I mean as a dutch person, the Netherlands feels like a big engineering project. The whole country feels like its by design. And with it being so flat it's really easy to build infrastructure everywhere. Its like if you would build the perfect city in city skylines on a flat map.
We are about to curb our succes. Because of emission of nitrogen compounds. We are going to reduce our agricultural output. Anf we need more high rise residential buildings for the population going over 20 million. A lot of immigration with low productivity. Because we have zero control of who gets in. Desperate people from asia and africa who get in. They need education healthcare housing pocketmoney and other services. It would be best for the Netherlands to have a slowly shrinking population but no. We cant have that.
@@Hydrazine1000 No it is free real estate wether we turn it in to land is optional as we're now also building cities on water. A Dutch engineering company is currently finishing up on a floating city project in the Maldives.
As a German, that grew up in the state that borders the Netherlands, NRW, I gotta say: First, we very much love our neighbors and love to vacation there 😘 My first abroad experience I had in NL! Second, it always seems like this funny-odd place where people speak a hilarious, made up language but also a place of damn good engineering and innovation! The Dutch always seem like a decade ahead, at least, compared to big slow Germany 😪
It’s okay, you’re still waaaaaaaaaaaaaay waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay ahead of Western Neighbour cousin , Unhinged Knucklehead , sad and floaty in the Atlantic …we just look embarrassing now to nearly everyone , but we still do decent tea…whilst the struggling IQs bought a massive disinformation campaign outside London who voted Brexit to inflict major damage on total failed side quest. 😭😭😭😭The NL is awesome my son is half Dutch, Thank You NL for the genes, w/ credit to Germany too…we 💜our functional neighbours…and we always look up to , NL, Germany, one of you does have better beer though,both have equally amazing apple cake😊❤ Netherlands really should consider allowing dual nationality though😢for children/ grandchildren of Dutch expats abroad. It’s sad they can’t migrate back and be a part of Dutch culture when they carry the rarest surname from Grandparents from a tiny village in the South..
Believe me I speak both Dutch and German and we are much alike but have own odd differences. Not only our language is very similar but also our attitude towards efficiency is very much alike.
From the US, I've always wondered how the Netherlands is so damn influential despite its tiny size, being surrounded by the most powerful countries in Western Europe.
Aggressive negotiations. At the time, that meant negotiations with a large fleet of gunboats. Combined with a lot of divide and rule, especially in what is now modern day Belgium and Germany. And of course, playing England, and France against each other.
And as a Dutch person living near Rotterdam. I'm glad that you are our neighbours too. That way we can do some cheaper shopping (our supermarkets and gass prices are out this world high). No in all jokes, we can learn a thing or two from you guys as well.
I'm assuming he's making the pronounciations sound easier to remember. I mean, the profile picture of RLL is a WINDMILL. I don't think he's mispronouncing them
Its crazy how effective flipping the map 90° is at giving you a new perspective of the layout of Europe and how the Nerherlands is located in the center
As a non Dutch person who has both worked with and befriended Dutch people, let's see. They're multilingual. Can adapt to just about anywhere in the world. Asia, Africa, the Americas. They're among the tallest if not the tallest people. They have a colonial history of world exploration and know how to negotiate and trade. They're generally blunt and direct. Some might say that's rude but it gets the job done.
I understand how directness can be seen as rude. Sometimes it is rude. I hope people can be direct and polite. As a Dutch person I sometimes experience indirectness as rude. It almost feels like dishonest. "Why doesn't the other person tell me the truth, but is he wasting my time?"
You have 2 pieces of key information but you've not connected them yet. "know how to negotiate and trade" - do you know why and how? what are the most important aspects in trading? "blunt and direct" - what would be the advantage of being direct/truthfull with questions? Indirect => playing around the truth so they can make an assumption themself, covering your own ass. We dont do that shit in general. We, the Dutch, are somber people, we dont fck around. We take reality serious. We take actions serious, meaning we plan ahead, we consider impact and affects, cost and profit and after that, we make a decisions that brings us closer to our goals.
The Dutch didn't invent Capitalism, a socialist invented it I think, 1850's, and Socialism about 60 years before that. The Dutch did not have Capitalism in the 17th century. They had riots and the protestant reformation, not some made up thought experiments. Those terms are retroactively applied and are in reality not applicable to anything, it's just exists to have controlled opposition and play mind games with people so they could kill each other.
@@pompidom I agree that I experience indirectness as rude and hypocrite and lying and wasting my time. But for the Dutch is is taken for granted that we all have the intention to live in peace and trust one another, thus creating a win-win situation. Indirectness in other cultures is often meant to prevent fights. This video does not mention the old families and old money, and the way we raise our children. 'Think ! Think for yourself ! Think of a solution yourself !'
@@binsarm9026 this, and the terrible english speaker habit or not giving a damn on how to pronounce names. A native english speaker can pronounce most if not all the names with little effort if they put in the effort. But mentioning slavery and colonial history feels more important lol
@@SwainixFPVI noticed the same. As a foreigner that moved to the Netherlands, I struggle with the Gs. At least I can pronounce the names, but make people laugh sometimes. I just wish that narrators (real or AI based) would sacrifice some time to get names better pronounced, it just take a little extra time. The subtitle function goes totally "bananas" when names are said so wrong. My advice is then, please put the names in writing if you cannot pronounce them very well. 🙏 That would make great channels into the most excellent ones. 😉
@@binsarm9026 If you think all our wealth comes from slavery you're hopelessly ignorant. It only accounts for 1 or 2% of the economy back in those days. Trading spice and flowers and having the first real stock exchange made us rich as a country.
After just visiting, I must say, it does feel very crowded. Building blocks everywhere, and every corner turned you can expect someone coming your way. Personally felt very claustrophobic. But maybe if you're living there, you kind of get used it it. Idk
@SuperMari026 Kerel, nou echt waar hey (dit is toch wel het ultieme bewijs van de NL-bekrompenheid). Denk je nou echt dat er ook iemand buiten de NL staat de springen om dat f*c*ing fritesausje op zijn aardappelen te doen?! 😆😀
Dumb American here. That. Looks. Amazing. Mayonnaise with curry and onion powder?! YES PLEASE. Going to go to a European market as soon as possible and will look for some!
Because the Dutch are innovative, efficient, hard working and do not tolerate any bullshit. I love patat, especially with mayonnaise, peanut sauce and raw unions (patatje oorlog)
Interesting that the Dutch seed producer Rijk Zwaan was mentioned and explained. I worked there as a freelancer from 2021 to 2023. It is not even a stock listed company but privately owned family business. They tread their workers very fairly and have a open ears policy for problems and suggestions. I could bring the freshest of vegetables imaginable from work every day for free. Good memories.
Ah. Self employed where you? ZZP-er. Listen, you could work for any if all semi or not government companies. They pay well and yes, free veggies too from local produce. All expences payed. On a fixed contract.
French man who happily lived 9 years in the Netherlands here. The Dutch have historically been innovative engineers, traders, multicultural, intelligent, and very adventurous. They are also socially very inclusive and focussed on consensus: this means that once a decision is taken, it is supported. Most importantly, they have great cheeses and Paling! But nobody being perfect, they also have Frikandel and enormous floating fishing factories destroying the live stock. But love them: Hup hup Holland!
Up Up Ollande ! In French. The (1950's ) song is: Hup ! Holland Hup ! Laat de leeuw niet in zijn hempie staan. Amazed by your English, as the French refuse to speak English in general. You're right about the frikadellen. It is an Indonesian dish with oriental spices. If you make them yourself they are far better.
Totally enjoyed this video although I was aware of most of the content. I’ve been visiting this country for over three decades and it simply does not fail to impress me every time I visit. But what I like most is the people, their respect to others, down to earth attitude etc. Love & respect from the UK.
What a brilliant video. That was my reaction after watching only 6 or 7 minutes. And yes, I completed it ;-) The amount of work and research you put into this video is really amazing. So many facts and figures! I'm Dutch, and proud of it. You have managed to re-confirm and strengthen that feeling and I thank you for it. All the best to you!
I'm Dutch. I didn't know the gasfield in Groningen was this big. That explains the reluctance to shut down extraction due to earthquakes damaging buildings in the area.
@@VoornaamAchternaam-kr4vk Even worse, the field easily covers our entire debt and then some. We could literally suck it dry, be debt free, relocate the people who lived there for free and then some, and still have plenty left-over.
It's not earthquakes that's destroying the housing It's water mismanagement . The war on Fossil fuels/Co2 is why Groningen Gas has stopped which out a alternative for cheap energy . This wil not change anything on a global level . Only on a financial level for the social welfare system in the netherlands. That's why the infrastructure is being dismissed as fast as possible by the former coalition. It's a form of manipulation of the social structures. A act of terrorism against the inhabitants of our country. All under the banner from Neo/Liberalisme . Minority vote is ruling in a democracy, only information is not easily uptained or even hidden from the population to meet their own narrative. And if u don't trust me, if I'm telling the truth. Just remember this post . And see what is going to happen in the next decade. Then look back for 3 decades what happened in that time.
The problem is that the money dont go to Groningen or Friesland it go to the south they steal the gas only dont want to pay for houses that go broke off it only 00.025 of the money that they make of the gas go to the Noord because they say why are just low life people only they life in the south good because off that criminals they like thiefs first take take take and then they dont pay for the destruction off the houses 🤮 lott of the money to take land from the water coming out of the Noord think about it now the want to closed the gas fields only dont want to pay for the destruction of what the gas have done in the Noord that is why i am not proud off they hungry money thiefs in the south 🤮
@@VoornaamAchternaam-kr4vk it's beyond stupid to me, use it there will come a time where we will very much need it, all this just because some old build homes are having cracks in the walls and old people don't who don't care about the future are fucking it up.
I moved to Eindhoven from Ireland a few months ago, specifically to work for ASML as an engineer. The majority of the cities population, economy and industry work directly or indirectly for this one company. The money invested in R&D and the production line is absolutely unfathomable. The level of confidentiality and secrecy with all technical information is like the CIA. And i can tell you that, after working with the machine and seeing all its mechanisms that allow it to produce trillions transistors only atoms in width in a fraction of a nano second, that its like a machine from 1000 years in the future, and im not exaggerating. There is things engineered into that machine that I didn't even know where possible. I would consider it one of the most sophisticated and advanced machines on the planet, only behind the large hadron collider and the falcon 9 rocket maybe.
you are right, the technology and confidentiality is simply unimaginable for the majority of people, I work at a company that makes the tubing and piping for asml and the level of detail and precision is just incredible.
Yeah... they used to make just lightbulbs and transistors over there. Philips. There is also a footballclub called Eindhoven. PSV or something. The money that goes in there is not that staggering, really. We just put it to good use. But maybe its just because it just us, or Taiwan. Putting your eggs in two baskets doesn't seem to be all that smart, does it?
finally a video about my country with proper research! well done mate, i always have issues with these video's because they are so incorrect or incomplete. probably the first one i've come across thats actually on point!
As a Dutch person that knows a lot about the country im impressed how good this video is made. Normaly a video misses out on a lot of stuff, but this one was very solid. Including current time with powerhouse companies as ASML
Nederlanders zijn over het algemeen dom en arrogant. Een eigen vooral onderbouwde en doordachte mening hebben is al een probleem. Daarbij Hoge Belastingdruk, Asielcrisis, Boerencrisis, Woningcrisis, Zorgcrisis, Energiecrisis, Inflatie, Huisartsen en medicijnen tekort, Toeslagen drama, Personeelscrisis, Hoge voedselprijzen, Schiphol airport chaos. Weinig om nog trots op te kunnen zijn.
@@autohmae the Amsterdam Internet Exchange is indeed the biggest in the world. And we did invent the lenses (microscope and telescope). But dont think those things make us OP. Maybe the strong positioning in internet exchange does.
@@autohmae Dutch people are just good at knowning how to create value from (professional) services and products. We see chances and go for them. Like Schiphol for example. Big dutch aireport. They made it so we are the stop in between big flight trough the world.
