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8:27 the small accent isn't because the language is similar. Its cause they hardly dub tv in the Netherlands. So besides learning English in school, we also hear it spoken by natives on a daily basis....so that teaches us the right pronunciation. So its not cause the language is easy to us...its cause we practice it A LOT. So the accent we do have is cause we don't use certain sounds that much in our language so its more difficult for us to reproduce.
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That's correct. The most common stuff that does get dubbed are cartoons and movies for kids/teens, but for teens there are also shows/movies that are broadcasted with original audio and Dutch subtitles. Adult programms are basically never dubbed indeed.
@@marktegrotenhuis In the '90s many cartoons weren't even dubbed, as I recall.
@@jeroen2535 I don't really know. I was just born in 1992, so the first cartoons for teens that I watched where around the year 2000 and as far as I know those where all dubbed in Dutch.
To be fair its both cause Dutch is one of the closest languages to English
About the language: yes. Most dutch people are quite good at speaking English.
But the thing about the Netherlands is: every province has its own dialect. and actually, every 20km approx. Speaks another dialect. I, for example: live in a little place in north Holland. Where they speak with a farmer dialect. If I drive about 20 minutes, they speak with a bit more fancy dialect. And that happens all over the country
your dialect is probably "modern west-frisian" ;-) as is mine, or more "Hoorns Westfries". (that would be an interesting english translation, would it? ;-)
accent not dialect
@@lemoncurdcake no, I did mean dialect;)
@@Duriel123 then you are wrong because not every place has its own dialect in the province yes but not every city in utrecht has a dialect same goes for noth and south Holland.
@@lemoncurdcake wow rustig aan hè hahahahaha
I've always thought of Dutch as a bridge between German and English. When I asked my Dutch cousin why his English was so good, he said 'I grew up listening to the BBC'.
We dont syncronise movie and serrie we subtitle helps alot .only kids shows movies are sometimes translated to dutch.
@@leekebouw It isn't called synchronizing, but overdubbing ;-) in NL we subtitle foreign movies and series.
BBC is the reason why my English is so good, too.
@@leekebouw lmao yeah u can see ur dutch. Lekker nederlandse spelling ;)
When i was around 6 or 7 years old ,the BBC was still called "Skychannel" and i would tune in every saturday or sundaymorning to watch Fun Factory , it was a kids show with cartoons like : Transformers , Gobots , G.I.Joe , M.A.S.K. , He-Man , She-Ra , Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors , Ulysses 31 , Carebears , the Popples ,my little pony , inspector Gadget , Dennis the Menace , Gummibears and lots of other stuff...all in English offcourse and without subs.
So you basicly learned a second language by watching cartoons.
the Dutch speak English well because most of us grew up watching English cartoons/movies/series and listening to music that's also mostly English. Also it's standard for us to learn English in school and most of us probably don't have to put in much effort to get a good grade because of how we grew up surrounded by English entertainment.
writing in english goes without much effort, but pronouncing the words like a true englishman, or american.. well.. not so.. especially when a dutch native speaker didn't have to talk english for a while.. it mostly a rough start with a dutch word now and then.. I witnessed the worst case of 'dunglish' or "steenkolen-engels' a few weeks ago when a customer asked where the bread was in the supermarket.. the lady that worked there answered with: I don't know wanneer the broed (the 'oe' instead of 'oo' for the english sound) is gebeken (gebakken in correct dutch, again, for the english sound), i don't have verstand van broed. (i don't know when the bread will be baked, i don't have any knowledge of bread)
MrBeast lol
@@ukrainica9121 i know exactly what you mean with "steenkolen-engels" , last summer we went to family in England for the first time , and our aunt is Dutch but she's married to an Englishman.So we could speak Dutch with our aunt but had to switch to English when we spoke to our uncle . It was a bit wierd in the beginning mixing up English and Dutch words .but after a day or two we began to speak it more fluently.
At one point our aunt even began speaking Dutch to here Husband and me and my wife were speaking English to each other 😅😂
True thats how I learned. We lived in an area where there was no cable so we had a satelite disk for tv and most channels had no subs back then so you kinda learned it watching tv
Yup, we were too small to dub every cartoon. But when I see the youth right now, their English is actually worse due to everything being Dutch as it is cheaper to dub a cartoon now.
The painting The Potato Eaters is considered by art experts to be the most important work of Vincent van Gogh's early Dutch period. The work shows a peasant family having a simple meal by lamplight. The artist himself saw the painting as his masterpiece. With the work he wanted to show that he had become a skilled figure painter.
Vincent van Gogh made The Potato Eaters in 1885.
Vincent lijkt blijkbaar een beetje op Chuck Norris :p
Wasn't it the potato peallers
@@mikeygieles4360 The potatoes were already pealed (from the supermarket) 😜!
I dont think they had supermarkets back thn tbh, maybe a local farmer or just a market stand or something
They only had patatoes because there was nothing else to eat. But nobody wanted to have a painting like that on the wall, dark and ugly simple people. So it did not sell, only a few paintings ever sold in his live. Mostly they were brought to his brother Theo, or given away as paymend of a present
Don't be so hard on yourself C, you know more bout Europe then most Europeans do and no need to apologize for pausing, people watch your channel to hear your thoughts and/or doubts, if they don't they should watch the original vid. Keep doing what you do so well mate!
About the oldest stock exchange, usually the king would pay for ships to trade, but we ditched the king of Spain (The Netherlands was a part of the Spanish kingdom). So we had to pay for the ships ourselves. People could buy shares to finance trips in exchange for a part of the profit. So that is how the exchange came in existence.
fun fact, Vincent van Gogh painted the room where he was staying. to this day the room remains the "same" meaning they keep it in good condition and replicate the broken stuff.. it is in this small place called Nieuw-Amsterdam/Veenoord. they made a musuem also and a restaurant underneath his room. there are records of him staying here btw
Im dutch and Vincent Van Gogh cutted of his ear(s) because he had kinda voices in his head
Oh now I really want to visit that museum. I went to the MC Escher museum in the Netherlands in Den Haag, he was a Dutch optical illusion painter and I think his art is so good.
