That's quite a black and white version.. The truce was needed because the Netherlands was on the brink of civil war. Also, a lot of soldiers of the Tercio de Flandes were not Spanish, but from other Habsburg territories. In reverse, some 'Dutch' soldiers were not Dutch, but mercenaries from Germany and reinforcements from England.
Back then, the Netherlands were a rich and productive area and invested in trading. The wealth was used to fund mercenary armies, which was not uncommon in those days. So the Dutch themselves were perfectly capable of making more baby soldiers while entire mercenary armies were doing the fighting. Mercenaries were unreliable, what the Dutch stood out in, was being reliable in payment of them and also superior leadership. We had the right men for that job at the time. After the 80 years war, leaders learned from the lessons the Dutch war of independance gave. There is also the consideration that Spain as a colonial nation, was suffering from a multitude of threats, the Ottomans in the mediterranean, rivalry with France and England over colonial endeavours and contested lands previously owned by the HRE instead of Spain. Germans were willing to stick it to them too. On top of that, Spanish soldiers suffered the same things the Roman soldiers did before them: the harsher climate and the long distance from home. cheers
Because, we could trade ammo and guns to the US of A. Trade! And like every major European power that recognized the US of A, it was a big F.U. to the Brits.
*Trofknarf Alias* Sounds great. Unfortunately we can't do that to the other people born in The Netherlands who don't know a thing about Dutch History either.
If the dutch had sense of history they would stop their RETARDED MORONIC IDIOTIC claim that "Sint Nicolaas is ....a turk" ....fucking idiots....read some history.....his mother was Greek, his father was Greek .....and turkey was formed 1000 years AFTER his death...... and how does a muslim country has anything to do with a christian holy man ? ......morons....
Flint 1768 lmao dit is denk ik de meest domme verbetering die ik ooit heb gezien. Sorry maar in mijn optiek mag t allebei gewoon. Tis niet dat good een woord is dat je niet mag gebruiken ofzo
nouje het geinige is is dat een nederlander de onderzeeër heeft uitgevonden onder leiding van een britse admiraal wat vervolgens gestolen werd door de duiters hernoemd als een U-boat en toen werd gebruikt tegen engeland.. lol
Funny, the Declaration of Independence is made on paper from a paper mill from Zaandam in The Netherlands because they had at that time the best paper quality in the world.
+ shlibber I guess in a way, but it's a thing: nobody really likes American 'humor'. For some reason it just doesn't work. May be a cultural thing, I don't know, but American 'humor' has become a bit of a byword for something that's just not funny. It's happened to me that during a meeting about that company having a really shitty year with loads of fines and loads of losses, that the guy presiding and presenting the figures said that year's figures read like American humour. Not to say that all Americans are unfunny, or anything like that, but generally speaking, American humour isn't funny, I noticed that also while I was in the US.
@shlibber Some examples from Dutch: - Flodder - Jochem Meyer - New Kids - De Luizenmoeder(which is fairly new) Some examples from the UK: - Monthy Python - Mr. Bean UK and The Netherlands have a very Black sence of humour. But that is way funnier.
Just Me It's very self-depricating. Much of the humour of North-Western Europe is generally focussed on making yourself look like a piece of shit. Which is funny because everyone is a piece of shit but often doesn't acknowledge it.
It's what caused the split between Belgium and the Netherlands. Until that point, there was no difference, the entire area was called the 17 united provinces of the Netherlands. When the war with Spain started, all provinces fought Spain. However, Spain was able to keep the southern provinces. This in turn caused a brain drain from Belgium to the Netherlands, followed by the golden century for the Netherlands (lots of trade, knowledge, ...), and a black century for Belgium (no trade, oppression by Spain, ...). Much later, Belgium was reunited to the Netherlands for a few years. But the culture difference had become too big, which resulted in the Belgian independence from the Netherlands in 1830. It's still visible as a culture difference today, where the Dutch are known to be very direct (they had nobody to fear for centuries) while the Belgians generally need to know someone quite well before saying the truth.
