Suriname is more interesting than you may think
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- Опубликовано: 28 сен 2024
- If we’re being honest, most people have never heard of Suriname. We’ll at least not here in the United States. Which is unfortunate because it’s actually played a small role in US History.
But hopefully…this video will help put Suriname on the map.
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Iam proud to be a Surinamees
Wel i live in Suriname
The only problem is that the president is a KILLER & DRUGSDEALER
@@martijn7593 who is?
@@martijn7593 You are wrong. Bouterse is out, Chantokhi is president.
I'm from Suriname and happy seeing people Talk about our Country🇸🇷🇸🇷🇸🇷❤
Same🇸🇷🇸🇷🇸🇷 lobi sranang❤
Zelfde hier
Mooi zo !
Sana motion
are you a djoeka?
wauw, amazing, as someone who is a history nerd from Suriname, you got everything right, which is something not many people achieve, not even historians of my country. well done
Thank you!
But he could do loads more, don't you think? Up to Bouterse perhaps?
So true
The only problem is that the former president is a KILLER & DRUGSDEALER... so there are allot of corrupt politicians in Suriname
Thank you so mush for dis video men love you❤✅💥
My dad was in the Dutch army located in Suriname. Since I was a kid my dad talked a lot about the country, he loved it :)
My father in law as well.
I'm also Dutch. My dad was on a geological mission for 2 years in Suriname. He lived in the city amongst the people instead of the enclaves that were popular amongst westerners. He has many stories about the great times he had there and the people were really friendly.
I made this video with the help of those that commented other interesting facts about Suriname in my prior video on the country. I also tried to correct any of the mistakes I made in that one. I apologize for any mispronunciations in this video.
Past video on Suriname - "The Strange Demographics of Suriname" - ruclips.net/video/55XArVdnVec/видео.html
Thank you,I'm from suriname 💚🤍❤️💛❤️🤍💚🇸🇷
Im from Suriname. Im not trying to be bias but very good content. Great work for detail and information! Joy to watch your videos
@@davongreen3606 Me too
Ik ook
Sir,please use the right Map of Suriname 🇸🇷 This is false information that you are showing the world right now.
@@IronMan-ed9vg I displayed a map showing the disputed territories. If I purposely show the disputed territories as belonging to one country or another I am being biased.
My mother is from (former British) Guyana. Nice to see this part of the world being covered.
Guyanese have heard of Suriname.
I know Suriname 🇸🇷 because I visit Guyana 🇬🇾
I just got back from Suriname, it was the best trip of my life. The people are so friendly.
Some people
Well you got lucky I guess
I head there early Feb, any recommendations?
@@allthingsshanti918 if you get a chance, take a tour to the Brownsberg nature preserve. It's cheap, 80$USD, about two and a half hours from Paramaribo. They give you food and drinks, you get to see the lake, and walk to waterfalls. We saw so much of the country on that tour. If you're looking for a place to stay that's cheap, try the overbridge river resort. If you're in Paramaribo check out Zu Zoes restruant and the palm gardens across the street. If you're looking for a place to stay in Paramaribo I suggest the Prins Hendric Suites, it's kind like a bed and breakfast in a 150 year old historic home. Check out the Paramaribo Zoo and definitely the Slaugth Sanctuary.
@@ilayaramadhin4182 oh, it's like that everywhere. Just ignore the ones who aren't and focus on those who are. It helps if you try to learn some of the local languages. We spent 6 months practicing Dutch so that we could at least great people in their language.
My father was an engineer at the sugar factory at Marienburg, I was a little boy and still have fond memories of Suriname and the people.
How nice that you payed attention to this beautiful country and it's special popupation! I'm Dutch, my wife is from Suriname and we thank you for this!
population ofcourse :-)
I’m glad you both enjoyed it! Thank you for watching!
I know Suriname thanks to Netflix's K-drama "Narco-Saint" and got me interested in this country. Love from Vietnam 🇻🇳❤️🇸🇷
I have been to Suriname once, they are one of the most friendly people of our planet for sure.
Are you sure ?
Becauase some Suriname people Who are living in the Netherlands are different. Maby not all, But i have seen a hole other Suriname in the Netherlands.
@@findersluck5694 I don't know about those who are living in the Netherlands but those whom I meet in Suriname they are really great in terms of friendliness..........
@@tuffhappy thanks , then ther is stil hope.
