"Tikkie" is also a word used as a word you say when you tag someone playing the game "tag", in that sense its quite funny cause when your sending a "tikkie" request to someone your essentially tagging him to pay you money 😂
Something about the language topic; my mother is 71 and was never good at english as far as we knew. There were many words she didn't know and her accent was very thick. Then we went on holiday in Britain and she was suddenly fluent when she had no choice but to talk with someone there and lost her accent. Turns out she had been faking being bad at english all this time just to get the kids to do all of the translating. Back in the netherlands she's pretending to be bad at english again as if I'd just forget about what I witnessed in GB.
8:30 he is basing it on Dutch standards for English and most Dutch would then say they dont speak english very well. But compared to other non-english speaking nations we are the best for sure.
The dude tjat says Dutch dont speak English that well... Pure anecdotal, and not based on numbers. The Dutch are the best non-native, second language English speakers. I think this should be clear and other countries should try harder to make this a priority too. It just makes globalization that much easier and more efficient. Yes, all you French, Germans and Russians - you especially.
I think maybe he's saying that because there are a lot of older Dutch people who have a bad accent (at least, compared to the younger people who grow up hearing English every day on tv/youtube). There's quite a difference between how good my English is compared to my father, for instance. And from an outside perspective, I think there's also kind of an uncanny valley problem, in that the typical Dutch accent is both too similar and still too different at the same time, and it just makes me cringe to hear it. Whereas for example a French or Italian accent is very clearly it's own thing, the Dutch accent is close enough that it's more annoying to hear the differences, maybe...
thanks for doing a dutchie vid. AND the discord shout out ... grts from a dutch cheesehead living in Lower Saxony .... pls stay safe and eat your daily drop.... hahaha
Just for the record, we have *THREE* technical universities in The Netherlands, Delft, Eindhoven and Twente (order of age). All of which come up with awesome shit every year. They've also dominated the World Solar Challenge for years. In addition we have an agricultural university at Wageningen which is to agriculture what CalTech is to Silicon Valley.
Actually Twente University stopped being a purely 'technical' university after the introduction of faculties for organization, business, and behavioural science somewhere in the 90s I think. The abbreviation TU that you sometimes see associated with the university stands for Twente University not Technical University.
When you said you were going to drive a car in the Netherlands I laughed. The Dutch infrastructure is alien compared to that of the USA. If you want to know more you should see not just bikes.
Trust me after he sees our gasoline prices he will think he's robbed which is true :P (It's $7.5 a gallon) But we do have nice roads without potholes. And people that actually know how to drive.
Also, somehow people seem to assume the weed thing in the Netherlands is mostly in Amsterdam, and yeah sure there's a coffeeshop in (almost) every alley there, but in other big (and small) cities you find them as well. I myself don't really help fight the stereotype of Dutch people and there weed related endeavours but I feel that the people who smoke a lot get into it because they like it, not because it's cool and edgy.
Tell me about it, i had a woman once that said that i shouldn’t smoke joints. (I don’t do drugs) It was a cheese stick (Kaas stengel) for crying out loud!
About the rudeness thing: I for example hate it when people waste my time by beating around the bush. Just tell me what you want straight away. Doesn't matter how you wrap your message, it's about the content. Don't be afraid to step on toes, but don't do it intentionally. My politeness towards others would be: striving to not waste more of their time then strictly necessary. About the bike thing: if you come here you'll be handicapped without one. No parking anywhere near where you want to be/very expensive parking fees. But bike parking everywhere and anywhere. City centres are mostly pedestrianised/for bikes. A car would be a nuisance in my daily life. (And I love 💘 cars).
i life near a city(Amersfoort) in small town and i can go there by bike but it would take 45 minutes at least without an electric bike and its exhausting in the summerheat and icecold in the winter, and the public transport is time bonded although the bus comes every 20 min but it would still take 15 minutes to get to the city. Meanwhile with a car and in a 15 minute drive you are there, although fuel prices are going up, probably the bus prices because of that too and the same is with electricity
There are 22 million bikes here and 17 million people. It is common to have at least 3 bikes. A good quality (E-)bike for commuting as most employers provide secure parking facilities for bicycles and a scrappy one for shopping and other local activities. Sometimes also a 'bakfiets' for transporting small kids or large goods. Then for leisure a sporting- and or mountainbike.
Although I'm Belgian living very close to the Dutch border, I can confirm this is all true. I spend a lot of my time in the Netherlands, sailing, shopping and visiting friends. I just love dutch people mainly because of their blunt directness and their attitude. Very different from Belgian habits whereas Belgians keep much to themselves. It can be because I've got ASD that I prefer this kind of communication. Clear, honest and simple. :D You can go anywhere in The Netherlands and start a conversation about anything. If you have troubles with fi public transportation or finding your way around a city, they are the most helpful! And what the drug stereotype concerns is not an issue at all. Yeah, I smoke some pot from time to time(maybe 3 or 4 times per year) just to relax while watching a funny movie with some snacks ;)
As soon as I got my own car, I left my bike in the rain for an eternity. And at the moment I wanted to use the bike the municipality had already removed it. So now I only own a car for atleast 10 years.
