Debunking the BIGGEST myths and misconceptions about the Netherlands 2024
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- Опубликовано: 23 июл 2024
- If you are just thinking of moving to the Netherlands and want to know how many of stereotypes you have heard about the Netherlands are true, or if you have been here for a while and want to refresh your knowledge about the Netherlands, or maybe you are Dutch and want to learn what foreighners think of your country, this is the video for you!
In this video, I talk about 10 stereotypes about the Netherlands. Are they true or not? Let's find out.
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Content of the video:
00:00 Intro
00:29 Myth 1
01:18 Myth 2
02:52 Myth 3
03:46 Myth 4
04:50 Myth 5
06:11 Myth 6
06:45 Myth 7
08:01 Myth 8
08:51 Myth 9
09:36 Myth 10
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5:02 There are 23 million bikes, 1.3 per person (17 million inhabitants)
Crazzzyyy! I suspected that there are more bikes than people. Thanks for backing up my assumption by data.
Very informative video! Thanks!
Thank you for watching!
Interesting insights! Good to know.
Thank you for your support! Happy to hear that the video is useful. ;)
The floating houses or boat houses make up for a tiny % of all housing. Far below 1% and these houses are usually quite small. They are often seen as a cheap alternative to a real home for students or used as temporary housing. When I was born my parents lived on a 'woonboot' before they could save up enough to do a deposit on a real house.
There are a few modern projects to do 'proper' houses on a floating platform, but this is small scale and not driven by the cost of land, it is just something some people find cool.
Thank you for sharing this! 🙏😊
Goeie video. Keep it up
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And nice video like your channel keep going 👍
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All trains have AC, only thing if it is realy hot. The AC cant keep up. Because the door keep opening up and alowing hot air to enter. So sometimes it might seem it has no AC. All the old ones who didnt have AC are all gone now. And because the rule is also that there cant be to grate a difference between the out and inside temperature to prevent a temperatureshock the difference is set at about 4 degrees. So if it is 30 C outside inside the train it will be about 26 C.
nicely done
Thank you very much!
Nice to see you have settled well in my hometown. It's losing it's old identity though since it becoming more international by the day. And that is not a bad thing.
Yes, loving it here in Eindhoven. :) I've been living here for 6 years and definitely notice how rapidly it's changing. Did you see the video I created about Eindhoven? Curious about your thoughts. ;)
ex Eindhovenaar here; I moved at 23, to New Zealand. That was late 78. When I get home sick I use google street view or indeed watch youtube about Eindhoven. Which suburb do you live in? Mine was mostly Jan van Eijckgracht, alongside the Geldropseweg in Stratum but my last address was the Grote Berg :)...btw...high time you went to a PSV match chickie. Be sure to report back to us with a video ;-) *Houdoe*
Thank you for watching the video! It's nice to see that after all these years of living abroad, Eindhoven is still in your heart.
When people have an income above the threshold they don't pay the higher tax rate over their whole income. Up to the treshold they pay the lower rate and only over the part above the threshold the higher tax rate.
Will you please say one more time, klompen. As a Dutchie i liked it the way you said it, lol
😂😂
I've also seen people biking with their luggage, quite impressive!
Yes right!! I wish I could do that without losing the balance 😂🙈🙈
A mom with 3 kids is not a surprise here 😄
@@dimrrider9133 on a bike you mean? It's honestly so impressive to see!
@@theselfishcodependent Yes, its like a circus act 😆
Good effort to bring the Dutch stereotypes back down to earth. I think you are spot on with most. I think if you go out into the countryside you'll meet more people wearing "klompen" (clogs?), as they are still being used as feet protection by some people working on the farm or in their garden. Thank you for another good "Dutch orientated" video.
Thank you for watching! Good remarks about the klompen. I'll pay attention next time I'm traveling around the Netherlands. 👀🇳🇱
My Mom bought Klompen on holiday in the netherlands. They are great garden shoes especially in Winter. They are always warm unlike the plastic Clogs.
