American Reacts The Netherlands is Actually a Giant City

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  • Опубликовано: 22 дек 2024

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  • @MLWitteman
    @MLWitteman Год назад +5

    And about that stunning looking aquaduct: Veluwemeer Aqueduct is a 25-metre (82 ft) long, 19 meter wide, navigable aqueduct (also known as a water bridge) located over Veluwemeer lake in Harderwijk, Netherlands. It was opened in 2002 and bypasses the N302 road.
    Read more: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veluwemeer_Aqueduct

  • @Lottaquizzes
    @Lottaquizzes Год назад +2

    Awesome video! I love hearing your theories about the world!

  • @claudiakarl7888
    @claudiakarl7888 Год назад +10

    Having spent the weekend not very for from Rotterdam: it doesn’t feel like a giant city. There’s farmland, canals, the seaside… It’s a very strange video.

    • @carolinavanderlande4904
      @carolinavanderlande4904 Год назад +3

      Interesting observation. It’s because everything beyond the Randstad is definately not like a big city, as this video seems to claim. It’s mainly farmland with lots of small villages and some medium sized cities, called ‘the province’ by people from ‘the Randstad’ (actually the 9, of 12, remaining provinces). The province south of Rotterdam is called Zeeland and is actually the least populated province in the country. But even the Randstad has it’s semi rural areas called ‘the green heart’. If you draw a circle between Rotterdam, the Hague, Amsterdam and Utrecht it’s situated in the middle and consists of farmland, villages and small towns (protected by law).
      So the Netherlands is actually ‘Randstad’ (45% of population) and ‘province’ (55%), but with a lot more space. And even our big cities are nothing like metropoles at all, Rotterdam maybe the closest to one.

    • @Hrn250
      @Hrn250 Год назад

      I agree

    • @LaPingvino
      @LaPingvino Год назад

      @@carolinavanderlande4904I live in the Lisbon metropolitan area (and I'm from the Netherlands, non-Randstad [Ede]), and the metropolitan area has Dutch style rural areas. The netherlands doesn't have Portuguese style rural areas. I recently explained to someone that the Netherlands is completely like Greater Lisbon. When you go outside of the Lisbon area, you get nowhere useful in the same day except as a destination where you will need a place to stay. You can do things on the other side of the Netherlands and come back home the same day. And Portugal is not a very big country. It does however has a huge rural area. I think Portugal could feasibly be made much more like the Netherlands as a country, but it really doesn't work like that how it is.

    • @ARetiredPirate
      @ARetiredPirate Год назад

      Yeah, it's only that way in the mid-west, the randstad.. like they show in the video on the map. The east, north and south is almost empty in comparison to the Randstad.

  • @MLWitteman
    @MLWitteman Год назад +3

    Awesome video! Loved the brain wave moments. And I guess you might be right actually!

  • @Mazil_5
    @Mazil_5 Год назад +1

    6:13 that’s the Europoort area. Part of the Rotterdam harbor. The Europoort area is very heavily industrialised with petrochemical refineries and storage tanks, bulk iron ore and coal handling as well as container and new motor vehicle terminals.

  • @ps5user155
    @ps5user155 Год назад +9

    If the Netherlands had the same population density as Bangladesh, it would have a population of 52 million

    • @knowledgeisgood9645
      @knowledgeisgood9645 Год назад +2

      Fun facts: The Netherlands has 428 people per km2.
      The 170M of Bangladesh have 1 305 people per km2 of land.
      The population of Egypt (110M) lives on 3.5% of its land. That is 3 130 people per km2.

    • @fredschepers5149
      @fredschepers5149 Год назад +1

      80% of the Dutch communication includes phrases and sayings.
      From the one hundred sentences, eighty are sayings.
      "If if comes, is having too late"
      Is one of them...
      😉

  • @paulkennedy6386
    @paulkennedy6386 Год назад +2

    Your initial reaction to kill everyone in Urk land made me splurt out my tea !

  • @Mazil_5
    @Mazil_5 Год назад

    3:18 Hi, the Randstad is made up from (the busiest parts) of the provinces North Holland, South Holland, Utrecht and Flevoland.