Sander Deryckere not really true, the low countries were different duchies that fell under a personal union with Burgundy (marriage and such, good old medieval age). When the duke of burgundy died spain inherited these lands and incoorperated them into the habsburgian empire, wich covered austria, parts of italy and spain. This all went right until Philips II became king of spain and started taking his dick out in public, together with protestantism rising in the northern low countries this sparked feelings of independence and long story short belgium stayed catholic and under spanish rule while the northern low countries formed to be the 7 united provinces of the netherlands.
And in 1944, we signed the treaty that would semi-unify the Low Countries again in the form of the Benelux. So in a way we've been together again for 70 years now.
No it was not. In the union of arras the southern provinces swear allegiances to the spanish king which was kind of a backstab to the northern provinces.
both declarations were signed in local exile, while the capital was under siege, so Delft and Philadelphia share a common occurance of being a temporary capital, while the enemy thought it could halt the revolution by sieging the capital.
The Spanish Black Legend strikes back. Spain was the ruler of the world at that time, but the only thing you say is that they were known for the inquisition. Have you heard of the Black Legend? It was basically Dutch propaganda against the Spanish Empire to make them look cruel and bad people.
I dare you to ask average dutch people on the street if they know what the "Plakkaat van verlatinghe"is. I'm pretty sure you will not find many who know...........
Or ask about Dutch discipline which has become the standerd in military training thanks to Maurits van Oranje whom whe Dutch can give thanks for winning the 80 year war. I blame education for the common lack of knowledge on these parts.
Our schools are quite good compared to other western countries (for example the US), modern day kids are only interested in WW2 when it comes to history, but there's only so much history you can give in 1-3 years, but the Plakkaat van Verlatinghe and the 80 years war are definitely discussed and taught, people just don't care enough and forget.
Oh, common, Dutch language sounds quite nice (or funny, or interesting, whatever)! In early 1990s I listened to local techno music radio, that often was retranslating some Dutch radio, and listening to DJ bubbling in that cool "I have stocked nose" accent in between songs was a part of the experience.
TotalRookie_LV Its mostly seen as harsh because of the G's and im dutch but i cant say the hard G i can only say a soft G (same with the r) and how he said the G's was really exegerated
LH Streaming Noord holland, specified naarden Mijn ouders zijn bijde van bussum Ik had toen ik in groep 1 & 2 zag veel moeite met praten dus ik moest logopedie volgen maar ik heb nooit echt de r en g kunnen doen
It's so weird that I didn't learn ANYTHING about this on school, it makes me fucking mad that I didn't. And that, besides a piece of paper in a museum nobody visits, there is NOTHING about it anywhere. You are the first guy ever, at least that I've seen (On tv/internet or even offline), to mention this thing. But we actually celebrate some sort of Independence day. Only ours isn't with fireworks or huge spaceships (SORRY HAD TO MAKE THAT JOKE). It's just a lot of music, partying, and once in 5 years a day free from work. The fireworks however, go to the Netherlands on 31 december between 18.00 and 1 januari 2.00 am. THATS FIREWORKS xD Good, and even funny video. Me like :)
Drumsgoon nothing to do with paying attention. They would talk about WW2 for weeks and the 100 year war between Spain and Engeland for months but the history of our own country besides slavery and the golden age was never a huge subject. And history was one of my favorite parts in school.
@ Remco : Klopt tussen 1820 en 1970 werd op de lagere school zeer uitgebreid verteld over de 80-jarige oorlog (Als jij een goede leraar had was dat vele malen leuker dan rekenen en taal), maar daarna heeft men het geschiedenis onderwijs meer op projectbasis ingericht, omdat men het de kinderen niet langer wilde aandoen om al die jaartallen uit het hoofd te leren. Aan de andere kant jij kan niet verwachten dat jij alles op school leert. Wat houdt jij tegen om zelf een aantal goede boeken over de Nederlandse geschiedenis te lezen ? Er zijn de laatste decennia tientallen verschenen.
We don't celebrate Independence day, we celebrate liberation (of the Nazis) day, not quite the same. Also Buddy , you are making quite a claim there with liberalism etc. 10 years ago I learned about the 80 years war and everything
I remember first seeing Greg during some student comedy thingy in Wageningen. I was excited because all kinds of good comedians would come + that American dude... ugh... American humour is just painfully bad. Then he came and was actually funny!!! Loving Greg ever since
One moment i click on a video beacause of the title. The next moment i realize you could vote before the finale wich i did(yes before your beautiful speech) and then i see myself sitting there in this video..... It's a small world. By the way you can now get the Pronkstuk van Nederland Plakkaat van Verlatinghe poststamp.
