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Why the Dutch do something no Spaniard dares to do - BBC REEL
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- Опубликовано: 10 мар 2022
- Windows connect the interior of our cosy homes to the outside world. Numerous innovative devices have been invented to regulate this delicate relationship between our private and public lives through history and culture.
Strangely, in Spain, a specific type of rolling blind shields practically every window, whether old or new. Why is this object ubiquitous in the south of Europe but almost unheard of in the north?
Video and animation by Álvaro Pérez Ramírez (Alv Peerz)
Producer: Ana Catalá
#bbcreel #bbc #bbcnews
I would really have appreciated this story more if the subtitles didn't fall further and further behind. By 6:03 it's 20 seconds behind, meaning that I'm hearing parts of the Spanish interview and translating them in my head, looking to the subtitles for the missing vocab, and they're what the English narrator said 20 seconds ago. So... to get the whole story, just disregard the video and read the subtitles, I guess?
Agree!
Of note, it needs to be UK subtitles, not US
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Subtitles? I don’t see them🥺
Yes! Terrible timing with captions. This should've been hard subtitled.
The headline is so stupid...Summer in Holland is like spring in Spain. Blinds are a must in Spain from June to the beginning of September, to try to keep some moderate temperature indoors.
Eso no es del todo cierto. Hace mucho calor también en centro europa. Pero es más por las horas de sol.
The Netherlands is a dwarf country, the Netherlands average height is like -5 meters, There are whole areas of Spain larger than the Netherlands colder in winter, not many people live there though.
The subtitles are out of sync with the audio. Cmon BBC!
I'm from a very "traditional" UK family: we always had curtains and they were closed as soon as the sun started to set. When the light fades, I still close the curtains and lock the doors. It's the moment that the house becomes a totally private place and is part of putting the house to bed. In the morning, opening the curtains and unlocking everything is like waking up the house and getting ready to face the day.
In Northern European countries, the windows may not be shuttered but we do not look into other people's windows out of politeness. It's like the blinds are inside our heads, not on the houses.
In Spain, people don't spend the day looking at other people's windows. You may think that Northern Europeans invented privacy. Luckily you Brits are there to explain to us how fools from the south should do things. Perhaps it is that in other countries we find any time and place to have fun in a way that we prefer to remain private. It will be that we have boredom out of our heads, surely it`s this, yes.
You shield the interior from viewing: south Europe shield the interior from the sun. Britain and Spain have 2 very different climates where you keep your windows closed but they need to have air flowing for most of the year to avoid being cooked inside.
Hello. I wish you added English text on the videos. The automatic captions are not in sync with the video :(
Those are not automatic subtitles. These are the subtitles BBC thought would be correct. But they're often not in sync, because BBC didn't bother synchronizing them appropriately.
The only difference is light/heat. Not the Christian "dictatorship", just the north of europe you are, the more light you want.
There’s nothing unusual about window coverings here in Canada or the US. Curtains and blinds are closed during the day to protect against heat and also to prevent bright sunlight bleaching art and furniture, and at night, to protect against cold and provide privacy. Choosing styles of curtains and blinds are an important part of decorating a room. All the windows in my house have blinds or curtains, and my family has a Protestant English and German background, not Catholic or Andalusian. I don’t think it has anything to do with ancient cultural patterns, just a disinclination to share your home life with the neighbours.
Totally agree.
Blinds = privacy.
Why would you not want privacy?
Yes, privacy, but their greatest value for me was their green environmental comfort.