The Dutch are also immensely good at sports. With only 18 million people, they came 6th out of almost the entire world in the Olympic Games. They have defeated countries that have 3 or 4 times as many people.
The total size of each country is irrelevant, what matters is how big the delegations to the olympics are, in Paris China had 388 athletes in their delegation while the Netherlands had 276. It's not surprising they got a lot of medals. It's a wealthy country that can afford to train a lot of people to compete in useless sports.
for clarity; ASML grew based on the success of their DUV machines (Deep ultraviolet). The EUV (Extreme UV) machines have only been in production recently, and so far they've been almost too advanced for foundries to want because they are way more expensive, and the better chips don't have enough applications for the market to want to buy them. DUV is still very much alive and kicking in the industry.
@@jochemlambers What do you mean in terms of coastline? Coastline is just an outline of the land. Poland is in geographical center. Take the furthest distances in each cardinal direction. Find the middle. You get Poland.
It isnt. Maps fool you. The Netherlands is situated on the mouth of the Rine River. (and the Waal and Maas/meuse river). So, it is an extention of Germany economically. Economically and politically, we are more in line with the UK.
@@ToTheGAMESNotJustBikes has tilted over imo, though. It used to be actually about urban planning, now it is for a big part a "reeee four-wheel road vehicles bad reeeee" channel
@@some-online-dudeYeah he sucks, cars aint going away anytime ”soon” (in 100 years maybe?). I think he needs to accept that fact and chill the fuck out hahaha
@@some-online-dude To be honest, having cars in a city, especially in down town, is and will always be stupid. Cities are meant to be a dense area, cars have no business here. It's not to be anti car to be against cars in cities. Cars are great and we should build good infrastructures for cars around the cities and beyond.
As being a Dutch engineer i am overwhelmed by this video. We must remain modest. We work good together and are really free and are very lucky with things which were just there…
dutch work ethics play the biggest role imo. Flat hierarchy, (extreme - nearly insulting) honesty, work-life-balance, cooperation, effort to understand others positions, diversity and progressive thinking brought us to this point.
What a beautiful comment. We should indeed be modest, and never forget that a large part of our wealth and prosperity was achieved through the subjugation and suffering of millions of people, none of whom were ever able to enjoy the spoils of their labour or their of their lands.
Helping my Dutch Dad as a boy with my smal bike. (ME)Dad,,i can,t do that,its impossible. Dad to me,,we have not invented impossible jet boy,,so go for it.
As a Dutchman, I have to smirk about , how shocked Americans are, about our straightforwardness. Last year, I asked a collegue, when he had his last shower.. he asked me why I asked this. My answer was, " because you smell like a septic tank".😂
Well it's quite rude. So it really depends on your relationship with that colleague if you can say stuff like that without it being perceived as rude. If it's a friendly colleague that you jab each other every now and then it's ok, he can take it from you. But if you just see him sometimes and come up with comments like this. I doubt you will be liked even here in the Netherlands.
When I first arrived in the Netherlands, I was in awe, everything seemed well built, everything was designed with great sense of purpose, the fully integrated nation-wide public transport network blew my mind. The housing was beautiful, old and new. The cycling was years ahead of anywhere in the world, making even Copenhagen look a bit meh. But outside of the big cities is where I liked it most. When I fist arrived into the suburbs I've seen a group of old people being active and happy and cycling together. And then another one, and another one. Then I've seen what the schools look like and how kids get there. Then I've seen town squares buzzing with locals, markets, terraces were packed and people were going up and down the canals, relaxing on their boats. Of course this was summer. But it was the first time I've seen such a powerful visual representation of quality of life. The work-life balance was visible, and it became very tangible as soon as I started working. I know the UK is not exactly the worst place in the world or Europe, but comparing it to the Netherlands, it feels like a mad depressing rat race.
@@lief222 haha fair point. I know there is no such thing as a perfect country, but I have lived in a few places, and the Netherlands was the most impressive on all sorts of levels, and it will leave me comparing for ages.
Drove through Holland just over a week ago, and stayed for one night in a charming small town. Everything about the nation is amazing. Architecture, organization, culture, you name it. As a Scandinavian, the ethnical and cultural vicinity is astounding in and of itself. You can almost understand the language.
@@edgarkuijer5755 Stayed one night in Winschoten which was a lovely little town east of Groningen, and for a change the hotel was managed by real and polite people.
Being Dutch , just returning from Sweden, I learned there that The Swedish language only exists as long as the English language, about 400 years ago. That is the period that the bible was translated and printed for the protestants. The English mixed French and Anglo-saxon words, the Sweeds mixed words from the Hanze-cities, so a lot of Dutch, Flamish and Frysian words in it. Allthough greeting clients with a sudden loud 'Hej da'! is considered rude over here.
@@BetjeWolff-v2s I wouldn't say that. Sure, under the Middle-ages there was some significant especially German influence through the Hansa, and in the preceding "Viking era" there was probably a reverse drift, and eventually they had a common ancestry. What happened with the reformation was two things. First the Nordic union broke, and the bible was translated into a new codified Swedish as a "national" thing of independence. Before that, Danish, Swedish and Norwegian were rather interchangeable. And the academic and clergy language was obviously Latin. Another thing is that Swedish actually have rather a few French loan words from the 18th and early 19th century, when it was considered fashionable and the two nations had ties. More so than Danish/Norwegian. But it is complex. German is rather easy for a Scandinavian, but Dutch/Flemish is more graspable, for whatever reason.
Dutchie here. About us being #2 in agricultural exports, this is a commonly misunderstood thing - agricultural export is not the same as agricultural production. Almost all of the food we export is not grown in the Netherlands. Seriously, we couldn't be a bigger producer than China or India even if we used every square meter for farming. For example, we might be the biggest onion exporter in the world, we actually grow less than 2% of the worldwide onion production. Instead, the agricultural products we export have been acquired elsewhere (China, US, Brazil, other EU countries) and this makes us #4 in the world for agricultural imports. These agricultural products are then either exported as is, or processed into a different form. So, where it concerns agriculture, we are not so much a country of production, as a country of trade, logistics, and manufacturing. Which is actually a lot better as that means having a better educated, more progressive, and more diversified workforce. And the trend of reduced consumption of (ultra)processed foods and factory farmed meat will push us to slowly move away from the food industry anyway. Food is not even in the top 10 of our exports by value; instead things as oil products, heavy machinery, consumer electronics, and medical drugs are much bigger. And where it concerns value of economical sectors, agriculture makes up just 1,5% of our GDP, while taking up about 50% of our land. We are very much in the process of reducing our agricultural sector, as it too big a drain on our extremely limited space, respect for animal rights (animals never seeing daylight is not cool), and fragile local environment and biodiversity (we have a serious nitrogen excess problem). Until the sea starts eating us, we'll probably keep our role as distribution hub, we're just too conveniently located, and that's great. But I think the Dutch future is in things like education, tech, information, policy making and law, civil engineering, theoretical research, and renewable energy; of which Philips, ASML, and the technical university next door to them are great examples.
You buy soy from Brazil and Argentina, which they grow on previous Rain Forrest, so that's completely criminal, then you pay those countries nothing if possible. By supplying Dollar or Euro loans in a high inflation country. And you feed al that valuable soy protein to pigs, who only convert a part of it to meat, and then you sell it for top money. The waste and devastation in that whole cycle is conveniently ignored, and a lot of self praise is proclaimed on the remarkable Dutch Business Acumen. Yeah great stuff.
Makes sense. But unless you can build your sea walls a whole lot taller, the Dutch future is being the latest Atlantis. By the time Antarctica finishes melting, sea levels are going to be about 70m higher than they are now. If you can wall that out, you might as well claim the entire North Sea while you're at it.
@@tealkerberus748, my daughter & family live in Haarlem, just south of Amsterdam. When you go to the beaches, you are crossing several kilometers of hills, usually National Parks. They are the dikes. Why are they so huge? They were started in 1530! They have 3 km to go in The Hague. I think they'll get there!in time!
Just to clear something up: we do not have a serious nitrogen problem in The Netherlands, only seriously faulty models. All to please the EU (let's stick to that 😉) and accommodate their quite scary plans for the future of the EU and the role that they want the Netherlands to play in it. That's why more and more people source their meat and other animal foodproducts straight from farmers that work very organically (don't use pesticides on their crops and don't use an abundance of pharmaceuticals on their animals) and very animal friendly (grass fed cows etc.). And of course stand with the farmers (you may have seen some footage of the farmers protests).
As a Dutchman I really feel the urge to correct the myth about the amount of the dutch export. A huge part of that isn't real export but is transition!!! Goods arrive in the harbour of Rotterdam and than we transport in smaller containers to the rest of Europe. We DON'T produce that, yet we call it EXPORT, witch suggests that we do produce it .
True, but then again, we manage to make money by other people's work simply by making it advantageous for them to pass it through our hands. That still counts as income through export.
its really fun to see a part of the video fawning over the deltaworks, I live at cycle distance from one of the works so its easy to forget hot impressive it actually is lol
You forgot to mention that the Netherlands has a strong tradition in risk management, partly due to its ongoing battle against water. Dutch companies and managers are praised for their expertise in logistics, supply chain management, and risk management. They deliver managers to all countries around the world and fix their problems. The Dutch have an extensive degree of organisation and planning, from scheduling meetings to book holidays far in advance. Managers are vigorous and decisive, but the consensus is mandatory, as there are many key players in the decision-making process
@@honor9lite1337 maritime comerce has a lot to do with risk managing. Think of trading with the New World, where you might have a great return if the ships come back full of gold... or no return whatsoever if they ship sunk or the crew died of scurvy
Have called the Netherlands home twice once in high school and later as a young adult. The second half of this blew my mind! Thank you to everyone involved in creating this!
Remarkable thing, the flood disaster in 1953 saw the first large use of helicopters for rescue of people, picking them up from roofs and small patches of land to dropping supplies. Also worldwide relief actions started as the country was still poor just after the war. Even houses were donated from Sweden for example, still you can see them in Zeeland now.
My late father was a volunteer rescue worker who helped many people get into the helicopters. He never mentioned it, I learned that from my mother after his death. I guess his traumas from WWII also affected this.
Writing from New Zealand where my parents immigrated to along with thousands of others from the Netherlands in the early 1950's. I have always been proud to be born in New Zealand an to be a Kiwi but am very proud of my Dutch heritage as they are an amazing country and have the most amazing attitude and ability.
The Netherlands is honestly the best place on Earth. The people are so nice and friendly, the economy is thriving, and everyone seems to live such a healthy, balanced lifestyle. Drugs are almost legal, there is the Port of Rotterdam and serious organized crime is going on but the public safety(based on my four years spent there) seems much better than any other country from Europe. Imagine how amazing things would be if New Amsterdam had stayed Dutch! World would be a more peaceful place maybe. I can't wait to return! Dank je, Nederland, dat je zo goed bent! ❤❤
A very important thing to note about the natural gas fields in Groningen, it is hold in contempt as it has caused a lot of damage to the buildings in Groningen, causing earthquakes that hadn't existed before, it's a big part of the reason why production has seized as it not only damaged newly built structure but also historical structures.
And yet nobody batted an eye when the south of Limburg was being damaged by the mining of coal, a problem we still have 😂 about a decade and a half ago, one of our shopping centers suddenly started sagging, because the water levels in the mines beneath dropped, causing the eventual closure of parts of the building and a lot of retailers closing their shops.
@@michaelritzen8138 Oh wow that's wild, i never even knew about that. Is that a topic that our senate is actually talking about, or is it something that's been wiped under the rug for years because profits?
@@Zarosian_Ice I'll give you three guesses 😅 The mines were closed in the '70s, if I am correct, because they were dangerous, brown coal wasn't in demand anymore (thanks to gas and other forms of fuel) and because there were already problems with sinking homes. But the province and government just ignored it. In the 90s we had some pretty serious earthquakes in the region of Heerlen and the sinking of the shopping mall in the 2000's. My grandfather used to be a coal miner and there are several great musea in South Limburg that go into detail about our mining history.