  • @rasmusn.e.m1064
    @rasmusn.e.m1064 Год назад

    That Urk and Buruk bit went on for far too long, jesus christ xD My brain was absolutely fried from the baby grammar combined with the very serious voice halfway through xD

  • @johnloony68
    @johnloony68 Год назад +2

    My favourite fact about Holland is that Holland has 16% of the area of the Netherlands, 37% of the population of the Netherlands, and it was in 1637 that the Amsterdam tulip bubble happened.

  • @chrissmith8773
    @chrissmith8773 Год назад +7

    A kilometre is five eighths of a mile

    • @Snaakie83
      @Snaakie83 Год назад

      Or, a kilometer is 1000 meters.
      A meter is a yard (+ 10%)
      Meh, I can't work with fantasy measurements 😂

  • @ralphbuurman4489
    @ralphbuurman4489 Год назад

    "Urk kill everyone" is about the most American knee-jerk thought... And you said out loud!

  • @ThomasDonnelly1888
    @ThomasDonnelly1888 Год назад +3

    You'd be right if you went with ten Canadian football fields since they use Metres but hey, close enough lol.

  • @laziojohnny79
    @laziojohnny79 Год назад +2

    I thought it was a bloke on a bike who screamed at you ‘‘this isn't Disney Land’’.... story seems to change over the years.

  • @johnloony68
    @johnloony68 Год назад +2

    5:07 no, you don’t need to shut up. When you interrupt and speak, it shows you’re thinking and learning and understanding.

    • @Pluggit1953
      @Pluggit1953 Год назад

      Absolutely - just hit the pause button so you don’t talk over something that may pertain to your idea. 🙂

  • @Mazil_5
    @Mazil_5 Год назад +1

    7:38 aquaduct 😊

  • @vincenttayelrand
    @vincenttayelrand Год назад +1

    Read Goethe's 'Faust' some day. He makes the point that only those living on the edge and struggle for survival every day are worthy of what they have. (China's leader Xi Jinping is said to know this work by heart)
    As for the Netherlands in the 21th century; the continuous struggle against water once did create a society where everything was based on consensus out of necessity - you can't just dump all that excess water in your neighbor's garden to get rid of it, so you have to figure out a solution that works for everyone.
    Unfortunately that positive trait of Dutch society is rapidly disappearing after decades of dog-eat-dog neo-liberalism and European integration where top down decisions are being made without any feedback.

  • @WithTwoFlakes
    @WithTwoFlakes Год назад +4

    The situation of the Netherlands was brought home to me by something that happened many years ago before the age of SatNav, etc. A Dutch referee came over to the UK to officiate a game with me. I picked him up from the nearby airport and we drove North about 2.5 - 3 hours to the game location. He helped navigate and when we were nearly there, he said "You know, we couldn't do this back home". I replied "What do you mean?". He answered " If we drove this far in a straight line in the Netherlands, we wouldn't be in the Netherlands anymore..."

    • @Lunaviia
      @Lunaviia Год назад

      If i drove north for 3 hours I would be in Groningen in the very north of the Netherlands. I live near the border with belgium

    • @WithTwoFlakes
      @WithTwoFlakes Год назад

      @@Lunaviia Heh Heh, yeah the traffic congestion has gotten so much worse here in the UK, if I drove for 3 hours I'd probably still be in London 😆

  • @freudsigmund72
    @freudsigmund72 Год назад +1

    7:37 just a priceless reaction

  • @cpmahon
    @cpmahon Год назад +4

    Connor, I know that you like math/maths so to roughly work out kilometres to miles I subtract a third. So 30 kilometers is 20 miles. The exact answer is 18.6 miles but it gives you a rough idea.
    For miles to kilometres, just add a half so 35 miles is roughly 52.5 km.The exact answer is 56.3 km but it gives you an approximate distance. I'm sure that there are other ways but that's what I do to work it out.
    Finally you said about your birthday the other week and so if it's already happened, I hope that you had a good one. If it's about to hapen, I hope that you have a good one!