Dutch guy here about the whole going Dutch thing. Yes, when you go out and spend some money here, almost everybody expects that everybody pays for their own meals/entrance/whatever. I don't do that with closer friends though. Then it's more like, you pay sometimes, the other times the other friend pays. I do think that's uncommon here though. Ooh and the whole Dutch smoke weed all the time: Those answers really depend on who you ask to be on your show. A lot of Dutch people smoke weed all day long, but I don't know how that compares to other countries. I'm glad I don't have a bike anymore. I'd rather walk or take the car if it's more than 5 minutes walking. Also, I think cops can get you a sort of DUI if they think you are too drunk to ride your bike (as you are on a vehicle participating in traffic). Never heard of that happening though. Oh and older people tend to not know English well. Like 60+. The rest just have a ridiculous accent.
My theory about us Dutchies being so tall is that we live over 2 meters under sealevel in most of the country so we're sub-conciously trying to outgrow the rise in sealevels for a better chance of survival :') We aren't the tallest though I believe there are some African countries where people are actually even more giant than us on average.
True! My father is 6'6" (2 m) and according to him, standing between them he was one of the smaller men 🤷♀️. BTW my grandfather (born 1906) was 6'2" (1,85 m) and his theory for beeing so tall was similar to yours 🤗, the only difference was him saying - according to family tales - "I don't like to swim, I prefer to walk" 😎
There are some african tribes that are way taller than us. But they are a smaller part of other countries and those countries are on average smaleer than us but they have parts of the countries which are taller than us.
no. we are in the midlle of germanic people. germanic people have always been the tallest. dutch has also been in contact with the nords/ scandinavians. and they were the talles back in the viking age.
About our apperance. Its both truth. Yes there are tall, blond and blue eyed dutchies, but there are also enogh dutchies who don't have them. See our history ( Spain, France and all the immigration).
@@monicavanputten8153 Yea we are very much multicultural so there's always an exception to everything. Actually represents our culture quite well ironically enough :P The exception to the exception of the rule is not all that uncommon here. Though on average we do have more tall people and we definitely have more blonde people than most countries because being blonde is near impossible in the eastern parts of the world where most of its population resides so I think it's a fair stereotype be it it's not a photocopy of everyone here.
You noticed that there are a lot of videos with funny dutch stuff. I think it has to do with the farely free way this generation (1990-now) is raised by their parents. In the sence of "do what you like to do, as long as you don't hurt others". So they organize parties in the park and other wierd things which are fun. Combined which a high adaptation with internet/social media/digital skills, it results in a lot of videos as proof of achievement. And I think that ok and positive.
8:20 we have the highest proficiency in english out of any of the non native english speaking countries. its not a stereotype when its literally true lmao
What I hate though is when Dutch gets Englified and people start accomodating the tourists and the entirety of Amsterdam turns English. A while ago, a woman from America said; "Dutch is soooow easy to learn, it's basically English with some extra words." I hated that moment.
Nahh we don't go Dutch, we go Double Dutch :D :D :D Tikkie is a bit like Venmo in the US. Delft is not the only Uni anymore, Twente Uni as well. To check that look at the Solar Car races every year in Australia. (I think we won 8 years in a row, but don't quote me on that.)
@@okidoki878 .. ??? I did it for years when I was a kid! Loved it more than just the one rope. (Boring). We even had it during physical exercise class at school. Jump in with 1 or 2 other children.
The younger generations are speaking English very well but the older one's not so much but overall yes we get taught English constantly throughout television, gaming, media and school so yeah.
This is the case everywhere. Due to high English skills of young people, the old people of tomorrow will be well spoken in English. This will improve more rapidly than any other country where English is not a native language
Lol, “the younger generation” is getting older. I’m almost sixty and I consider myself part of the younger generation that speaks English well. But even from my mother’s generation a lot of people speak English or are at least able to understand most of it. English has been one of the three foreign languages tought at middle school for decades. I think in my mother’s secondary school period French was still considered the more important language though.
tall and blue eyes, 6'4 so yeah we tall and ofc we go the dutch way "kijken kijken niet kopen" they say in most European countries to dutch people. smoke weed everyday🥴💚
Weed is usually for tourists. They come to Amsterdam especially for the weed and the red light district. The people you see stoned in Amsterdam are almost always tourists. Dutch people themselves are not very much into drugs. It's not a taboo, not forbidden, so it just has lost much of its charm. Do you want to promote something? Make it illegal, that's the greatest incentive you can have! In fact the use and abuse of drugs is much less in the Netherlands than it is in many other countries, especially compared to the USA
@@Goregreet in certain areas, yes. On festivals, yes. On average, not really. And there is a big difference between enjoying a small joint or a bit of space cake, like us Dutchies, and being stoned out of your mind like all those aggravating tourists
The weed thing deffinitely is annoying, i even read somewhere that most of the weed sold in Amsterdam is bought by tourists. 8:20 Yeah i don’t know what this guy means, The Netherlands has one of the highest percentages of people speaking 2 or more languages.