As a proud Aussie id like to clarify that the wifi we know today is a result of the work of Dutch scientists,the Australian science group/company CSIRO and Macquarie University.
It was Common sense to defend yourself. But there were the sayings like put your trust in god instead of the sword and live by the sword die by the sword. So not everyone carried weapons Also the dutch were not concerned of spain taking their arms because they were the biggest arms producers of europe themselves.
The constitution are base LAWS. While it is true dutch people do not give 2 fcks about weapons and we do not upholds a trigger happy law. The thing is that the Declarations of independance of both countries are not laws, but more or less terms stating we are free and we will remain free upon these grounds. Not quite laws its like comparing apples with pears. Both fruits both usually sweet and both have similar (to a extend) forms... but in the end significantly different.
The reason why people do not know that much about our indepence declaration is because it isn't that important. The war started over Religious and Cultural reasons and the more important document is the Union of Utrecht treaty signed in 1579, that was the document in which we because a nation. The Plakkaat is just our declaration to the world. The USA had one document, while we had two. And it also did not help that our leader got assassinated because Spain wanted him dead, whatever the cost. William of Orange already survived like 10 attempts, but yeah...
Love the headline. lol . If we were talking about England, The Headline would be ' 3 Ways Pommy Independence is Different'. English people refer Dutch as being from Nederland, but actually it refers to Duits, meaning people from Duitsland or Germany if you prefer the Roman version.
@@gregshapiro lol. Funny you mentioned that, I ordered a Nederlandse football flag on ebay last world cup. The add showed a picture saying Nederland, so I bought it. When I received the package, I opened it and looked at the flag with the words ' The Netherlands' on it. lol say no more.
Het plakkaat van verlatinghe is simply not as famous as the declaration of independance because it did not definitively mark the recognition of the Netherlands as a state. This only officially happened in 1648. This is also why many Dutch people are more likely to remember the dates 1568 and 1648 (begin and end of independance war), rather than the date when the plakkaat was made public.
The Plakaat van Verlatinghe is NOT a decleration of independence! Its a document where the Unie van Utrecht says they no longer recognise the Spanish king Philips II as their king. They even went on a search for a new ruler after this document was published...
Ra Senché 13 coupletten vol onzin met een paar nuttige zinnen, dat is ons volkslied, het eerste volkslied ter wereld bestaat o.a. uit een couplet over schapen...
It's been months since the last time there was ice to skate on, now we all have to swim to go to work. The canals in amsterdam are so full with people you can't see water anymore.
Wow man! I only know you from the Netherlands Second from last year, but this is good! I actually didn't know about Het Plakkaat der Verlatinghe so it's interesting for Dutch people to watch this too. Often video's made about the Netherlands by Americans who moved here are really boring because they tell things that are so obvious to us and sometimes even untrue, but you're doing great. I agree that the opening line is a little less poetic that the one of the declaration of independence.
Definitely this guy is right. We Dutch should make more out of the Plakkaat van Verlatinge. Why is it nog on permanent display somewhere? Like in Madrid?
Your hard G that makes the language sound unappealing doesn't actually apply to the text written on the plakkaat because from a linguistic standpoint the Dutch people in those times probably spoke with a less guttural and softer G, similar to either the German or English "g" in "girl", or to the Limburgish soft G.
@Another NPC That is correct. The G changed in pronunciation under the influence of the rich and succesful merchant immigrants from Portugal. Those were mostly jewish and they fled from Portugal when that kingdom became part of Spain. It is a bit like the changes dutch language is undergoing ATM by the anglo-american pop-culture (in vocabulary and pronunciation, even of old classical dutch words and sounds).
"Hey, can I copy your homework?"
"Sure, but alter it a little so they can't see you've copied it."
You know your a good comic when you can make a Dutch crowd laugh 👍🏼
Dutch crowds in a nutshell: I once had someone come up after a show & say “I smiled very hard.”