  • @foetsie85
    @foetsie85 Год назад

    we do have hydroelectric machines in the delta works,giant turbines spinning with the tides

  • @frankconfurius8507
    @frankconfurius8507 Год назад

    Hey great video! Nice to see you dive in the Netherlands and your reaction to it. In addition to that, I think you would truly enjoy a performance of one of the greatest singers we have in the Netherlands; Davina Michelle - The power of water. It wil give you another (visual) take on all of this. One hell of a performance with a bigger message, sure you will enjoy. Keep up the good work! Greetings from Holland 🇾🇪

  • @randolf84
    @randolf84 Год назад

    14:32 creative from learning the hard way

  • @paulusbexkens4392
    @paulusbexkens4392 Год назад

    The entire world uses kilometres: learn.

  • @AudieHolland
    @AudieHolland Год назад

    1 meters is about 1 foot step. So 100 meters, 100 foot steps.
    And we're talking wandering foot steps, not putting one foot after the other, then you'd have feet I guess.
    I have heard that 100 feet is roughly 30 meters.

  • @lbergen001
    @lbergen001 Год назад

    Hi Conner, humans are herd 'animals'. Therefore more relatives/friends make us happy. Grieve when losing a relative/herd member is the opposite emotion of happy in this situation. Did you know that modern sport with many spectators is a cultivated form of 2 herds fighting each other.

  • @johnloony68
    @johnloony68 Год назад

    4:02 1 kilometre = 0.62 square miles
    1 square mile = 2.5 square kilometres

  • @stevehartley7504
    @stevehartley7504 Год назад

    Death is the loss off. You can miss a favourite toy a car a parent. Loss is for the attachment gained
    To mother great, to unknown uncle less.

  • @brulaapgaapmeester8052
    @brulaapgaapmeester8052 Год назад

    My idea for The Netherlands is to import a lot of dirt from other countries that they don't need and make mountains, so it isn't so damn flat everywhere anymore and we can finally get rid of those annoying bikes.

  • @StefanRink
    @StefanRink Год назад

    I guess we are less focused on being competitive and it's just all more of a team effort. 🤫

  • @mourlyvold64
    @mourlyvold64 Год назад

    Ha. Your 'grieve gene' theory is worthy of consideration, good man. Interesting.
    Also, the 'problem solving mind set' is only part of the equation.
    None of the (literal) construction of the country would have been possible without dedicated collaboration
    and endless, endless, endless deliberation. These two principles are deeply engraved in Dutch culture.
    In fact a word was created to describe the latter (that never ceasing deliberation), the verb 'polderen',
    after the noun 'polder', which is what we call the low lying areas reclaimed from the water that are protected by dikes.
    'Polderen' has a slightly negative connotation because it's exhausting at times, but in the end it works for us as a nation.

  • @JelmerStienstra
    @JelmerStienstra Год назад +1

    This comparison makes perfectly clear why it is crazy to make EU standards for stuff like pollution in whatever kind of way and than use it to compare one country to another country. It becomes a very random unfair comparison. NL is very polluted if you compare it with Germany, because of the over 8 mln people in the Randstad. But in some way that’s like comparing the pollution in the Dutch province of Groningen with the pollution in the German Ruhr area. In that comparison the German contestant will win (e.g. lose) the pollution contest…. So what does NL now do to try and match the EU standards? 😢 We try to pollute less in the province of Groningen so we can keep building houses in Randstad to make it more densely populated (and more polluted) than it already is. I think it is save to say that De Randstad is full and (because the rest of NL doesn’t want to become a Randstad😅) The Netherlands is full.

  • @PinnacleNL
    @PinnacleNL Год назад

    He makes valid points, but only for understanding what corrective course changes to make, although I hear an undertone of.. excuses.
    You can say most of the country is more like one of your cities that it differs much less from than from the rest of your country and while that's true it begs the question if perhaps that's the only city you got things right in.
    When he says it's important to remember the advantage of population density we have, one should also note than in a place like the USA the conscious decision is made not to have that.
    If you want to provide quality stuff you need to move people in closer together which can be done regardless of how much dead space it would leave in between. That doesn't mean no one can own a rural farm out in no man's land; I'm just talking on average.
    It is no surprise then that statistically in the modern age all across the world we are growing more toward concentrated hubs where people live.
    Quite frankly the reason our infrastructure is so much better is not because this is some kind of naturally occurring advantage, but because we chose to not force everyone into cars and adopt laws that mandate the existence of 8 parking spots per car across most of a continent, all of which forces buildings apart and infrastructure to become stretched out.