Yes we have multiple bikes a person. A proper one for commuting and a wreck for drunk late evenings, so it's not a big loss when stolen or never found back in a canal. Funfact: sales in e-bikes here are really skyrocketing that much the scooter sales go down under youth and older people, basically everybody. That means less air and noise pollution in cities besides the health benefits for the user of the e-bike.
Amsterdam doesn’t represent the Netherlands. There are way to many different mentalities to claim this. People from the south are having a complete different way of thinking and living, so do people from other parts of the country. Even on such a small surface, there isn’t a country in the world with so many differences. And, yes, the “going Dutch” really is something to get used to when you came to live here from a foreign country…
@@Gorebane Not really, the vast majority of non-americans at least understand New York isn't all of the US, at minimum they know about Las Vegas, LA and Texas in general. Meanwhile here in the Netherlands Amsterdam is treated by foreigners (and people from Amsterdam) as being the whole country to the point that the Dutch tourism board started to rename things on the other side of the country "amsterdam [something]" in tourist information to get tourists away from Amsterdam. Meanwhile this country has 3 native languages, most provinces have multiple cultures (as those provinces used to be separate nations). And to use my own native low-saxon as an example of the sheer diversity we have, if you talk to a native speaker you can hear which part of a specific small village he comes from. It would be akin to a US federal government board dictating that the rocky mountains should be referred to as "western New York mountain range". And tourists treating everything in the US from Hawaii to Texas as being the same as New York City.
as a Dutchy, I can tell you. Doing drugs is not a common thing. A Tikkie is just a way of paying the other person via your phone app. easy way to pay. I do need my bike lol. NEVER walk on a bike lane!!. o, by the way -> Holland is not the entire country just a part.. (north-west part) the Netherlands is our real name for the country.
there used to be an old dutch comedy show and one of the characters (Koos Koets) was a junkie he said when it was illegal you really was like you defy the police but nowadays you walk into a shop ask for a gram of afghaan, the thrill is gone.
I think a lot of dutch culture comes from how small and densely populated it is We're not necessarily cheap but showing off is frowned upon Because the rich neighborhood is a short walk from to local "ghetto" Equality is just a practical fact of life
I’m Dutch, born in a family of giants and even got hormones to stop growing. But they worked a little too well to my taste. So now I’m not that tall… And I’m a brunette with dark brown eyes. Not standard Dutch I guess.🤣
71,5 % of dutch native speakers speak english as a second language fluently, which makes us best non native english speaking coutry. Our accademic english skills are actually rated higher (on avagare) than those of some native english countries, including amusingly enough, the united states of america, though not by much.
6:10 it is easy to get ye but there is also a lot of education on it and many parents wouldnt like their child to do drugs because it is addictive and expensive
Yea the thing with weed in the Netherlands is that we don't really have the naughty vibe to it. It's normal to smell weed nobody bats an eye some people like the smell a bit less than others perhaps but whatever. It's something you do at home or in your backyard on a nice day have a drink with it or some shit but it's really casual because we've grown up with it being normal. I'd say it's a bit like whiskey, if you like it you do it and you'll just have a nice time with it for a bit and move on with your day.
as a duthcie i know many dutch people who do not go dutch. i think it deopends on the group, like with friends its different then a date etc. dont think i ever ehared of a go dutch date here, only in usa
I live in Amsterdam and call tell you that what the guys said about the smoking thing is definitely true: you try it maybe a couple of times when you're a teenager, because it's cool (or you think it's cool) and then by the time you're 17-ish, you're just like...meh. 90% of the people you find in coffee shops are actually tourists.
Nice reaction vid again! Could you do a video about Texas? I am very curious about your state. Is every body wears boots? You all wear cowboyheads and all drink whiskey? (yes thats stereo typing!) No offence ment! Thx! Greetings West coast Netherlands!
The drug thing for me is half true. Because I like to smoke weed on parties but outside of that I never smoke weed. So it is half true for me personally lol. Also I am tall, dark blond and have blue eyes lol P.s too bad he stop the bit on the end, because the girl gets pretty annoyed with the guy and it is actually pretty funny.
Texans are also pretty direct upfront and blunt compared to the american average, at least in my experience, and generally the US bar some specific cities is pretty blunt, the juxtaposition is especially there with asians and south europeans, the caucasian part of north america are decendant from north western europeans so we share a lot of evolutionary traits such as directness styles of organisation and to some extend preferences
Dutch people mostly have everyday conversation level English. Most of us don't go past that point and a select few have like advanced business level English etc.
it is not just a stereotype weed is easy to get and do. Not just in Amsterdam. It is not even a forbidden fruit. It may be a stereotype everyone does it.
All Dutch riding bikes? Maybe in Amsterdam and a few cities. I spend a shitload of money buying 2 cars. Why do I want to ride a bike? I don't even own one.