12:00 We had a Viking history, especially the Frysians.
We've got gravemounds everywhere in parts of the country, Roman ruins as well.
Germanic tribes, the celts, so a lot of history.
Also New York was traded for Suriname in a deal with the English.
Klopt, zeeland heeft ook nog veel van de vikingen meegemaakt
A video I am sure you'll find very interesting is "Dutch ships of the golden age"
In the video an American historian explains why the Dutch in the 17th century were so successful. both in terms of militairy as well as trade.
Indeed, excellent video.
'how did she know I was American?' I think she knew by how you ride the bike, 'just for fun', thats mostly something only small children do here... and tourists. Biking, especially in a busy city, with all the traffic, is no joke. You have to look around, pay attention, keep a steady course as to not confuse onlookers to your plan. Communicate with your eyes: 'I am crossing this intersection, you come from the other side, I go faster, I will cross first, ok?' is all communicated at a glance, with cars as well: 'did you see me?' 'yes!' 'oh ok, I can cross safely'
If you are all over the place and dont pay attention to the traffic around you: you are a nuisance to that traffic. They cannot predict if you decide to turn left or right or swerve 'for fun', because you make no eye-contact, you are oblivious to their existence: they have to drive around you in a wide circle. Which is annoying and even slightly more dangerous, if you take up all of the bike lane, and they have to swerve out into the car lane to pass you, haha.
Dont be upset. Biking is our second nature. You can practice and learn in a few weeks, with these two rules of thumb: 'ride a steady route' (no sudden swerves, braking or accelerating or riding on your back wheel to impress the girls), and 'situational awareness' (constantly look around, know who is behind you, scan intersections, make eye contact with people who will cross your path, estimate who will be faster, realize that car doors can open, that kids can turn up from behind a car at any moment chasing a ball etc)
In all honesty, English is such a common language in Amsterdam to though. Starbucks, Macdonalds and big chains like that in Amsterdam most employees only speak English and not even Dutch.
But you do have a point, usually how people ride a bike you can tell if they are tourists or residents :D
Even if if not a tourist. Mastery of English is a safe bet.
If it was a Dutch person they'd be shamed by being mistaken for a tourist.
A few corrections: Most of the population lives outside of the two Hollands. Of the 17+ million Dutch citizens, only about 7- million live in the two Hollands. Yes, they do contain quite a lot of the Dutch population, but the other 10 provinces still have more people living in them. The Netherlands doesn't border Luxembourg BTW, it only borders Belgium and Germany. The Belgium Ardennes separate The Netherlands and Luxembourg. Regarding religion: basically the country was split into two parts, the Southern provinces were mainly Roman Catholic and the Northern provinces were mainly Protestant (what we call below and above the rivers as the split is basically along the lines of the rivers Meuse and Rhine). But that is historical as most Dutch people have become a-religious (in whatever form you want to define that). Regarding the reason for Spanish rule: basically the extended Netherlands (what is now called the BeNeLux) was divided into feudal lands, which pledged allegiance to the Austrian branch of the Habsburg family (which basically was running a lot of Europe at the time). Their Spanish branch lacked a male heir and so the Austrian branch sent one of their lesser males to Spain to rejuvenate that branch and to produce a new male heir. The guy they sent also had the BeNeLux region as his "property", but he was pretty lenient towards the Dutch population. When his son became King of Spain this leniency went away as he had been raised strongly Catholic. So he tried to impose a return to Catholicism in the northern part of The Netherlands (the south still being Catholic). That was not acceptable and let to the revolt and the 80 years war with Spain (where they held on to most of what is now Belgium and split the region in two). BTW: The colonial period was not so much run by the Dutch government, but was run by the two public companies, the VOC (United East India Company) and the WIC (West India Company). The Dutch government inherited the remaining properties of these companies when they finally went bankrupt around 1799. The VOC at the height of its run was worth more than today's 20 biggest corporations taken together!
What they probably meant in the video is that the two Hollands are the most densely populated area's in the country, rather than that's were the most people live in absolute numbers.
8:25 I went on holiday in Ireland a few years ago and stayed in a B&B in Dublin for the first few days. There was an Irish couple there from the south of Ireland who were attending a wedding in Dublin, so they were there for a few days as well, and during breakfast we had some casual conversations. They found out I was Dutch on the last morning we were there, they thought I was American because of my accent 😬
12:27 There were the romans first, they basically controlled the southern part of the modern country, mostly up to the rhine river. Cities like Nijmegen, Voorburg and Maastricht were quite important in this area. The northern part of the country was ruled by various Germanic tribes. After the roman empire dissolved, the Carolingians took over and eventually the Dutch lands became part of the Holy Roman Empire. And yes, there were vikings as well. In fact, Friesland was at one point under viking rule. (Rorik of Dorestad)
21:43 You're talking about 'de aardappeleters'
Yes and from the holy Roman empire the Spanish took control as they turned the hre into a empire where the family is the successor instead of chosen by the princes and bishops
There are quite a few star fortresses in the Netherlands, even more older forts or castles that would get star fortress adaptions to it being mostly the points if you like of these star forts.
Nederlandic? Well that is a word I have never seen before.
For English, the Dutch learn it from a very young age almost making it their second language (or if you are living in the Friesland province, 3rd language) Also the Dutch are insanely good at learning new languages over all compared to most other countries in general terms.
The religion thing in the Netherlands is quite easy to understand actually. You are allowed to have a religion, but just as well allowed to have none at all.
You are not allowed to discriminate against anyone based on their religion or whether they don't have one.
It's different in that perspective from the US where you are almost forced to have one and if you don't it get force fed to you.
10:40 It has nothing specifically to do with aliens. It just says we do believe that something more is out there whatever it might be. Most people hearing this, from a person with religion perspective at least, think this directly refers to aliens or the super natural. However the reality is that it remains undefined. As it, 'yes there is something out there but we have no idea how to call it as we don't know what it is or looks like'. It's a more realistic view based on science and truth instead of what religion does, give a religious figure (god) the blame for it all.