Soy española, andaluza concretamente, he vivido en UK e Italia y viajado por medio mundo. Al crecer con un elemento base en tu casa como es la cortina siempre me he preguntado porqué no existe este elemento (tan esencial para mí y el resto de españoles) en otros países. La respuesta, por desgracia no la aporta el vídeo y es crucial: la luz. No es tanto la privacidad, que también, pero cuando creces, te desarollas y vives en una ciudad como Almería (la ciudad con las horas de luz y sol de Europa y una de las primeras con más horas de sol de el mundo), las persianas son necesarias, no solo una cuestión cultural, histórica o de privacidad. Si vives en la ciudad, donde hay gran densidad de población y contaminación lumínica, es esencial poder dormir sin luz, por lo que bajamos las persianas. Cuando despertamos, ya es de día en gran parte del año debido a nuestro que nuestro huso horario no se corresponde con el geográfico por lo que si están las persianas bajadas puedes dormir hasta tu hora sin ser molestado por el sol. Son muchos los factores pero la comodidad de privar de luz en sitios altamente soleados y cálidos como mi tierra, para mí, al menos es la fundamental. Y es lo que siempre echo de menos cuando viajo a otros países, especialmente, países soleados y también mediterráneos.
totalmente de acuerdo, soy de Buenos Aires, mi casa no tenía persianas y tuve que ponerlas, especialmente luego de que sacaran un árbol en la casa de al lado. en algunos horarios y en verano, la luz es demasiada y no se puede estar. aqui tenemos dias plenamente soleados incluso en invierno
Vivo en Edimburgo. En 2 meses anochecerá sobre las 11 de la noche y se hará de día a las 3:30 de la madrugada. Y la noche durante el mes de junio nunca es totalmente oscura. Es cultural. Yo he puesto en casa estores en todas las ventanas. En los dormitorios, estores dobles.
En Andalucía y en el Cantábrico igual con mucha menos luz. Hoy en Bilbao, 9 de mayo, si no llego a bajar las persianas me despierto a las 7 la madrugada de un Domingo. Y lo que es peor, se despierta mi niña de 5 meses. Y la privacidad también, que yo no quiero que mis vecinos vean lo que hago con mi chica al lado de la ventana y las persianas eliminan imagen y también sonido. Claro que los británicos deben de ser muy corteses y si gimen muy alto se asoman a la ventana y se disculpan con el vecindario por molestar y afear el paisaje con el movimiento pendular de sus lorzas. En fin. Gracias Gran Bretaña por tus profundas lecciones de ciudadanía.
@@doloresperezfraiz7402 Ya y en Edimburgo la gente no echa un polvo delante de la ventana, porque tú me dirás. Sinceramente prefiero una persiana que estores dobles, pero eso es cuestión de gustos. ¿Cultural? Claro no va a ser algo innato o por imposición. El caso es que cumplen una función y lo hace de forma adecuada y adaptada al contexto del país. Todo eso de reducto de las domus y de que se crea el problema que se intenta solucionar son melonadas británicas para explicarnos lo mal que hacemos las cosas; no como ellos, claro.
@@davidgh5103 Totalmente de acuerdo , es que ya se harta uno de tanta tontería, en la parte de delante de mi casa , que da a la calle , me gusta tener las cortinas siempre corridas , en la de atrás , que da al jardín , pues no , cuando da el sol , pues bajo la persiana lo necesario , también para que no se estropeen los muebles y las cortinas, porque algunas se estropearon por eso , a pesar de que vivo en la zona con menos radiación solar , en fin es cuestión de sentido común .
I just asked around to a few other spaniars at work, and mostly everyone agree that the purpose of blinds doesn't have anything to do with privacy, we already have curtains for that.
Spain is one of the countries with a highest timezone offset of the world, and thus, we wake up when the day is already very sunny during some times of the year. Thus, we need a way to prevent waking up earlier than expected because of the light.
Of course, the solution would be to move our timezone to the correct one, but that was already attempted in 2020 and it didn't go through. Probably the main reason being our strange food schedule: having lunch at 2-4PM and dinner at 9-11PM.
You need subtitles that move with the audio! If you’re not willing to use subtitles at least put a note at the beginning and allow time for users to select closed captioning!! Sheesh!
Just learn Spanish. Second most use language in the modern western countries
@@justing307 if you had watched it you’d realize there’s more than one foreign language being spoken with no subtitles…
Pause button??
the subtitles are messed up . You'd think the BBC would have noticed.
In Portugal during the summer you have sun light from 5-6 AM to 9-10PM , i remember mi grandmother used to shut the blind's after launch (12 AM) until 5 PM to keep the house fresh.
