I am Dutch. Viewers need to remember that the Netherlands is not only rich but also a very small country and densely populated. Compare to Kerala which has over 38,000 km2 while the Netherlands has over 41,000 km2.
I'm Dutch too and I can't get my head around how small this country is. I recently found out that the distance between Enschede and Rotterdam is the same as the distance between Manhattan and Long Island....that's still within New York city limits! One city! 😅
The area of Kerala is over 38,000 km2 with a population of almost 33,500,000 (census 201 1). Will now be more in 2024. The area of the Netherlands is almost 42,000 km2 with a population of almost 18,000,000 in 2024. Compared to the Netherlands, Kerala is more densely populated than the Netherlands. But the Netherlands is also becoming densely populated.
@@teresita1320how many squared meters do cows receive in India? In the Netherlands there are laws that forbids the farmers to have more than so many cows or chickens per 100 m2. Since the Netherlands produces a lot of Food products, those animals need a lot of Space.
I like a couple of things here. The original video is prominently displayed. Also no pauses of the vid. And then ur both genuine in reactions 😃 Much love from the Netherlands!❤
2 years ahead of shedule! unheard of for projects on this scale. Now you understand why we build a statue for that engineer who designed the plan. (obviously also because it did what was promised)
Fun fact: all the soft clay ground in the newly claimed land (the "polders") is very fertile. It is especially good for growing tulips and herd cows. That's one of the reasons why we are the biggest exporters of tulips in the world, and we do export a lot of cheese, mainly because 17% of the total land area is this kind of fertile ground. Gouda cheese is the name of a type of cheese nowadays, the type most well known over the world. It has been traded in the city of Gouda since the year 1198.
Originally the Netherlands was a swamp/delta and nobody want to live there; only people running from agressive tribes. Maybe we should help the Bengladesh as well to deal with the water problems.
The Rhine, the Meuse and the Scheldt don't have the problem of releasing the water dumped by a monsoon, but the Ganges does have that problem (just like the Nile), and Bangladesh lays in the delta of that Ganges so that won't be such an easy task. And, 'of course', there's the problem of money.
@@Apollorion - "we" in the NL are in the flood planes of these rivers. We have no problem with them, generally, since we put dykes around them. But after monsoon type rains, you'll for example see flooding of the Rhine river in Germany with disastrous results. In the NL you can visit villages along these rivers and find marks that indicate how high the river's water rose, once upon a time and in all these cases there was flooding and loss of material things as well as lives. In some cases, such floodplains had three dykes at a distance of each other and with different height. You can find these with names like "guardian dyke" (highest, inner), "dreamer dyke" (medium height), and "sleeper dyke" (lowest, outer). These are very old and between these dykes you'll have a flooding area that works as a buffer between the river and the inhabited land. In recent decades, NL people have started to use the floodplains more but that's silly and asking for wet feet or loss of everything, not just material but lives as well. The reason people lived here, in what's now NL, was not just aggressive tribes. Homo sapiens has had very long time windows of living along water where fish and crustaceans provide an easy access to proteins. During such long periods we lost our ability to synthesize vitamin B12, and later gained the ability to build a B12 reserve in our livers (B12 is essential in our energy processes). In the thinking of old cultures there was a divide between fish and crustaceans from the sea versus from rivers. Sea was considered much better than river. In my home town, the "fish hall" was built in a primary location against the basilica church while the "river fish market" was elsewhere. The disadvantage of living near water may be "swamp fever" - the Dutch not-as-bad-but-still-bad variant of malaria. We also used to have "winter midges". Note that many "polders" got pumped dry - the land claimed - as a way to get rid of these infectious problems as primary motivation and the claimed land as secondary. In some cases, like uncovered in Scotland or Great Britain, Stone Age people mitigated the infectious problem by building houses on poles above water, with a walk-way to them from shore. Between 5m and 15m from shore, there are no biting infectious flying insects any longer that you would have in the swampy land. "Managing" water levels in an organised way, outside the dominant political system, may have started already some 1000 years ago. Collaborating in the construction of dykes may be as old as about 2,000 years. Dykes started as walk ways between the mounds that people in the floodplains built their houses on. Its easier to put a protective dyke around a larger area than to connect every house to every other house. But this requires collaboration. And next management. And deeper knowledge where it doesn't matter who has the loudest mouth or biggest something because deluded "leaders" will cause you, or your children, to lose everything. What mattered was valid and relevant in-depth knowledge.