Ik vindt het leuk dat je dat zegt ❤
ehhh..
denk et niet hoor
I am Dutch,and i can honestly say,people from Suriname fit in just great here😇,there are a lot of them here.
Friendly,nice food😊,and goodlooking men🥰.Love their culture❤️
No joke, can't imagine the Netherlands without the people from Suriname. Also, roti best food for sure.
@@thehigherman9918 surinamese food is the best food change my mind
Suriname has the best food in South America, maybe even the world. The people are amazing, nature is impeccable. Nice resorts, nice capital. It’s a great country to visit for a few weeks!
As a surinamese person, thank you for talking about our country ❤️❤️
Nice to see people speak about our unknown country, it is a beautifull country with very generous people.
A lot of Surinames people live in The Netherlands
Why are so many? As a Dutch woman I live my whole life in the Netherlands and from what I see is that, Suriname is more beautiful in land, lesser pace in everyday life, whether much much better, people more friendlier and much more in connection with nature.... 🤷🏼♀️ As Im writing this, its occur to me that I may spend my old days there 😆
@@janetvanladesteijn5951 a coup in the 80's had a lot of us move to the Netherlands.
Thanks love from Suriname🇸🇷🇸🇷🇸🇷
@@janetvanladesteijn5951 If only life was that simple... Su is beautiful and the people are as well, but in the 70's and 80's the country had not much to offer to the people, so poverty and lack of opporunities drove many to the Netherlands, which they considered as their own country and they were right.
@@janetvanladesteijn5951 lol baby brained woman
As someone from Surinam I barely see any videos of it, great job💖
Thank you!
This is my opinion, Suriname has some of the most beautiful spaces and architecture in the world 🇸🇷🇸🇷🇸🇷🇸🇷 l love Suriname
Give it up for the pic of Clarence Seedorf, Patrick Kluivert and Edgar Davids of the Dutch 🇳🇱National Team ⚽️...that was tight brother. Good teacher! 1 🌎 thank you.
Im so happy to see my country in one of these video's
Everything was spot on
Im from Suriname and I love when I see people talk about it cuz you never hear people talk about our country
Je hebt helemaal gelijk
Love this, great video & greetings from Suriname 🇸🇷 🇸🇷
Hi there! I really appreciate you making a video about our amazing country!
Suriname is awesome!! Happy that we are now resuming aid to the country, I hope the Netherlands and Suriname can have friendly relations in the future :)
I’m from Suriname, thank you for making this awesome video!!😃
Woah, my country is on youtube?
WOW, thanks whoever you are, for putting my country on the map
No problem! Thanks for watching!
I'm from Suriname, thanks for the video, Suriname is very underrated 👏👏👏
Thanks for highlighting my birth country, Suriname is an amazing place full of rich culture and experiences, so revisiting the past to better understand the present was great.
Great to see people talking about my home country 🤎🇸🇷
Check the story of the Winhuk, the German merchant/liner ship that escaped to Brazil in the outbreak of the war. the crew staid from 30-44 pretty much at ease until Brazil entered the war and the crew was set to a "Brazil prisoner camp". The ship band was the best in town, and after the war many staid in Brazil and opened what is still to this day one of the best German restaurant in Brazil and basically still following the ships. menu.
Yess thank you for teaching me more about my country it's history
Great Video. Greetings from Suriname 🇸🇷
I enjoyed this video for Iam from Suriname but live in the Netherlands, i really miss my homeland ,and thank for sharing this video...
A country I learned about in Prep school and was always fascinated by its position and culture .
Aaw ,that means alott to us ,we want to make our country more known around the world
Great video 😊 keep up the great work
I appreciate it!!
my dad is from suriname and i love the country! i live now in the Netherlands but sometimes i speak family over there i love the way they talk
Can we talk about the way he pronouce the names its so good
There’s a Surinamese film on YT called “Wan Pipel” (One People) about the tensions between the Indian and African communities in Surinam.
It plays out via the romantic choices an African-Surinamese man makes between his Dutch and Indian Surinamese girlfriends. It was made in 1976. I saw it many years ago on TV in the UK.
It’s a really good film, highly recommended, with English subtitles.
And I’ve been there (only in Paramaribo) and it was so nice people there. Want to go back and see more of the country
Great Video! Thank you for this!