I lived and work 3 years in the UK, I always have to use an sleeping mask, even with curtains.
I personally think that for privacy with have curtains too.
I use the blinds in winter, to protect, the windows for big storms and for the cold and on summer you have to play with Windows and blinds to regulate de the temperature inside de hauses I
This video is full of stereotypes: "Spain is different"... I'm currently living in India, have lived in Germany and Algeria and I have seen people closing their windows if not with blinds with curtains. I don't think that the need of privacy is something more Spanish than Japanese or Norwegian... There is something they did not mention in the video and it is the fact that in Spain many people can't live without blinds because they can't sleep if the bedroom is not in complete darkness.
As an Architect I have to say this is the most convoluted and mismatched explanation possible for why Persianas exist.
In the north of Europe you have to collect as much sun as you can to heat up the house and to keep it lighted. For the same reason houses are often painted in dark colours to try holding the sun's heat to the walls. In Northern Europe having black think curtain hanging inside the glass for privacy and darkening the room is not a big deal as almost never temperature rises to unbearable levels, but in the south, a dark curtain inside a glass window just instantly turns visible light into infrared one which cannot then escape through transparent glass which is not IR permeable, leading to overheating and discomfort.
In the south of Europe and most of the middle east you need to shield from the sun and the heat most of the years, while still keeping your windows open to keep fresh air flowing. Persianas are just "external curtains" which won't be blown out by the wind if you keep the window open and still shield the interior.
The old type of Persianas were wood frame with 45° planks which could be open like doors and allowed the windows to be kept open while still shadowing the interior. Modern Persianas are made of foldable sheets that allow for Windows to be fully opened form the inside and, for high buildings, to be repaired without hanging on the wal exterior. For the same reason most of the houses in hot regions are painted white as you main problem is to keep them cool in the summer.
Uses and privacy are byproducts of Persian existing, not the other way: it's cause effect.
No subtitles, and coming from Canada, blinds are absolutely common. Not watching the rest of this...
What's with the anti-Spain prejudice in this video? I was relieved to see most people in the comments mention how blinds have nothing weird or repressed about them. Strange video from the BBC.
These blinds are actually very common in Germany….
Roladen.
But only in new houses, I think. I haven't seen any in old buildings yet.
@@TinyPierogi old as in pre-war, then yes they don’t have those… but quite a lot of houses from the 60s and upwards have them.. the really new ones have fancy automated ones where you don’t need the rope
@@TinyPierogi that's because old buildings have Fensterläden. It's definitely part of our tradition to be able to shut the windows completely.
@@TinyPierogi True. Retrofitting is a beast, especially if the exterior is stone or brick.
I was fascinating by the photographs and some of the shots in this documentary. Simply stunning.
No how do you run from the shower to your room when you forget to take your clothes to the bathroom? You open the blinds during the day if you are home and close them at night , it's common sense
Wait, so this guy was peeping on his neighbors with a camera every day and then made a news story about how weird THEY were for keeping their blinds closed?
not true theory with Arab/Muslim culture. I am middle eastern (Syriac-aramean) who have been Christian people for 1950 years and we and other people with ethnic background do this (i gruess we like our privacy). So this theory belief”/info is simpley not true
As a sicilian, I sympatize with the spaniards.
Spaniards speak so fast even the subtitles can't keep up ;)
Also isn't it Ironic that they call it Dutch blinds over here?...
I wonder what do Dutch call the Dutch oven
@Jan Meindfak prolly just "oven" 😅
@@NiePieerdol Braadpan (Fry/casserole/roast pan)
For me, this is like watching why people wear clothes.
Weird how blinds is a topic that intrigues you.
It’s an interesting topic
exactly, they were trying to show that the Spaniards are weird for closing their blinds at night!! and that there must be a theory behind it. It's just human nature to want privacy. What's weird is being at home and allowing anyone from the street see what you're doing in private, that's creepy!
Um, helllllo ... subtitles please. People are just rabbitting on in a foreign language that some of us don't understand.
