to visit for a couple months a year. The longer you visit the more amazed you are by the incredible engineering and society that the Dutch have created. From the water management, to seamless integration of train, trolley, bus, bike and pedestrian traffic, one of the best medical systems in the world to things you won't notice at first. Like pavement codes for the blind. Once you know what they are you're a bit stunned by how comprehensive the thinking was. We are from Texas and normally replace a few thousand power poles and lines per year. They say they're too expensive to bury....but somehow a country that is on average 6 feet below sea level has buried every one of them. You'll see high power lines but nothing on the street, anywhere! All US city planners need to intern here. They approach from a lifetime cost not just an upfront investment approach. That on top of everything else they are the only 2nd to the US in food export is amazing in its own right. It's pretty small in area! Holland rocks.

I learned that they're an extremely smart and practical people with a huge list of accomplishments. They are truly a force to be reckoned with.
Respect to the Dutch.

3:30 slightly incorrect.
Windmills were used for many reasons, one of the reasons was to pump water to a higher level (to prevent flooding), but there were litterally hundreds of mills with different purposes. Mills were an early version of a factory, before stream engines or other engines existed. They were used for paint mills, spices mills, flour mills, sawmills, textile mills, you name it.
Any kind of physical labor could be done by a mill.

I don’t know if it’s already mentioned in the comments, but also a “fun” fact:
Long time ago, when the Netherlands got invaded, we used the rivers to our advantage and flooded some lands to make it impossible to travel. There is a museum that talks all about this, if you are interested I recommend going to a museum called Waterlinie Museum at Fort bij Vechten (waterlinie is the name of the water defense system, which directly translates into waterline in English). It is close to big city called Utrecht. You don’t have to worry about info, (often) in Dutch museums there are multiple translations and most of the time things are explained in Dutch but also English.

I think as a Dutch person, we should talk more about the other provinces, rather then talk only about north and south Holland but this was a great explanation for my country:)

This video is amazing, and extremely correct on every aspect. Except for one, (8:11) because England didn't just 'claim' New Amsterdam, they traded it in exchange for the country that we call 'Suriname' today. Back then, it was a colony owned by England. The Dutch saw way more value in Suriname than New Amsterdam, that's why they traded it.

Also, did you know the Netherlands has the biggest man-made piece of land of the world? Its called "Flevoland" and its about 2000km²!

6:13 it's actually at least 600.000 years, the first Dutch ancestors being Homo Heidelbergensis. Also;
6:49 The reason had more to do with the Netherlands being very protestant, and the king of Spain strictly enforcing Catholicism.
8:07 The Dutch *did* put up a colony, with a population of roughly 2500. It was actually traded with England for Surinam: "
"After the Second Anglo-Dutch War of 1665-67, England and the United Provinces of the Netherlands agreed to the status quo in the Treaty of Breda. The English kept the island of Manhattan, the Dutch giving up their claim to the town and the rest of the colony, while the English formally abandoned Surinam in South America, and the island of Run in the East Indies to the Dutch, confirming their control of the valuable Spice Islands. What was once New Amsterdam became New York City's downtown." From wikipedia

I’m Dutch and this is one of the most fun videos I’ve seen about the Netherlands. Great video man!

We Dutch also hold the record for being very economical with our bottles of yogurt. We developed a super advanced way of getting the last bit out and it's called the flessenlikker.

Actually, in Dutch high schools it is mandatory to follow English and Dutch, at the highest level (VWO) it is mandatory to follow a third language, where most people choose German or French

Super fun to watch, even as a Dutchy myself. I hope this channel will upload more videos in the future! I'd be so curious to watch videos like this one about China, Korea, Japan, etc. Also, I loved the editing and the small jokes makes it easy to listen 😁 Subscribed!

I loved your video and the enthusiasm with which you speak...was glued to the screen entire time ❤️

GEKOLONISEERD!
Amazing video man, i love that you didnt stick to the standart dutch facts but went more into detail.
Heb je mooi gedaan maat.👌

Small inaccuracy in the flag: the top level of the flag was never officially specified, so people could use any reddish shade they wanted. (much) later, the flag got 2 often used versions: the red and the orange version. The problem came, as often, in WW2. The orange version became heavily associated with the NSB (the dutch fascist collaborators), so the queen canonized the red version, to distance the Netherlands from the fascists.
The historical maps of the Netherlands aren't accurate too btw.