Clogs are a bit more common in the rural areas but that being said this is only limited to older people.
@@NLKINK Not entirely true. I know a number of people below 30 years old who use them regularly. Don't think they are older people.
@@user-xi6nk4xs4s OK Kees, I live in Assen, but I have family living in Eerste Exloërmond, Drouwenerveen, Borger, Valthermond, Gasselte, Exloo and Valthermond and I rarely see younger people with clogs. I'm not saying that it's impossible.
I am 54 and live in Friesland. And walk in klompen from childhood. To this day I walk in klompen every day. I go to church on Sunday (I have special Sunday klompen). go to the store, hospital and so on. It is customary on the flat land to wear wooden shoes, but usually around the house. I regularly visit Amsterdam and Schiphol. And always in klompen. A lot of people look at me strangely. I can run faster in klompen than most in sneakers. In secondary education I was the fastest in the school. And that was in klompen. I've been a car mechanic and a car painter. And have done steel structure construction. Always in klompen. (they are also health and safety approved).
I love it! Just to make sure I understood correctly you can run in wooden klompen faster than in any sneakers? 😃
Ik leef en woon in de stad Delft en draag bijna dagelijks klompen. Als ik een uurtje in de tuin bezig ben is dat een heel fijn schoeisel om te dragen.
I live in the city of Delft and I weare almost daily clogs, especially when I work in the garden these are pretty comfortable.
That's cool! Do your klompen have the same print as we see in tourist shops in Amsterdam? Or traditionally, they are just functional and of a one calm color?
@@theselfishcodependent Het ligt aan wat ze de toeristen aansmeren. Die rode patroontjes met een paar zwarte streepjes zijn redelijk normaal voor houten klompen, maar die met Delfstblauwe molentjes zijn puur voor de toeristen. Je kunt ze met allerlei patronen krijgen. Onze studievereniging heeft er afgelopen jaar laten maken met het verenigingslogo erop. Ik heb er alleen geen besteld, want ik vind houten klompen niet zo lekker zitten.🙃
We live an economical live, one of the reasons why we’re rich. Being rich doesn’t mean living rich.
I guess that's how a lot of Dutchies view it and I was trying to convey it in the video. Thank you for confirming. ;)
Er zit een verschil tussen meertalig zijn en verschillende talen spreken. Er zit een vrij groot verschil tussen je moedertaal en talen die je op school hebt gehad, ookal doe je het, in tegenstelling tot velen, niet alleen omdat ze je ertoe verplichten. Mijn Engeks is prima, mijn Duits is bruikbaar en ik zou me indien noodzakelijk kunnen redden in het Frans, maar het Nederlands is en blijft mijn moedertaal en houdt een grote voorkeur.
One typical Dutch type of girl is the tall and stocky (not overweight) built "farmers' daughter" . Impressive.
Interesting!
In the Dutch Caribbean (Bonaire, St. Eustatius, Saba), Papiamento and English are also recognised as official languages.
I wear "klompen" when gardening, have 3 bicycles, not short (just above the Dutch average) and am multilingual. So I guess I am a stereotype now...
Good points! Would you say that a lot of Dutchies wear klompen for gardening? You would not wear them to work though?
@@theselfishcodependent I used to have an allotment and there "klompen" were the default. Most menb used them. Another fun fact each region had a different style, for instance in fishervillages they had longer pointier noses, so that you could use them while tying a net, to hold it in place.