For the Dutch flag... that is actually a lot more complicated then what is portrayed here.
Wikipedia doesn't state everything in facts, but you might get a general flag.
btw, did you know the Dutch flag is the base for ALL flags, including the US flag, if it comes to keeping it simple and clear? All striped flags directly are descendant from the Dutch flag.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_the_Netherlands
Viking history is very much in the Dutch culture, or more specific for the Frisians who part of the viking culture as well. They married with mostly the Danish vikings.
But also Ancient Rome didn't want to tango with them because these people were a lot more fierce then any other group they encountered.
14:55 Those are wigs, not actually their own hair. And yes, lice were a huge problem in those days.
Not to be racist, but there are quite a few stereotypical features Americans show.
1. Americans are quite loud, you often hear them before you see them
2. Their walk almost states "Look at me being the best". While in the Netherlands we try to keep it low key (act normal and you will be crazy enough, roughly translated)
3. Credit cards are a US thing, if a tourist gets out their credit card the highest chance is that it is a American.
4. A American group prefers to walk on the street or bicycle lane instead of the sidewalk (which is a huge no-no in the Netherlands unless you wish to get run over)
5. Americans often skip small cities/towns, only sticking to the large cities like Amsterdam.
6. A lot of Americans run to the coffeeshops as soon as they land thinking weed is legal. Which it isn't, the police just won't bother you if you have 5 grams or less on you as a token of good will and not wanting too much paper work.
7. Red light district in Amsterdam is flooded with Americans trying to take photo's of the girls, which is forbidden and bouncers can actually toss you in the canals. It is kinda a 'Why would you do something so obviously forbidden?".
8. Americans want to get the biggest cars they can get to simulate their own car at home. While then realizing they get stuck in traffic, narrow city streets and are unable to park where they plan to park. And still blame the Dutch for their own stupidity.
9. Americans run to American fast food restaurants quicker then try something new for some reason. It's there for a lot more likely you will encounter American tourists at a McDonalds or Burger King then a local fish store or fast food shop.
10. America has a tipping culture, but in the Netherlands or anywhere else for that matter this is not the case. All costs are included meaning the food, tax, tips, etc. You are not required to pay a tip, in some cases it is even seen as a insult depending on where you are.
11. Unrealistic expectations because they rarely do their research at home before leaving.
12. Thinking everyone speaks English, or that no one speaks English (or not well enough)
13. Calling or playing any music or video on public transportation or in public. While there are annoying Dutch kids that think it's cool, in general the Dutch frown on this behavior if not outright tell you to please plug it in or wait until you are in a better situation. No one wants to hear your music, videos or calls. Be mindful over everyone around you. (which one is perhaps also part of being loud)
14. Pushing their cameras in the faces of other people. Not only is this insanely rude, you are asking for trouble.
15. Using bicycles as if they were in the US, this meaning for recreational purposes instead of getting from A to B. While not bad on it's own, it's a whole different matter on public roads and side walks (Sidewalks are for pedestrians, not bicycles!)
16. The clothes betray the Americans real fast.
21: 52 Potato eaters, thats the name of that painting.
you're wrong on the tipping part. i've never heard of anyone thinking tipping is rude. Tipping is pretty common in restaurants, but not like adding 10-20% like in the US. It's more like rounding up to the nearest 5 or 10 or refusing change.
The other things seem spot on though.
@@thijsiejjjj17 well tipping is sometimes considered rude if it's like 10 cents or something like that, but most of the times the employees of the place appreciate a tip for sure because they simply don't get paid super high wages.
Don't worry too much about the bike incident. Dutch people are just very direct. We don't mean it that bad 😁
I was talking to a guy in bar for ten minutes and I was surprised when he told me he was Dutch. He spoke perfect English with no accent at all.
Our language isnt very
similar to english. It has english words. And all of us grow up with english, like on television or online games. Bonus english is just easy.
Hello, you should really respond to the you tube video "The Netherlands welcomes Trump" it's super funny and there is also some Dutch history in it
suggestions : ''The Dutch Military Revolution During The Eighty Years War'' and The Dutch Fleet and the Raid on the Medway (or any raid on the medway video really, it's really badass them destroying the English fleet and towing their flagship back to the netherlands. or ''When The Dutch Ruled The World: The Rise & Fall of the Dutch East India Company''
I would also suggest looking up on one of the wonders of the modern world, the Delta works, the US can learn a lot from this. Delta Works: An Example for the Rest of Us, by Megaprojects is pretty okay
All the video's I've seen on the Dutch East India company are BS mainly. "Dutch ships of the Golden Age" by The History Guy is much more insightful and properly researched.
ua-cam.com/video/n_8rx0na7Nk/v-deo.html
What no one tells about the 'Dutch Golden Age' is that the engine of it wasn't the Dutch East India Company but the domination/monopoly on trade with the Baltic Region ("the Mother (of all) Trade"). From 1550s-1680? the Dutch had an innovation with wide cargo body ships with fairly narrow decks, which made them pay less toll at the Öresund (Copenhagen). This domination made it possible to dominate trade in Asia and Americas. The Dutch weren;t powerful because of the Asia trade, but because they were Powerful (via the Baltic trade), they could dominate the Asian trade and slave trade . Until 1680s , when they lost the dominance on the Baltic to England and rising nation powers of Sweden, Prussia and Russia... In the 18th century they still had the colonies, but not the power of before. (And without much of the Baltic trade , the Colonial trade would have more importance to the economy of the Dutch Republic than in the 17th century..).
@@allws9683 In 1592 they had an innovation called the crank, that let the windmills saw wood, allowing them to build ships 30 times faster than others. So they did, the Oresund toll story is contested, but the Dutch could outcompete them all with the efficient freight ships and the low interest rates thanks to banking innovations. The North Sea trade was bigger than the Asian trade too, just like the Dutch part of the Mediterranean trade, even the good old herring fishery was more profitable than the entire VOC at it's peak. The VOC was important because it brough back the interesting stuff, not the bulk goods that made the Dutch the big money.