@@michaelritzen8138 That's interesting, never knew that was a thing.. The only shafts i know about are the ones in Valkenburg, i never knew they actually caused damage.
I am German and I live 1 hour from the next bigger Dutch city. 30 Minutes from the border. I did my psychology studies there and lived 5 years in the Netherlands. I fucking love the Dutch and their cities. I have many great friends there, they are considerate and lovely. I also learned Dutch and can converse with Dutch people. They are amazing people and I am so happy to live so near to them.
You missed that Amsterdam is also one of the biggest internet hubs of all of Europe, with many companies choosing the area for building their datacenters.
@@NofirstnameNolastnameprobably because in the early days of the internet, arrangements for internet in The Netherlands was done by CWI, based in Amsterdam. This led to AMS-IX, which was non profit, in contrast to most other internet exchanges and because of that became very popular.
I was waiting for this video for so long. (Ik wist niet eens dat wij t zo goed deden.) I just kept waiting for a video about us on this channel and I am loving this moment!
I had a father figure of sorts who was from the Netherlands and while very blunt and opinionated he was also a very kind man with a amazing intellect. R.I.P Franciscus Ackerman
There is a special saying in the Netherlands where I am born: "You grow to stand in with the rest, not to standout". I think this mindset is perhaps the reason why we aren't noticed as much by others.
As someone who grew up in the Netherlands myself, I am convinced the country is a massive exercise in reverse psychology. How else does one explain the country's successes in spite of absolutely everyone who lives there discouraging you from pursuing your dreams? Seriously, the first thing a Dutch person will tell you when you talk about your ambitions is that you won't succeed.
@@a.v.w.6453 yup somewhat 😁 Although I think it isn't always meant in a malicious discouraging tone and often in a pragmatic way. It could be the start of a helpful approach/viewpoint how to make it succeed or to focus on the parts that áre good/cutting out the bad. Not all will take it that way though, so it still hinges on overall mentality. Maybe our history and culture is proof enough that it cán be done, so overall many will succeed anyway.
sounds about right. As an Amsterdammer, I have to admit... Look at it this way: If you walk around on a workday somewhere in Rotterdam and you see someone else walking, yeah, that's for his job. You see that person in Den Hague? Probably a lobbyist of some kind.. That same person in Amsterdam? Yeah, he's tripping.. 😁
Side note: one reason the pumping up from the Groningen gas reserve was 'phased out' was because of a MASSIVE resistance and protest coming from the local inhabitants, as they were experiencing many large and small earthquakes as a result, which brought a lot of damage to their properties and the value thereof.
We shall see as the ocean rises and warms how it holds. Well we wont see it will take some time but eventually they will have to prepare for that. Who knows there could be hurricanes 🌀
As a Dutchman living in Canada, I had to share this video with my family in NL. I emigrated to Canada for a job as helicopter mechanic I could not get in NL after serving 5 years in the RNLAF. Still am very proud of my heritage. My first year in Canada, I was called "mister abrupt" at my work. An endearing title I earned with my blunt directness which is still much appreciated in "polite" Canada once my wife shaved off the rough edges. Good job on trying to pronounce Dutch words and names. It is a difficult language. Great video
The dutch people are real example of "when life gives you lemons you make a lemonade"...Netherlands IS a secret superpower..as non-dutch person who lives and works in Netherlands I knew all these things that you mentioned in the video because I'm fascinated and interested about this country..there are even more things and it could go on and on and the video would be hours long..but if one word could describe Netherlands in all aspects I think it's "engineering"...
My DNA proves to be mainly from the City of Rotterdam, and I come from a family of engineers. But then again: who are the people that manage to survive through the ages with the constant dangers from water of sea, rivers and sky. Natural selection and survival of the fittest. Our DNA fits in with the environment. How about the group of men that survived the North Pole winter on Nova Zembla, searching for a sea-route to China ? Through our history a son could not come home with a skinny pale girl that spent her time whining and polishing her nails. Natural selection.
I’m watching this while waiting at a gate of an international airport to board a flight to the Netherlands 😂 what are the odds that Real Life Lore would upload a video about it right now?!? Crazy
I'm guessing a lot of people travel to the Netherlands every day, so the chances of RLL uploading a video about the Netherlands right when someone is about to board such a flight are... about 100%?
The worst part, they’re the tallest I. Europe as well. You’re 6ft in anywhere else, you’re considered tall or above average at least. In the Netherlands you’re below average. Mental.
@@malaficus The weed plant is one of nature's great gift to us, humans and animals!! It's a HEALING plant. Use the ENTIRE plant for all kind of diseases, physically or mentally or to reduce/stop pain (from cancer even). Nature didn't just give us the female plant's THC to get stoned. (Aka being relaxed and free of worries and even pain) Nature gave us the ENTIRE male and female plant to use. Big Pharma hates this great GIFT from nature. Sleeping pills, pain medication, blood pressure reducing pills, cancer treatment, stress related diseases meds etc etc etc would be UNNECESSARY to produce (with toxic additives, toxic synthetic chemicals) meds if Governments would allow everyone to grow their own FEW weed plants to make weed oil from the ENTIRE plant. (INCLUDING THC) JUST a FEW drups under the tongue one hour before going to bed and no meds needed for many many DIS-eases! It keeps humans healthy (if they eat/drink/move their body well too, not eating only overproduced and junk food) Big Pharma meds only reduce the symptoms, so humans might feel better, but these meds do NOT cure the disease. (A healthy person isn't a client right? Healthy world population doesn't bring them greedy b@st@rds any money) I once smoked a joint, decades ago. I didn't like it at all. But I use the entire plant mixed with some oil. NO MEDS HERE since a long long time. I'm a physically and mentally healthy/stable grandma, playing/running/playing football/biking/swimming etc with her young grandchildren. Just using 8 drups of weed oil (not CDB) made from the ENTIRE plant before going to bed and GOODBYE anxiety and anxiety meds! (Anxiety because of my close family member's Leukemia battle and years of treatment with BP bad stuff) Anxiety meds are bad meds, brrrr, used them very shortly, but omg, sooooo bad bad bad. Anxiety got even worse with all kinds of physical problems. Stopped those meds myself, started using this weed oil made from the entire plant) So sir, Big Pharma would go bankrupt IF humans used this great gift from Mother Nature every night. USE, NOT ABUSE (only THC to get stoned) I will hug my 5 weed plants now. BTW, best weed seeds in the Netherlands, 100% only female seeds to make the best weed oil myself. Never stoned lol. Have a great Sunday sir from a Dutchy.
Tony: True!!! Had not used it since my teens (it is a youth thing in the NL) a long long time ago and bought a NL-weedvape from my local tobacconist. Could not even control my vocal cords, thank God I passed out! STRONG developments in recent decades!
I'm very honoured to live in such a wonderful country.. originally from Austin Texas.. never wanna live in USA after living in the Netherlands.. great architecture and public transport
As a Dutch person who lived in Austin, Texas for one semester I have to say : Really loved Austin!! The people, the weather, the nightlife, the music, the nature, the FOOD OMG THE FOOD
Netherlands always amazed me, since when i first learn about their land reclamation project. But these new knowledge on farming industry, and semiconductores makes me appreciate them even more. Just the idea that: 1. There is nation, that has might of food industry similiar to USA 2. Nation that has maritime trading strong as Singapore. 3. Nation which has high tech industry strong as Taiwan or South Korea. All of these important industries set in nation, that their most important thing was survive against ocean, in which they succesfully wins.
@@dragonlukasmapping805 fun fact. The Dutch basically build singapore as it is now. When they went to develop their country they asked the help of a Dutch advisor that helped in rebuilding Rotterdam after the second world war. This person, Albert Winsemius, basically told Singapore to do all the things that made them the powerhouse they are now, reporting directly to the president of singapore. From focussing on maritimetrade, their economic zones, their manufacturing hubs and their financial structures, and now the Dutch also inspire them to do their first land reclamation projects!
Love watching your videos and it’s so weird how you have just created this video and it’s just popped up on my timeline. I’m from the UK and I have just landed back home from Amsterdam a few hours ago! Such weird timing
They are also huge in boat building, almost every billionaire yacht has been built in the Netherlands. Examples of these are Dmitry Rybolovlev, Khalifa bin Hamad Al Thani, Oleg Burlakov, Bernard Arnault, Andrei Skoch, Lawrence Stroll, Familie Al Thani, Daniel Snyder, Viktor Medvedchuk, Steve Wynn, Jho Low, Ziyad Manasir, Eric Schmidt, Larry Ellison, Steven Spielberg, Steve Jobs, Jeff Bezos, and so many more.
i live in alphen aan den rijn, i've seen a lot of these big ships gpomg through the rhine canal splitting the city in half (as is with many dutch cities that historically grew around trade by ship) there's not much wiggle room with the width there, so their width is kind of bottlenecked by it, at least for the ones that went through our town
Interesting video and greetings from London. What a great country the Netherlands truly is! In fact, I recall shipping through the port at Rotterdam, the world's largest when I passed through in the 1990s! . Furthermore, , how well developed the Netherlands, excellent design and planning can be found everywhere in this nation!. In fact , despite the greater population density of the Netherlands, an abundance of world class engineering and construction can be found in the Netherlands .❤ A final salient fact, the Netherlands greatly helps London near my home, the Anglo/Dutch construction called the Thames Barrier! Greatly appreciative, for this helps a city with an urban metro area similar in population to the Netherlands - thus preventing the same tidal surges in London as the Netherlands itself!🎉❤
Our culture and history of free thinking is one of our main strengths. It invites invention and problem solving. That's why we the Dutch must learn to love our own culture again. Freedom is NOT a given, it's something that must be fought for every single day.
That's why we the Dutch must learn to love our own culture again. Yes, but most importantly we have to defend it!!! Our culture is being raped on a daily basis by invasive cultures and the desire to follow communists in the US by lefties. We are destroying our own country piece by piece.
I'm Dutch and have cycled in most parts of the country. What I like most is: there is not a single place with bad infrastructure, bad housing, obvious poverty etc. No matter where you go, it's always nice, organized, structured, developed, logical, clean, etc etc. Also the cycle system of "knooppunten" is pretty unique. It allows you to easily navigate the entire country with the most scenic routes by bike, without having to use a smartphone. All in all it's a great country. I'm always tempted to explore the world and live elsewhere. But I know I'll be missing the Netherlands too much. You get too used to the structure and prosperity, which I find even lacking in Germany in some parts. Which cause me to think yoo big bro, what's going brother man. Fix your shit haha. Love my neighbors tho!! ❤
Im an American expat living here 14 years now. In fact I've helped realize a number of installation projects at the new construction at ASML the last 4 years. Really cool to see that in this vid. I agree with a lot of your points. Maarja, terwijl Nederland alles netjes en goed geregeld heeft, jullie mogen hier bijna niks. Er is een enorm lange lijst van onschuldige acties en dingen dat gewoon niet mag en dat straf en boetes oplevert. Enorm veel regels. My only "min punt". Cheers.
As a visiting Swede I can only agree. Daily life in the Netherlands is made very easy. Closeness to everything by foot and bike. The OV card to get to places too far to bike. Signage is excellent! And unlike many other country you kept your small or specialist shops. Dropping by the greengrocer, the butcher, the bakery, the cheese shop, fish shop etc on your way home is easy. Something that is almost impossible in countries where shopping centers and supermarkets have pushed small businesses away. Practical daily life is just easy there. I was really impressed.
strangely enough the places i found most similar were switzerland and singapore. On the surface that seems really odd, one being in the alps, the other on the other side of the world. But both are fairly pragmatic, with some great infrastructure.