@@gregshapiro you got the memo tough, Dutch English is kind of cute 😉
Your dutch accent is impressive, mister Shapiro.
Only we had like a couple years break in the 80 years war.
Both were like "IM TIRED"
You had the Organists, who wanted war. And you had the Republicans who wanted peace. What followed was a compromise of a badly needed 12 years truce.
Can't fight for 80 years yourself, soldiers gotta go home and make baby-soldiers.
That's quite a black and white version.. The truce was needed because the Netherlands was on the brink of civil war. Also, a lot of soldiers of the Tercio de Flandes were not Spanish, but from other Habsburg territories.
In reverse, some 'Dutch' soldiers were not Dutch, but mercenaries from Germany and reinforcements from England.
Back then, the Netherlands were a rich and productive area and invested in trading. The wealth was used to fund mercenary armies, which was not uncommon in those days. So the Dutch themselves were perfectly capable of making more baby soldiers while entire mercenary armies were doing the fighting.
Mercenaries were unreliable, what the Dutch stood out in, was being reliable in payment of them and also superior leadership. We had the right men for that job at the time. After the 80 years war, leaders learned from the lessons the Dutch war of independance gave.
There is also the consideration that Spain as a colonial nation, was suffering from a multitude of threats, the Ottomans in the mediterranean, rivalry with France and England over colonial endeavours and contested lands previously owned by the HRE instead of Spain. Germans were willing to stick it to them too. On top of that, Spanish soldiers suffered the same things the Roman soldiers did before them: the harsher climate and the long distance from home.
cheers
well guess who's both dutch and spanish......
And the Netherlands was the first country to recognize America's independence. Because of that alot of other countries did as wel.
arno herfst Nee hoor, Marokko deed dat al enkele jaren voor ons. Maar wij waren wel het eerste machtige land dat de VS erkende.
+Tim
Incorrect. The Dutch were the first to recognize it at Fort Oranje, where they hailed the independence.
Because, we could trade ammo and guns to the US of A. Trade! And like every major European power that recognized the US of A, it was a big F.U. to the Brits.
@@dutchpatriot17 True. When the Dutch saw the American Flag, they were the first country that gave the flag its first gun salute.
En NL verkocht wapens
aan de N.- Amerikanen,
tegen wil van het VK! *
* Dit was oorlog tussen
de VS(vanA) en het VK!
I think someone just earned a honorary Dutch citizenship!
Trofknarf Alias that cursus is totally bs
*Trofknarf Alias* Sounds great. Unfortunately we can't do that to the other people born in The Netherlands who don't know a thing about Dutch History either.
Someone with a sense of histoty, finally...
Histoty is very important
marieke Elzer Probably more sense of our history than most Dutch. At least I had no idea about this document, but I am now going to read up on it!
No
If the dutch had sense of history they would stop their RETARDED MORONIC IDIOTIC claim that "Sint Nicolaas is ....a turk" ....fucking idiots....read some history.....his mother was Greek, his father was Greek .....and turkey was formed 1000 years AFTER his death...... and how does a muslim country has anything to do with a christian holy man ? ......morons....
Ellinon Enosis who ever claims that? srsly? I live in the Netherlands and I've only heard that nonsense once...
If you would speak the dutch language good enough the first sentence isn't as horible
Julian De Leeuw true, he was just making a joke about it (mocking his own language)
Ik moet zeggen dat deze gast voor een voornamelijk amerikaans sprekend persoon de klanken in het nederlands echt goed uit kan spreken
dat vind ik dus ook. Leuk item dit!
En het is "well enough" niet good enough. Shame on you.
Flint 1768 lmao dit is denk ik de meest domme verbetering die ik ooit heb gezien. Sorry maar in mijn optiek mag t allebei gewoon. Tis niet dat good een woord is dat je niet mag gebruiken ofzo
We hebben ook de onderzeeer uitgevonden.
De snorkel eigenlijk
en bluetooth. i think
Whaha srs?
nouje het geinige is is dat een nederlander de onderzeeër heeft uitgevonden onder leiding van een britse admiraal wat vervolgens gestolen werd door de duiters hernoemd als een U-boat en toen werd gebruikt tegen engeland.. lol
In1998able Inderdaad. Wikipedia: “Dutch Inventions” - Nederland heeft zo’n beetje de halve wereld uitgevonden zo te lezen aan de enorme lijst daar
Funny, the Declaration of Independence is made on paper from a paper mill from Zaandam in The Netherlands because they had at that time the best paper quality in the world.