Not true, humans have lived here since the Stone Age. Turns out river deltas are super fertile. Obviously people all around the world figured that out.
Funny how the narrator mentions Lelystad in the video, but they show a photo of Almere (Grote Markt). 😄 Another thing to mention is that the Dutch, just like other European countries did steal land overseas (parts of India included).🙈 My interests headed towards technical studies and I work in IT now, but waterworks/techniques is also still an interest I have. It is awesome to see how the huge projects came to be. And is not like students and companies are sitting idle. New ideas and innovations keep coming to be able to live with the dangers of water.
First, there must be a will to change. But that alone is not enough. What many countries suffer from is extensive corruption. Corruption at all levels of the authorities responsible for implementation can hold everything back. So, if corruption continues, nothing will change for the benefit of its people.
7:20 That's my province. Zeeland (Sealand). The Delta Works are impressive, even when you live there. "Luctor et emergo" ( I struggle and overcome) is the spell of the Province. You can still see houses with erosion from the disaster in 1953. Even tho I live below sealevel, I'm not worried of floods. Besides the dikes that form the coastline here we also have many inner dikes. That way we have plenty of time to evacuate. Nice reactions from you guys. Greets!
Yes, all these works were very expensive, but it took dutch engeneering skils for watermanagement to a much higher level. This knowledge is being exported all around the world. The special vessels that were necessary for the works boosted the Dutch shipyards in a lot of complex ship and off-shore building. So it brings a lot of money back to the Dutch economy Greetz Jacques
Nee. Het laat alleen zien hoe trots wij op Nederland mogen zijn om ons eigen land te creëren. Jee wij Nederlanders zijn zo slecht in complimenten aanvaarden. Ik ben trots!
@@AndreSomerssnap ik wel. Maar het is toch al te gek dat er tegenwoordig vaker reactie video's over ons sterke land worden geplaatst. Alleen al de verbazing, over dingen die wij als vanzelfsprekend ervaren, maakt mij trots. Prachtig om ons door de ogen van andere landen te zien 😊
Some facts to give the clip more understanding… 1) since the Afsluitdijk hardly any covermental structure is build ahead off time. Its takes between 30 and 80% more time normally and cost normally also go between 100% and 300% then estimated. An example…. The renovation of the Dutch parlement area…called binnenhof. Calculated at 850milion euro Now its 2 billion…and still going up…the predict its going to be more like 3 billion 2) the Deltawerken didn’t take only 28 days to decide. The plan was already there but the coverment didn’t want to invest in it. They thought it wasn’t needed. It took 1800 deaths to speed it up under immense political pressure. Its a nice clip…but some facts are being told not in the correct way.
There was a plan to build a dam from England 🏴 to Norway 🇳🇴 and polder the North Sea for more land Bud I think the Russia 🇷🇺 didn’t like it al so it was cancelt And there was plan by a German to build a dam from Spain 🇪🇸 to Marokko 🇲🇦 For energy and drain the Mediterranean Sea for more land bud was cancelt to don’t know why I think it was to expensive
Canadian railroad lines are sparse compared to the Netherlands (relatively). There also are less railroad crossings or cross sections (a lesser network, a lesser grid/coverage). And train frequency is much less in Canada then in the Netherlands. Despite all this there are far more train delays in Canada then in the Netherlands (delays mainly caused by freight trains). The Dutch railroad is fine.