Those blinds are incredible. I want some for my house. They're on the outside? And they block out the morning light? Amazing! The sun rises right in my bedroom windows, blinding me if my curtains are even slightly askew. Why aren't these blinds a thing in the US? all our blinds are inside the windows and catch dust.
There are a few companies in the US that make them, although not as well as the Europeans. The markup is huge, and delivery was from the factory in Europe, so count on at least three months for delivery, more in case of proble.atic world events. (Think 9/11, 2008 recession, sabotage, a pandemic.) Maybe there are more and better US-based companies now. They are required in Miami-Dade County to help protect against hurricane-force winds.
They can be retrofitted to existing construction, but it's much easier to install them in new construction, because of the box mounted above the window. The shutters roll down over the outside of the window, keeping cold and wind outside, or blocking the killer hot rays of the sun. If you buy the ones with the foam-insulated slats, they provide a wonderful insulation. Some brands have slots between slats that can be exposed, allowing light in. Or you can close them all the way for blissful darkness when you want to take a nap or sleep past sunrise in the summer! I strongly advise buying the European-style windows at the same time. Buying them as a unit insures perfect seals, and you'll never regret buying those windows and doors. SO-O-O much better than anything you've ever seen, a joy to live with. There is one US company that tries to copy the European-style tilt-and-turn windows, but if you see them in person, the difference will be obvious. They aren't cheap, but you will bless your decision every time you use them. They are one of the greenest things you can do in a house, so simply and elegantly constructed that they will outlive you, your children, and your grandchildren. There's more to know before you sign on the dotted line, but this is a start.
I don't get this BBC video. I have lived in several places in Europe, and what is being said here does not tally with my experience at all. I never lived in The Netherlands, but I find it strange to think they would not take advantage of the insulating value of the shutters or the coziness. One bit of this video made much of the crashing loudness of the neighbors' shutters going down (which is silly -- just let them down gradually), and illustrated the older style of canvas strap shutter openers; the other bits showed the newer electrical motorized shutters. [They have a manual mode in case of a power outage.]
This was a poorly made video, imo.
@Grover Martin Completely agree! Anyone who has spent a summer in Spain understands the need for these blinds during the peak afternoon sun. And even the Germans have them, because it's so convenient. You can choose to keep them up if you want but say one day you want to sleep in, it's great to be able to create a dark room so easily. The video is so biased.
@@grovermartin6874 that was very useful, thanks. If I got these blinds on my house I think I’d only install on the back side where the sun comes in the bedrooms. The front of my house is white stone and i don’t think it would look nice especially with half those windows being arched. I’m trying to picture it and, no.
I k ow a few years ago those dark window screens became very popular and lots of people got them the block some sun but no one seems to do that anymore. I think they were only mildly helpful. Those European shutters seem really smart.
@@marcelagarcia3925 is it true most homes in Spain don’t have ac?
@@sweetpie7919 They are. Along with SolaTube skylights and a root cellar, they are the best things in home construction since sliced bread!
I remember many years I woke up in my room in spain in mid summer. and opened up the blinds to let the light in like we do in Ireland otherwise people might think you were in bed all day and say you were lazy.. And i went out for the day came back at around 6 .the room which had been facing the sun was like a furnace.
Exactly
It’s not emphasised enough how they protect from the morning light, which in summer can be a real burner! But lovely story. Can really relate as a Spaniard who had lived in the Netherlands
The privacy of one is very important. Especially if you can't see who is watching you from outside in the dark. So i'm in with the Spanish Idea of blinde or curtains closed in the evening
Seriously BBC Reel? No captions?🤷♀️
Hm, these are definitely a thing in Northern Germany, too, (and I imagine in all of Germany) where a) it's a good deal colder than in Spain and b) the culture has historically been very much Protestant. So I'm not sure that those explanations in the video hold up. The desire for privacy after having lived in a dictatorship is the only point brought up in the video that applies to both countries but I doubt that that's the original reason for why they spread.