Your humour is getting more Dutch/English. I think you have b come funnier. American humour is more obvious and less about embaressment.
It's a fronthanded insult.
+ shlibber
I guess in a way, but it's a thing: nobody really likes American 'humor'. For some reason it just doesn't work.
May be a cultural thing, I don't know, but American 'humor' has become a bit of a byword for something that's just not funny. It's happened to me that during a meeting about that company having a really shitty year with loads of fines and loads of losses, that the guy presiding and presenting the figures said that year's figures read like American humour.
Not to say that all Americans are unfunny, or anything like that, but generally speaking, American humour isn't funny, I noticed that also while I was in the US.
Dutch/English humour is way better, lol.
Americans need a fake audience to laugh, that is just pathetic.
@shlibber
Some examples from Dutch:
- Flodder
- Jochem Meyer
- New Kids
- De Luizenmoeder(which is fairly new)
Some examples from the UK:
- Monthy Python
- Mr. Bean
UK and The Netherlands have a very Black sence of humour. But that is way funnier.
Just Me It's very self-depricating. Much of the humour of North-Western Europe is generally focussed on making yourself look like a piece of shit. Which is funny because everyone is a piece of shit but often doesn't acknowledge it.
The Dutch uprising is the ripple effect that changed the world.
Since 1581
God i love this channel! As Dutchman I have to agree that too few dutch people know of het Plakaat van Verlatinghe
It's what caused the split between Belgium and the Netherlands. Until that point, there was no difference, the entire area was called the 17 united provinces of the Netherlands. When the war with Spain started, all provinces fought Spain. However, Spain was able to keep the southern provinces. This in turn caused a brain drain from Belgium to the Netherlands, followed by the golden century for the Netherlands (lots of trade, knowledge, ...), and a black century for Belgium (no trade, oppression by Spain, ...). Much later, Belgium was reunited to the Netherlands for a few years. But the culture difference had become too big, which resulted in the Belgian independence from the Netherlands in 1830. It's still visible as a culture difference today, where the Dutch are known to be very direct (they had nobody to fear for centuries) while the Belgians generally need to know someone quite well before saying the truth.
Sander Deryckere not really true, the low countries were different duchies that fell under a personal union with Burgundy (marriage and such, good old medieval age). When the duke of burgundy died spain inherited these lands and incoorperated them into the habsburgian empire, wich covered austria, parts of italy and spain.
This all went right until Philips II became king of spain and started taking his dick out in public, together with protestantism rising in the northern low countries this sparked feelings of independence and long story short belgium stayed catholic and under spanish rule while the northern low countries formed to be the 7 united provinces of the netherlands.
Fun fact both the Dutch and the Belgian called themselves "Belgian" living in the "Netherlands" so we both took a part of our old name
And in 1944, we signed the treaty that would semi-unify the Low Countries again in the form of the Benelux. So in a way we've been together again for 70 years now.
No it was not. In the union of arras the southern provinces swear allegiances to the spanish king which was kind of a backstab to the northern provinces.
Yes but those regions are part of France nowadays.
Very amusing to watch. What a nice speecher. Greg shows a mirror in wich i never saw myself before.
Holly shit you speak Dutch so good, i never heard a foreigner speak Dutch so well
so you have summoned GEKOLONISEERD
both declarations were signed in local exile, while the capital was under siege, so Delft and Philadelphia share a common occurance of being a temporary capital, while the enemy thought it could halt the revolution by sieging the capital.
The Spanish Black Legend strikes back. Spain was the ruler of the world at that time, but the only thing you say is that they were known for the inquisition. Have you heard of the Black Legend? It was basically Dutch propaganda against the Spanish Empire to make them look cruel and bad people.
Nice video btw
Love this vid... You're a great comedian Shapiro. Don't ever leave the Netherlands please! :-)
He didnt even say weed at first. Good job
Fun fact; even the paper that the American declaration of Independence was writen on came from Zaandam.