@@dennishendrikx3228 There rarely is enough snow that stops a train in the Netherlands to justify a snow plow for every Dutch train. I can only remember one time in the past 50 years that this ever happened. As to leafs ... It is the oil in the leaf that is a problem. It extends the braking distance dramatically. Which is not a problem at all in Canada with the sparse and distant train schedules on a sparse railroad network. However, it definitely is a problem on a highly frequent railroad network with an intensively dense railroad grid. Which, contrary to Canada, the Netherlands is. By the way, Canadian passenger trains are sometimes delayed for hours because of freight priority. The train network in the Netherlands is absolutely fine. Other than perhaps the insufficient capacity during rush hours. But they are working on that to be solved ...
@@wimahlers I am not speaking about priorities, density or distances. I am not saying one is better than the other. I only said they can go trough snow, while we can't go on leaves. Like there are only pinetrees over there. Those are real woods.
@@dennishendrikx3228 Snow and leafs are two different things. With vastly different characteristics and problems. As I (tried to) explain before, the oil in leafs is pressed out by the train wheels. Resulting in oily railroad tracks. And consequently longer braking distances. This problem is the same for Canada as well as the Netherlands. The difference being that due to train traffic density (more frequent train schedules) this is no problem for Canada. But since trains in the Netherlands follow much closer it is a problem in the Netherlands.
We didn't get tired of stealing land, we just got tired of getting shot at by the people in the land we tried to steal so we turned towards the eternal enemy, the one with the fringe benefit (to us) of not having firearms.
Please don't think it's all perfect here, but yes, generally speaking we can't complain about the government. I personnely think it has to do with the protest christian culture of responsability.
So much to be proud of as a dutchmen yet we are all complaining about how bad it is. Strange to see how people view the world differently when they are part of it opposed to outsiders. Yes we are a rich country yet poverty is getting worse and worse each year...
Actually rising poverty is mainly due to immigrants expecting to share in the wealth without speaking the language or adjust to local costums. It's not a nice country for the uneducated that don't speak the language or atleast English. Or for those people that think they can just demand free money and a house. They tried though and now we have a more right wing government because reaction/counter-reaction.
Fun video to watch, you have such genuine reactions! Greetings from Rotterdam, the Netherlands!
I am Dutch. Viewers need to remember that the Netherlands is not only rich but also a very small country and densely populated. Compare to Kerala which has over 38,000 km2 while the Netherlands has over 41,000 km2.
I'm Dutch too and I can't get my head around how small this country is.
I recently found out that the distance between Enschede and Rotterdam is the same as the distance between Manhattan and Long Island....that's still within New York city limits! One city! 😅
@@GullibleTarget yeah and NY has 1 Mayor we have 876 😂😂
The area of Kerala is over 38,000 km2 with a population of almost 33,500,000 (census 201 1). Will now be more in 2024.
The area of the Netherlands is almost 42,000 km2 with a population of almost 18,000,000 in 2024.
Compared to the Netherlands, Kerala is more densely populated than the Netherlands. But the Netherlands is also becoming densely populated.
Isn't interesting how many children don't have breakfast in the Netherlands because of poverty?
@@teresita1320how many squared meters do cows receive in India? In the Netherlands there are laws that forbids the farmers to have more than so many cows or chickens per 100 m2. Since the Netherlands produces a lot of Food products, those animals need a lot of Space.
I like a couple of things here. The original video is prominently displayed. Also no pauses of the vid. And then ur both genuine in reactions 😃
Much love from the Netherlands!❤
2 years ahead of shedule! unheard of for projects on this scale. Now you understand why we build a statue for that engineer who designed the plan. (obviously also because it did what was promised)
Thanks from the netherlands
Honestly I was baffled by the fact that we, this tiny country are the 2nd biggest food provider in the world.
2nd biggest exporter. Primarily because they import a lot of raw products (like coffee and cacao beans for example) and export the finished product.
@@Molentik No, we are the second biggest NET exporter (export - import)
Foods we export are relatively expensive like meat and cheese.
I drive the afsluitdijk weekly and have driven it more than 500 times...Greetings from Friesland...
Fun fact: all the soft clay ground in the newly claimed land (the "polders") is very fertile. It is especially good for growing tulips and herd cows. That's one of the reasons why we are the biggest exporters of tulips in the world, and we do export a lot of cheese, mainly because 17% of the total land area is this kind of fertile ground. Gouda cheese is the name of a type of cheese nowadays, the type most well known over the world. It has been traded in the city of Gouda since the year 1198.
