Geography Now! NETHERLANDS - Italian/Ukrainian Reacts
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As a german born close to the netherlands border I can tell you : The Netherlands is the most beatiful country on this planet
Yeah carrots used to white and purple but our farmers wanted to honor the king, william of orange so they bread them orange.
Which is a real fact...
your sound is very low therefor i used captions . the funny thing is everytime you said the netherlands , it say's neverland instead.
yes , i love that XD
It's funny he says "sooo many museums"
It's hard for many foreigners to really imagine how small this country really is in terms of landmass, but there are still over 600 museums.
I've only recently got to know the Netherlands after meeting someone from there. I was quite surprised to find out that the land area isn't that much larger than my own country, Wales, but with 5.5x the population. And yet when I finally got a chance to visit a few weeks ago, it didn't seem over crowded.
I knew about the cycling infrastructure there, but it was eye-opening to actually see it. I know you guys pay higher taxes, but that's well reflected in the quality of your roads and general travel infrastructure. It made me quite ashamed to return to the UK, which has become an absolute sh*thole over the past 15 years.
Incidentally, my Dutch friend is a 6' 2" tall woman, so she definitely fits the stereotype! 😁
I can tell you that as a Dutch man measuring 1.68m, life isn't always easy here 😂
You are as big as you feel yourself.
Maybe you should talk with a shrink.
And, no, carrots were not orange. 'Wild carrots' are white and purple.
I had no idea!
Always fun to watch others talk about "my" country. And I have to say that almost all the information shown is correct. One notable mistake is that William of Orange wasn't our first King. He was a "stadtholder" ( Stadhouder) during The Revolt against the Spanish and a Prince of Orange, but he was never King. The Netherlands became a Kingdom in 1815 after the defeat of Napoleon. It is a understandable mistake though because William of Orange is seen as the Father of the Fatherland. He united most of the current Netherlands during The Revolt and those Provinces declared independence from Spain in 1579 as The republic of United Provinces. Every province appointed a "stadtholder" as its ruler. Most of the times it was a member of the family of Oranje Nassau ( Orange Nassau) who was appointed "stadtholder". Besides that we had a lot of rulers named William ( Willem ) throughout our history.
Some personal details: I used to be above average height being 1.81 but nowadays Dutch men are on average 1.85 ... I was born in Rotterdam, I live in The Hague ( Den Haag ) and grew up in Delft (town between Rotterdam and Den Haag) where William of Orange resided, and was assassinated in 1584) for a number of years during The Revolt and Delft almost became the capital of the Republic until Amsterdam joined the Revolt and became an trading powerhouse.
Feel free to ask anything you want to know about our tiny speck on Earth and I will gladly tell about it... and if you ever want to visit us you got yourself a tour guide for free :D
You’re very knowledgeable! I’m definitely planning on learning more about your country 😊
There’s actually another episode on the Netherlands where they rectify and show some of the mistakes it’s quite funny
2:45 The Netherlands was a big colonizer in the past. Not to the extent of Spain, Portugal, England and France, but the Netherlands had colonies literally all over the world. New York was founded as New Amsterdam but eventually sold to the English, we had quite some land in the Caribbean and the northern part of South America (Suriname got it's independence only in 1975) and in parts of Brazil. There were a lot of Dutch forts along the African coast, a pretty big colony in South Africa, some in the southern parts of India, Sri Lanka (called Ceylon back in these times) and Taiwan. Also, Indonesia was a Dutch colony until just after WWII, and for a few hundred years during the Japanese 'closed country' period the only western country Japan traded with was the Netherlands.
7:04 The Delta Works have been named one of the seven wonders of the modern world. The N-302 that borders the IJsselmeer is on an artificial dike that closes off the IJsselmeer and has transformed it from an inland (salt water) sea to a fresh water lake and was constructed after two big floods during WWI. It was completed in 1932.
After another huge flood in the south of the country in 1953 (almost 2.000 deaths) the Delta Works were constructed. Parts of it are dikes, but parts of it are flood barriers that can open and close if necessary. Parts of it are being closed if a big storm is coming, but open otherwise for example. That is done in part of economics (the Rotterdam harbor couldn't be closed off, but also to preserve nature. There were protests because closing parts off from the sea completely would harm the nature in those areas, so plans were changed there.
It's a massive project in all kind of ways, it took over 40 years to build everything and it cost well over 6 billion euros. Because of the experience we have with projects like these, we also aid other countries. After the big hurricane and floodings in New Orleans in 2004 the Dutch helped designing and constructing multiple storm surge barriers for example.