I dare you to ask average dutch people on the street if they know what the "Plakkaat van verlatinghe"is. I'm pretty sure you will not find many who know...........
Or ask about Dutch discipline which has become the standerd in military training thanks to Maurits van Oranje whom whe Dutch can give thanks for winning the 80 year war. I blame education for the common lack of knowledge on these parts.
I am afraid you'r ar right sad but true
Our schools are quite good compared to other western countries (for example the US), modern day kids are only interested in WW2 when it comes to history, but there's only so much history you can give in 1-3 years, but the Plakkaat van Verlatinghe and the 80 years war are definitely discussed and taught, people just don't care enough and forget.
@Thatshow ED I was definitely taught about the 80 years war and the plakkaat van verlatinghe in high school...
Kaatje Kat We learn it at school
Thank you so much Mr. Shapiro.
like the americans "plagiarezed" their thanksgiving from Leidens 3rd october feast
The Dutch didn’t invite Wifi, Australia did. A Dutch guy did invent Bluetooth though..
Oh, common, Dutch language sounds quite nice (or funny, or interesting, whatever)! In early 1990s I listened to local techno music radio, that often was retranslating some Dutch radio, and listening to DJ bubbling in that cool "I have stocked nose" accent in between songs was a part of the experience.
TotalRookie_LV i love that people from other countries take interest in our culture, my man ur always welcome
geloof me dat is het niet klinkt nogal grof
TotalRookie_LV
Its mostly seen as harsh because of the G's and im dutch but i cant say the hard G i can only say a soft G (same with the r) and how he said the G's was really exegerated
Hahha
LH Streaming
Noord holland, specified naarden
Mijn ouders zijn bijde van bussum
Ik had toen ik in groep 1 & 2 zag veel moeite met praten dus ik moest logopedie volgen maar ik heb nooit echt de r en g kunnen doen
We made the microscope AND the telescope. Galileo only made it more practical, but we did make it as the first.
Skating to work😂 we don’t even have ICE to skate on for more than a week😂
Your command over both languages is something I strive for
It's so weird that I didn't learn ANYTHING about this on school, it makes me fucking mad that I didn't. And that, besides a piece of paper in a museum nobody visits, there is NOTHING about it anywhere. You are the first guy ever, at least that I've seen (On tv/internet or even offline), to mention this thing. But we actually celebrate some sort of Independence day. Only ours isn't with fireworks or huge spaceships (SORRY HAD TO MAKE THAT JOKE). It's just a lot of music, partying, and once in 5 years a day free from work. The fireworks however, go to the Netherlands on 31 december between 18.00 and 1 januari 2.00 am. THATS FIREWORKS xD Good, and even funny video. Me like :)
Remco F. Gerritsen maybe you did not pay attention enough.
Drumsgoon nothing to do with paying attention. They would talk about WW2 for weeks and the 100 year war between Spain and Engeland for months but the history of our own country besides slavery and the golden age was never a huge subject. And history was one of my favorite parts in school.
@ Remco : Klopt tussen 1820 en 1970 werd op de lagere school zeer uitgebreid verteld over de 80-jarige oorlog (Als jij een goede leraar had was dat vele malen leuker dan rekenen en taal), maar daarna heeft men het geschiedenis onderwijs meer op projectbasis ingericht, omdat men het de kinderen niet langer wilde aandoen om al die jaartallen uit het hoofd te leren. Aan de andere kant jij kan niet verwachten dat jij alles op school leert. Wat houdt jij tegen om zelf een aantal goede boeken over de Nederlandse geschiedenis te lezen ? Er zijn de laatste decennia tientallen verschenen.
Als je dit niet op school gehad hebt heb je niet opgelet...
We don't celebrate Independence day, we celebrate liberation (of the Nazis) day, not quite the same.
Also Buddy , you are making quite a claim there with liberalism etc. 10 years ago I learned about the 80 years war and everything
Cool video! I like history like this. And I love your Dutch. Greetings from the Netherlands.
That was funny actually, nice one, Thanks!