So sweet how you guys react to things we take for granted.
Originally the Netherlands was a swamp/delta and nobody want to live there; only people running from agressive tribes. Maybe we should help the Bengladesh as well to deal with the water problems.
YOU SHOULD FIRST PAY BACK TO WHAT YOU GODDAMN STOLE FROM INDIA, INDONESIA AND AFRICA, JUST LIKE THE BRITS YOU DAM HISTORY RAPERS!!!
The Rhine, the Meuse and the Scheldt don't have the problem of releasing the water dumped by a monsoon, but the Ganges does have that problem (just like the Nile), and Bangladesh lays in the delta of that Ganges so that won't be such an easy task. And, 'of course', there's the problem of money.
@@Apollorion - "we" in the NL are in the flood planes of these rivers. We have no problem with them, generally, since we put dykes around them. But after monsoon type rains, you'll for example see flooding of the Rhine river in Germany with disastrous results. In the NL you can visit villages along these rivers and find marks that indicate how high the river's water rose, once upon a time and in all these cases there was flooding and loss of material things as well as lives.
In some cases, such floodplains had three dykes at a distance of each other and with different height. You can find these with names like "guardian dyke" (highest, inner), "dreamer dyke" (medium height), and "sleeper dyke" (lowest, outer). These are very old and between these dykes you'll have a flooding area that works as a buffer between the river and the inhabited land. In recent decades, NL people have started to use the floodplains more but that's silly and asking for wet feet or loss of everything, not just material but lives as well.
The reason people lived here, in what's now NL, was not just aggressive tribes. Homo sapiens has had very long time windows of living along water where fish and crustaceans provide an easy access to proteins. During such long periods we lost our ability to synthesize vitamin B12, and later gained the ability to build a B12 reserve in our livers (B12 is essential in our energy processes). In the thinking of old cultures there was a divide between fish and crustaceans from the sea versus from rivers. Sea was considered much better than river. In my home town, the "fish hall" was built in a primary location against the basilica church while the "river fish market" was elsewhere.
The disadvantage of living near water may be "swamp fever" - the Dutch not-as-bad-but-still-bad variant of malaria. We also used to have "winter midges". Note that many "polders" got pumped dry - the land claimed - as a way to get rid of these infectious problems as primary motivation and the claimed land as secondary. In some cases, like uncovered in Scotland or Great Britain, Stone Age people mitigated the infectious problem by building houses on poles above water, with a walk-way to them from shore. Between 5m and 15m from shore, there are no biting infectious flying insects any longer that you would have in the swampy land.
"Managing" water levels in an organised way, outside the dominant political system, may have started already some 1000 years ago. Collaborating in the construction of dykes may be as old as about 2,000 years. Dykes started as walk ways between the mounds that people in the floodplains built their houses on. Its easier to put a protective dyke around a larger area than to connect every house to every other house. But this requires collaboration. And next management. And deeper knowledge where it doesn't matter who has the loudest mouth or biggest something because deluded "leaders" will cause you, or your children, to lose everything. What mattered was valid and relevant in-depth knowledge.
Not true, humans have lived here since the Stone Age. Turns out river deltas are super fertile. Obviously people all around the world figured that out.
And their government.
Funny how the narrator mentions Lelystad in the video, but they show a photo of Almere (Grote Markt). 😄
Another thing to mention is that the Dutch, just like other European countries did steal land overseas (parts of India included).🙈
My interests headed towards technical studies and I work in IT now, but waterworks/techniques is also still an interest I have. It is awesome to see how the huge projects came to be. And is not like students and companies are sitting idle. New ideas and innovations keep coming to be able to live with the dangers of water.
First, there must be a will to change. But that alone is not enough. What many countries suffer from is extensive corruption. Corruption at all levels of the authorities responsible for implementation can hold everything back. So, if corruption continues, nothing will change for the benefit of its people.