10:01 Carrots were originally white, yellow and purple. You can still buy them as 'heirloom carrots' in places (or as 'rainbow carrot mix' in my supermarket here). The white carrot was imported here during colonial times and bred orange, and the orange version grows really well on our soil. Combine that with very arable land and a big trading empire, and we managed to cultivate lots of orange carrots and trade them all around the world. That worked so well that most people think carrots have always been orange. 😬
10:30 Stroopwafels are amazing. They're already quite good while bought in the supermarket (I have two packs here at the moment), but whenever you get the chance of buying a freshly made one at the market: do not hesitate. The waffle is warm, the syrup is warm and often you have to keep it flat on your hand for a few minutes to cool off slightly and let the syrup thicken a bit. After that, it's the best cookie / sweet treat you can get. 😁 They also sell the offcuts from the round waffles and those are awesome too.
12:04 When I was in Ireland four years ago I stayed in a B&B for a few nights and spoke with some other guests during breakfast. On the last morning of my stay they found out that I was in fact not American but Dutch 😅
One thing that wasn't mentioned was the cycling culture here. There are about 17,8 million people living in the Netherlands, but they own around 23,5 million bikes. It's not uncommon for for example students to have a bike near their home, but also an old one near the train station in the city they study in. They travel to the station in their home town on their new bike, take the train to the city they study in and drive the old bike to university. It's not a way to exercise here, but a mode of transportation.
Because of that, there's a lot of biking infrastructure like separated bike paths (even in rural areas), cycling highways and massive (talking thousands, the biggest one will eventually be able to host over 20.000 bikes) bike parking garages
Wow...That's a lot to absorb for one single comment.
Maybe even a bit too much.
Yep, It totally is.
loved the info
Got it?
Got it.
why not move to a safer place?
as he said: it's a delta.
particularly fertile soil.
oh yes, don't worry, I'm 1.72m and 100% Dutch
I live in almere,the bathtub of the netherlands
..ad for music, Netherlands influenced Symphonic Metal much, with women fronting Heavy Metal bands, like After Forever ( Floor Jansen's own band before Nightwish and Re-Vamp) , Within Temptation ( Sharon den Adel..using big ballgowns years before Amy Lee of Evanescence), Epica (Simone Simons), Delain ( Charlotte Wessels), The Gathering ( Anneke van Giersbergen, roll model for many Dutch girls today and also for Epica's Simone and Floor Jansen)..Germany's Xandria was fronted by now solo singer Dianne van Gierbergen...weirdly he discriminates in music...
Around the year 900 the swamps in the west of the country were being given to the church. The church built monastries there and started to clear the land from vegetation in order to sell it to farmers. So the monks had to dig trenches and canals and get rid of the dense vegetation. This was hard and arduous work. In Dutch we still have a saying that nasty, tedious, repetitive work is "monks work". So, the farmers came for the cheap land, the church had a profit, everybody happy, until the first storm and flood. So, the farmers went to live on artificial hills (terps) to keep their feet dry. But if more and more houses and villages are being built (fertile ground, harbors etc, give economy and that attracks more people) building hills was not efficient anymore. So, around the 12th century the farmers decided to cooperate in water boards to build dykes and windmills, to regulate the water level and protect against rivers and sea. That was the first form of governance in the Netherlands, and these water boards still exist today.
Carrots were white or purple, the dutch bred them orange
So people want to live where the ground is fertile, and a place that floods often is very fertile. River clay and sea clay earth is very good for growing food. This does mean you will live in an area that is dangerous. So people built small hills to put their houses on. In the Netherlands a lot of land area is prone to flooding even if it's further inland, due to all the rivers. You can still see that in some places. Near me for example are a few farms that are centuries old that are higher than the fields around the farm so the house would be safe from the water. If the river next to my house floods those farms are surrounded by water. They have to park their car on the road on the dike and go home by boat.
Over time people made the earth hills bigger, and connected, and then you've got a dike to protect cities and villages. And then you can do this all over the country, even to protect yourself from sea water.
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Nice reaction as always! More Geography Now! please :D
People of whom you cannot call the Netherlands HOLLAND. We call those Vinegar whiners. I think the Netherlands should also be called HOLLAND.
Maybe an idea? To come to the Netherlands? We are numb in Italy. In Venice, in a gondola. 15-71998. During a holiday in Rimani.
Tall Dutchie here (and im not even the tallest in my family, im just 2.05m), A few years later, the Netherlands also recognized Limburgs and Nedersaksisch as official languages. Limburgs is spoken in Limburg, Nedersaksisch is spoken in Groningen, Drenthe, Overijssel and Gelderland with all of them got local dialects and own versions of them. I speak Noordenvelds, which is from the region Noordenveld (most northern part of the province Drenthe), Ow and about those christian parties they still celebrate, most of us Dutchies just celebrate it as a day of from school or work and it has nowadays luckily nothing to do anymore with any religion.
Well done
Walden? its wadden
God created Belgium for us Dutch to make fun off.
He once told me while drinking together that He felt sorry for us having to create our own land.