Skating to work :D there is not a single dutchman doing that :D
I remember first seeing Greg during some student comedy thingy in Wageningen. I was excited because all kinds of good comedians would come + that American dude... ugh... American humour is just painfully bad. Then he came and was actually funny!!! Loving Greg ever since
thank you for this, you're awesome, bedankt
One moment i click on a video beacause of the title. The next moment i realize you could vote before the finale wich i did(yes before your beautiful speech) and then i see myself sitting there in this video.....
It's a small world. By the way you can now get the Pronkstuk van Nederland Plakkaat van Verlatinghe poststamp.
great video, and you speak very good dutch.
And then, 350 years before *that*, there's the Declaration of Arbroath, which is... exactly the same
Hmm, nice piece. But we were always different and will always be different, greetz from the Netherlands.
As a proud Aussie id like to clarify that the wifi we know today is a result of the work of Dutch scientists,the Australian science group/company CSIRO and Macquarie University.
Hahahaha die heb je verdiend! Geweldig
My history teacher in high school put the curriculum aside to give us extra classes on the 80 years war.
You're a cool guy, Greg. Always thought so!
Dude, you are awesome! Goed bezig!
Informative! And impressive indeed, well done Dutchies.
i knew you were partly dutch because you pernounced the dutch words correctly, heel erg mooi
Bedankt Greg. Echt grappig.
Difference number 4: no second amendment.
the second amendment is in the constitution, not in the declaration of independence
dutch paleocon Same diff. 😂
It was Common sense to defend yourself. But there were the sayings like put your trust in god instead of the sword and live by the sword die by the sword. So not everyone carried weapons
Also the dutch were not concerned of spain taking their arms because they were the biggest arms producers of europe themselves.
The constitution are base LAWS. While it is true dutch people do not give 2 fcks about weapons and we do not upholds a trigger happy law. The thing is that the Declarations of independance of both countries are not laws, but more or less terms stating we are free and we will remain free upon these grounds. Not quite laws its like comparing apples with pears. Both fruits both usually sweet and both have similar (to a extend) forms... but in the end significantly different.
Funny to see this pop up on my feed; did a paper on it a fair number of years ago in school and not a lot of people seemed to know about it.
Great video, love your humor.
hey, my fellow cheeseheads , what about we make a "Best American of the Netherlands Award", and give it to Greg Shapiro ?
I feel like I keep giving myself that award - which is perfectly in keeping with many Dutch awards.
@@gregshapiro MovieIndustrie awards itself too Emmies,Gammies etc ; so sure why not 🤣🤣🤣
like a golden stroopwaffle-award or sumpthin' 😂
You are perfect , nothing else to be said , loved this video , im a dutch man myself kinda proud about my country and its accomplishments
The reason why people do not know that much about our indepence declaration is because it isn't that important.
The war started over Religious and Cultural reasons and the more important document is the Union of Utrecht treaty signed in 1579, that was the document in which we because a nation. The Plakkaat is just our declaration to the world.
The USA had one document, while we had two.
And it also did not help that our leader got assassinated because Spain wanted him dead, whatever the cost. William of Orange already survived like 10 attempts, but yeah...
Your energy is infectious😂 Subbed and liked.
Skating to work. We don't do that. LOL
1:50 - klemtoon or emphasis is the trick to read it...
Love the headline. lol . If we were talking about England, The Headline would be ' 3 Ways Pommy Independence is Different'. English people refer Dutch as being from Nederland, but actually it refers to Duits, meaning people from Duitsland or Germany if you prefer the Roman version.
The Dutch football banners still say 'Hup Holland,' even though the official name is now 'Netherlands.'
@@gregshapiro lol. Funny you mentioned that, I ordered a Nederlandse football flag on ebay last world cup. The add showed a picture saying Nederland, so I bought it. When I received the package, I opened it and looked at the flag with the words ' The Netherlands' on it. lol say no more.
"When the American President comes to open this museum"...... Say what???
Dude this guy's pronunciation is really good for an American!
Probably because he is an American-Dutch actor ;)
this is awesome thx for this video, greetings from holland!
Voor deze video wist ik nieteens dat we een decleration voor independence hadden...
Het plakkaat van verlatinghe is simply not as famous as the declaration of independance because it did not definitively mark the recognition of the Netherlands as a state. This only officially happened in 1648. This is also why many Dutch people are more likely to remember the dates 1568 and 1648 (begin and end of independance war), rather than the date when the plakkaat was made public.