Ironically Indonesia would probably be off much better today when it had remained part of the kingdom of the Netherlands... But I guess the, broadly speaking, opportunistic character of the Dutch was incompatible with that of the Indonesians. I have seen many times with people originally from previous colonies that they are more rancorous, they go back to everything that once happened to their great grandparents and are able to still be angry about that today, as such they are always living in the past, while the Dutch tend to have more attention to what is happening today and how they can make life better in the future. Of course it is always good to have some pride in your country and ancestors, but be careful not to make it determine your entire fate and destiny.
@@simduino that's exactly why that could be considered weird. the crimes the Dutch have committed there are truly black pages in history that they hesitate to even mention in history classes. from what i know, the Japanese coming at first felt like finally being freed from the Dutch, although they quickly learned that wasn't the case...
I used to work in the British Merchant Navy. Rotterdam's port is so big that back in the mid-70s - long before so many of these engineering marvels were invented - it could take two days for a ship to get from the sea to its berth. It's a pretty amazing country.
Don't forget the democracy. They have a long history of caring about everyone's perspective, not just the corporate fatcats. You won't find any "working poor" in the Netherlands like you will in the US.
Having now lived 23 years outside of the Netherlands, I must say that what I most miss, is the spirit, the personal responsability. If there's anything ugly or unsafe in the neighborhood, there's always someone going to do smth about it, if not organize smth with the neighbours, and very creatively so. I'm writing this from a place where things fall apart left, right and center, and people say: "THEY should do smth about it" 😅.
I moved to this amazing country from Norway in 2011. Dutch people is the most hard working people I have met. They have great relationship with Norway, where they found timber, ship builders, herring and even tons of stones that they brought to their country, to use to build out the landmasses. 😊 Thanks to the trade with them, Norway got necessary resources and many of my countrymen worked on their ships whilst their viwes worked in big households in Amsterdam. When they moved back to Norway, they brought all kind of recipes with them, which became famous dishes in Norway. Our link with the Netherlands has been valuable since the 14th century and still is. 😊 I admire Dutch skills in finance and how they have created the best systems for education, work, business, healthcare and social security. What they have earned on their East Indian Company, they used to build their country financially and into what we see today. Of course some persons got rich, but the majority was spent on social structure. Just imagine that would happen globally!! 🙏 Thank you for this most appreciated video!
And kudos to Norway, and excellent country with kind people and a gorgeous landscape! My dutch father fell in love with your country. Of my childhood he brought us to Norway 5 years in a row for our summer holidays!
@@charonderproud because we are control .By education..Histor isn.t always nice.These days .People love this country ..they come here in big numbers .Don.t lie .
Dutch here Fun to add, concerning the groninger gasfield. It was phased out because it caused small earthquakes with severe damaging effects to the groningen province. It was quite the commotion. Earthquakes really are alien to us. Nothing too dramatic just concerned citizens and property damage.
I have a lot of respect for the Dutch. They produce an enormous amount of food for the rest of Europe and they produce it on a small amount of land. They are a very relaxed people, but hard working.
@@irisjoosten8669you always hold your breath, when it’s sunny and all the highways are full of cars with german number plates to go occupy.. I mean, enjoy our beaches 😂
I heard about some guy in nebraska thats done the same greenhouse setup, but uses air pipes that use the ambient air temp, from pipes ventilating through the ground Dude has lemon trees in NEBRASKA Greenhouses are insane
You could add that The Netherlands is now 6th in the olympic medal table above vastly huge countries in comparison like the UK, Germany, Italy and Canada
We staan er weer goed op boys
Als al dat geweldige nieuws nu nog eens mijn bankrekening in kon druppelen dan was het helemaal mooi
@@TravisSansbury Tja helaas gat alles bij rutte in zn zakken en ziet t volk niks poeh wat staan we er toch goed op
@@dimrrider9133 ja mensen bleven hem kiezen
Tijd om weer eens te gaan zeiken lijkt me
Hij is vergeten te vertellen dat we een monopolie op kankeren hebben
I mean as a dutch person, the Netherlands feels like a big engineering project. The whole country feels like its by design. And with it being so flat it's really easy to build infrastructure everywhere.
Its like if you would build the perfect city in city skylines on a flat map.
It’s flat allright, but it ain’t easy to build stuff in a swamp.
not so flat in the south east 🤪
rijkswaterstaat is literally a state funded civil engineering company which is extremely unique and its advantages are very much visible
We are about to curb our succes. Because of emission of nitrogen compounds. We are going to reduce our agricultural output. Anf we need more high rise residential buildings for the population going over 20 million. A lot of immigration with low productivity. Because we have zero control of who gets in. Desperate people from asia and africa who get in. They need education healthcare housing pocketmoney and other services.
It would be best for the Netherlands to have a slowly shrinking population but no.
We cant have that.
As a Dutchman myself. The Netherlands is like ' Easy mode' in Sim City.
The Ocean: *exists*
The Dutch: "It's free real estate."
Best comment 😂
They say god created the earth... but the Dutch created the Netherlands ;)
Water? Probeer je me te vergiftigen ofzo?
Nonono, it's not _"It's free real estate."_ Rather it's _"We can turn this into real estate!"_
@@Hydrazine1000 No it is free real estate wether we turn it in to land is optional as we're now also building cities on water.
A Dutch engineering company is currently finishing up on a floating city project in the Maldives.
As a German, that grew up in the state that borders the Netherlands, NRW, I gotta say: First, we very much love our neighbors and love to vacation there 😘 My first abroad experience I had in NL! Second, it always seems like this funny-odd place where people speak a hilarious, made up language but also a place of damn good engineering and innovation! The Dutch always seem like a decade ahead, at least, compared to big slow Germany 😪
It’s okay, you’re still waaaaaaaaaaaaaay waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay ahead of Western Neighbour cousin , Unhinged Knucklehead , sad and floaty in the Atlantic …we just look embarrassing now to nearly everyone , but we still do decent tea…whilst the struggling IQs bought a massive disinformation campaign outside London who voted Brexit to inflict major damage on total failed side quest. 😭😭😭😭The NL is awesome my son is half Dutch, Thank You NL for the genes, w/ credit to Germany too…we 💜our functional neighbours…and we always look up to , NL, Germany, one of you does have better beer though,both have equally amazing apple cake😊❤ Netherlands really should consider allowing dual nationality though😢for children/ grandchildren of Dutch expats abroad. It’s sad they can’t migrate back and be a part of Dutch culture when they carry the rarest surname from Grandparents from a tiny village in the South..
Believe me I speak both Dutch and German and we are much alike but have own odd differences. Not only our language is very similar but also our attitude towards efficiency is very much alike.
Hahaha, my old manager was also from NRW and told me they always went to Venlo..., smoking weed in the coffeeshops. :D
We are more alike than we would like to think. 😅
Funny, made up "Germanic" language that is very similar to German.
From the US, I've always wondered how the Netherlands is so damn influential despite its tiny size, being surrounded by the most powerful countries in Western Europe.
Influential of what😮
@@honor9lite1337 creating the stockmarket in 1602. VOC the most valuable company in history. Asml
@@honor9lite1337 Very in 'Murica
The Jews made Holland rich
Aggressive negotiations. At the time, that meant negotiations with a large fleet of gunboats. Combined with a lot of divide and rule, especially in what is now modern day Belgium and Germany. And of course, playing England, and France against each other.
Hats up to the duch! As a German and big fan of the small country I feel proud and grateful of having such neighbors!
The Germans were so sad they had to give back all the land in 1945 they now come here every year by the millions 😂 (just joking)
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Nice try but we swampgermans will keep our independence this time ;p
we love you guys
And as a Dutch person living near Rotterdam. I'm glad that you are our neighbours too. That way we can do some cheaper shopping (our supermarkets and gass prices are out this world high). No in all jokes, we can learn a thing or two from you guys as well.
As another Dutchman I appreciate you trying to pronounce all our quirky village names
as a swiss german i can easily pronounce them they sound similar to the swiss german accents
@@fjkfkfkf He all butchered them though. Butchered Dutch == Swiss?
I'm assuming he's making the pronounciations sound easier to remember. I mean, the profile picture of RLL is a WINDMILL. I don't think he's mispronouncing them
heel goed gedaan idd
@@dragos240alt the way he pronounced "Schiphol" leads me to believe he's definitely mispronouncing them lol
Its crazy how effective flipping the map 90° is at giving you a new perspective of the layout of Europe and how the Nerherlands is located in the center
As a non Dutch person who has both worked with and befriended Dutch people, let's see.
They're multilingual. Can adapt to just about anywhere in the world. Asia, Africa, the Americas. They're among the tallest if not the tallest people. They have a colonial history of world exploration and know how to negotiate and trade.
They're generally blunt and direct. Some might say that's rude but it gets the job done.
I understand how directness can be seen as rude. Sometimes it is rude. I hope people can be direct and polite. As a Dutch person I sometimes experience indirectness as rude. It almost feels like dishonest. "Why doesn't the other person tell me the truth, but is he wasting my time?"
You have 2 pieces of key information but you've not connected them yet.
"know how to negotiate and trade" - do you know why and how? what are the most important aspects in trading?
"blunt and direct" - what would be the advantage of being direct/truthfull with questions? Indirect => playing around the truth so they can make an assumption themself, covering your own ass. We dont do that shit in general.
We, the Dutch, are somber people, we dont fck around. We take reality serious. We take actions serious, meaning we plan ahead, we consider impact and affects, cost and profit and after that, we make a decisions that brings us closer to our goals.
Prefer direct to polite not telling the whole story
The Dutch didn't invent Capitalism, a socialist invented it I think, 1850's, and Socialism about 60 years before that.
The Dutch did not have Capitalism in the 17th century. They had riots and the protestant reformation, not some made up thought experiments. Those terms are retroactively applied and are in reality not applicable to anything, it's just exists to have controlled opposition and play mind games with people so they could kill each other.
@@pompidom I agree that I experience indirectness as rude and hypocrite and lying and wasting my time. But for the Dutch is is taken for granted that we all have the intention to live in peace and trust one another, thus creating a win-win situation. Indirectness in other cultures is often meant to prevent fights. This video does not mention the old families and old money, and the way we raise our children. 'Think ! Think for yourself ! Think of a solution yourself !'
I’ve watched dozens of videos about the Netherlands and this one manages to be the best! Amazing job exposing the greatness of that country!
and yet ignoring how they "sourced said greatness"
@@binsarm9026 this, and the terrible english speaker habit or not giving a damn on how to pronounce names. A native english speaker can pronounce most if not all the names with little effort if they put in the effort. But mentioning slavery and colonial history feels more important lol
@@SwainixFPVI noticed the same. As a foreigner that moved to the Netherlands, I struggle with the Gs. At least I can pronounce the names, but make people laugh sometimes. I just wish that narrators (real or AI based) would sacrifice some time to get names better pronounced, it just take a little extra time. The subtitle function goes totally "bananas" when names are said so wrong. My advice is then, please put the names in writing if you cannot pronounce them very well. 🙏
That would make great channels into the most excellent ones. 😉
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@@binsarm9026 If you think all our wealth comes from slavery you're hopelessly ignorant. It only accounts for 1 or 2% of the economy back in those days.
Trading spice and flowers and having the first real stock exchange made us rich as a country.
Whats incredible to me is how when you live here, it does not feel that crowded or too busy at all. The infrastructure for living is brilliantly done.
After just visiting, I must say, it does feel very crowded. Building blocks everywhere, and every corner turned you can expect someone coming your way. Personally felt very claustrophobic.
But maybe if you're living there, you kind of get used it it. Idk
@@Tanaka1943 Im assuming you only visited Amsterdam? Because, yes, Amsterdam is very crowded.
@@soullless assumed wrong. Visited many places
@@Tanaka1943 Only cities? Because that's kind of what a city is. A densily populated area.
"What is it about this country, that makes it so overpowered in Europe?" Have you ever had a patatje joppie-saus?