I think it's just human nature to want privacy at home. This video was trying to frame that as something weird, but in my opinion having no privacy at all, where anyone from the street can see you eating, or naked or doing whatever is what's weird and even creepy.
In summer, most people have the blinds down to keep the sun andd heat away.
In Germany we don't have blinds constructed like that spanish traditional blinds as part of the building construction. We traditionally have two layers of curtains, one to keep people from looking inside and to keep the privacy during daytime, called "store" , another thick layer for evening and nighttime. That keeps our 'blinding-the- (in)sight-ways' different not only from Southern Europe but from from Dutch tradition of no curtains at all, too. So curtain or not , blinding the outside view or not is not a Northern Europe versus Southern Europe thing.
In the 70s that changed and people showed that they are modern / Hippies / part of the 68er / students etc with leaving the curtains away which were labelled as 'spießig' and decorating the windows with plants and sometimes bamboo blinds , which were fixed inside. Inside metall blinds became an Ersatz for those see-through-curtains, too, for people who liked an industrial style.
@@karenannaluisa3370 I don't know which part of Germany you're from, but where I live in the Northwest, we definitely have these types of shutters. They're called Rollladen and they're quite common in houses built... I don't know, from maybe the 50s or 60s onwards.
The subtitles were really bad. They were often out of sync with the video.
I live in southern France, our blinds are different, but we use pretty much the same way : we like our intimacy and we need to protect ourselves from the sun.
For those of us (sadly) not fluent in Spanish RUclips just f***ed up the subtitles, making the effort to follow the story a tiresome mess!
I would love to know more but alas I don't understand the language. Please include English captions
Littlepinons, if you touch on the top right of your screen a small box with cc should appear. Touch it, and a message will tell you that English closed captions are turned on. It wasn't well done, but it should help a bit.
In Poland we use laced white curtains but we also have all kinds of blinds and some people use it, some practise fashion from skandynavia and have no curtains, no blinds.
In Sweden it's rude to look into other people's houses, or to stare at people. It's not exhibitionist. We also like cosiness. We have Christmas candles in the windows.
We have blinds that are used during summer nights as it's light outside for longer. Otherwise we can't sleep.
In the winter we need light as it's darker.
In the US we love to show the interior of our homes... but no one stares or peeps inside of windows. In fact, you ca get arrested if cought.
If they don't want any attention then they should cover their windows.
@@gennaterra Arrested for what? Watching someone's interior lol. You sound funny. I understand if you break into someone's house, but staring. C'mon! :)
Your Closed Captions are abysmal.
Tom Scott has fantastic CC, and yet this channel that has the funds from the British government half-asses accessibility measures.
Honestly one of the worst edited videos ive seen. Captions not in sync, and arabic text going from left to right at 4:41?!?! Just appalled really
This is interesting. But I hope the captions coincide with their speech.
bla bla bla.. i can't sleep with the sunlight.. so i choose blinds and curtains, i think this is not about privacy, it's more that if i see a minimum ray of light my eyes are wide open and i can't sleep anymore. imagine that you work by night and have to sleep during the day.. DAMN! my husband is one of them, i tried to sleep on summer without the blinds, then i have to wake up at 7 in the morning and put some sunscreen .. so for me it's just a way to cover my skin from sunburn in summer and sleep on weekends until i want to, i'm a night owl
Half the commentary is in Spanish! Thanks BBC. Makes it hard to understand.
As a Greek living 11 years in the UK I still can get used to the violation of my privacy and the complete expose lack of protection of my property. It’s cheaper for the British builders not to install any shutters
I used to leave my blinds open but then with cameras everywhere and drone cameras etc I stopped doing that. I have sheers though which let the loght in but people cant see in. At night I close my blinds
Yes! a couple years ago I was doing yardwork and kept hearing a weird buzzing sound. My son noticed there was a drone about 10 ft above my head just watching me/us. I felt such fury and so helpless at my privacy being violated like that. There was nothing I could do but yell and wave and finally throw the finger which I never do. But I was pissed! I have no idea if it was just kids watching us or some pervy old guy looking at my kids or me in our yard. I didn't open any curtains for probably 3 weeks because I was so uncomfortable. I've gotten sheers too. There aren't really any good laws to protect us from peeping toms with drones.