The Netherlands also had an idea to make a dam from north England to Norway and from south Englands to Franse to make even more land
Maybe at a later stage it will be for more land, if it ever gets started its first reason will be protecting from rising water levels.
Thank you for your interest in our country❤
Land of tulips,
windmills, clogs, canals and strong disciplined people.❤.
WW2 made them
strong and resilent
Good history thank you❤
Other countries: we are multiple years behind on scheduele with this megaproject.
The Netherlands: We've finished 2 years ahead of scheduele. LOL
7:20 That's my province. Zeeland (Sealand). The Delta Works are impressive, even when you live there. "Luctor et emergo" ( I struggle and overcome) is the spell of the Province. You can still see houses with erosion from the disaster in 1953. Even tho I live below sealevel, I'm not worried of floods. Besides the dikes that form the coastline here we also have many inner dikes. That way we have plenty of time to evacuate.
Nice reactions from you guys. Greets!
Maybe one day the Netherlands can start helping Bangladesh and similar places
THE DUTCH SHOULD FUCKING REPAY FIRST
They do, there have been programs for decades now.
@@InfinityIna Repay what?
@@InfinityIna Yes, let's have the Netherlands pay for things that it was never involved in, and your generation has no stake in.
Yes, all these works were very expensive, but it took dutch engeneering skils for watermanagement to a much higher level. This knowledge is being exported all around the world.
The special vessels that were necessary for the works boosted the Dutch shipyards in a lot of complex ship and off-shore building.
So it brings a lot of money back to the Dutch economy
Greetz Jacques
Dutch projects finishing early isn't typical though. But those flood protections... yeah we took that very seriously. And for good reason.
It isn't totally unheard of either. The extension of the Rotterdam Metro to Den Haag was finished (very slightly) ahead of schedule and within budget.
@@apveening As was a major construction project in Assen, the Florijnas. It was finished early and under budget.
I think it would be a great idea if the both of you watch a clip solely about the deltaworks. It will blow your mind.
They should start with Kinderdijk to better comprehend why we are known for our watermanagement.
Oh we did not only defeated the sea, we also found a way to stop the wind. 😂
It doesn’t even mention more recent projects like the 2e Maasvlakte.
Nee. Het laat alleen zien hoe trots wij op Nederland mogen zijn om ons eigen land te creëren.
Jee wij Nederlanders zijn zo slecht in complimenten aanvaarden.
Ik ben trots!
@@BabsRooversKlomp ik bedoelde het niet als negatief commentaar op de video, maar als “er is nog zoveel meer om trots op te zijn”.
@@AndreSomerssnap ik wel. Maar het is toch al te gek dat er tegenwoordig vaker reactie video's over ons sterke land worden geplaatst.
Alleen al de verbazing, over dingen die wij als vanzelfsprekend ervaren, maakt mij trots. Prachtig om ons door de ogen van andere landen te zien 😊
The video missed one of most impressive dam-like structure. De maeslandkering
It was shown but not mentioned.
Must've missed it. However if anyone i eould recommend watching 'op de schouder van reuzen'
A good follow-up video is "How Does The Netherlands Help Other Countries with Water Problems". ua-cam.com/video/12Pfow-Rmg0/v-deo.html
Ah! An Indian pronounced the name of my hometown Urk. That was good. Nice video.
AN INDIAN WHO DOES NOT KNOW THE HISTORY OF INDIA........... M.FO*****
They have internet in Urk? ;)
;)
Some facts to give the clip more understanding…
1) since the Afsluitdijk hardly any covermental structure is build ahead off time. Its takes between 30 and 80% more time normally and cost normally also go between 100% and 300% then estimated.
An example….
The renovation of the Dutch parlement area…called binnenhof.
Calculated at 850milion euro
Now its 2 billion…and still going up…the predict its going to be more like 3 billion
2) the Deltawerken didn’t take only 28 days to decide.
The plan was already there but the coverment didn’t want to invest in it. They thought it wasn’t needed.
It took 1800 deaths to speed it up under immense political pressure.
Its a nice clip…but some facts are being told not in the correct way.
The time laps are wrong! Wieringemeer was first! Afsluitdijk was later!