A rikie is a payment systhem it works like this a frend hasnt got money on him and u pay fpr him than u can semd some kind of a receed over whatsapp to let youre frend pay u back
Tikkie is basically a payment request app, where you can pay each other really easily, this way one person can advance the payment in the restaurant to speed things up, and then we split the bill up afterwards. But most dutch banking apps have something simmilair build in these days anyways so i don't use tikkie,.
It may look like there are a lot of videos about the Dutch, that's just because you are into the Dutch😉. Now, for a next reaction I do have a couple suggestions. One about Dutch architects in the USA and one British comedy act. I will fill out a form for them. 🧡 from The Netherlands
Being Dutch I'm quite happy to pay for a meal when I invited them. But I live in the south of the Netherlands so I'm not like the cheapskates living in Holland.
Great reaction to this video .. and yes ... the Dutch are different compared with almost every other country ... NO NONSENS people !.... we don't have much with the "glitter and glamour " as they doe in the USA .. a well knowen saying in the Netherlands = : act normal ... and that will be grazy enough !
8:21 the schooling for english here is horrible, u learn the basic things thats it. u really need to learn english urself here by watching movies, gaming etc. most people i know that dont learn english themselves are horrible at it lol. most of the time u have to read a piece of a book at the english class and sometimes it sounds like someone is speaking a whole diffrent language just cause they dont teach good here.
Dutch is the closest language to English, that's why everybody in The Netherlands speak English quite easily ! After that the Danes and Norwegians, then the German.
Im watching this like hmm im dutch , im blond , about 6ft , while smoking some mary jane I do have to say dutch arent that cheap most people i know share everything we are very to the point though so i guess that can come of as rude to people who do their best to be polite
Love the videos man but what’s your thing with the Dutch? I mean watching all your videos around the Dutch makes me almost think you’re either obsessed with us or have family over here or live here yourself. Just my directness wondering for it 😉
"Tikkie" is also a word used as a word you say when you tag someone playing the game "tag", in that sense its quite funny cause when your sending a "tikkie" request to someone your essentially tagging him to pay you money 😂
So treu
Yep
Something about the language topic; my mother is 71 and was never good at english as far as we knew. There were many words she didn't know and her accent was very thick. Then we went on holiday in Britain and she was suddenly fluent when she had no choice but to talk with someone there and lost her accent. Turns out she had been faking being bad at english all this time just to get the kids to do all of the translating.
Back in the netherlands she's pretending to be bad at english again as if I'd just forget about what I witnessed in GB.
Lmao not my mom pretending not to understand how the IKEA instructions worked and always asked me and my sister or my father to build things 😂
@@stanleyho8009 I recently learned the term for this: weaponised incompetence aka to pretend to be bad at something to avoid having to do it.
@@itsalwayshalloweenexceptwh5118 ... shit my tactics have been found out lmao
8:30 he is basing it on Dutch standards for English and most Dutch would then say they dont speak english very well. But compared to other non-english speaking nations we are the best for sure.
I think the Danish speak better english then we do, almost without an accent ( instead of our "steenkolenengels" )
The dude tjat says Dutch dont speak English that well... Pure anecdotal, and not based on numbers. The Dutch are the best non-native, second language English speakers. I think this should be clear and other countries should try harder to make this a priority too. It just makes globalization that much easier and more efficient. Yes, all you French, Germans and Russians - you especially.
You are so right! Thx!
I think maybe he's saying that because there are a lot of older Dutch people who have a bad accent (at least, compared to the younger people who grow up hearing English every day on tv/youtube). There's quite a difference between how good my English is compared to my father, for instance.
And from an outside perspective, I think there's also kind of an uncanny valley problem, in that the typical Dutch accent is both too similar and still too different at the same time, and it just makes me cringe to hear it. Whereas for example a French or Italian accent is very clearly it's own thing, the Dutch accent is close enough that it's more annoying to hear the differences, maybe...
How many languages are you speaking, demanding all to try to do better?
@@dirkdriessen1133 goed bezig
He is right though.
thanks for doing a dutchie vid. AND the discord shout out ... grts from a dutch cheesehead living in Lower Saxony .... pls stay safe and eat your daily drop.... hahaha
😂🤣😂
Ronny stop trying to give the man diabeetus 😂
Just for the record, we have *THREE* technical universities in The Netherlands, Delft, Eindhoven and Twente (order of age). All of which come up with awesome shit every year. They've also dominated the World Solar Challenge for years.
In addition we have an agricultural university at Wageningen which is to agriculture what CalTech is to Silicon Valley.
Dont forget the Erasmus uni. leading in medical fields for decades now
Actually Twente University stopped being a purely 'technical' university after the introduction of faculties for organization, business, and behavioural science somewhere in the 90s I think. The abbreviation TU that you sometimes see associated with the university stands for Twente University not Technical University.
Yes being direct/honest is something that people in other countries might not appreciate so much. 😅
Tikkie is a payment provider that lets you split the bill and send payment requests to other people.
Best invention ever!!
When you said you were going to drive a car in the Netherlands I laughed.
The Dutch infrastructure is alien compared to that of the USA.