I appreciate it! Thanks for watching!
thank you for showcasing my beautiful country
Enjoyed learning about Suriname. Thank you. D.🌞
Awesome Country! Lived there for a year and a half in the 1980s. Back when it was real. No cell phones, just really great people to talk to. Going into the bush was quite the experience. The Cayman didn’t worry me, the piranha no problem, most of the snakes were evadable but intimidating, the monkeys were butt heads. The big cats were worrisome, but two things drove me crazy down there. The big assed spiders, and I don’t know what the hell it was but while in a rubber duck/raft, I saw something roll in the water that had to be 10 to 15 feet long because it just kept rolling right next to us and as big around as my thigh. We were deep in the jungle and the water is like tea so you can’t see down into it or you’d probably piss yourself. Anyway, I never found out what that thing was, and I’m good with that. I’ve rambled enough, Suriname is great!
Probably an Anaconda snake.
Much love to Suriname and Surinamese People around the world, from Amsterdam.
Thank u for sharing this geografie history “Switi Sranang”
Nice follow-up to your previous video on the country; very informative.
Keep up the great work!
Thank you! I'll do my best!
What would have happened if Suriname had chosen to remain a colony in this modern age of equality, would the Netherlands have been obliged to invest in Suriname so the prosperity would be equal to that of the Netherland?
Neighbouring French Guiana (like Martinique and Guadeloupe) does prefer to stay a colony.
@@Blaqjaqshellaq France is less of a wellfare state than the Netherlands. (Scandinavia even more wellfare)
@@Zero-oh8vm really? Have you ever seen poverty ridden Saba?
@@apeman9238 I see you're right, 40% of Netherlands Carribean inhabitants earns under the minimum wage.
No they wouldn't have had to. The Charter of the Kingdom of the Netherlands states that every country within the Kingdom is equal. The stronger or wealthier parts should support the weaker or poorer parts. That is very vague. To see how it would be, just look at how they treat the countries of Aruba, Curacao and Sint Maarten. The Netherlands was very stingy, to say it bluntly, to come in with financial help on these islands. Eventually these countries had to take loans from the Netherlands, in which the Netherlands has a lot of say in how it should be used. It caused a lot of strain on the relationship and Sint Maarten sort of even "sued" the Netherlands via the UN, for acting neo-colonialist.
Now I understand why the Dutch want some control over the money, because sometimes the islands, haven't been financially responsible with the handeling of money. So they want the assurance that their money won't be wasted. Even when we were a country within the Kingdom they weren't willing to invest in Suriname.
here in the netherlands people from Surinam throw the best parties. just shows you that these people know how to live life!
Nice to hear the HISTORY of Surinam..i think You know a lot about Surinam....and its geographic!!! Chapeau!!!!!!!!🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🌹🌹🌹🌹🌼🌼🌼🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🏵️🏵️🏵️🏵️🏵️🌺🌺🌺🌺🐝🌸🌸🌸🌸💐💐💐🥀🥀🥀🤗🤗🤗🤗😀😅
I know of Suriname 🇸🇷 because of all the kickboxers that come from there. 👊 🤜 🤛
Hi i’m from suriname i love that you want to make surinam come on the list i love suriname love and support from suriname
Zo leuk dat je een hele leuke film heb gemaakt vam suriname
Underrated channel
THANK YOU !
Geography Geek !
I only spent my Youth in SURINAME. After decades I have Discovered Myself that there is a secret 'Power' in the National Anthem.
Sincerely YOURS,
LUV YOU !
( Do GOOD and don't look back )
I am Dutch-Surinamese, my parents stayed in the Netherlands after independence.
Its funny how more English speakers are getting interested in Surinam history.
The Netherlands are amazing but our institutions should do a better job with this side of history and also in general. Especially outside of the bigger cities certain native Dutch people feel like Dutch people with a colonial background aren't really Dutch because they are black or a other a ethnicity while these were historically all born under the Dutch flag (pre-independance). What they are forgetting is that their are also white people with a Colonial background which they do recognize exposing the hypocrisy. And these have a carribean mentality so they expose that openly.
It goes both ways. In school we had 2 brothers from Suriname but the coloured people did not accept them as being Surinamese at firtst since they were too white.
Digging into history can realy enrich peoples views, as long as we don't turn a blind to the dark sides of our nations.
(And we Dutch have a fair share of dark history.)
@@hotdognl70 Yes but that isn't institutionally and white Surinamese are recognized as an official ethnicity (de boeroes).