@SuperMari026 Kerel, nou echt waar hey (dit is toch wel het ultieme bewijs van de NL-bekrompenheid). Denk je nou echt dat er ook iemand buiten de NL staat de springen om dat f*c*ing fritesausje op zijn aardappelen te doen?! 😆😀
Dumb American here. That. Looks. Amazing. Mayonnaise with curry and onion powder?! YES PLEASE. Going to go to a European market as soon as possible and will look for some!
OK, and having that particular sauce to pour over your fries is actually a well-kept secret for your country being might in Europe? 😅! Haha, okay 😆
Because the Dutch are innovative, efficient, hard working and do not tolerate any bullshit. I love patat, especially with mayonnaise, peanut sauce and raw unions (patatje oorlog)
Lol
Interesting that the Dutch seed producer Rijk Zwaan was mentioned and explained. I worked there as a freelancer from 2021 to 2023. It is not even a stock listed company but privately owned family business. They tread their workers very fairly and have a open ears policy for problems and suggestions. I could bring the freshest of vegetables imaginable from work every day for free. Good memories.
Ah. Self employed where you? ZZP-er.
Listen, you could work for any if all semi or not government companies. They pay well and yes, free veggies too from local produce. All expences payed.
On a fixed contract.
French man who happily lived 9 years in the Netherlands here. The Dutch have historically been innovative engineers, traders, multicultural, intelligent, and very adventurous. They are also socially very inclusive and focussed on consensus: this means that once a decision is taken, it is supported. Most importantly, they have great cheeses and Paling! But nobody being perfect, they also have Frikandel and enormous floating fishing factories destroying the live stock. But love them: Hup hup Holland!
Wat is er mis met frikandellen? potverdomme lekker
@@cashungens6180poahhhhh
Up Up Ollande ! In French. The (1950's ) song is: Hup ! Holland Hup ! Laat de leeuw niet in zijn hempie staan.
Amazed by your English, as the French refuse to speak English in general. You're right about the frikadellen. It is an Indonesian dish with oriental spices. If you make them yourself they are far better.
Don’t touch the frikandel 😂😂😂
Merci Beaucoup for the nice words! Je t’aime la France aussi ❤️. C’est très très joli 😍
Totally enjoyed this video although I was aware of most of the content. I’ve been visiting this country for over three decades and it simply does not fail to impress me every time I visit. But what I like most is the people, their respect to others, down to earth attitude etc. Love & respect from the UK.
yeah "down to earth" is a speciality in the "lowlands" :D
What a brilliant video. That was my reaction after watching only 6 or 7 minutes. And yes, I completed it ;-)
The amount of work and research you put into this video is really amazing. So many facts and figures! I'm Dutch, and proud of it. You have managed to re-confirm and strengthen that feeling and I thank you for it. All the best to you!
I'm Dutch. I didn't know the gasfield in Groningen was this big. That explains the reluctance to shut down extraction due to earthquakes damaging buildings in the area.
@@VoornaamAchternaam-kr4vk Even worse, the field easily covers our entire debt and then some. We could literally suck it dry, be debt free, relocate the people who lived there for free and then some, and still have plenty left-over.
It's not earthquakes that's destroying the housing It's water mismanagement .
The war on Fossil fuels/Co2 is why Groningen Gas has stopped which out a alternative for cheap energy .
This wil not change anything on a global level .
Only on a financial level for the social welfare system in the netherlands.
That's why the infrastructure is being dismissed as fast as possible by the former coalition.
It's a form of manipulation of the social structures.
A act of terrorism against the inhabitants of our country.
All under the banner from Neo/Liberalisme .
Minority vote is ruling in a democracy,
only information is not easily uptained or even hidden from the population to meet their own narrative.
And if u don't trust me, if I'm telling the truth.
Just remember this post .
And see what is going to happen in the next decade.
Then look back for 3 decades what happened in that time.
Damage is currently seen all on the cost Groningen noordholland zuidholland and Zeeland without Gas extraction .
The problem is that the money dont go to Groningen or Friesland it go to the south they steal the gas only dont want to pay for houses that go broke off it only 00.025 of the money that they make of the gas go to the Noord because they say why are just low life people only they life in the south good because off that criminals they like thiefs first take take take and then they dont pay for the destruction off the houses 🤮 lott of the money to take land from the water coming out of the Noord think about it now the want to closed the gas fields only dont want to pay for the destruction of what the gas have done in the Noord that is why i am not proud off they hungry money thiefs in the south 🤮
@@VoornaamAchternaam-kr4vk it's beyond stupid to me, use it there will come a time where we will very much need it, all this just because some old build homes are having cracks in the walls and old people don't who don't care about the future are fucking it up.
I moved to Eindhoven from Ireland a few months ago, specifically to work for ASML as an engineer. The majority of the cities population, economy and industry work directly or indirectly for this one company. The money invested in R&D and the production line is absolutely unfathomable. The level of confidentiality and secrecy with all technical information is like the CIA. And i can tell you that, after working with the machine and seeing all its mechanisms that allow it to produce trillions transistors only atoms in width in a fraction of a nano second, that its like a machine from 1000 years in the future, and im not exaggerating. There is things engineered into that machine that I didn't even know where possible. I would consider it one of the most sophisticated and advanced machines on the planet, only behind the large hadron collider and the falcon 9 rocket maybe.
CIA just wishes it had the capacity for that level of confidentiality and secrecy.
you are right, the technology and confidentiality is simply unimaginable for the majority of people, I work at a company that makes the tubing and piping for asml and the level of detail and precision is just incredible.
The CIA can not protect Trump are they suck at their job and missed@@jdj8168
@@apveeningThe CIA can not protect Trump are they suck at their job and missed
Yeah... they used to make just lightbulbs and transistors over there. Philips. There is also a footballclub called Eindhoven. PSV or something.
The money that goes in there is not that staggering, really. We just put it to good use.
But maybe its just because it just us, or Taiwan.
Putting your eggs in two baskets doesn't seem to be all that smart, does it?
I thought "damn that's impressive" and than noticed I was only at half point of the video.
😂😂 same🎉
It's written "dam!", without the "n", like in Amster-dam, Rotter-dam... 😅
@@LuisAldamizNope, je schrijft 'Damn' van het oorspronkelijke woord 'damnit'.
@@BabzV - I know it. It was a joke (notice the emoticon).
and 'then'*
then = a time
than = a comparison
Back then it was nice.
Better than them.
Spread the word!
41:40 This part about ASML and what this company creates is so fascinating and shows the power of science and research.
finally a video about my country with proper research! well done mate, i always have issues with these video's because they are so incorrect or incomplete. probably the first one i've come across thats actually on point!
I thought the same.
As a Dutch person that knows a lot about the country im impressed how good this video is made. Normaly a video misses out on a lot of stuff, but this one was very solid. Including current time with powerhouse companies as ASML
The first things I'm missing from this is the Internet infrastructure is missing and the history of development in lenses (microscope and telescope)
Nederlanders zijn over het algemeen dom en arrogant. Een eigen vooral onderbouwde en doordachte mening hebben is al een probleem. Daarbij Hoge Belastingdruk, Asielcrisis, Boerencrisis, Woningcrisis, Zorgcrisis, Energiecrisis, Inflatie, Huisartsen en medicijnen tekort, Toeslagen drama, Personeelscrisis, Hoge voedselprijzen, Schiphol airport chaos. Weinig om nog trots op te kunnen zijn.
@@autohmae the Amsterdam Internet Exchange is indeed the biggest in the world. And we did invent the lenses (microscope and telescope). But dont think those things make us OP. Maybe the strong positioning in internet exchange does.
@@lolzorkont I think it shows a culture of science, infrastructure and foresight/design which does help make us OP.
@@autohmae Dutch people are just good at knowning how to create value from (professional) services and products. We see chances and go for them. Like Schiphol for example. Big dutch aireport. They made it so we are the stop in between big flight trough the world.
The Dutch are also immensely good at sports. With only 18 million people, they came 6th out of almost the entire world in the Olympic Games. They have defeated countries that have 3 or 4 times as many people.
Most countries dont really care for sports, so those who do, have an edge over those who dont have the nessecary infrastructure and the knowledge.
@@CasHuizinga yes
The total size of each country is irrelevant, what matters is how big the delegations to the olympics are, in Paris China had 388 athletes in their delegation while the Netherlands had 276. It's not surprising they got a lot of medals. It's a wealthy country that can afford to train a lot of people to compete in useless sports.
True, but it is no coincidence that the richest countries in the world also have the most prices during the Olympics.
@@danielgonzalez7541 jealous?????? The USA needed 50 countries (you call them "states") to reach first place!!
for clarity; ASML grew based on the success of their DUV machines (Deep ultraviolet). The EUV (Extreme UV) machines have only been in production recently, and so far they've been almost too advanced for foundries to want because they are way more expensive, and the better chips don't have enough applications for the market to want to buy them. DUV is still very much alive and kicking in the industry.
The 45 degree angle on European map is a real eye opener! Never realized Netherlands is such a centrally located nation!
It is not. Map has shown only about 40% of Europe and at a weird angle. The geographical centre of Europe is in Poland.
Europe doesnt start east of the Elbe, its just central in the north sea/western europe
@@piotrjasielskiyes in terms of land mass, but not in terms of coast line
@@jochemlambers What do you mean in terms of coastline? Coastline is just an outline of the land.
Poland is in geographical center. Take the furthest distances in each cardinal direction. Find the middle. You get Poland.
It isnt. Maps fool you.
The Netherlands is situated on the mouth of the Rine River. (and the Waal and Maas/meuse river).
So, it is an extention of Germany economically.
Economically and politically, we are more in line with the UK.
I’m a simple man, I am dutch, I see a video about the Netherlands, I click.
You're a simple man, because you are Dutch .
I can only agree with that if you are dutch. Only another dutchie is allowed to insult another dutchie
Gelijk heb je😂
Lol dit is zo grappig 😂
ik ook
As a Dutch, I am finally proud of my nationality because RealLifeLore made a video about us.
Netherlands unite!
I agree
Not the first video
The Drug Harbor of Europe...
Dutchies unite!
I am an Italian man who lived just one year in the Netherlands, Rotterdam, and it was by far the best experience I had abroad!
I've seen all your videos, but this one has been one of the most surprising and interesting. Amazing stuff.
"that most people associate with urban planning RUclipsrs" had me dying
😂
I do like NotJustBikes a lot, though!
@@ToTheGAMESNotJustBikes has tilted over imo, though. It used to be actually about urban planning, now it is for a big part a "reeee four-wheel road vehicles bad reeeee" channel
@@some-online-dudeYeah he sucks, cars aint going away anytime ”soon” (in 100 years maybe?). I think he needs to accept that fact and chill the fuck out hahaha
@@some-online-dude To be honest, having cars in a city, especially in down town, is and will always be stupid.
Cities are meant to be a dense area, cars have no business here.
It's not to be anti car to be against cars in cities. Cars are great and we should build good infrastructures for cars around the cities and beyond.
As being a Dutch engineer i am overwhelmed by this video. We must remain modest. We work good together and are really free and are very lucky with things which were just there…
Untill the Dutch government make you get vaccinated ha ha as in my country but yeah i like the way the Dutch approach problems and find solutions.
dutch work ethics play the biggest role imo.
Flat hierarchy, (extreme - nearly insulting) honesty, work-life-balance, cooperation, effort to understand others positions, diversity and progressive thinking brought us to this point.
Probably the world's best farmers IMO and the Rotterdam harbor is stunningly efficient
'give Ireland to the Dutch and they'd feed the world'- German Kaiser in the early 1900's
What a beautiful comment. We should indeed be modest, and never forget that a large part of our wealth and prosperity was achieved through the subjugation and suffering of millions of people, none of whom were ever able to enjoy the spoils of their labour or their of their lands.
Thank you for making this amazing video about our amazing country
My father is a Dutch immigrant and I think I can honestly say the "Dutch" way of doing things has deeply impacted my view of the world.
Helping my Dutch Dad as a boy with my smal bike.
(ME)Dad,,i can,t do that,its impossible.