The Dutch only gave up on their objections to the slave trade in 1638 because of Dutch Brazil. But when that was lost to Portugal again, Spain finally gave up it's war against Dutch independence so there was no more privateeering to do, and the settlements in North-America had failed,, the WIC started slavetrading for the British, French, Spanish and Portuguese. They were big in that for a short while but the English took over because they managed to keep more slaves (and crew) alive.
Of course in 1688 the Dutch invaded England to set it up for the British Empire, but it actually was only around 1800 before the British took over as the world's biggest traders. The Dutch dominance of the trade around 1650 was huge, the Dutch Republic did more than half of all European shipping, the VOC only owned less than 1% of all Dutch merchant ships.
"The golden age" is almost illegal to say in the Netherlands now because. It was a golden age for the rich poeple. But there were a lot of suffering people and slaves.
Freedom of religion = the freedom to choose your own religious beliefs
Freedom from religion = the freedom that no religion can impose their beliefs on you
I'm from the city of Nijmegen in the Netherlands, the oldest city of the Netherlands 🇳🇱 ♥️ back in Roman times it was called Noviomagus, which was an Roman Empire outpost. A couple of years ago they found city walls under the ground in the city center whilst building a parking garage, so now it's a small museum because we like history 😄 also Nijmegen was bombed heavily during WW2 since its almost against the German border and a couple of kilometers north you had the 'Slag om Arnhem' where the movie A Bridge too Far is based upon. But you should look up the Roman history of Nijmegen and surroundings, still a lot of stuff you can see nowadays 👌🏼
Nice man i live near Nijmegen
I live in Deventer
Nou weer wat geleerd over Nijmegen XD
No is not true Maastricht is the oldest city of the Nederlands
Ik kom uit Bladel
I'm surprised they didn't talk about Indonesia at all.
Edit: Oh, I suggest Extra History's series on Tulip Mania if you want more info on the stock exchange and...
Tulips, obviously.
Welcome to NL! There's a lot that should surprise you, and hopefully impress you too! We didn't build up the land (mostly) we lowered the water! Religion is not part of politics; it's personal and private and not polite as a public discussion and evangelism is really frowned upon. Often you will see the Dutch flag flown with an orange pennant at the top. Which is a sort of Royalist signal 'Orange on top' ("Oranje boven") . As you saw there are a lot more windmills these days. They are generating electricity though, not pumping water. And they are often 40 metres tall! '. Gouda rhymes with Louder!! (not ruder). Prostitution and Weed are legal (amazingly NOT mentioned)!
Weed is not legal in the Netherlands and religion is still a part of politics, some of our political parties have that in their manifest and name, but their influence is getting less, thank God 😂
@@annebokma4637 I think that this is splitting hairs. But you can believe yourself correct on a technicality. Personally given the amount of 'gedoogbeleid' on cannabis, I think most people would consider it as (good as) legal.
@@antiqueinsider try growing it and get busted. I agree that not much action is taken against weed smokers (though a friend did get a fine for smoking weed in public, where tobacco is no problem) but as long as weed isn't legal the crazy thing that weed shops can sell weed legally but can't buy it, or users can't grow it even for themselves without risk of a police raid, I will not say weed is legal. Netherlands went from progressive to middle of the pack concerning legalization of Cannabis
You can grow UpTo 5 plants outside to a max of 2 meters high. No regulations on the size overall. Only the max 2 meters.
If you rent from a social housing company they may have other rules. But if you bought the house it's yours to do so with.y ex her parents and uncle did grow thier own on her backyard. Goodtimes 🤣
@@RedRingOfDead that is not an official rule and I know of instances where the plants were removed. Also when bloom starts neighbours may complain about the smell and since it's not law that you can have those you will lose your plants. As far as I know 5 plants may be tolerated no matter if they are inside or outside.
On the other end of the spectrum, I had three garbage bags full of weed, cop came and took only 2.
Like with all things in live it is mostly a case of being lucky, untill the law is changed and weed finally becomes legal in all aspects.
But it is still better here then in many other countries, so won't complain too much 🤣
Fun fact, Dutch is actually most closely related to Danish, and shares moest similarities with it! (I personally also love to explain it as a mix of Germanic languages, French, and in recent years English)
Other than in Germany where they all DUB over any English spoken program or movie on tv, since ages, here in The Netherlands we always just had subtitles. So indirectly you learn the English language and most Dutch people do speak and understand English pretty well. (Dutch myself too). 🙂
het is super raar om in duitsland de tv aan te zetten en amerikaanse series kijken😂. zelfde in frankrijk
@@theflyingdutchguy9870 Probeer eens naar de bioscoop te gaan in Belgie. Film in het Engels, ondertiteling in het Nederlands (nou ja Vlaams) en Frans.
Fun fact: Dutch actually has some words that you will find in Old English.
As a Dutch person, I can say I really HATE bicycles. Since I have a car, I haven't rode a bicycle. That's for 5 years now.
Freedom from religion means that religion can not dictate laws that concern you as person. Like abortion etc.
That the church or whatever can not control, dictate or in anyway interfere with your live
Also, you know what's interesting? I live 5 meters below sea level on the biggest man-made island in the world called Flevoland (or more accurate Flevopolder, since that's the largest island) and there has never been any major flooding since it was drained from the sea like 70/80 years ago, it's way more protected than almost all places, especially compared to the US where large parts of the coastline are fastly disappearing.
@Grote Scheiße fvd voornamelijk
@Grote Scheiße
In het Gooi komt dat omdat het Gooi duur is en Almere goedkoop, de dorpen nog goedkoper.
Dus als je vanuit het Gooi een koophuis in Flevoland neemt, ben je 'mislukt' omdat je niet mee kon komen met de prijzen hier.
Waarin we lekker hypocriet zijn omdat we enorm klagen over alle Amsterdammers die de prijzen zo opjagen.
Daar zat ook nog bij in dat je in de jaren '90 in Almere vooral terecht kwam in wijken waar je dan de enige blanke was en maandelijks beroofd of aangerand kon worden.