But within the Netherlands we are not officially recognized as a 'Dutch ethnicity' we are 'allochtoon' which is strange as most Surinamese always had a Dutch nationality as first and only (being part of the kingdom, also goes for Curaçao, Aruba, Bonaire, Sint Maarten), not different than 'native, white Dutch people'. Wether that is racism or not, or just the system being outdated within that view is up for debate.
Not only that we are 'non-western allochtonen' but that is very contradicting, because someone from the USA is considered a 'western allochtoon' but does that also go for black people from the USA, specifically the 'foundational black Americans who are their just as long as the' foundational white Americans'?
Because how come that a black American be considered a 'western allochtoon' whole not even knowing about Dutch culture, while Black Surinamese people and culture is a product of the Dutch kingdom. Dutch is still our 1st official language, culturally and economically, yet institutionally we are being very disenfranchised from official Dutch recognition as being considered allochtone like that relationship in history means nothing. And if Black Americans aren't considered non Western and White Americans 'are' than that is up for debate as well.
It's gives a Subliminal message to our society that being 'Black' or Afro-centric means your are 'not really Dutch' or it's purely a 'foreign or exotic' thing, non-western by default. While Dutch culture as many outside influences. Sinterklaas isn't a Dutch event either and Black Pete is just a late made up interpretation based on black the servant or demon but for no reason chose to give him negroid characteristics, and even slavery wasn't an excuse because why did other countries who also have St Nicholas day didn't adapt it in the same way even if the servant is black (till this day, other fully painted black servants still look totally different and looks more like Judeo Christian demon)
But our race relations will always have some issues, even Surinamese people don't always get along. The Creoles and the Marrons can have common social conflicts and can be very discriminative towards eachother while these are both African descendant groups. So it's not about being perfect, and I do think some are just too much into victimhood mentality, but our institutions could do a better job.
Thanks for replying, have a nice day🙏🏽
@@SAsaiyajin Sorry, te veel text. Mag ik de samenvatting?
@@hotdognl70 nu laat je zien dat het je niet boeit en dat je het Subliminaal probeert te bagatelliseren door mijn punt te vergelijken met '2 boeroes in je klas die niet geaccepteerd werden' tegenover iets veel gecompliceerder. Dit komt ook precies terug op het punt dat ik maak dat je dus nu niet wilt lezen.
DIT IS ALWEER ALINEA 2😡;
Boeroes zijn geaccepteerd als officiële ethniciteit onder Surinaams cultuur, maar andersom erkend de Nederlandse institutie en cultuur de Surinamers niet als authentiek aan Nederland. Dit resulteert dan ook dat in NL sommige Surinaamse jongeren het concept van een witte Surinamers niet kennen omdat NL institutie zich probeert los te houden van die relatie (maar dit NL ook met zijn geschiedenis in het algemeen).
Maar sorry hoor je doet echt als een wijf die discussie of een goed feitelijk debat uit de weg wilt gaan. Lees gewoon mijn vorige comment. 🤷🏽♂️😑. Je hebt alleen maar laten zien dat je amikale lul wilt zijn.
@@SAsaiyajin Ik was benieuwd naar jouw punt, het was alleen erg veel tekst.
Je erg lange tenen zijn jouw probleem, daar stoor ik mij niet aan. Dat je het nodig vind om enkel vanwege het feit dat ik om een bondigere reactie vraag mij voor amikale lul uit te maken is wel storend en zorgt ook voor enige weerstand om jouw punten serieus te nemen.
Tl;dr: Je gedraagt je als een Wilders, jammer.
Great job, thank u for sharing are history
Thank you! You bet
As a Surinamese this is so awesome to see that people are talking about Suriname, it's so rare to see and I'm so very happy
🇸🇷♥️
Hello greeting from suriname suriname is my country.
in South Africa..the promise of gold /(Diamond) mines was a casus belli for the british to invade and overrun the dutch orange free state(s) boers.
Luckily for Surinam, it concerned the french (after Napoleon defeated) and a russian arbiter (more leaning towards the dutch..).
I like countries with diverse cultures and people like Suriname. What part is more English friendly?
Hi there 😁I'm from Suriname😌thanks for making this video of our country❤❤❤❤🇸🇷🇸🇷🇸🇷🇸🇷🇸🇷😍😍😍😍😍
No problem!
I found out about Suriname when l was visiting Holland in 1983 while in the US Air Force stationed in England. I had met a girl from there named Astrid, very beautiful
Halve Surinamer maar een trotse, Ik voel mij er altijd thuis waneer ik er ben en lobi naar al mijn Surinamers❤️
I was born in the capital Paramaribo and raised in The Netherlands.