If you want to know more you should see not just bikes.
Trust me after he sees our gasoline prices he will think he's robbed which is true :P (It's $7.5 a gallon) But we do have nice roads without potholes. And people that actually know how to drive.
Also, somehow people seem to assume the weed thing in the Netherlands is mostly in Amsterdam, and yeah sure there's a coffeeshop in (almost) every alley there, but in other big (and small) cities you find them as well. I myself don't really help fight the stereotype of Dutch people and there weed related endeavours but I feel that the people who smoke a lot get into it because they like it, not because it's cool and edgy.
like anny other recreational drug, some drink beer everyday.
Tell me about it, i had a woman once that said that i shouldn’t smoke joints. (I don’t do drugs) It was a cheese stick (Kaas stengel) for crying out loud!
@@ghost4ever657 i smoke my tabacco in long paper, everywhere i go nasty looks lol.
@@testjeaapiel9707 Lol, i'm sorry to hear that.
Splitting the money is indeed a normal thing to do. And don't look weird when a Dutch girl buys you a drink!
About the rudeness thing: I for example hate it when people waste my time by beating around the bush. Just tell me what you want straight away. Doesn't matter how you wrap your message, it's about the content. Don't be afraid to step on toes, but don't do it intentionally. My politeness towards others would be: striving to not waste more of their time then strictly necessary.
About the bike thing: if you come here you'll be handicapped without one. No parking anywhere near where you want to be/very expensive parking fees. But bike parking everywhere and anywhere. City centres are mostly pedestrianised/for bikes. A car would be a nuisance in my daily life. (And I love 💘 cars).
i life near a city(Amersfoort) in small town and i can go there by bike but it would take 45 minutes at least without an electric bike and its exhausting in the summerheat and icecold in the winter, and the public transport is time bonded although the bus comes every 20 min but it would still take 15 minutes to get to the city. Meanwhile with a car and in a 15 minute drive you are there, although fuel prices are going up, probably the bus prices because of that too and the same is with electricity
There are 22 million bikes here and 17 million people. It is common to have at least 3 bikes. A good quality (E-)bike for commuting as most employers provide secure parking facilities for bicycles and a scrappy one for shopping and other local activities. Sometimes also a 'bakfiets' for transporting small kids or large goods. Then for leisure a sporting- and or mountainbike.
about the bikes it is really true! kids here first learn biking :-) if they can do that. Then we learn them walk :-) lol
Im not that tall, never smoked, and im a only good weather biker .. 😉
The Netherlands is more than only Amsterdam..
I'm smaller than the average Dutch guy, i never bike and smoke IT everyday! 🌬🤪✌🏼
Although I'm Belgian living very close to the Dutch border, I can confirm this is all true.
I spend a lot of my time in the Netherlands, sailing, shopping and visiting friends. I just love dutch people mainly because of their blunt directness and their attitude.
Very different from Belgian habits whereas Belgians keep much to themselves. It can be because I've got ASD that I prefer this kind of communication. Clear, honest and simple. :D
You can go anywhere in The Netherlands and start a conversation about anything. If you have troubles with fi public transportation or finding your way around a city, they are the most helpful!
And what the drug stereotype concerns is not an issue at all. Yeah, I smoke some pot from time to time(maybe 3 or 4 times per year) just to relax while watching a funny movie with some snacks ;)
Most of the Dutch hate Amsterdam, we call it 020( zippcode).
As soon as I got my own car, I left my bike in the rain for an eternity. And at the moment I wanted to use the bike the municipality had already removed it. So now I only own a car for atleast 10 years.
Not just Amsterdam is famous for coffeeshops,, in the whole of the Netherlands you find coffeeshops. We have Germans coming over every day
Dutch guy here about the whole going Dutch thing. Yes, when you go out and spend some money here, almost everybody expects that everybody pays for their own meals/entrance/whatever. I don't do that with closer friends though. Then it's more like, you pay sometimes, the other times the other friend pays. I do think that's uncommon here though.
Ooh and the whole Dutch smoke weed all the time: Those answers really depend on who you ask to be on your show. A lot of Dutch people smoke weed all day long, but I don't know how that compares to other countries.
I'm glad I don't have a bike anymore. I'd rather walk or take the car if it's more than 5 minutes walking. Also, I think cops can get you a sort of DUI if they think you are too drunk to ride your bike (as you are on a vehicle participating in traffic). Never heard of that happening though.
Oh and older people tend to not know English well. Like 60+. The rest just have a ridiculous accent.
My theory about us Dutchies being so tall is that we live over 2 meters under sealevel in most of the country so we're sub-conciously trying to outgrow the rise in sealevels for a better chance of survival :') We aren't the tallest though I believe there are some African countries where people are actually even more giant than us on average.
True! My father is 6'6" (2 m) and according to him, standing between them he was one of the smaller men 🤷♀️.