The most important is to understand why they don't use curtains or blinds. It's not because they are exhibiting but it's a method of control from past. Kind of proof that there is nothing wrong happening in the house. Involved religion into it. And you get the point. I am Czech living in the NL and I have curtains and blinds everywhere.
In my opinion it is not other people's thing to see what I'm doing in my house. Greetings from Tallinn, Estonia!
guys, the captions start lagging like 2 minutes in, and the spanish narrators english isn't very clear.
too hard to follow
The closed captions and video are not in sync.
You people missed the biggest point and greatest advantage of the blinds: pitch darkness. Being in a room with closed blinds allows for much deeper and repairing sleep.
Some light from the outside will always leak into your room with curtains. These blinds of ours are designed to prevent any light and most sound from cars & etc. from disturbing you.
I disliked how they tried to tie them into our recent history (dictatorship) and religion/culture and implied as if we had something to hide. The blinds are a great invention whose overwhelming benefits stand on their own, no need to try to find a cultural/political/religious reason for them.
Subtitles or audio translations please
What is more intriguing to me than the actual subject of this BBC episode is that people are speaking in Spanish with no direct translation?! Luckily I speak enough Spanish to understand, but what about all the viewers who cannot? Like if this was in German, this would’ve been almost pointless for me to watch. Just saying. 🤨
Captions are your friend? 🤔
Many people with other ethnic backgrounds do this (I guess we like our privacy).
The people here in Northern Europe has been a people who lived a little bit further away from each other (geograficly/history vise) then other cultures could be an excplenation
And we north need/ like all the light/sun we can get*
In America I grew up in a rural area and the blinds were always open because anybody would have to make an effort to look into the house from the street. My first apartment was on the top floor overlooking a forest and I always kept my binds open.
However now that I live in a more urbanized area and have a sidewalk just feet from my front door I almost always have my blinds closed. Only recently during the pandemic while I was working a lot from home did I start to open them up more frequently.
I'm from Tallinn, Estonia. It is also a Nordic country, but most of us like privacy. It is a common attitude to cover your windows when you switch on your lights.
This was a great start of a research! Super interesting and something I never thought about
Cat PBatista Good luck in your search! I would never build another house without them.
Hey, creator, we do not know Spanish, upload this video again, please. )
You can use closed captions like everyone else or learn a different language. Super entitled comment.
@@GuliversTravelocity It's a British broadcaster. It is their responsibility to ensure we can watch these videos. The captions aren't synced.
@@GuliversTravelocity the subtitles are messed up. I am fluent in 3 languages. Spanish is not one of them. super obnoxious and condescending comment.
@@GuliversTravelocity Personally, English is my 3 target language, I do not interested in Spanish language. Dear, maybe it would be your answer, and one more stuff CC does not work in the video, please look at the other's people comments. )
Cheers!
No closed captions. Interesting topic but no way to understand the Spanish speakers.
BECAUSE I WANT TO SLEEP
I don't care what the weather is like where you live, anyone who has their drapes/blinds open at night is a psychopath.
As a Dutchman, I can say that it is NOT done to look into open windows, unless you want to make contact with the inhabitants of the house.
I lived in Spain and I lived in Israel. Both countries use blinds for protection from the unbearable heat. Drop those blinds, and voila! Much less heat!!! But in Spain there's also an element of not wishing to give passersby "un espectaculo." As for dictadura, no creo que eso tenga nada que ver con nada. Los espanoles have always been out on the streets, con dictaduras y sin dictaduras.
Subtitles not working...
2022 and blinds are becoming VERY necessary in Luxembourg. LUXEMBOURG! Can you imagine?
What's super interesting to me is that these blinds are outside the house! I wonder what the benefits are of having them outside versus mounting them inside
Almost everywhere in europe has blinds or functioning shutters outside the house. And they spend a lot of time opening and closing them. Europeans are surprised when they come to the US and find out the shutters on the houses are only for decoration.