I like your Dutch pronounce, extra points granted, thumbs up, also good research of history
You sir, were quite good. Thank you.
You are very right, mister Shapiro!
The Plakaat van Verlatinghe is NOT a decleration of independence! Its a document where the Unie van Utrecht says they no longer recognise the Spanish king Philips II as their king. They even went on a search for a new ruler after this document was published...
as a dutchman.. i didnt even know of this.. all i knew is well we had something with spain because... national anthem.
Ra Senché 13 coupletten vol onzin met een paar nuttige zinnen, dat is ons volkslied, het eerste volkslied ter wereld bestaat o.a. uit een couplet over schapen...
inderdaad!
Oh wauw, nou moet ik dat couplet even opzoeken haha
Dan had je beter op moeten letten bij Geschiedenis!
nee het probleem is dat ik deze tijd helemaal niet heb gehad bij geschiedenis.
I am ashamed to have to learn about this from a half American half Dutch. Thanks for educating me on the history of my own country.
Greg is such a boss (Greg is zo'n baas)
I'am Dutch but did not know this. Thx man. :)
It's been months since the last time there was ice to skate on, now we all have to swim to go to work. The canals in amsterdam are so full with people you can't see water anymore.
Lol, your pronunciation is really funny yet accurate :)
Replacing the song at the end of the video with the Dutch Anthem would be a nice touch!
This man has so much power in it's voice. And it's Dutch is good ass well.
Yeah you know us voor wifi but also for bluetooth😉😂
Wow man! I only know you from the Netherlands Second from last year, but this is good! I actually didn't know about Het Plakkaat der Verlatinghe so it's interesting for Dutch people to watch this too. Often video's made about the Netherlands by Americans who moved here are really boring because they tell things that are so obvious to us and sometimes even untrue, but you're doing great.
I agree that the opening line is a little less poetic that the one of the declaration of independence.
you should read it with a soft G (which is the original expression of the G). makes the document alot more pleasing to read.
Hehe awesome.. also really weird to hear someone speak both flawless american and flawless dutch :)
Fastinating: an American learns about existence of other countries. You go, little buddy!
Was this the guy that thought Brussels was in the Netherlands?
Your dutch is pretty good !!
Finally. Someone Can spell the letters g and sch right in dutch
So good!
I was happy with that one. Especially the comments! There’s a whole separate history chapter there.
@@gregshapiro Ja dat klopt zeker!
probably 80% of the people never heard of this "plakaat"...and that is a generous estimate. ;-)
Because Dutch history, is history too!
I love your videos
So, Spain is just know for Inquisition, bravo not biased at all, Meneer!
@@mr.bonkers2310 The spanish inquisición was like EE.UU FBI the give you a lawyer
Definitely this guy is right. We Dutch should make more out of the Plakkaat van Verlatinge. Why is it nog on permanent display somewhere? Like in Madrid?
Do we have a copy of your Declaration of Indpendence here? Didn't know that....
The last scene hilarious
Saw your apperance live at the dutch television
greg I have been wondering for a while, how is the song at the and called?
Super speech. Compliment for this lesson.
Jezus. An American that pronounces Dutch correctly? It's a miracle XD
Well done mate
As a dutch person myself its really funny to watch people try to speak your language
Great video as a Dutchman I can say lekker bezig maat!
Your hard G that makes the language sound unappealing doesn't actually apply to the text written on the plakkaat because from a linguistic standpoint the Dutch people in those times probably spoke with a less guttural and softer G, similar to either the German or English "g" in "girl", or to the Limburgish soft G.
pretty harsh g and k at times, probably to make it sound foreign i guess.
@Another NPC That is correct. The G changed in pronunciation under the influence of the rich and succesful merchant immigrants from Portugal. Those were mostly jewish and they fled from Portugal when that kingdom became part of Spain.
It is a bit like the changes dutch language is undergoing ATM by the anglo-american pop-culture (in vocabulary and pronunciation, even of old classical dutch words and sounds).
Not a single dutchmen go's to work on ice skates
I actually voted on the plakkaat because i'm a patriot and i like history.