BTW my grandfather (born 1906) was 6'2" (1,85 m) and his theory for beeing so tall was similar to yours 🤗, the only difference was him saying - according to family tales - "I don't like to swim, I prefer to walk" 😎
There are some african tribes that are way taller than us. But they are a smaller part of other countries and those countries are on average smaleer than us but they have parts of the countries which are taller than us.
no. we are in the midlle of germanic people. germanic people have always been the tallest. dutch has also been in contact with the nords/ scandinavians. and they were the talles back in the viking age.
About our apperance. Its both truth. Yes there are tall, blond and blue eyed dutchies, but there are also enogh dutchies who don't have them. See our history ( Spain, France and all the immigration).
@@monicavanputten8153 Yea we are very much multicultural so there's always an exception to everything. Actually represents our culture quite well ironically enough :P The exception to the exception of the rule is not all that uncommon here. Though on average we do have more tall people and we definitely have more blonde people than most countries because being blonde is near impossible in the eastern parts of the world where most of its population resides so I think it's a fair stereotype be it it's not a photocopy of everyone here.
US milk might not be the same as over here..... haha
4:01 - 4:02: "I definitely think that we are cheap".
Is a confirmation for the "Go Dutch" / "Thrifty" myth.
But also the "brutal honesty" myth.. ;)
Its not only Amsterdam where they sell weed. Its the entire country. But its a myth that everyone wants to get stoned all the time.
“Dutch like to get stoned all the time”came up as i am rolling a j here😂
You noticed that there are a lot of videos with funny dutch stuff. I think it has to do with the farely free way this generation (1990-now) is raised by their parents. In the sence of "do what you like to do, as long as you don't hurt others". So they organize parties in the park and other wierd things which are fun. Combined which a high adaptation with internet/social media/digital skills, it results in a lot of videos as proof of achievement. And I think that ok and positive.
8:20 we have the highest proficiency in english out of any of the non native english speaking countries. its not a stereotype when its literally true lmao
What I hate though is when Dutch gets Englified and people start accomodating the tourists and the entirety of Amsterdam turns English.
A while ago, a woman from America said; "Dutch is soooow easy to learn, it's basically English with some extra words." I hated that moment.
Yeah well it was anecdotal. Probably that dudes perception. Its hard to compare when you dont go abroad to compare to other countries
Nahh we don't go Dutch, we go Double Dutch :D :D :D Tikkie is a bit like Venmo in the US. Delft is not the only Uni anymore, Twente Uni as well. To check that look at the Solar Car races every year in Australia. (I think we won 8 years in a row, but don't quote me on that.)
You’ve got TU Delft, TU Twente, TU Eindhoven and BU Wageningen.
Double Dutch is a form of a rope/jumping act. Jumping through/in two ropes at the same time. (Touwtje springen).
@@hedwignl8118 yeah in the states not here😂
@@okidoki878 .. ??? I did it for years when I was a kid! Loved it more than just the one rope. (Boring). We even had it during physical exercise class at school. Jump in with 1 or 2 other children.
"Come and get it" on a flag with a canon under it, is pretty direct too .. 😁
Weed is not only ''Legal'' in Amsterdam it's ''Legal'' in the whole Country
The younger generations are speaking English very well but the older one's not so much but overall yes we get taught English constantly throughout television, gaming, media and school so yeah.
This is the case everywhere. Due to high English skills of young people, the old people of tomorrow will be well spoken in English. This will improve more rapidly than any other country where English is not a native language
Lol, “the younger generation” is getting older. I’m almost sixty and I consider myself part of the younger generation that speaks English well. But even from my mother’s generation a lot of people speak English or are at least able to understand most of it. English has been one of the three foreign languages tought at middle school for decades. I think in my mother’s secondary school period French was still considered the more important language though.
You driving your car, and there is no place to park. Hihihi
We have more bikes then people in the Netherlands. About 19 mil bikes, 17 mil people.
Fun fact: Most dutch drink alcohol on terasses, after that weed is too expensive to have as well
tall and blue eyes, 6'4 so yeah we tall and ofc we go the dutch way "kijken kijken niet kopen" they say in most European countries to dutch people. smoke weed everyday🥴💚
You can buy weed everywere in the Netherlands. Not only in Amsterdam.
Weed is usually for tourists. They come to Amsterdam especially for the weed and the red light district. The people you see stoned in Amsterdam are almost always tourists. Dutch people themselves are not very much into drugs. It's not a taboo, not forbidden, so it just has lost much of its charm. Do you want to promote something? Make it illegal, that's the greatest incentive you can have!
In fact the use and abuse of drugs is much less in the Netherlands than it is in many other countries, especially compared to the USA
We do drugs. But more party drugs like XTC. And helium is a thing now.
@@Alkvaarder or we don’t do drugs at all …too stingy to spend that for non-sense
@@Alkvaarder I think you mean laughing gas
We dutchies use A LOT of drugs lmao
Ever been to a festival?
Or a coffee shop outside of amsterdam?
Full of dutchies i tell ya
@@Goregreet in certain areas, yes. On festivals, yes. On average, not really. And there is a big difference between enjoying a small joint or a bit of space cake, like us Dutchies, and being stoned out of your mind like all those aggravating tourists
The weed thing deffinitely is annoying, i even read somewhere that most of the weed sold in Amsterdam is bought by tourists.