My little hometown Drøbak, (Norway), is situated 40 kilometres south east of Oslo.
Back in the days Dutch ships would come for timber from our forests. Their ballast sand was unloaded at 2 beaches. Filling them out for more land...
They're called "Tollbodplan", (Customs house plein/ square), and "Ringeplan", (named for the English family Ring, wich had settled in town).
Love from Norway 💓🇳🇴

Hi! I just want to say great video, the editing and voice over was amazing like you must have a lot of experience. One thing I would like to see have been mentioned was our famous sea hero Michiel de ruyter. He was basically the best admiral we have ever seen and won many battles for us at sea. He also hated slave trading and thus never owned a slave which was sadly very uncommon for rich people back then. Anyway you just earned a new subscriber because you tell and make these video’s in such a way I want to listen and learn from it

We've also had a pretty large influence on science and arts, as the inventors of both the telescope and the microsope were Dutch, as was the founder of the field of microbiology Anthonie van Leeuwenhoek and there is an absolute TON (metric, of course :p ) of famous Dutch painters (Rembrandt, Vermeer, this is a really, REALLY long list...). And more recently, WiFi is a Dutch invention, that seems to be a bit important, too. And when it comes to music, there is little competition in the field of electronic music. Van Buuren, Tiësto, Ferry Corsten, most great names in that field are Dutch.
Oh, and Santa Claus? He's pretty much a carbon copy of our Sinterklaas. Same outfit (red/white), same basic concept (goes around the country delivering presents to children). And yes, Sinterklaas, even though Saint Nicholas was a well documented historical figure, our current tradition is more of an amalgamation of pagan, norse an christian traditions.
It's just too bad our country is currently being run into the ground pretty hard by a completely incompetent government, but then, that seems to hold true for most countries across the globe at the moment...

I’m Dutch, really loved to see this. Just some fun facts for next video.
The European treaty was signed in Maastricht.
Maastricht University is 6th on the Times Higher Education (THE) 'Young Universities' ranking
Martin Garrix, Afrojack, Hardwell, R3HAB.. we pretty much dominate the dance music charts
A different dialect is spoken every 5 minutes through the whole country
Harbor of Europe (Rotterdam)
Tulips are originally from Turkey
Our history with (hard) drugs and the production -> approx 5 billion industry to date

Fantastic video! Bravo! Enjoyed every single bit of it! AND may we please applause to all the editing behind the scenes in appreciation - this work is a true art!

Wow this video is amazing, everything you need to know about the Netherlands in just 10 minute, I'm going to visit this September! This is really helpful, keep up the good work and thank you 👍😘

Every Dutchman is like: ow man great but BUTTTT you missed shit 😂

Home of the windmills, tulips and cheese! But this country has SOO much to offer and such an interesting story to it! Also it’s home to some brilliant minds! Genieten! 🙌

Please make a part 2?! (Or more 🙃)
I am a Dutchie and learnt so much from this video!
Really love it. Awesome, I’ll share this with my friends 👌🏻. Thanks!

I am from the Netherlands 🇳🇱 and really liked your video. Also learned some new things about here. Keep up the good work 👌🏽

I'm Dutch and this introduction to our country was just AWESOME! Not just because of the huge number of facts that you managed to spit out in under 12 minutes (red only being introduced to our flag since 1937? I never knew this), but also the fun and enthusiastic way in which way you did it! Gotta love this, subbed right away!

Dutchman here. I really love how much you know about our small country. Thank you it's heart warming. Also one more thing dutch are people who are straight foreward with hart on their tongue (dutch proverb), but everyone is welcome.

U deserve more subs, this video looks amazing put together ! respect keep going :)

Thank you!! I’m so glad I stumbled upon this video. I’m Dutch and live in the US. I plan on visiting the Netherlands for the first time this year and it was really cool to learn about the history - a lot of it I didn’t know yet

These videos are great! Only 2 so far but they are really well made. Can't wait for more and I personally would love to see a video about Norway, there are plenty of videos that explain the country, but they mostly go over fairly recent history without a huge amount of detail.

As a Frisian I appreciate it that you mentioned our language!
What I've learned about new york/new Amsterdam is that the Dutch traded it for the colony of Suriname, so it wasn't that the British just sailed in and took over, they traded it.
If I'm wrong please correct me, history is a strange thing written by only people, and we know how people are.
Another interesting fact is that the Dutch are the tallest people (as you mentioned) but in the Netherlands the tallest people are the Frisians and the Groningers (who are Frisians from old times but say they aren't)

I LOVE our host and I am a big fan of vids about countries. Sir, you ROCK!!! I love your energy and enthusiasm. I will be watching out for more more MORE!!! All the best!

Great video! Very accurate. I didn't read all of the comments below, but did anyone already mention the Delta Works in Zuid-Holland and Zeeland? These are the nowadays manifestations of fighting water and how we benefit from it economically.
Keep up the good work!

You missed that the dutch flag is absolutely the oldest in the world, officially dating from 1572 ( probably even earlier, but 1572 is listed as official). The 3 colours of the dutch flag inspired many other nations as well ( e.g Russia, France , UK, USA ) all deriving their colours from the dutch flag.