@@anastasia10017 I see your point 😂 *looks at my own decorative blinds and contemplates life* honestly tho outdoor blinds, my mind is blown
Them being outside keeps the heat outside, too. If you have them inside, the heat gets caught between the window and the blind and then slowly heats up the blind, thus also heating up your room.
Having the blinds on the outside keeps the heat or cold from getting into the house in the first place. And it's super easy cleaning the shutters and the windows.
@@anastasia10017 It does seem curiously inefficient, doesn't it?
Same reason why Spaniards do not charge “tikke “ to the guests who come to their house to cover the cost of the dinner.
This is a subject that just shows how idiotic architects, designers and public intellectuals can be. Try living in a world where the sun can be your enemy for about six months out of every year. A place where you cannot see the TV screen or even read a book because the light is blindingly, painfully bright. A place where the glass window amplifies the heat to unbearable temperatures. A place where darkness is your friend. Or try living in a place where your neighbours can see you dressing and undressing. A place where every family contretemps is on public display. You don't have to live in Spain to see the wisdom of a good set of blinds.
The subtitles messed up
Now you can get windows with blinds built between the glass, no dusting.
Teresa Yeates, I had those once. It was a great idea, until the mechanism stopped working, and they would hang crooked. Had to replace the whole windows. They need better design.
I pull my curtains down when I want to sleep in. Otherwise it's always up. I have always been a window baby. I like my windows up all the time.
Didn't know I was Dutch this whole time.
I don’t speak Spanish so most of us missed the interviews with the Spaniards…..
Please fix the subtitles.
Since the subtitles aren’t quite right I’ll just have to guess what they’re saying. 😂😂
My Mom drilled it into me that one must close curtains, etc. at night because it’s tacky not to. I like my privacy.
As an American, I have heard these horizontal blinds referred to as Venetian blinds all my life. This video seems to suggest that they are popular all over the north shore of the Mediterranean. Were they invented in Venice, or is that the port from which most of them entered Europe, and in that case, where were they invented?
Interesting video but i think it is very flawed analysis. What should be examined is why some northern cultures feel comfortable with no privacy at night. I live in Australia and every one has blinds or curtains that stop the hot sun in summer but close at night too all year round. No religious basis or historical examples exist though of course our behaviours came or were influenced from the countries of our parents or grandparents origins.
Netherlands was ruled by Spain for more than 150 years
These are actually called VENETIAN blinds, raising questions about their origins
Very interesting . I found out that Stockholm has a lot of blinds made with some kind of aluminium folium.
Shame about the subtitles, missed most of the explanations. Something about catholic confessions and dictatorships.
This was really good spanish listening practice for me since there were no subtitles ;)
I grew up in the tropics with the spaniard catholic mentality; but windows without covering were for those with concrete roof awning to protect from the elements. Sadly those windows without blinds made us easy targets of burglaries. Living in the USA I learned to use blinds and drapes; to avoid burglars seeing inside to study a way to get in and out and it works. Perhaps in those nordic countries quality of life is heavenly enough; that home crimes are almost unheard of so there is no need for covers.
this is true. Jamaica belongs to a region of the world with the unfortunate distinction of having the highest murder rates globally. All our homes here have burglar bars around windows, verandahs and behind doors. Its an additional layer of protection. Jamaicans preach conformity and safety so opening your home to be seen and judged by others and perhaps even making yourself vulnerble to criminals is a big no no
Maybe part of their low crime rate is the shutters? That was what I was told when I first moved to Europe.
@@grovermartin6874 So they have windows with shutters but how do they keep them open for visibility in use?.
@@duvine3882 You just open them either by pulling on the strap, if it's that type, or by pushing the button, if it's the electrical type. The shutters can be opened as much or as little as desired. Did that answer your question? Or did I not understand something?
@@grovermartin6874 The video speaks of living with open windows; in that case view of a dwelling with belonging and scape route. After knowing that; breaking a door there isn't a shutter that can prevent it.
Oh my gosh that definitely used all the Spanish I could muster. Subtitles would be definitely helpful please!