  • @palantir135
    @palantir135 Год назад

    Rotterdam has the biggest harbor/port of Europe.
    Urk was a former island in the Zuiderzee, now IJselmeer.
    The Netherlands is one giant river delta of the rivers Maas/Meuse, Rijn/Rhine and Schelde.
    I worked several decades in the Randstad but never wanted to live there. Too busy, too many people.

  • @deacom8528
    @deacom8528 Месяц назад

    Km (KiloMeter), I got a easy trick to estimate:
    Kilo-meter means kilo = 1000 and meter we keep as meter
    one meter is about 1.1 yard (1.09361)
    but we just want a rough estimate mostly so i use ****** 1 meter is roughly 1 yard ******** do not use it if you need to know the distance just to get an idea of distance
    so 1 km is about 1000 yard
    your system is so hard, everything with us is meters, so do not ask me about inches, feet or miles.
    Ok, i will add feet....
    mili-meter (0.001 meter) is about 0.003 feet (0.00328 feet) (0.00109 yard)
    centi-meter (0.01 meter) is about 0.03 feet (0.0328 feet) (0.0109 yard)
    deci-meter (0.1 meter) is about 0.3 feet (0.328 feet) (0.109 yard)
    meter (1 meter) is about 3 feet (3.28 feet) (1.09 yard)
    deca-meter (10 meter) is about 30 feet (32.8 feet) (10.9 yard)
    hetca-meter (100 meter) is about 300 feet (328 feet) (109 yard)
    kilo-meter (1000 meter) is about 3000 feet (3280 feet) (1090 yard)
    btw. 1 kilometer is 0.621371 miles
    Writing this makes me realize again how insane your system is, please stop using it

  • @stevehartley7504
    @stevehartley7504 Год назад

    Just think of it as 2/3 of a mile it's close enough to image than 5/8

  • @Ayns.L14A
    @Ayns.L14A Год назад

    HEY CONNOR FIGURED OUT HUMAN EVOLUTION....lol

  • @AudieHolland
    @AudieHolland Год назад

    It's simply not true. If you take the train from Utrecht to Amsterdam, you'll see lots of farmland, industrial buildings, and even a few small towns in between. If The Netherlands was a giant city that farmland would be parks and you wouldn't see seperate small towns.
    And if you find yourself in Flevoland, at night, you may be forgiven for thinking you're on a recently terra formed other planet.
    There's nothing but farmland there, with a few highways and one or two cities.
    I noticed this myself when I was a student and we were traveling back by bus from the Aalsmeer Studios.
    In the nightly dark, apart from the highway lights, I could only see a few faint lights here and there in the distance but for the remainder it was all dark.

    • @LaPingvino
      @LaPingvino Год назад

      Zoals ik in een eerder commentaar aangegeven heb, dat klopt maar het is nog steeds bijna niks vergeleken met plattelandsgebieden in andere landen. Ik woon hier in Portugal en deze stijl boerenland etc is wat je in het hoofdstedelijk gebied tegenkomt (ik woon zuid van de rivier in het Setúbal-gebied.). Een groot deel van het land is enorme stukken bijna niks, met hier en daar een huisje en een klein dorpje. Het is wel zo dat er meer platteland in Nederland is dan in een doorsnee stad, maar er zijn hier zelfs in het hoofdstedelijk gebied stukken die meer natuur hebben dan het Nederlandse platteland. Beja is iets meer dan 1 100 km^2 groot en bijna alleen maar natuur, met grootste steden Beja en Évora, waar Beja iets meer dan 30 000 inwoners heeft. Groningen als geheel is ongeveer 200 km^2 en heeft een drukke studentenstad in het midden. Binnen het hoofdstedelijk gebied van Lissabon heeft het Arrábida-park, dat geen inwoners heeft, alleen al 72.2 km^2 oppervlakte, en het Monsanto-park in het midden van de stad heeft al 900ha bij zichzelf.

  • @kellyvandijk3269
    @kellyvandijk3269 Год назад

    A kilogram is 2 ponds = 2 times 500 gram, not 2.2 ponds.

  • @Pluggit1953
    @Pluggit1953 Год назад +1

    Have you never seen an aqueduct before?