8:20 Yeah i don’t know what this guy means, The Netherlands has one of the highest percentages of people speaking 2 or more languages.
Having lived in Enschede during my student times, I can tell with a 100% certainty that most weed is sold to Germans and international students.
Yes we have multiple bikes a person. A proper one for commuting and a wreck for drunk late evenings, so it's not a big loss when stolen or never found back in a canal. Funfact: sales in e-bikes here are really skyrocketing that much the scooter sales go down under youth and older people, basically everybody. That means less air and noise pollution in cities besides the health benefits for the user of the e-bike.
Tikkie is the Dutch Venmo.
Amsterdam doesn’t represent the Netherlands. There are way to many different mentalities to claim this.
People from the south are having a complete different way of thinking and living, so do people from other parts of the country.
Even on such a small surface, there isn’t a country in the world with so many differences.
And, yes, the “going Dutch” really is something to get used to when you came to live here from a foreign country…
@@Gorebane Not really, the vast majority of non-americans at least understand New York isn't all of the US, at minimum they know about Las Vegas, LA and Texas in general. Meanwhile here in the Netherlands Amsterdam is treated by foreigners (and people from Amsterdam) as being the whole country to the point that the Dutch tourism board started to rename things on the other side of the country "amsterdam [something]" in tourist information to get tourists away from Amsterdam. Meanwhile this country has 3 native languages, most provinces have multiple cultures (as those provinces used to be separate nations). And to use my own native low-saxon as an example of the sheer diversity we have, if you talk to a native speaker you can hear which part of a specific small village he comes from.
It would be akin to a US federal government board dictating that the rocky mountains should be referred to as "western New York mountain range". And tourists treating everything in the US from Hawaii to Texas as being the same as New York City.
Perhaps only during the winter Dutch enjoy something more than cycling, only when there's ice.
as a Dutchy, I can tell you. Doing drugs is not a common thing. A Tikkie is just a way of paying the other person via your phone app. easy way to pay. I do need my bike lol. NEVER walk on a bike lane!!. o, by the way -> Holland is not the entire country just a part.. (north-west part) the Netherlands is our real name for the country.
you are funny greetings from the dutch
there used to be an old dutch comedy show and one of the characters (Koos Koets) was a junkie he said when it was illegal you really was like you defy the police but nowadays you walk into a shop ask for a gram of afghaan, the thrill is gone.
I think a lot of dutch culture comes from how small and densely populated it is
We're not necessarily cheap but showing off is frowned upon
Because the rich neighborhood is a short walk from to local "ghetto"
Equality is just a practical fact of life
go for the fireworks vid, u will love it
You mean this one...? ua-cam.com/video/VftInWyQtSo/v-deo.html
In the Netherlands you see English films or programs you hear te language but you have Dutch subtitle's so people learn on a young age
I’m Dutch, born in a family of giants and even got hormones to stop growing. But they worked a little too well to my taste. So now I’m not that tall… And I’m a brunette with dark brown eyes. Not standard Dutch I guess.🤣
Were not cheap, but because we are so honest we just say pay for yourself, that’s going Dutch,
Ahh they left out that the netherlands and iceland have the most people in percentage with green eyes,
I never knew that as Dutchman. :)
tikkie is also a blow so you say: you want a tikkie if he/she says yes you give him a bit of cocaine😂
The most hated stereotypes about the Netherlands is that people think we are German. Not about weed.
The most people in the netherlands that don’t speak english very well are mostly people with a double nationality and 2 languages from home
71,5 % of dutch native speakers speak english as a second language fluently, which makes us best non native english speaking coutry.
Our accademic english skills are actually rated higher (on avagare) than those of some native english countries, including amusingly enough, the united states of america, though not by much.
Only our politicians are stoned all the time.
about long people, you must typ....dutch giant.....Olivier richters....is his name....he is huge
6:10 it is easy to get ye but there is also a lot of education on it and many parents wouldnt like their child to do drugs because it is addictive and expensive
Yea the thing with weed in the Netherlands is that we don't really have the naughty vibe to it. It's normal to smell weed nobody bats an eye some people like the smell a bit less than others perhaps but whatever. It's something you do at home or in your backyard on a nice day have a drink with it or some shit but it's really casual because we've grown up with it being normal. I'd say it's a bit like whiskey, if you like it you do it and you'll just have a nice time with it for a bit and move on with your day.
yuo 100% on point that legelizing weed had a posivite effect on how many use it.
if you use a car to go around in amsterdam you're not going to have a good time
as a duthcie i know many dutch people who do not go dutch. i think it deopends on the group, like with friends its different then a date etc. dont think i ever ehared of a go dutch date here, only in usa
I live in Amsterdam and call tell you that what the guys said about the smoking thing is definitely true: you try it maybe a couple of times when you're a teenager, because it's cool (or you think it's cool) and then by the time you're 17-ish, you're just like...meh. 90% of the people you find in coffee shops are actually tourists.