Ook hypocriet want ondertussen werd (en wordt) er op De Groest in Hilversum en het uitgaansgebied van Huizen wekelijks gekopschopt door bendes Marokkanen. Iets dat heel wat mensen hun leven of gezondheid gekost heeft.
Ik heb in '98 nog een uurtje 'vastgezeten' omdat we buiten zagen dat de mocro's een echtpaar van in de 50 aanvielen. Vrouw aangerand, man werd doodgeschopt, de ene agent die er was kon het niet bolwerken.
Wij naar buiten, eerst klap die ik gaf landde bij een verschrikkelijk dikke mocro op zijn luchtpijp die daarom ook gelijk stilstond en een kwartier niet op kon staan.
"Racistische zware mishandeling!!!" huilde de door en door corrupte PVDA burgemeester Verdier, "Heel normaal" vond de brigadier, "Mijn leven gered" vond de agent die daar stond te vechten met de bende.
Vrienden hadden andere mocro's ook net iets meer aangedaan dan strikt legaal is. Als ze al opgeven nog een keer of vier zijn hoofd tegen een lantaarnpaal slaan is....tja, wel verdiend maar niet helemaal legaal.
Dus de burgemeester eiste dat de straatbende mocht gaan na het plegen van aanranding en poging tot moord en wij gearresteerd zouden worden. De politie weigerde. Dus als compromis moesten we in de hal van het politiebureau wachten totdat de korpschef de burgemeester ompraatte.
Ondertussen stonden er woedende mensen buiten die ons wilden 'bevrijden' ondanks dat we niet gearresteerd waren. Dus die liepen naar binnen, werden door de agenten weer naar buiten gebonjourd en ondertussen zaten we daar.
Tot we mochten gaan.
De vrouw van dat stel is in therapie gegaan, de man overleefde ternauwernood en moest een jaar revalideren. De Marokkaanse straatbende is niet vervolgd vanwege het voorval.
@@grootsyt zucht.... haal de politiek er maar weer bij. Altijd goed voor het gesprek en de sfeer....
Hey I am from The Netherlands 🇳🇱 but they have missed alot! Our New Year nights is madness it’s like an war front blow everything up and don’t call the cops! That’s what we always say and “Wajooooo” but Netherlands I think is underrated
Oh no...
Ja man oud en nieuw is zo een ongelooflijke drama voor de ziekenhuizen
Wajooo zeggen ze in bepaalde kringen, waar ik niet tussen gevonden wil worden. Die oud en nieuw kneuzen die alles opblazen en dan nog de meelopers zijn nog triester. Nee dit hoeft niet gemeld te worden
@@Harrieden3de ik weet he
Don't believe the rather racist take on the 24 dollar story, which is was a stupid one to begin with. Minuit didn't ran into natives, they traded with the natives who were experienced traders, they traded a lot with other natives well before the Dutch arrived, ,not some primitives impressed with trinkets and beads. The 24 dollars is a simplistic calculation of what was 60 guilders in goods. 60 guilders back than would equate to about 4000 dollars in metal goods like axes, knives and pots and pans, valuable to the natives who didn't have metal.
Dutch person here!
Most people here dont love cycling, its just easier.
Also our cheese is not that big of a deal its just cheaper than the good cheese
Yaaas finally some Netherlands content, I'm so happy with this! Hope it's good, will let you know after I watched it:) But yes, roundabouts are superior, trust me, I study mobility!
Edit: it was good, loved your reaction as always
Good reaction!
btw, you dont talk too much at all, if i want an uninterrupted video, i'll watch the original. your insights make this video more fun than the original.
freedom of religion - you have all rights to choose what you want to believe in (in your home)
freedom from religion - religion does not dictate any law, religion does not get pushed on to the public at all (except for some church bells or something) you can do and believe all you want in your own home as long as you dont bother other people with it.
Hearing we love bikes always surprises me, it's like saying you love your fridge or the roof over your head. How else are you going to work, school, see your friends or do your groceries? Cars are useful for large distances but public transport also gets you everywhere. You can go your entire life without a car, it's a luxury really. I guess being a small, crowded country with flat roads is a big help.
Freedom "from" religion means exactly that. You don't have to have any religion. You can be non practicing in any religion. You can be an atheist or agnostic. Freedom of religion means the freedom to practice any religion.
The best series on the Dutch eighty years warof independence (without subtitles because already in English) is found here ua-cam.com/video/gNcddIvip6A/v-deo.html (episode one) but... beware it has six episodes of on average 80 minutes per episode!
Was in Amsterdam 2 months ago, love the place ❤
Funfact: the Netherlands created their own land what is called Flevoland. They pumped the water away and started building.
One thing for the Americans watching this: PLEASE stop assuming that all of us smoke weed all the time. Only a very small portion of the population smoke weed sometimes and PLEASE stop assuming the Netherlands is just Amsterdam. It is not. Please visit all our other beautiful cities! (a big plus is that you'll evade all the other tourists while doing so) The train network is pretty reliable so get a ticket and travel! And one last thing: do not walk on the bike lane, you will get run over and die.
I recommend you watch the video about Michiel de Ruyter by History Uncovered. He is a Dutch admiral who can truly be compared to Nelson
For the history of the 80-years war between Spain and The Netherlands (then: The United Provinces) I highly recommend to see the 7 episodes of "80 Years War"(by Paul H.) which was broadcast on Dutch television a few years ago..
Was going to recommend the same :)
Fun fact about the New York stock exchange:
Late 1700s: A small group of merchants made the Buttonwood Tree Agreement. The men met daily to buy and sell stocks and bonds, a practice that eventually comes to form the New York Stock Exchange.
Dude ur explanation is awesome.
Coming from a Dutch person, I enjoyed your comentairy very much, it's your video do what you want that's how you form your channels identity!!!!!
Great video keep it going 💪😁
The painting you were talking about is called 'de aardappel eters', or the potato eaters in english. Also kinda sad that the video did not mention the crimes in indonesia once...