Dad to me,,we have not invented impossible jet boy,,so go for it.
As a Dutchman, I have to smirk about , how shocked Americans are, about our straightforwardness. Last year, I asked a collegue, when he had his last shower.. he asked me why I asked this. My answer was, " because you smell like a septic tank".😂
What is the Dutch Way?
Well it's quite rude. So it really depends on your relationship with that colleague if you can say stuff like that without it being perceived as rude. If it's a friendly colleague that you jab each other every now and then it's ok, he can take it from you. But if you just see him sometimes and come up with comments like this. I doubt you will be liked even here in the Netherlands.
@@Metalcursine agreed, that's just being rude lol. nothing to do with dutch directness
When I first arrived in the Netherlands, I was in awe, everything seemed well built, everything was designed with great sense of purpose, the fully integrated nation-wide public transport network blew my mind. The housing was beautiful, old and new. The cycling was years ahead of anywhere in the world, making even Copenhagen look a bit meh. But outside of the big cities is where I liked it most. When I fist arrived into the suburbs I've seen a group of old people being active and happy and cycling together. And then another one, and another one. Then I've seen what the schools look like and how kids get there. Then I've seen town squares buzzing with locals, markets, terraces were packed and people were going up and down the canals, relaxing on their boats. Of course this was summer.
But it was the first time I've seen such a powerful visual representation of quality of life. The work-life balance was visible, and it became very tangible as soon as I started working.
I know the UK is not exactly the worst place in the world or Europe, but comparing it to the Netherlands, it feels like a mad depressing rat race.
the grass is always greener
@@threesixnine369six Amen.
@@lief222 My color is the yellow. Gold.
@@lief222 haha fair point. I know there is no such thing as a perfect country, but I have lived in a few places, and the Netherlands was the most impressive on all sorts of levels, and it will leave me comparing for ages.
Too bad our government suck major ass.
I learned quite some new things about my own country from this awesome video! Thanks!
“God may have created the Earth, but the Dutch created the Netherlands” is the most badass thing i’ve ever heard.
Drove through Holland just over a week ago, and stayed for one night in a charming small town. Everything about the nation is amazing. Architecture, organization, culture, you name it. As a Scandinavian, the ethnical and cultural vicinity is astounding in and of itself. You can almost understand the language.
Smaller places are even more charming than the big places suffering from overtourism.
Yes visit Haarlem, Leiden or Groningen.
@@edgarkuijer5755 Stayed one night in Winschoten which was a lovely little town east of Groningen, and for a change the hotel was managed by real and polite people.
Being Dutch , just returning from Sweden, I learned there that The Swedish language only exists as long as the English language, about 400 years ago. That is the period that the bible was translated and printed for the protestants. The English mixed French and Anglo-saxon words, the Sweeds mixed words from the Hanze-cities, so a lot of Dutch, Flamish and Frysian words in it. Allthough greeting clients with a sudden loud 'Hej da'! is considered rude over here.
@@BetjeWolff-v2s I wouldn't say that. Sure, under the Middle-ages there was some significant especially German influence through the Hansa, and in the preceding "Viking era" there was probably a reverse drift, and eventually they had a common ancestry.
What happened with the reformation was two things. First the Nordic union broke, and the bible was translated into a new codified Swedish as a "national" thing of independence. Before that, Danish, Swedish and Norwegian were rather interchangeable. And the academic and clergy language was obviously Latin.
Another thing is that Swedish actually have rather a few French loan words from the 18th and early 19th century, when it was considered fashionable and the two nations had ties. More so than Danish/Norwegian. But it is complex. German is rather easy for a Scandinavian, but Dutch/Flemish is more graspable, for whatever reason.
Dutchie here. About us being #2 in agricultural exports, this is a commonly misunderstood thing - agricultural export is not the same as agricultural production. Almost all of the food we export is not grown in the Netherlands. Seriously, we couldn't be a bigger producer than China or India even if we used every square meter for farming. For example, we might be the biggest onion exporter in the world, we actually grow less than 2% of the worldwide onion production. Instead, the agricultural products we export have been acquired elsewhere (China, US, Brazil, other EU countries) and this makes us #4 in the world for agricultural imports. These agricultural products are then either exported as is, or processed into a different form.
So, where it concerns agriculture, we are not so much a country of production, as a country of trade, logistics, and manufacturing. Which is actually a lot better as that means having a better educated, more progressive, and more diversified workforce. And the trend of reduced consumption of (ultra)processed foods and factory farmed meat will push us to slowly move away from the food industry anyway. Food is not even in the top 10 of our exports by value; instead things as oil products, heavy machinery, consumer electronics, and medical drugs are much bigger.
And where it concerns value of economical sectors, agriculture makes up just 1,5% of our GDP, while taking up about 50% of our land. We are very much in the process of reducing our agricultural sector, as it too big a drain on our extremely limited space, respect for animal rights (animals never seeing daylight is not cool), and fragile local environment and biodiversity (we have a serious nitrogen excess problem). Until the sea starts eating us, we'll probably keep our role as distribution hub, we're just too conveniently located, and that's great. But I think the Dutch future is in things like education, tech, information, policy making and law, civil engineering, theoretical research, and renewable energy; of which Philips, ASML, and the technical university next door to them are great examples.
You buy soy from Brazil and Argentina, which they grow on previous Rain Forrest, so that's completely criminal, then you pay those countries nothing if possible.
By supplying Dollar or Euro loans in a high inflation country. And you feed al that valuable soy protein to pigs, who only convert a part of it to meat, and then you sell it for top money.
The waste and devastation in that whole cycle is conveniently ignored, and a lot of self praise is proclaimed on the remarkable Dutch Business Acumen. Yeah great stuff.
Makes sense.
But unless you can build your sea walls a whole lot taller, the Dutch future is being the latest Atlantis. By the time Antarctica finishes melting, sea levels are going to be about 70m higher than they are now.
If you can wall that out, you might as well claim the entire North Sea while you're at it.
@@tealkerberus748, my daughter & family live in Haarlem, just south of Amsterdam. When you go to the beaches, you are crossing several kilometers of hills, usually National Parks. They are the dikes. Why are they so huge? They were started in 1530! They have 3 km to go in The Hague. I think they'll get there!in time!
that makes more sense. thanks for clarifying. mistake then on the part of reallifelore for misunderstanding that stat about agricultural exports
Just to clear something up: we do not have a serious nitrogen problem in The Netherlands, only seriously faulty models. All to please the EU (let's stick to that 😉) and accommodate their quite scary plans for the future of the EU and the role that they want the Netherlands to play in it.
That's why more and more people source their meat and other animal foodproducts straight from farmers that work very organically (don't use pesticides on their crops and don't use an abundance of pharmaceuticals on their animals) and very animal friendly (grass fed cows etc.). And of course stand with the farmers (you may have seen some footage of the farmers protests).
As a Dutchman I really feel the urge to correct the myth about the amount of the dutch export. A huge part of that isn't real export but is transition!!! Goods arrive in the harbour of Rotterdam and than we transport in smaller containers to the rest of Europe. We DON'T produce that, yet we call it EXPORT, witch suggests that we do produce it .
A part is re export yes but even then it is still a huge exporter.
Yes but the export statistics of other countries also includes transition so it is fair
True, but then again, we manage to make money by other people's work simply by making it advantageous for them to pass it through our hands. That still counts as income through export.
@@Veyrah64 true, but being the largest port for the EUs two largest economies definetly skews the statistics favourably.
@@cahdoge it's not like maintaining the port is free though, and the people working there are hard workers.
Thank you for this beautiful compliment/video of our country🧡
its really fun to see a part of the video fawning over the deltaworks, I live at cycle distance from one of the works so its easy to forget hot impressive it actually is lol
You forgot to mention that the Netherlands has a strong tradition in risk management, partly due to its ongoing battle against water. Dutch companies and managers are praised for their expertise in logistics, supply chain management, and risk management. They deliver managers to all countries around the world and fix their problems. The Dutch have an extensive degree of organisation and planning, from scheduling meetings to book holidays far in advance. Managers are vigorous and decisive, but the consensus is mandatory, as there are many key players in the decision-making process
Why it has going to do with battling water?
@@honor9lite1337 maritime comerce has a lot to do with risk managing. Think of trading with the New World, where you might have a great return if the ships come back full of gold... or no return whatsoever if they ship sunk or the crew died of scurvy
This vid laudates nld als origi al poster. Not just water
Weird comment
The 56 minute video had been up for less than 30 minutes when you posted this, how did you even know what he mentioned? lol
Have called the Netherlands home twice once in high school and later as a young adult. The second half of this blew my mind! Thank you to everyone involved in creating this!
Remarkable thing, the flood disaster in 1953 saw the first large use of helicopters for rescue of people, picking them up from roofs and small patches of land to dropping supplies. Also worldwide relief actions started as the country was still poor just after the war. Even houses were donated from Sweden for example, still you can see them in Zeeland now.
How kind of the Swedes! A late 'thank you very much' from me 😍
And from Austria. You see in Zuid Limburg, Roermond.
My late father was a volunteer rescue worker who helped many people get into the helicopters. He never mentioned it, I learned that from my mother after his death. I guess his traumas from WWII also affected this.
Writing from New Zealand where my parents immigrated to along with thousands of others from the Netherlands in the early 1950's. I have always been proud to be born in New Zealand an to be a Kiwi but am very proud of my Dutch heritage as they are an amazing country and have the most amazing attitude and ability.
We love you too! New Zealand haka's are so fascinating.
New Zealand was named after the province Zeeland where they built all the sea defenses in this video.
Have you ever visited the Netherlands?
Then do back to the Netherlands then
@@slamyourheadin9449 ?
They literally won a war against water, the Dutch are way too powerful...
Climate change is coming for a rematch
We lost some battles but won the war, we will win the rematch
@@JeffBilkins every decennium they switch from rising temperatures to the 'big freeze.'
And we won.
@JeffBilkins and this just shows that humans adapt. Always.
The Netherlands is honestly the best place on Earth. The people are so nice and friendly, the economy is thriving, and everyone seems to live such a healthy, balanced lifestyle. Drugs are almost legal, there is the Port of Rotterdam and serious organized crime is going on but the public safety(based on my four years spent there) seems much better than any other country from Europe. Imagine how amazing things would be if New Amsterdam had stayed Dutch! World would be a more peaceful place maybe. I can't wait to return! Dank je, Nederland, dat je zo goed bent! ❤❤
This what Brazilians say about their country:
The northern part of the country could have been way better organised and rich than it is now.
@@47rintin1they would be refering the US no? 😅
@@williamvdsluijs8622 True. However the Dutch as well had a colony in the Northern part of Brazil.
Thank you for the compliment, and as we always say, GRAAG GEDAAN 🤟.
It’s also cold and rainy 😛
Yes I’m Dutch
A friend of mine played a drinking game where he took a shot every time RLL says "MMMASSIVE". May he rest in peace.
Shouldn't have chosen an hour long video 🤣
😂
Did he die from alcohol poisoning?
Rll most annoying youtuber of all time. Gay voice, endless hyperbole, nonstop PHROOOOOSING
@@ben_clifford no, from skydiving
A very important thing to note about the natural gas fields in Groningen, it is hold in contempt as it has caused a lot of damage to the buildings in Groningen, causing earthquakes that hadn't existed before, it's a big part of the reason why production has seized as it not only damaged newly built structure but also historical structures.
And yet nobody batted an eye when the south of Limburg was being damaged by the mining of coal, a problem we still have 😂 about a decade and a half ago, one of our shopping centers suddenly started sagging, because the water levels in the mines beneath dropped, causing the eventual closure of parts of the building and a lot of retailers closing their shops.
Thank for sharing. I don't think he mentioned why production stopped so I was curious.
@@michaelritzen8138 Oh wow that's wild, i never even knew about that.
Is that a topic that our senate is actually talking about, or is it something that's been wiped under the rug for years because profits?