  • @CoL_Drake
    @CoL_Drake Год назад

    How can u honestly not understand Kilometer? U look It up once ... I also had to check that 5 feet are around 3.5 meters
    1 Km is 0.6miles. Not exactly but close enough

  • @Hrn250
    @Hrn250 Год назад

    Strange this docu. I don’t really recognize my country. I live a 30 minutes drive above Amsterdam and we have very clean air. The Netherlands it’s not a very big city. It’s very diverse

  • @ronaldderooij1774
    @ronaldderooij1774 Год назад

    To grief is in my view a realisation that something held dear, will never come back. It is a realisation of one's own mortality. As for this video, the concept of it is to me flawed. So, why not compare the Netherlands to the greater Detroit area, or Seattle area, or the state of New York? That would have been better. And sure it is flat and it has soft soil. But I think building here is as difficult as in Switzerland. And the Swiss don't have to battle the rivers and the sea every day of every year for like now a thousand years. Don't think building in the Netherlands is easy. It is not. Everything needs a foundation of poles. Roads need a foundation sometimes, and sometimes a dyke that has to settle for years before the road can be built. And even then, the water management in a large area around it can change and has to be compensated for.

  • @raphaelnikolaus0486
    @raphaelnikolaus0486 Год назад

    1 mile = 1.5 km (so: 1 km = 0.75 miles - if my maths add up)

    • @rjculliford
      @rjculliford Год назад +1

      That would have been easy to remember, but unfortunately 1 mile = 1609.344 meters.

  • @casvanleeuwen5280
    @casvanleeuwen5280 Год назад

    Also the rest of the country is about 70% farmland 😂😂

  • @jarnobot
    @jarnobot Год назад

    1 mile = around 1.6 km

  • @MousePotato
    @MousePotato Год назад

    1.6km to a mile.

  • @DenUitvreter
    @DenUitvreter Год назад +2

    Don't like this propaganda video at all. Size is not the difference between a city and a country. The Netherlands was already a country when the rest of Europe was still monarchies gaining and losing territory and it's people through marriage and inheretance. No, it's my country, not your city state, not your future city state, not your farmland to take.

  • @youtubekijkert524
    @youtubekijkert524 Год назад

    Rotterdam is different from Amsterdam because Rotterdam got bommed on WWII

  • @Ayns.L14A
    @Ayns.L14A Год назад

    1KM=0.6MILES ROUGHLY

  • @niallrussell7184
    @niallrussell7184 Год назад

    omg.. American trying to grasp metric system. Maybe America should do what UK did, and have rulers in school that had 30 cm on one edge, and 12 inches on the other. 🤣

  • @bartobruintjes7056
    @bartobruintjes7056 Год назад +1

    Your clickbait is totally wrong. The Netherlands is 53 times bigger as New York.

  • @anthonmessing3353
    @anthonmessing3353 Год назад

    This video is weird. The Netherlands is not a big city, the Randstad is like a big city. Utrecht? Students maybe and most central city in the Netherlands?

  • @marcovtjev
    @marcovtjev Год назад

    The biggest fail of the video is that it doesn't cover why those same trends don't happen in likely sized (or even much larger) conurbations in the US. Somehow it misses to draw a core conclusion from the basic premise it proposes. There are some other big facts missing too, like some parts in the south of the Netherlands being near other population centers (Antwerp/Flemish diamond in general, and to the east the quite large Ruhr area. It seems to focus extremely on being a country, rather than economics or what is near. What is left is shameless Randstad self promotion

  • @milestone76
    @milestone76 Год назад

    stop thinking imperialistic , start thinking in adding zeros and dividing by 10

  • @tillylovesholland1161
    @tillylovesholland1161 9 месяцев назад

    No its not one giant city

  • @renekuipers4563
    @renekuipers4563 Год назад

    Nice story .Go back to .hhha

  • @georgehare2915
    @georgehare2915 Год назад

    GERMAN WANNABEES

    • @KeesBoons
      @KeesBoons Год назад +1

      Nope. We like our neighbors, but we're fine just as we are.

  • @jasonwales6502
    @jasonwales6502 Год назад

    No

  • @helfgott1
    @helfgott1 Год назад

    Neatherland is NOT Holland go back to Disney Land