Fun fact: Dutch is the second closest related language to English, the closest related language to English is Frysian

Loving this! The precise facts combined with great humor and epic narrating is keeping me hooked! Gonna definitely subscribe and check out the other videos as well! Thank you for this!

this was pretty good, well done my guy

For the amount of time you had to explain us, you did wonderful! Of course we missed things, but you can't put everything in there and I liked it, being Dutch myself.

I’m Dutch and I absolutely loved this video! How do you only have 5000 subs? The edits and script where great!

What a great video! 🧡 Super good explanation of this beautiful country! ❤🤍💙 thanks!

Born and raised and still living in Amsterdam, The Netherlands I really enjoyed this very informative and fact correct video. And I learned two things I didn't knew; 1st is about the orange/red part of the flag and 2nd is that "Holland" isn't no longer to be used anymore officially.
I enjoyed this video very much and; "if it ain't Dutch, it ain't much!!!"
Thanks for this nice video !!!

You presented the best video I have seen so far. Born in Amsterdam, lived right in the Center (Red Light District). Had a great time growing up there and became a Police Officer in that same Red Light District, for many years known as the most dangerous square km in the country. Netherlands. Thank you and keep up the good work ...

I think you forgot to mention the discovery of New Zealand (named after the Dutch province of Zeeland) and colonization of Indonesia by the Dutch East India Company, the first company in the world to have stocks. Also one of the wealthiest companies in history.
Also the development of the Delta Works is recognized as a technological world wonder.

That was an AWESOME video. You answered all my questions I had about the Netherlands and Holland!

You make our country sound sooo interesting! Love it

Really nice video! But as a Dutch person myself I'd like to correct one error. The orange colour in the flag was not changed because it was easier to see. But because of a growing disassociation with members of the royal house and a growing influence of the Staten generaal. The colours symbolise the three layers of the Dutch society by then. Blue for the noble of blue blood, white for the clergy seeing white is the colour of the cloth and red for the blood of its citizens

im a dutchi and also a frisian at primary school we had to learn three languages dutch english and frisian of course.
one of the ways you described to pump water out is by pump stations and mils most of the pumping stations ae automated by elektricity. but one pumping station in friesland by lemmer is the BIGGEST steam pumping station in the world. and also when the water level is too high they wil turn it on to help getting the water level down in the rivers and lakes in friesland. with huge boilers and steam engines.

Great video, as a Dutchie myself I loved it, very informative!! I just wanted to add my love for stroopwafels, hagelslag & pindakaas! And the pride & carnaval, best days of the year!

Wow soooo nice video!!! Make me have super big interest about the Netherlands, I want to study all other countries and their histories with this channel!!💕

I watched the video about Denmark and I like it a lot! I would love to see a video about South Africa, I've been there and travelled around with a group of a few families, it was amazing and I've learned a lot there but I think you could make a very fun and interesting video about it. Love the Vid💜

I'm form the Netherlands and there's one thing you missed,... STROOPWAFELS. A golden rule, everything gets better with stroopwafels. Especially the fresh ones from the market, with none of the nonsense they sometimes put on them for the tourist. Trust me, just order a plain one. Yummy!

Hi CE
For non-Dutch audience this is a very nice , short and light made content about the country.
So sure i liked it, and because of the time i agree there were much to say about the country/culture/history that you need more than 1 episode.
Thanks and well done,
regards,

0:27 HOLY MOTHER FINALLY FINALLY AN INTELLIGENT GUY!

Another fun fact: The highest point in the Netherlands is the "Vaalserberg" (Vaalser mountain), with an astonishing height of 322m, and it's located at the southeasternmost part of the country.

I loved it! As a Dutchman and a Rotterdammer, I missed that the Rotterdam Harbour was actually the number one harbour in the world (now second or third idk). And that we love deep fried stuff haha

Wow! You’ve grown so BIG, I first watched you, when you had around? 1K subs and around 10K views! Congrats

Fun fact: One of the three musketeers died in Maastricht, a city in the province of Limburg Netherlands 🇳🇱

- The Dutch rebelled against the Spanish Empire because they, both protestants and catholics, wanted religious tolerance, not the Spanish Inquisition.
- Spain didn't come, the Low Lands were just part of the Habsburg Empire. But the Dutch decided that a monarch had to serve the people and the people had the inalienable right to freedom of conscience and to remove a monarch when he had become a tyrant.
- The Dutch Republic with it's 1.5 million people did more than half of all Europe's trade, that made their golden age golden, not the colonialism, which was mostly not colonialsm as you know it from the British and which only accounted for a tiny bit of the trade.
- When Napoleon invaded he made the former republic into a kingdom and called it the kingdom of Holland. After he lost, the Netherlands became the kingdom of the Netherlands.
- Manhattan was traded for 60 guilders worth of goods. Useful goods, axe heads, pots pans, metal things. The natives were keen and experienced traders and 60 guilders could buy a lot back then. The idea that they could be won over with trinkets and beads is a racist stereotype.
- Orange referred to the Stadtholders from the Orange family, an office they were often appointed in by the commoners of the States (parliament) Their princehood was a foreign title, from Orange in France.