"Necessity is the mother of invention." :Anon?
285 billion seems a bit too much...
Lol they are reacting like seeing a firework show.
Ooohhh aaaahhhh ooooeeeewwwww wwwaaaauuuaaawww 😂
There was a plan to build a dam from England 🏴 to Norway 🇳🇴 and polder the North Sea for more land
Bud I think the Russia 🇷🇺 didn’t like it al so it was cancelt
And there was plan by a German to build a dam from Spain 🇪🇸 to Marokko 🇲🇦
For energy and drain the Mediterranean Sea for more land bud was cancelt to don’t know why I think it was to expensive
Our next project, is to prevent train chaos, in autumn. We will go see why Canadian trains never stop, and ours do 😂
Canadian railroad lines are sparse compared to the Netherlands (relatively).
There also are less railroad crossings or cross sections (a lesser network, a lesser grid/coverage).
And train frequency is much less in Canada then in the Netherlands.
Despite all this there are far more train delays in Canada then in the Netherlands (delays mainly caused by freight trains).
The Dutch railroad is fine.
@@wimahlers Right. But they also plow trough snow, while we get cancelled lines because of leafs. Ever seen how much woods Canada has, next to us?
@@dennishendrikx3228
There rarely is enough snow that stops a train in the Netherlands to justify a snow plow for every Dutch train. I can only remember one time in the past 50 years that this ever happened.
As to leafs ...
It is the oil in the leaf that is a problem. It extends the braking distance dramatically.
Which is not a problem at all in Canada with the sparse and distant train schedules on a sparse railroad network.
However, it definitely is a problem on a highly frequent railroad network with an intensively dense railroad grid. Which, contrary to Canada, the Netherlands is.
By the way, Canadian passenger trains are sometimes delayed for hours because of freight priority.
The train network in the Netherlands is absolutely fine.
Other than perhaps the insufficient capacity during rush hours. But they are working on that to be solved ...
@@wimahlers I am not speaking about priorities, density or distances. I am not saying one is better than the other.
I only said they can go trough snow, while we can't go on leaves. Like there are only pinetrees over there. Those are real woods.
@@dennishendrikx3228
Snow and leafs are two different things. With vastly different characteristics and problems.
As I (tried to) explain before, the oil in leafs is pressed out by the train wheels. Resulting in oily railroad tracks. And consequently longer braking distances.
This problem is the same for Canada as well as the Netherlands. The difference being that due to train traffic density (more frequent train schedules) this is no problem for Canada. But since trains in the Netherlands follow much closer it is a problem in the Netherlands.
We got tired of stealing land we needed a new challenge ;p
VOC?
We didn't get tired of stealing land, we just got tired of getting shot at by the people in the land we tried to steal so we turned towards the eternal enemy, the one with the fringe benefit (to us) of not having firearms.
Please don't think it's all perfect here, but yes, generally speaking we can't complain about the government. I personnely think it has to do with the protest christian culture of responsability.
sorry: protestant
We Dutch didn't spend many Euro's on all of this, most if not all of this was still in the time of the Gulden, or Guilder in English
Dat werd ook verteld. Guldens werden zelfs verrekend in euro's. Niets mis met deze video.
We dutch are great, taken the compliment
reactions are off a bit
We build more and more, only for all the refugees 😂
You ain't mutch if you ain't Dutch 😜
Watching Indians react is like watching polution and garbage in rivers 😂greetings from Amsterdam het Ei ♥️
Dees ook
God build nothing! I'm from the Netherlands, a mostly NON religious country, and don't know that saying,
So much to be proud of as a dutchmen yet we are all complaining about how bad it is.
Strange to see how people view the world differently when they are part of it opposed to outsiders.
Yes we are a rich country yet poverty is getting worse and worse each year...
Actually rising poverty is mainly due to immigrants expecting to share in the wealth without speaking the language or adjust to local costums. It's not a nice country for the uneducated that don't speak the language or atleast English. Or for those people that think they can just demand free money and a house. They tried though and now we have a more right wing government because reaction/counter-reaction.