Nice reaction vid again! Could you do a video about Texas? I am very curious about your state. Is every body wears boots? You all wear cowboyheads and all drink whiskey? (yes thats stereo typing!) No offence ment! Thx! Greetings West coast Netherlands!
Compared to other cultures we're just rude, not blunt, just plain rude...
I'm from the Netherlands, but i got taught that if you're on a date the man♂️ should pay
Nah, split it somehow, maybe dinner on you and drinks on her? That way there are no obligations afterwards for a potential second date or not.
8:20 is definitely not a myth, trust me
Yes, the entire country tokes up
With the bankhouder can pay with your banckart
The drug thing for me is half true. Because I like to smoke weed on parties but outside of that I never smoke weed. So it is half true for me personally lol. Also I am tall, dark blond and have blue eyes lol
P.s too bad he stop the bit on the end, because the girl gets pretty annoyed with the guy and it is actually pretty funny.
Texans are also pretty direct upfront and blunt compared to the american average, at least in my experience, and generally the US bar some specific cities is pretty blunt, the juxtaposition is especially there with asians and south europeans, the caucasian part of north america are decendant from north western europeans so we share a lot of evolutionary traits such as directness styles of organisation and to some extend preferences
Dutch people mostly have everyday conversation level English. Most of us don't go past that point and a select few have like advanced business level English etc.
it is not just a stereotype weed is easy to get and do. Not just in Amsterdam. It is not even a forbidden fruit. It may be a stereotype everyone does it.
All Dutch riding bikes? Maybe in Amsterdam and a few cities. I spend a shitload of money buying 2 cars. Why do I want to ride a bike? I don't even own one.
A rikie is a payment systhem it works like this a frend hasnt got money on him and u pay fpr him than u can semd some kind of a receed over whatsapp to let youre frend pay u back
Tikkie is like venmo
Tikkie is basically a payment request app, where you can pay each other really easily, this way one person can advance the payment in the restaurant to speed things up, and then we split the bill up afterwards.
But most dutch banking apps have something simmilair build in these days anyways so i don't use tikkie,.
Tikkie is like Venmo
It may look like there are a lot of videos about the Dutch, that's just because you are into the Dutch😉. Now, for a next reaction I do have a couple suggestions. One about Dutch architects in the USA and one British comedy act. I will fill out a form for them.
🧡 from The Netherlands
Thanks!
the reason is that the Dutches are cool.
We are the tallest, because we eat raw Herring! 😋🥰✌🏼
You can feel it going directly to your spine! Another centimeter!
@@dutchman7623 🤣👍🏻✌🏼
talking about stereotypes... those people are not typical dutch in this video
Tikkie means tag, your it
Now pay me
Being Dutch I'm quite happy to pay for a meal when I invited them. But I live in the south of the Netherlands so I'm not like the cheapskates living in Holland.
Well yes I am cheap , and I am dutch .
Great reaction to this video .. and yes ... the Dutch are different compared with almost every other country ... NO NONSENS people !.... we don't have much with the "glitter and glamour " as they doe in the USA .. a well knowen saying in the Netherlands = : act normal ... and that will be grazy enough !
Dutch guy right here, all very true. Any of these type of videos about Texas? I'll make a vid about it lol
I myself don't like to owe anybody anything. Especially friends. Or on a date with somebody you don't know very well. Then you feel more free.
Please react to, How to survive the dutch fireworks
8:21 the schooling for english here is horrible, u learn the basic things thats it. u really need to learn english urself here by watching movies, gaming etc. most people i know that dont learn english themselves are horrible at it lol. most of the time u have to read a piece of a book at the english class and sometimes it sounds like someone is speaking a whole diffrent language just cause they dont teach good here.
At the age of 21 I never smoked weed. If I want to I can go out in 10 minutes and get some weed.
Never smoked in my life. So never gotten stoned either. Nah. And because it’s legalized.., not that interesting… and I have 4 bikes.
Dutch is the closest language
to English, that's why everybody
in The Netherlands speak English quite easily !
After that the Danes and Norwegians, then the German.
how dutch is your life look at that its good
8:20 well we speak it pretty good but our accent is just.....
Im watching this like hmm im dutch , im blond , about 6ft , while smoking some mary jane
I do have to say dutch arent that cheap most people i know share everything we are very to the point though so i guess that can come of as rude to people who do their best to be polite
im tall blond and blue eyed its a thing from ww2
go dutch cheap buy or you get free stuf
i smoke everyday lol
english is learned at school mandetory
Thanks :)
Love the videos man but what’s your thing with the Dutch? I mean watching all your videos around the Dutch makes me almost think you’re either obsessed with us or have family over here or live here yourself. Just my directness wondering for it 😉
Lots of Dutch in our Discord, so I enjoy reacting to things they might be interested in.
About the weed part it's just legal I your 18 you just go to a shop ( koffieshop ) and you just buy it
Why do these people in the video look like they're from the nineties or early zero's?