I’m from the Netherlands in it was interesting to see it from a foreign perspective, also a fun fact: about 57% of tourists who visit Amsterdam come for the coffeeshops (weed dispensaries)

I really liked this video!! Rich in information! I learned!!!😍 Thanks

You naild it man, in from the Netherlands and you teld everything about the country and evrything that i think you shout tell you tell. You did shutch a great job and i hope people will discover you becouse i love this video's. (Sorry for my spelling)

It gives me a good and warm feeling to hear and see my Netherland . Yes love it and the people over there are special ❤️

I'm Dutch and find this video to be sufficiently informative to share it with foreigners who're interested in this water loving country

4This video was spot on. Nicely done

Great vid awesome narrating 👊✌

Dutch is also spoken in Suriname, a former dutch-colony. So Dutch is also our national language.

Great video. You have put a lot of research in it. Missed the '' stroopwafels'' haha and maybe the' 'delta werken' ' but for the rest it was a really good video. I liked it a lot. Thank you.

I did not know we are 1.3 times BIGGER than Belgium :O
Can't wait to see more countries explained... so subscribed!

Learned a lot. Many thanks.

Hello men, first of all good video, only one small thing to mention: at 3:43, the middle picture what was ment to be de Schelde, is actually a picture of Terneuzen, and at this point the river de Schelde already turned into a sea arm of the North Sea called de Westerschelde.

As a Dutch person, I absolutely loved your video (: What you ran through is exactly the basics about what you need to know about us Dutch people so well done! Much love to you as a person as well. I laughed quite a few times, haha. Very likable character! Subscribed!

As an argentinian living in Amsterdam I think this is an amazing video to show to my friends, I think it explains very well what it feels like to live in the Netherlands 🤩

Geweldige video man ga zo door !!!

What a complete video! Wouldn't be able to summarise my country that well myself. Theres always more to mention ofcourse, but this is a great summary

Fun fact: The declaration of independence is actually based on het plakkaat der verlatingen it was a document of independence from Spain.

So nice to hear the perspective from someone who isn't born and raised in the Netherlands. I feel proud to be Dutch!

I live in Amsterdam centrum, it’s so cool to see you show our city and being so enthusiastic about it!😁

It's a nice video. Small adjustments only for those who care xD: the three largers rivers are not named in Dutch :). These are the maas, Rijn and Waal. The Waal is the largest river. It's called this after the Rhine/Rijn splits in two in Germany. The larger one is somehow the Waal. The smaller one is the Rijn.
And interesting that Catholic faith is now the largest, since it used to be shunned/banned until the 19th century. Meaning they were not allowed to build churches ect

Great and fun video! 4:05 Malta is also a member of the EU and more densely populated than The Netherlands. Besides that, it's great that I learnt from this too, didn't know we had the first stock exchange of the world!

Thanks The Video is Awsom one of The Best Incredible yes i learned a lot very quickly.

Nice video quite accurate too lots of love from Gouda 😊

Love the The Netherlands! 🇳🇱 Been there between 70-90 times now I think 😁
Also really curious about this channel, love videos like this! Good work 😊

Great video, very entertaining. If I can make a tiny correction: the Dutch declaration of independance (Het Plakkaat van Verlatinghe) was signed in 1581, but this was not the end of the war. The Eighty Years' War started in 1568 and would last until 1648.

As a Dutch guy i have to say : Great job ! Love your video👍

Wonderfully explained

Hmm. What did we miss. Perhaps that the VOC was the largest company ever. With the size of the current top10 companies in the world combined. Having its own army as well.
Inventors of the cassette, CD/DVD, Bluetooth and WiFi etc.
And biggest party animals in the world. :)

First of all a great video, I am also a Dutchmen. As other people mentioned a few things was missing in the video like; famous dj's, impact on the house scene, how much we love bikes;), ice skating, the water floods in Zeeland. One other thing that was maybe good to mention is that the whole of the provency "Flevoland" was created from out the sea. In the pictures BC you showed that the islands were not there, but the provency Flevoland is being showed. This is incorrect because they started making the provency in 1918 (a dicision made after the storm flood in 1916). They finished 2 centuries later.

We, especially those who live in a city, don't love our bikes. We almost treat them as disposable items. Of course we don't like it when it gets stolen or when it breaks, but other than that we don't really care much about it either. Their purpose is that they're there to use. Most of us don't clean them (the rain will do that for us) and we'll only get someone to take a look at it once it breaks. So yeah, it's a pretty abusive relationship without much love involved xD