Make that the crimes by the Dutch in all the 'new lands' they 'discovered'. The history of slavery is pretty bad here. Unfortunately not something they really like to teach us about at school (maybe it's different now, but 30 years ago history was more about the Germans being bad :o )
You’re such an awkward guy
Fun fact: The Dutch conquered Surinam from the British after the occupation of New Amsterdam. After a while an agreement was made so both countries could keep the newly conquered land. Later the Dutch nudged te Americans in the direction of rebellion against the British Empire, because it had become a threat to the Naval Power of the Netherlands. Staying "neutral" the Dutch fuelled the Americans in war with weapons and supplies.
*The Spanish king didn't just arrive and ruin everything!*
He simply succeeded his father, Charles V, who was Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire AKA the Habsburg Empire.
But when Philip II rose to the throne, the Habsburg Empire split into the German part and the Spanish part, and so he became king of Spain, also inheriting the Low Countries.
The Low Countries were formerly annexed and conquered by the Burgundians, who united all the seperate states that later became The Netherlands.
Example: Holland and Utrecht fought several bloody small wars against each other before the Burgundians took over and ruined everything.
The Burgundians did not have a male heir in the end so their lands became property of the Habsburg Empire through marriage.
*It's simply not true that Dutch is so close to English that you barely hear any accent.*
The current common Dutch skill to speak English without much of an accent only started appearing around 30 years ago.
If you speak to older Dutch folks who speak English, you'll be amazed at the massive accent they have.
"Yes, yoo sea, yoo go rite, levt, strate ahat en then yool sea it"
*If you wish to learn about the Dutch Eighty Years' War, look up the Defragged History channel.*
Amsterdam was not nearly as important when the war started, that role was played by the city of Antwerp (currently in Belgium).
The city of Deventer (you may know it if you watched the movie A Bridge Too Far because that's where they shot the Arnhem scenes)
for instance was already a city in 952.
Only at the beginning, when The Netherlands was first formed, during the Eighty Years' War, was Protestantism the dominant religion.
However, after only one or two centuries, it didn't matter that much anymore and Catholicism has always been better at keeping the sheep in the flock.
Protestantism is not a single religion but a whole bunch of religions that all worship the same god but with different levels of truly believing.
Calvinists believe that you don't have to lead a good life or do anything to please their god or anyone else for that matter. They are (some of them) predestined to be saved, no matter what. While most of themn will be doomed, no matter what they say or do. Pretty incredible religion.
With the spread of television and the modern media, many Protestants simply stopped believing.
"I won't pause as much"
says Mr. Serial Pauser
I've been to Disneworld.
They don't allow bikes inside.
You mean the "potato eater/de aardappel eters" I think. I really appreciate you over there watching stuff about our little but once so big.
Personally I'm pretty fond of North Americans (US and Canada) but also the common world countries like Great Britain, Australia, New Zealand and probably many others. Because they saved my ancestors lives and many others. I'm a pretty young guy now (28) so if I stay healthy and grow old this information and sentiment will be shared with others for a while.
@Robin You mean the Commonwealth...
Robin i really don't give 2 fucks about the USA. because the country is a shitshow, and Thier constant violation of human rights 👀.
Yes it's a fact they liberated us and others together with a ton of other countries.
You mean the potato eaters. Nice video!
I recently moved from South-Holland to Overijssel, and was surprised to hear that so many people here have considered the Netherlands as a whole as Holland, and were confused when I referred to North- and South-Holland as "Holland".
A few things missed were:
- The Dutch East India Company was so big that even today's top 5 largest companies combined wouldn't hold a candle to it.
- I thought the saying went "As a finishing touch, God created the Dutch", could be wrong.
- We love bicycles so much that we even go to war on them. During the WW's there were machineguns mounted on bicycles or even stretchers used by medics.
- We currently have the 2nd world's largest port, soon to be 1st as they're expanding it right now.
- We also made the microscope and the telescope.
- We were also the first country to acknowledge America as an independent country, and even went to war with Britain for America where (even though we fended them off) they lost so many ships that it started the fall of the company.
The bikelady knew to talk English to you because if you were a Dutch adult you wouldn't ride your bike like you were in Disneyland.
Also, the cringe thing when thinking about the past is a mechanism which helps you not to repeat past "failures". The memory is pulled from your long term memory to your working memory (often association will be the trigger here, like the bikes were for you). The physical cringe you feel is the feeling you add to the memory after which you store it in your long term memory again. The next time you think about repeating your actions of this previously experienced failure, you will also feel the cringe or shame you added to the memory which helps prohibit the behaviour.
This mechanism works the other way around as well, where pride or joy are the added feeling which stimulate you to repeat your succesfull actions in the future.
We just celebrated the Dutch Victory of the 80 years war with the Spanish in Alkmaar the 8th of october.
The most important date in Alkmaar's history is 8 October, 1573. This is the day when the courageous people of Alkmaar defeated the Spanish army in the Eighty Years' War. Every year to this day, Alkmaar's victory is celebrated around 8 October in what is known as 'Alkmaar Ontzet', and the Victory celebrations
If you are intersted in how the Spaniash came in control of the Netherlands, search the 80 year war. That event is basically what happend between the Dutch and the Spanish
Little note on them: the flag didn't change because it was easier to see at sea, it changed because it got too much love from nazi parties in the NL, back in the 1930's. Or, at least that's what I've been taught.
Freedom OF religion = Free to be a member of any given religion. Freedom FROM religion = You are free to decide if you wish to be a member of a religion, but you cannot be forced by other people to have a religion.
We're defininatly not Catholic... But there are Catholic regions forsure... But the whole point of Dutch independence was Calvinism and I feel like that is probably the most predominant religion in the country
The Netherlands is indeed a much more Protestant nation than it is Catholic. It is exactly because Catholics have always been a minority though that it has become a more important cultural marker as well as religious marker, and today a lot of those 20% Catholics don't believe in the religion of Catholicism all that much but *do* identify as 'Catholic' culturally, taking over what in other countries could be called just 'Southerners.' The breakup of the 'verzuiling' (which was largely based on Protestant vs Catholic vs 'Other' (liberals or socialists) was a pretty recent development, the last couple of decades, so cultural markers from that time still carry over because a lot of those people that did live thorugh it haven'' died yet and have instilled some of that pride in their children as well.