@@Zarosian_Ice I'll give you three guesses 😅 The mines were closed in the '70s, if I am correct, because they were dangerous, brown coal wasn't in demand anymore (thanks to gas and other forms of fuel) and because there were already problems with sinking homes. But the province and government just ignored it. In the 90s we had some pretty serious earthquakes in the region of Heerlen and the sinking of the shopping mall in the 2000's.
My grandfather used to be a coal miner and there are several great musea in South Limburg that go into detail about our mining history.
@@michaelritzen8138 That's interesting, never knew that was a thing..
The only shafts i know about are the ones in Valkenburg, i never knew they actually caused damage.
I really love these deep dives into countries. Keep it up RLL!
I am German and I live 1 hour from the next bigger Dutch city. 30 Minutes from the border.
I did my psychology studies there and lived 5 years in the Netherlands. I fucking love the Dutch and their cities. I have many great friends there, they are considerate and lovely. I also learned Dutch and can converse with Dutch people. They are amazing people and I am so happy to live so near to them.
10% i was in your class
(Im dutch)
You missed that Amsterdam is also one of the biggest internet hubs of all of Europe, with many companies choosing the area for building their datacenters.
Why there btw? As a Dutch person I'm wondering why.
E n e r g i a @@NofirstnameNolastname
@@NofirstnameNolastnameprobably because in the early days of the internet, arrangements for internet in The Netherlands was done by CWI, based in Amsterdam. This led to AMS-IX, which was non profit, in contrast to most other internet exchanges and because of that became very popular.
@@NofirstnameNolastname good infastructure
@@NofirstnameNolastname tax reasons,, idk what everyone else is on abt
Jammer van dat geklaag de hele tijd alleen. Meer mensen zouden dit eens moeten zien, we mogen wel wat trotser zijn.
Misschien zou het beter zijn om het te verdedigen in plaats van zo zelfgenoegzaam zijn
We houden nou eenmaal van klagen. we zijn ook nooit tevreden. waarschijnlijk een belangrijke karakter eigenschap om steeds beter te worden.
Klagen draagt bij aan het verbeteren van je omgeving, je land.
Klagen hoort bij onze cultuur. Daarom streven wij altijd naar beter...en zie hier een fantastische resultaat.
Wil je niet zo klagen
I was waiting for this video for so long. (Ik wist niet eens dat wij t zo goed deden.)
I just kept waiting for a video about us on this channel and I am loving this moment!
Hardstikke waar.
I had a father figure of sorts who was from the Netherlands and while very blunt and opinionated he was also a very kind man with a amazing intellect. R.I.P Franciscus Ackerman
There is a special saying in the Netherlands where I am born: "You grow to stand in with the rest, not to standout". I think this mindset is perhaps the reason why we aren't noticed as much by others.
Also known as: 'Act normal !'
As someone who grew up in the Netherlands myself, I am convinced the country is a massive exercise in reverse psychology. How else does one explain the country's successes in spite of absolutely everyone who lives there discouraging you from pursuing your dreams? Seriously, the first thing a Dutch person will tell you when you talk about your ambitions is that you won't succeed.
@@a.v.w.6453 yup somewhat 😁 Although I think it isn't always meant in a malicious discouraging tone and often in a pragmatic way. It could be the start of a helpful approach/viewpoint how to make it succeed or to focus on the parts that áre good/cutting out the bad. Not all will take it that way though, so it still hinges on overall mentality. Maybe our history and culture is proof enough that it cán be done, so overall many will succeed anyway.
Nowadays not so much...togetherness is much less these days. Unless we win at sports 🎉😂
@@BetjeWolff-v2s "Doe zelf normaal!" 😉
I once heard from a friend: The Netherlands' money is earned in Rotterdam, Distributed in the Hague, and spent in Amsterdam.
We like to complain a lot...
sounds about right.
As an Amsterdammer, I have to admit... Look at it this way:
If you walk around on a workday somewhere in Rotterdam and you see someone else walking, yeah, that's for his job. You see that person in Den Hague? Probably a lobbyist of some kind.. That same person in Amsterdam? Yeah, he's tripping.. 😁
Don’t forget Groningen paid for the entire infrastructure and is constantly ignored
I have also heard; the north invents it, the south builds it and the west sells it.
@@douloureux. Groningen really is the Limburg of the 21st century, wonder what province is next
What I've learned from this is that Dutch engineers are OP.
Dutch engineers mix the german grundlichheit with arrogance and a why not attitude
WHAT is this 'OP' ?
@@edwinovit stand for OverPowered
@@Z33force Oh? I've never considered myself OverPowered, I always just thought of us Dutch as the *true* master race. But good to know. Thanks!
@@edwinov😂😂😂
The influence is just amazing. Even on streaming services theres so many shows avaliable in Dutch that it helped a lot with learning the language.
Side note: one reason the pumping up from the Groningen gas reserve was 'phased out' was because of a MASSIVE resistance and protest coming from the local inhabitants, as they were experiencing many large and small earthquakes as a result, which brought a lot of damage to their properties and the value thereof.
It’s so op that not even the ocean can stop it sheesh.
They are in a constant battle against the ocean, if they didn't had to constantly deal with it, they would dominate the world
Others colonized land, the Dutch colonize the sea, they are taking on Poseidon xDDD
We shall see as the ocean rises and warms how it holds. Well we wont see it will take some time but eventually they will have to prepare for that. Who knows there could be hurricanes 🌀
Gekoloniseerd 😎
@Almneur OP in this case stand for 'overpowered'
Is 0:04 a reference to NotJustBikes?
Maybe
😂😂
Pretty obviously
Very likely lol
nahh it‘s NothingButCars
As a Dutchman living in Canada, I had to share this video with my family in NL. I emigrated to Canada for a job as helicopter mechanic I could not get in NL after serving 5 years in the RNLAF. Still am very proud of my heritage. My first year in Canada, I was called "mister abrupt" at my work. An endearing title I earned with my blunt directness which is still much appreciated in "polite" Canada once my wife shaved off the rough edges.
Good job on trying to pronounce Dutch words and names. It is a difficult language. Great video
This made me love my lil country so mutch, love the video!!!
The dutch people are real example of "when life gives you lemons you make a lemonade"...Netherlands IS a secret superpower..as non-dutch person who lives and works in Netherlands I knew all these things that you mentioned in the video because I'm fascinated and interested about this country..there are even more things and it could go on and on and the video would be hours long..but if one word could describe Netherlands in all aspects I think it's "engineering"...
My DNA proves to be mainly from the City of Rotterdam, and I come from a family of engineers. But then again: who are the people that manage to survive through the ages with the constant dangers from water of sea, rivers and sky. Natural selection and survival of the fittest. Our DNA fits in with the environment.
How about the group of men that survived the North Pole winter on Nova Zembla, searching for a sea-route to China ? Through our history a son could not come home with a skinny pale girl that spent her time whining and polishing her nails. Natural selection.
We are defined by the concept of "limitation is the mother of creativity"
Yet engineering careers would offer you a worse pay here than someone working some meme job in the humanities.
I’m watching this while waiting at a gate of an international airport to board a flight to the Netherlands 😂 what are the odds that Real Life Lore would upload a video about it right now?!? Crazy
I'm guessing a lot of people travel to the Netherlands every day, so the chances of RLL uploading a video about the Netherlands right when someone is about to board such a flight are... about 100%?
Never Say NEVER 😎 Justin Bieber
Welcome!
have a safe flight bro
Just enjoy my country. Greetings from Friesland in the Netherlands.
This is so informative for so many reasons! Thankyou so much!
The worst part, they’re the tallest I. Europe as well. You’re 6ft in anywhere else, you’re considered tall or above average at least. In the Netherlands you’re below average. Mental.
6ft is exactly average in NL.
@@ErikvanderHeijden-g5s I thought 6ft 1 was the average ?
@@Farron6 183 cm, 6 feet.
@@ErikvanderHeijden-g5s TheDutchReview says it’s 1.86cm, you sure you’re not one of the short ones 😜
@@Farron6 CBS says 183 cm, so that's the most reliable source.
It should also be mentioned that because of their agricultural expertise, the Dutch developed the most potent weed ever produced. It is OP.
It is your body to polute.
@@malaficus The weed plant is one of nature's great gift to us, humans and animals!! It's a HEALING plant. Use the ENTIRE plant for all kind of diseases, physically or mentally or to reduce/stop pain (from cancer even).
Nature didn't just give us the female plant's THC to get stoned. (Aka being relaxed and free of worries and even pain) Nature gave us the ENTIRE male and female plant to use.
Big Pharma hates this great GIFT from nature.
Sleeping pills, pain medication, blood pressure reducing pills, cancer treatment, stress related diseases meds etc etc etc would be UNNECESSARY to produce (with toxic additives, toxic synthetic chemicals) meds if Governments would allow everyone to grow their own FEW weed plants to make weed oil from the ENTIRE plant. (INCLUDING THC)
JUST a FEW drups under the tongue one hour before going to bed and no meds needed for many many DIS-eases! It keeps humans healthy (if they eat/drink/move their body well too, not eating only overproduced and junk food)
Big Pharma meds only reduce the symptoms, so humans might feel better, but these meds do NOT cure the disease. (A healthy person isn't a client right? Healthy world population doesn't bring them greedy b@st@rds any money)
I once smoked a joint, decades ago. I didn't like it at all. But I use the entire plant mixed with some oil. NO MEDS HERE since a long long time. I'm a physically and mentally healthy/stable grandma, playing/running/playing football/biking/swimming etc with her young grandchildren. Just using 8 drups of weed oil (not CDB) made from the ENTIRE plant before going to bed and GOODBYE anxiety and anxiety meds! (Anxiety because of my close family member's Leukemia battle and years of treatment with BP bad stuff) Anxiety meds are bad meds, brrrr, used them very shortly, but omg, sooooo bad bad bad. Anxiety got even worse with all kinds of physical problems. Stopped those meds myself, started using this weed oil made from the entire plant)
So sir, Big Pharma would go bankrupt IF humans used this great gift from Mother Nature every night. USE, NOT ABUSE (only THC to get stoned)
I will hug my 5 weed plants now.
BTW, best weed seeds in the Netherlands, 100% only female seeds to make the best weed oil myself. Never stoned lol.
Have a great Sunday sir from a Dutchy.
Tony: True!!! Had not used it since my teens (it is a youth thing in the NL) a long long time ago and bought a NL-weedvape from my local tobacconist. Could not even control my vocal cords, thank God I passed out! STRONG developments in recent decades!
@@malaficus And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth.
lekker man
As a Dutch landscape architect student I'm very pleased with this video.
I'm very honoured to live in such a wonderful country.. originally from Austin Texas.. never wanna live in USA after living in the Netherlands.. great architecture and public transport
How long have you been in the Netherlands if you don't mind me asking?
Salute from Detroit 👌👌..
As a Dutch person who lived in Austin, Texas for one semester I have to say : Really loved Austin!! The people, the weather, the nightlife, the music, the nature, the FOOD OMG THE FOOD
Netherlands always amazed me, since when i first learn about their land reclamation project.
But these new knowledge on farming industry, and semiconductores makes me appreciate them even more.
Just the idea that:
1. There is nation, that has might of food industry similiar to USA
2. Nation that has maritime trading strong as Singapore.
3. Nation which has high tech industry strong as Taiwan or South Korea.
All of these important industries set in nation, that their most important thing was survive against ocean, in which they succesfully wins.
Welcome to visit our country. I will host you and show you around.
@@dragonlukasmapping805 fun fact. The Dutch basically build singapore as it is now. When they went to develop their country they asked the help of a Dutch advisor that helped in rebuilding Rotterdam after the second world war. This person, Albert Winsemius, basically told Singapore to do all the things that made them the powerhouse they are now, reporting directly to the president of singapore. From focussing on maritimetrade, their economic zones, their manufacturing hubs and their financial structures, and now the Dutch also inspire them to do their first land reclamation projects!