When I lived in Mexico, my neighbors couldn't understand why I didn't want blinds. I lived on the 3rd floor. Nobody could really see anyway. I loved ALL the light. I figured if someone was so nosy to want to see this ol' person doing what I do, that this was on them. And, if they were grossed out by me, that was also on them--turn away! I am back in the USA, and don't plan to use blinds here either!
the video forgot to have english text translaions
Y'all this video is unwatchable if you are not bilingual spanish-english. The narrator speaks English but with a very thick accent, so subtitles are needed all the time and they are jacked, completely out of sync.
You’re showing broken Arabic text at the 4:39 mark. It’s الأَنْدَلُس, not سُلَدْنَألا.
Like other commentors, this video mixes up two things: window coverings to keep an ambient temperature indoors, and window coverings for privacy. You can have one, both, or neither. Both are pretty cultural
Los españoles tenemos persianas y cortinas por qué no somos tan "exhibicionistas" o extremadamente extrovertidos como los extranjeros piensan en casa nos gusta estar con nuestra privacidad no como una película mala americana de ver crímenes o lo que sea a través de la ventana y escribo en castellano por qué me da la gana y estoy orgulloso como tantos españoles de no saber ingles y no mejora aquí el ingles😀 como tantos británicos no saben español😂
I think the sun is a bit stronger in Mediterranean countries.
Try to look into a single house next time you’re in Japan.
Be friendly with visitors? Is that the answer? If so, quite right!
BBC, where are the English Subtiles? I don’t speak Spanish!
Also use your blinds/curtains people!
Southern countries want to block out the hot sun in the Summer and the cold in the Winter.
In Northern countries, they WANT the sun coming in and warming the house all tear round…plus, the Northern countries, in general, have more of a tradition of public ‘nudity’…saunas, naked swimming, etc. So, they aren’t as prudish about seeing each other unclothed.
The weird thing is that in Latin America they also leave the blinds open.
why is the sound so horrible? and the subtitle's equally as 😑
Dios bendito! qué refrito de estereotipos sesgados para hablar de un tema técnico arquitectónico!!!! my God.solo les falta a los anglos crear una leyenda negra de las persianas, adelante BBC! Cuantas veces han enseñado una persiana rota??? esta gente no es normal...
Netherlands will be Spain again
I love not having planes but then again you have to think about the people in those countries that don’t use line they are more productive they love the day and will Spaniards are the opposite their night people
When you are used to seeing a cold sun, only a few days a year, worried for your vitamin D deficiency , it is logical that the blinds are not missed, but when you live where the sun shines strongly, almost every day, with insane temperatures in summer, for many many hours, wow if you understand what a blind is for, and why a curtain is not enough. BTW, blaming the Franco dictatorship and Catholicism for the use of blinds is one of the biggest nonsense I have ever heard. Link the blinds with moors culture, that disappear from Spain several centuries ago , whereas blinds are not typical elements in traditional houses of more close relatives in Morocco, it is at least a weak argument too. The report expels a whiff of anti-Spanish prejudice instead of simply state the obvious;: That the blinds are excellent sustainable invention against excessive light, heat, cold, storms and onlookers, and ecological too, preventing millions of birds crashing against the windows.
The inaccuracy and erasure of Black Moorish influence over that region after their 800 year rule was a frustrating watch. They are the ones who brought Islam into that region as well as art, literature, and culture. You need to be as explicit with naming the Moorish cultural influence as you were to name the Dutch, Persian, etc.
Kap. Haha this is not moorish culture. I am middle eastern (Syriac-aramean) who have been Christian people for 1950 years and we and other people with ethnic bacground do this (i gruesa we like privat). So your belief”/info is simpley not true
He did lol
Ooo an afrocentrist
@@Ssap354 You should probably go and read a basic history book or look at some painting from that era. They ruled from 711-1492 I’m not sure what your response had to do with a single thing that I wrote instead you have shown yourself to be under educated and arrogant in ignorance.
@@themechanictangerine4337 I prefer historian.
Very good video!