The Netherlands has about 4 recognised indigenous languages: Dutch, Frisian, Low Saxon and Limburgish. Frisian and Low Saxon are actually more closely related to English than Dutch is. Low Saxon stems from Old Saxon, same as English. While Dutch is the official state language for the whole country, Frisian is also an official state language within the province of Fryslân. Low Saxon (spoken in the North-East of the country) and Limburgish (spoken in the southern dangly bit of the country) are recognised languages, but they're not used for state or provincial dealings.
Freedom of religion means "you're free to adhere to any religion". Freedom from religion is "you're free to not be religious at all".
That's the whole point, people of the USA think that they mean something in history, they don't. My house is from 1893 and there are hundreds of them here. My city originates from 1247. We in Europe did everything already before you ever existed
Fun fact: the dutch people also caused and sufferd the first economic bubble, with tulips becoming thousands of guilders worth until no one wanted to buy them anymore (also eventually we started buying pieces of paper that said the seller owed you a tulip)
Update: the most exclusive tulips eventually got sold for 6000 gilders while the average income 150 gilders per year was.
The Netherlands doesn't border luxembourg but it isn't far away
10:30 as a fellow Dutch : freedom of religion means : we don’t care what you belief in as long your happy , we respect every religion in the world.
9:42 you are correct. It is more a Protestant than Catholic country. I think it does not show in the diagram because there are so many Protestant sub religions.
10:30 Freedom from religion is an extra measure of separating church and state. Also for example we have Catholic schools, Islamic schools, etc. But also schools were no religion is being teached. Freedom of religion means you are free to follow your religion. Freedom from religion means that somebody else religion should not infringe somebody else rights, life….
Eitisme, I think it is more, You think there is something like a god but don’t believe the Bible, Thorah, Quran is written or inspired by a god. And you don’t affiliate with a particular religion.
As a Dutch person from the Southern Limburgian region, I had to stop by to tell you that not ALL of the Netherlands is flat! This particular region has hills. Or technically, we have valleys... Waaaaay back in history it was a plateau, but water and wind carved out the places that had softer soil material and formed a landscape unlike any other region in the Netherlands. Tourists from other provinces are often in awe visiting the first time, saying "oh!!! It's just like Switzerland!". They must have never really been to Switzerland, because when my sister visited Switzerland and came back, she felt like our hills had shrunk. I suppose it's all a matter of perspective... I live around 130meters (nearly 430 feet) above sea level, which I like a lot.
I suppose we are higher up on our hills to make up for the fact that people here are on average less tall than the rest of the Dutch? 😅
To be fair, the tulips were gifted to the Netherlands by Turkey. That's where they origin. And even though we are known for growing them, i feel like the tulip belongs to Turkey.
The part about New York needs some more information. The english didn't just sail into New Amsterdam, it was a trade deal. The English won the third Dutch-British sea war, and for peace negotiations the Dutch traded New Amsterdam for Suriname, which was a surprisingly good deal at that time. Suriname was a great colony to start plantages, and an island they also got (Curacao) was a slavery trading hub. Sadly enough, this brought in a lot of wealth
fun fact: The region of the neatherland is the birthplace of the English people and the English language and the closest language today to modern English is the various dutch languages. The Angles of Angleland would later conquer Britain and form the modern English nation.
I live in the Netherlands and basically everyone I see these days uses an E-Bike
This was a cool video and I liked the interruptions and you talking about the things you might already know and stuff. Nice one
Freedom of religion = believe whatever you want.
Freedom from religion = you will be hard pressed to find anyone pounding their chest saying god bless the netherlands. We dont need to showcase how pious we are if we choose to believe.
14:37 The Dutch didn't give New Amsterdam away. They sold it for Suriname and made lots of profit from it.
If you want to learn about the war between the Spanish and the dutch, search the eighty years war and you'll get results
the painting is called the patato eaters and yes its from vincent and is in the van gogh museum in amsterdam
1. William the 2nd lived from 1626 to 1650. 2. 20 percent of the Dutch are Catholic, 15 percent are Protestant, 5 percent are Muslim and 5 percent belong to another religious group.😉
When we see cyclists in the Netherlands whose cycling behaviour looks very out of place, we assume they're tourists. So we automatically speak English when we address them about their annoying behaviour in traffic. Don't take it personal :)
it's exualy a bit funny bc i'm from the ntherlands and i just had a history test about spain taking over the netherlands but bassicly.
the king of spain wanted the netherlands because they had good trade and then Filips II (king of spain) made willem of orange stadtholder. there were also all kinds of faiths such as Catholic and Protestant. Protestant people were called heretics because Filip II was a Catholic and he said that only Catholics should be believed. the protestants left the country and went to other countries such as germany or belgium. and later revolted and the Netherlands had reconquered their country.
the ntherlands was in that time called something else and was a bit bigger then now bc it also had a bit of belgium.
this took a lot of time to translate for me so if there are some things not right spelt or smth then that's why
btw this isn't everything bc that just way to much to type
About the windmills: there used to be tens of thousands, but there's only (roughly) 1000 left. Most of the others were replaced during the industrial revolution or turned out to be very flammable.
“The first gulp from the glass of natural sciences will turn you into an atheist, but at the bottom of the glass God is waiting for you.”
― Werner Heisenberg
That's "something-ism".
To fill in 2 things that happened in the history time skip. The south was part of the Roman Empire and later on the Netherlands were part of Charlemagne's empire.
You were probably spoken to in English because you were on a rental bike and yelled at because of that same reason. I'm Dutch and live close to Amsterdam, I borrowed someone's rental bike once and got yelled at. I wasn't doing anything stupid or going slow. The Dutch grow up with (American) English TV shows with subtitles, not dubbed shows, so we are surrounded by English from a young age. this is why most of us are quite good at (American) English. And last, that painting is called "De Aardappeleters" (The Potato Eaters).
About those windmills: they served all kind of purposes; keeping the water level right, sawing planks, milling flour, milling pigments for paint etc. Nowadays a lot of those are kept functional by very skilled volunteers, not just for tourists, but because they are loved by us, they are our heritage...