Love watching your videos and it’s so weird how you have just created this video and it’s just popped up on my timeline. I’m from the UK and I have just landed back home from Amsterdam a few hours ago! Such weird timing
youtube algorithm 😂
They probably know you went to Amsterdam.
As a Belgian I begrundgingly approve of this video
Yay, our easy-going neighbors. Well, at least from Flanders. Still remember my holiday in Brugge. What a beautiful city you have there. A real gem.
As a Dutchie, we keep you dry beloved Belgium 👍🤗 we could not let our little brother drown😘
Rational humility is a sign of confidence and strength.
Remember, you're always welcome to come back!
We are good with you southern neighbour
This was a great video! Well researched
Alway fun hearing someone not nativly dutch trying to pronounce our words. 😂 great vid.
LOL at Friesland :)
RealLifeLore is also infamous for basically doing zero pronunciation research in his videos
I loved the pronunciation of Afsluitdijk.
@@dmyrjansen 🍟 land hahaha
@@Schlabbeflickeroke who cares its fun
Water: *exists*
Dutch people: "and I took that personal"
They are also huge in boat building, almost every billionaire yacht has been built in the Netherlands. Examples of these are Dmitry Rybolovlev, Khalifa bin Hamad Al Thani, Oleg Burlakov, Bernard Arnault, Andrei Skoch, Lawrence Stroll, Familie Al Thani, Daniel Snyder, Viktor Medvedchuk, Steve Wynn, Jho Low, Ziyad Manasir, Eric Schmidt, Larry Ellison, Steven Spielberg, Steve Jobs, Jeff Bezos, and so many more.
i live in alphen aan den rijn, i've seen a lot of these big ships gpomg through the rhine canal splitting the city in half (as is with many dutch cities that historically grew around trade by ship)
there's not much wiggle room with the width there, so their width is kind of bottlenecked by it, at least for the ones that went through our town
Heesen Yachts
Werk jij in Oss of zo?
Not something to be proud of but okay
Makkum
Interesting video and greetings from London. What a great country the Netherlands truly is! In fact, I recall shipping through the port at Rotterdam, the world's largest when I passed through in the 1990s! . Furthermore, , how well developed the Netherlands, excellent design and planning can be found everywhere in this nation!. In fact , despite the greater population density of the Netherlands, an abundance of world class engineering and construction can be found in the Netherlands .❤
A final salient fact, the Netherlands greatly helps London near my home, the Anglo/Dutch construction called the Thames Barrier! Greatly appreciative, for this helps a city with an urban metro area similar in population to the Netherlands - thus preventing the same tidal surges in London as the Netherlands itself!🎉❤
Our culture and history of free thinking is one of our main strengths. It invites invention and problem solving. That's why we the Dutch must learn to love our own culture again. Freedom is NOT a given, it's something that must be fought for every single day.
Exactly. In my view our best export is the plakkaat van Verlatinghe… The constitution of the US today…
The basis of the free world.
So true!
That's why we the Dutch must learn to love our own culture again. Yes, but most importantly we have to defend it!!! Our culture is being raped on a daily basis by invasive cultures and the desire to follow communists in the US by lefties. We are destroying our own country piece by piece.
I'm Dutch and have cycled in most parts of the country. What I like most is: there is not a single place with bad infrastructure, bad housing, obvious poverty etc.
No matter where you go, it's always nice, organized, structured, developed, logical, clean, etc etc.
Also the cycle system of "knooppunten" is pretty unique. It allows you to easily navigate the entire country with the most scenic routes by bike, without having to use a smartphone.
All in all it's a great country. I'm always tempted to explore the world and live elsewhere. But I know I'll be missing the Netherlands too much. You get too used to the structure and prosperity, which I find even lacking in Germany in some parts. Which cause me to think yoo big bro, what's going brother man. Fix your shit haha. Love my neighbors tho!! ❤
Im an American expat living here 14 years now. In fact I've helped realize a number of installation projects at the new construction at ASML the last 4 years. Really cool to see that in this vid. I agree with a lot of your points. Maarja, terwijl Nederland alles netjes en goed geregeld heeft, jullie mogen hier bijna niks. Er is een enorm lange lijst van onschuldige acties en dingen dat gewoon niet mag en dat straf en boetes oplevert. Enorm veel regels. My only "min punt". Cheers.
As a visiting Swede I can only agree. Daily life in the Netherlands is made very easy. Closeness to everything by foot and bike. The OV card to get to places too far to bike. Signage is excellent! And unlike many other country you kept your small or specialist shops. Dropping by the greengrocer, the butcher, the bakery, the cheese shop, fish shop etc on your way home is easy. Something that is almost impossible in countries where shopping centers and supermarkets have pushed small businesses away. Practical daily life is just easy there. I was really impressed.
strangely enough the places i found most similar were switzerland and singapore. On the surface that seems really odd, one being in the alps, the other on the other side of the world. But both are fairly pragmatic, with some great infrastructure.
@@dusry4717can you give some examples of these things we are not allowed to do that feel off to you?
@@dusry4717Dude, if you've lived there for 14 years then you're an immigrant not expat 😂
Young professional here, I’ve been admiring the Netherlands for a while, and I’ve been trying to find work and live there. Such an amazing place!
I hope you get to soon, much love from Utrecht
Your biggest problem will not be to find a job, but to find a place to live.
Where u from?
@@Hellboy_109 Texas! Venturing out there next month to show face and make connections!
@@ronaldderooij1774 I will take anything haha anywhere and make it happen! Nothing worth while is easy😎
May sound weird coming out of an Indonesian, but I am so fascinated by Netherlands as a country.
Why is that weird? Indonesia used to be part of the Netherlands like Suriname.
Ironically Indonesia would probably be off much better today when it had remained part of the kingdom of the Netherlands...
But I guess the, broadly speaking, opportunistic character of the Dutch was incompatible with that of the Indonesians.
I have seen many times with people originally from previous colonies that they are more rancorous, they go back to everything that once happened to their great grandparents and are able to still be angry about that today, as such they are always living in the past, while the Dutch tend to have more attention to what is happening today and how they can make life better in the future.
Of course it is always good to have some pride in your country and ancestors, but be careful not to make it determine your entire fate and destiny.
@@simduino that's exactly why that could be considered weird. the crimes the Dutch have committed there are truly black pages in history that they hesitate to even mention in history classes. from what i know, the Japanese coming at first felt like finally being freed from the Dutch, although they quickly learned that wasn't the case...
@@rosalieessink2277 and then came Sukarno, who couldent stop the mass killing of minoraties, and then came Suharto 30 years of hardship.
I used to work in the British Merchant Navy. Rotterdam's port is so big that back in the mid-70s - long before so many of these engineering marvels were invented - it could take two days for a ship to get from the sea to its berth. It's a pretty amazing country.
In two days you wil be from the sea in Germany. In max 3 hours you wil be out of Rotterdam on the river Waal
It's almost as if having a culture of doing your job well and not cutting corners is the best way to run a country
Hush now... Don't ruin it for the Dutch.
Don't forget the democracy. They have a long history of caring about everyone's perspective, not just the corporate fatcats. You won't find any "working poor" in the Netherlands like you will in the US.
We do cut corners. But call it efficiency
18:44
Truly one of the nation's most resourceful engineers.
Was looking for this
What a legend
Having now lived 23 years outside of the Netherlands, I must say that what I most miss, is the spirit, the personal responsability. If there's anything ugly or unsafe in the neighborhood, there's always someone going to do smth about it, if not organize smth with the neighbours, and very creatively so.
I'm writing this from a place where things fall apart left, right and center, and people say: "THEY should do smth about it" 😅.
I moved to this amazing country from Norway in 2011. Dutch people is the most hard working people I have met. They have great relationship with Norway, where they found timber, ship builders, herring and even tons of stones that they brought to their country, to use to build out the landmasses. 😊
Thanks to the trade with them, Norway got necessary resources and many of my countrymen worked on their ships whilst their viwes worked in big households in Amsterdam. When they moved back to Norway, they brought all kind of recipes with them, which became famous dishes in Norway. Our link with the Netherlands has been valuable since the 14th century and still is. 😊
I admire Dutch skills in finance and how they have created the best systems for education, work, business, healthcare and social security. What they have earned on their East Indian Company, they used to build their country financially and into what we see today. Of course some persons got rich, but the majority was spent on social structure. Just imagine that would happen globally!! 🙏
Thank you for this most appreciated video!
And kudos to Norway, and excellent country with kind people and a gorgeous landscape! My dutch father fell in love with your country. Of my childhood he brought us to Norway 5 years in a row for our summer holidays!
Noreay is a good country on too big compare to citroensap...Jobs are far away...
Isn't it a bit weird to be celebrating the Dutch East India company?
We have deep respoect for Norway Denmark Sweden Finland .people like us .we trust.100 percent..Hard working hounest high educated people .
@@charonderproud because we are control .By education..Histor isn.t always nice.These days .People love this country ..they come here in big numbers .Don.t lie .
The only thing I've actually gathered from this video is to never play Monopoly with the Dutch
or Catan ,we are really good at catan aswell
Dutch here
Fun to add, concerning the groninger gasfield. It was phased out because it caused small earthquakes with severe damaging effects to the groningen province. It was quite the commotion. Earthquakes really are alien to us. Nothing too dramatic just concerned citizens and property damage.
i am Iranian-Georgian and love Netherlands,by the way i started learning dutch which is the great combination of German and english languages.
Errrm exsjelie the german language spawnt from dutch acording to duch schoold
It is more French and English and Denish and South African and just Dutch in a big mix😂
Somehow Iranians (and Afghans) seem to learn Dutch extremely fast, I noticed. Good luck.
@@mourlyvold64 Iranians and afghans have same ancestry ,also tajiks .
@@Dani2kGaming_GEIR I know! 😊Didn't know about the Tajiks, though..
👍Fijne dag!
Let’s Go! A video about the Homeland!
Let's Go ! Ben jij dat Rapper Sjors ?
I have a lot of respect for the Dutch. They produce an enormous amount of food for the rest of Europe and they produce it on a small amount of land. They are a very relaxed people, but hard working.
hard work = efficient, relax = off-time allowing for creativity. thanks bro.
Yes, but at what environmental cost! Dutch farmers are more like mechanised chemical workers, soon to be replaced by robots.
We work hard not long
@@TravisSansbury mooien leugen slim werken
And import then re-export too, still impressive.
As a german, I am so proud of our amazing (and favorite) neighbour
my grandpa still mad he didnt got his bike back lol
We love you too. Wir lieben dich auch
Wo ist mein Fahrrad!?
Just don't love us as much as you did in the 40s again, please. 😅
@@irisjoosten8669you always hold your breath, when it’s sunny and all the highways are full of cars with german number plates to go occupy.. I mean, enjoy our beaches 😂
I heard about some guy in nebraska thats done the same greenhouse setup, but uses air pipes that use the ambient air temp, from pipes ventilating through the ground
Dude has lemon trees in NEBRASKA
Greenhouses are insane
As a non-dutch, I got second-hand pride from this.
We all knew already, but what a great country!
Let’s share it together 🇳🇱💙⚡️
Wow! I had no idea about any of this. How wonderful the Netherlands is! Thank you for posting such an interesting video!
Where are you from?
@@viderethevaccinatorfromhol7536 Planet Mars. I am an E.T..
@@marianneb.7112 Yes.
You could add that The Netherlands is now 6th in the olympic medal table above vastly huge countries in comparison like the UK, Germany, Italy and Canada
Yes yes! Good job Netherlands:)
@@erwinketelaars they’ve always punched far above their size in football as well
@@spaccy6349no WC’s tho 😔
Really easy to get Tr00n rights in the Netherlands. Not that impressive that there winning if they cheat every event
@@NathanHydra we do however win in a odd way. almost all the WC level stadiums will use Dutch grass for the competition.
Thank you for a great video!
Crazy in depth and Informative video while being so easily digestible! And a joy to watch:) thanks for making this:)