Nice short video.
Actually at the moment almost 700000 Surinamese and their descendants live in the Netherlands !
Descendants ?
There live also a population in new york !
@@stillumatithedon1519 yup!
@@stillumatithedon1519 that’s awesome! I don’t have any relatives in NYC, but have wanted to visit for ages! Where can I find the Surinamese in NY?
@@nathalieheath5693 there are over 1,2 mil Surinamese people worldwide. The majority lives in Suriname and the the country with the second most Surinamese people live in the Netherlands. I think you would have more succes finding Surinamese people in Florida than NY because Surinamese people in the USA tend to stay in places that look like and remind them of Suriname.
Thank you, i AM from Suriname 🇸🇷 ❤️❤️❤️🙏🙏
Woww good info big up !!!!!
We know about the culture a bit in the Netherlands
I’m in my late 40s and I only met just one person from Suriname and that was in the mid 90s.
YES of course!!!
I'm from Suriname but I live in America now, Virginia beach va. Might move back soon maybe idk.
Hey a fellow Virginian!
I am from Surinam.Sweet country!
I'm an underground music artist from suriname and like what you are diong to put my country on the map
This is for all my people in the world. You are welcome to visit our beautifull country with our tasty food and nice music
That's my grandpa next to the Queen on the right... Olton Willem van Genderen 😍❤👏🏾
Really?! That’s pretty cool!
I am creole from Surinam
i have friends in suriname planning to visit as soon as it is more easier to visit there
Great video.
Can you do Morocco.
Not really my last name is Paul… oh it’s a place!
I lieve in Suriname
I am so happy to know about more about my country Suriname
I m from suriname tooo!
sir respect
New Netherlands/New York didn't become a British colony in the 17th century, it became an English colony, because the Act of Union occurred in 1707.
yes! yes! yes!
Surinam had more economic value since it was a sugar colony, the brits could have this small trading post. And they would lose it 100 years later anyways due to American independence:)
It still has value ....even more with slavery abolished now ....
It has far more value now than as a sugar colony. Independence was the best thing that happened to Suriname!
@@Churros1616 and the best thing for the netherlands, it's a bottomless pit not even worth keeping.
Thank you❤️🇸🇷you should bring a visit here
British colony taken by the Dutch
That’s a surprise, usually it’s the other way around
Brittish atleast cant have all of the world as long as the Dutch are standing 💪
@@Hacckfort
Being adept at colonizing is nothing to be proud of. Today the dutch citizens are profiting from the stolen wealth from countries like surinam and indonesia.
You are like a thief bragging about his stolen goods.
It was "traded" for New Amsterdam (Manhattan) as part of an agreement after the Third Anglo-Dutch War (1674)
@@ericburdon6148 Today's Dutch prosperity is not obtained through theft, but through good trade. The Netherlands has never conquered a lot of territory with military force, we were simply too small for that. We have amassed an enormous amount of power through finance and trade monopolies and eventually incorporated suriname and indonesia into our colonial empire...
@@ericburdon6148 You might want to learn a bit more about the history of the Dutch Indiës and Suriname bud.
You are throwing out a lot of nonsense.
Thanks for treating my country of birth 🥰❤️
I don't know if this is true I met a Suriname citizen working in my country she told me that there is a village in Suriname where Hindi is the first language hard to believe
Of course it’s true. Indo-Surinamese are the largest or second largest ethnic group in Surinam. Why is it hard to believe? A quick search online would’ve told you that.
Love from Suriname 🇸🇷
I'm from suriname love from suriname ❤❤🥰🥰
i am from suriname
I so happy that u let them know about #Suriname my country 💯
Fascinating stuff
My sister has been born there. In Paramaribo. Dutch of course.
🇸🇷 🇬🇫✊🏾❤ My father is from Suriname & my Mother is from Frans Guyana and I'am born in The Netherlands.
So, _Britain_ did a deal with the _Netherlands,_ effectively swapping _Suriname_ for _New York_ state (inc. _NYC)??_ Sweet deal for the Brits! ;)
Wow I didn't know that, What a Win
Greetings from The Netherlands
I'm Suriname and I love this 🇸🇷🇸🇷
Suriname is famous in India for its Hindu culture🇮🇳🧡🇸🇷