We are far more protestant than roman catholic. Although the Roman Catholic Church in the Netherlands has the most affiliated people, the Protestant Church Netherlands has about 1.5 million affiliates. We have a very long calvinistic history and it shaped our country's soul and values so much, that even Dutch roman catholics are in a way culturally calvinistic. Roman Catholicism was banned from public life for a long period of time.
I just found out about your channel and i must say, your way of reacting is so relaxing! Idk it feels like im hanging out a friend! Good energy! Keep it up bosss🔥💪
Freedom of religion = You can practice any religion
Freedom from religion = you cant force it down our throat
Hi there, dutchy here. Freedom from religion means: you can follow a religion here, and you will be respected for it, but if you are not religious, you will rarely see anything religous. Yes, there are churches and yes we do have the religious holidays, but on TV and other media, there's no word about God unless you specifically follow a religious program. So freedom from religion here means that it is just not there unless you actively choose to search for it, as where freedom of religion means: people respect that you don't follow it, but its still very much around you.
Also, we dutchies do definitely have our own accent when it comes to speaking english, but given that most of our tv programs are english too with dutch subtitles, people actively learn english here, and those that try to speak english more profound will also try to sound more american.
I can speak to you in a dutch accent and you will clearly hear it, but I can also speak in an american accent and you get the result that you learned. The biggest thing with a dutch accent is how we don't flow our language. We have lots of gaps between the words where in english you keep the tonal of the last word you speak until you are about to say the next word and flow that together. Dutchies will say the word, then a small pause, then say the next word, and so on. We say the words very fast and short too making the pauses stand out even more. As one would say, we are very efficient with our language.
11:07 I don’t have a video but I can explain it in a oversimplified form. Before the Spanish rule the lowlands were ruled by a different kingdom called Burgundy. That kingdom got split between the Austrian Habsburgs and France with the Austrians gaining the lowlands. Spain then also got the Habsburg Dynasty on their throne and thus Spain, Austria(and all of it’s other dominions) and the lowlands were all ruled by one person at a certain point. In 1555 that person, Charles V, died and the empire split between an Austrian half and a Spanish half. The Spanish half also got the lowlands and started persecuting Protestants. This all came to a boiling point in 1568 when there was an outright rebellion and the 80 years war began.
I think a massive contributor to the fact Dutch/Beligian speak such good English is the fact that the BBC has always been such a broadscasting powerhouse and being a very flat country they recieve all the TV channels and before that, the Radio stations, better than any of the countries around them. I live across the water in Norfolk and our area is very flat too so i could see why. When i met Belgian friends on holiday once, all she wanted to do was talk about GB soaps. I was quite amused by this, but it makes sense. I guess when they learn in school they start watching/listening and dont look back.
Cute theory, but nope. It's our education (+as a language and country, being closely related)
@@letheas6175 "contributor" being the key word. I didn't say the only reason. Id be much better at french if I came home from school and had many French medial options. As it was there was never a single item of French media in sight before the Internet. 0 TV or radio stations. I'm sure now with the internet, American media is massively influencial.
@@InquisitiveBaldMan Actually, I know many people that don't give a crap about American media, since most of us realize some of that (actually a large portion of that) is either extremist, propaganda or both. And the tv shows or stuff they deliver, are usually just like their country, way over the top to be good. I'm not sure how influential American media is anymore, but it's interesting to think about, thanks. I'll look up on this a bit
Did you know that the Netherlands are nr. 1 at keeping a conversation in English with English as non-native language?
Dutch is about as closely related to English as it is to German (especially Low German dialects), it's just that English went through a lot of changes in the past millennium or so thanks to French (Norman) and Scandinavian (Viking) influences that made it so different from its relatives. If you look at Old or even Middle English, where a lot of its West Germanic roots are still present, you'll find they have a lot more in common. Two lesser-known languages that bridge the gap, both in terms of similarity/mutual intelligibility and actually being related, are Scots and Frisian!
We don’t ride our bikes all day! On average just an hour (maybe 2) per day, when you add up commuting, shopping and appointments and going out for dinner or drinks. We don’t love bikes, we use them. And we speak english to anyone on a bike wearing a helmet and cycling at just 5 km/h looking around instead of straight ahead. We just assume you’re a foreigner if you ride a bike like that!
Dutch may be really similar to english, and we do use a bit of english daily, but after speaking english for hours, my tongue gets really tired.
10:48, we don't necessarily mean alien’s, its more like that you can believe in heaven and hell but don’t think god is a thing. Ietsisme is more about you being able to believe that there maybe is a god like being but don’t have to pray, ietsisme is a term to describe you believe in some celestial things but not in all.
This is my take on ietsisme, I’m Huub from Breda in the Netherlands. I’m 15 and not religious, so sorry if i offended anyone and i hope that my take on ietsisme helped you to understand it maybe a little bit more.
I think that the woman on the bike knew to speak English bc Amsterdam is so swamped with tourists that people speak English before Dutch because there's a bigger chance that they're talking to a tourist than a Dutch person
In the Netherlands we actually say: we zijn altijd in oorlog met de zee
That means: we were always in war with the sea
You can learn about the most bad ass dutch guy ever, Michiel de Ruiter
9:50 The country's national religion is protestant and it is also clear that this church is not catholic. Yes, it used to be catholic but not after 'De beeldenstorm' in 1566 A.D.
the Freedom *from* religion is basically that religion doesn't dictate any of the government's decisions because we have a seperation between Church and State. You are allowed to believe what you want, but you are not allowed to use your religion to harm or oppress other people.
Also, most Protestants only live in Holland or Zeeland (or the Bible Belt through the country), but Catholicism is much more widespread especially in the south of the country. In the days of the Dutch Republic, roughly half to 2/3rds of the country was still Catholic, but the ruling elite were all Protestant/Calvinist.
@2:58 The yellow flowers in the background may be tulips or daffodils, but the hues of lavender, white and pinkish colors in the foreground are certainly not tulips and most likely hyacinths.