Since I work in an office I think I would get weird looks, also driving with them is not ideal
Fun fact, i started to learn Russian. I was surprised how many similar words there where. Like rugzak, universiteit, taxi, broek (that one surprised me the most i think) So yeay for duolingo (not sponsored)
Huge respect for this- it's not an easy language to learn. I guess it's the influence of Peter the Great. I made a video drawing a parallel between Russian and Dutch cultures, if you are curious 👉 ruclips.net/video/0xWwOLMMd_Q/видео.html
In this video, I'm also saying that there are more similarities than people might think. :)
@@theselfishcodependent Neither is Dutch😜
Hi. I worked in the Netherlands from December 1998 for 4 ½ years. When I left the UK my colleagues at home said “Amsterdam! Full of the Red-Light District, Cannabis and Tulips”. Yes, they are there but not to the extent that’s in the stereotypes. The Red-Light area is policed, and the ladies are licensed, medially tested and taxpayers. If you want to avoid the Red-Light district you can. No ladies-of-the-night accost you anywhere else.
Thank you for sharing! I feel the same way. It's not too much 'in your face' and well regulated. Now, there are talks to move the red light district outside of Amsterdam because locals complain. Let's see what happens.
Floating houses in Eindhoven a solution? On what water???? The Dommel river ( 10 ft wide in Eindhoven ) ??? Also Eindhoven is 16 meters above NAP ( sea level ). So no reason there for some centuries to let the houses rise with the water level.
Not putting the heater in when it is below zero??? What a BS.
Maybe set the heating to 18 C but no heating? We're not Inuit people!
I don't remember saying that the stereotype is that people in Eindhoven live in floating houses. In the Netherlands, there are more suitable places than Eindhoven for those.
7 years do you speak Dutch already? I mean after 7 years you should be able to
Smocking of weed in public space is forbidden. Only in your private home or in a coffee shop it is allowed.
If you suffer from cold feet, wear wooden clogs, klompen.
Limburgs is also a language.
Een regionale taal.
@@robertehv1968 Fries is ook een regionale taal.
@@palantir135 Dat is niet waar. Het Fries is naast het Nederlands de enig erkende rijkstaal. Belangrijk verschil met regionale talen is dat Fries dus als correspondentie taal van de overheid gebruikt mag worden.
@@robertehv1968 je neemt mijn antwoord te letterlijk.
@@palantir135 Dan heb je gelijk! Ik hoor inderdaad weinig Fries in Eindhoven 😉
I dont know what us going on because I came because of her beauty ps just joking
Clogs are still often worn by people in the countryside (farmers), especially in the north and east of the Netherlands. Until the millennium, construction workers also wore clogs, but this was eventually banned by the EU. Construction workers must wear steel-toed shoes.
Good to know! Thank you for sharing. :)
@@theselfishcodependent The idea is that clogs are a kind of early safety shoe. Keeps feet dry on soggy bottoms and dirty stables, and pointy things in the mud won't penetrate. Also they can be put on and off like loafers (using feet only). Disadvantage is that they are rough on the feet, and require some getting used and extra pair of socks. I don't know how it is now, but in the eighties and early nineties even young farmers often still had clogs for work purposes (and that was in Limburg btw)
@@marcovtjev very interesting! Makes sense that I think of it more.
Oh, and by everyday people while gardening, or getting the morning paper (out of the mail box in their own garden). Easy to get in traditional agricultural safety shoes made from climate friendly material, what is not to like?
Dutch rich?😭
1 in 10 children go to school without breakfast.
Almost 1 million Dutch people live below the poverty line
a large part of these people live off the food bank
Best regards
Frits
Not all has to do with money. Lots of kids (or people in general) just don't like to eat breakfast, that early. First break of the day, 10 o'clock, is early enough. And there's no need to live below poverty line. Welfare and benefits are good. But if you work on the low payment side, with a mortgage these benefits doesn't apply. So you're beter off with a welfare, and a rental house, than a job, sadly. That's true.
The Dutch wheather haha well you can have 4 seasons in 1 day ;p
I loooove this comment! It's so true haha
ah thank you, you are beautiful too ;)
Thank you for watching! :)
@@theselfishcodependent it is a pleasure :)
they don't put on the heating when it's -10c° and they don't put on the AC when there is a heatwave. And you wonder where the Dutch got their reputation for being stingy.
That’s not true
@@user-kx4ie6io9o That's what the OP said about heat and cold.