9 Weirder Things We Love About The Dutch Culture
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- Опубликовано: 23 фев 2021
- As we have now been living in The Netherlands for a bit longer, we have discovered more weird things within the dutch culture - and we can't help but to love them all!
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I am a Dutch person in my family we take our shoes off when we come in. But that is very family bound in the Netherlands
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The piles (poles) a house is built on are not of bad quality. The piles are made of elm wood which does not rot as long it is under water. For reasons unknown to me the water level is being lowered and the piles are slowly rotting.
Your unknown reason is called climate change. The groundwater levels are going down, because it doesn't rain as much and a lot of water evaporates due to the hotter summer days.
@@williamgeardener2509 The water is being pumped out. This has been going on for decades.
The Netherlands has so much fresh water that there are 350.000 km of ditches, thousands of kilometres of canals and rivers just to get the water to sea. The large rivers like the Rhine and Meuse have been widened so that can store more water.
Climate change will make the Netherlands even wetter. ( see the recent flood in Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands).
I am very aware of climate change. Some countries get hotter and drier, others get rainier and wetter.
Grasparkieten (birds) are now settling all over Europe. Whenever you're traveling and visit a park, keep an eye out for them.
*Halsbandparkieten - Ring-necked parakeet.
De halsbandparkieten komen uit India en niet uit Australië
The old houses are hanging over for 2 reasons; on purpose to create more space on the upper floors and also; the where build on wooden poles. As long as the poles are under water the can last hundreds of years but in the not so distant past we got a little enhousiast with pumping water out of the soil.. exposing the poles that than started to rot.. whoopsie^^
Being Dutch, I do like point 9. Typhus good highlight!
Zonne grote vuurbal kut!
Fun videos :) Keep them coming please!
Hahaha moving into our house with that narrow staircase was indeed an experience itself 😂 And definetly used to taking my shoes off inside the house!!
hahah what an experience, we're both excited and nervous for the first time we have to do this ourselves
Perfect hair? A completely unexpected and totally new item. Never saw or heard that anywhere. Wow! You are really something else.
Hey, Dutch person here! I do take my shoes off inside. There is just no hard rule in my experience, people who like to keep their shoes on keep them on, but those who like to take them off take them off. And EVERYONE takes them off if they want to lay down on the couch!!! Shoes on furniture is very much a no no.
Hey Eva, thanks for sharing :) maybe our friends we've made here are the exceptions haha
Wederom een grappige video! Again a funny video! Keep it up 😁
thank you :)
About the planning, for me it depends on the friendship. I have friends I just call, hey let’s hang out this evening/today. Other friends I plan, mostly because I do not see them a lot and I want to be sure I can give them my complete attention when we meet and vice versa.
U guys are funny, subbed... groeten van een stadsgenoot xxx
thank you ! :)
You girls are very funny and original. Never heard foreign students talk about the hair of Dutch men, parrots in Amsterdam, the word ‘lekker’ or dating during Corona. It’s very entertaining, so keep it up!
thanks Carolina! So kind of you to say this, we hope you keep enjoying the content :)
Fantastic music 👍
In the USA it's mixed. Some people do but most don't remove shoes in house
You're both so funny and cool! I hope we meet someday, because I'm moving to the Netherlands in the next few months. ps: I'm from Brazil and we have a lot of habits in common, like the shoe rule and spontaneous plans! xoxo
Tering is tuberculosis and was a common disease up to the 1950 , 1960 so not middle age period but still recent..
The problem in parts of Amsterdam is that the piles are too short.
The piles are there, because the soft peat ground cannot carry the houses. Therefore the piles are rammed into the ground until they reach the sand layer, which can carry the weight of the houses. But at some places there is another peat layer below the sand layer. And at the time people were not aware of that. So the houses still slowly sink into the ground.
If you really want a full explanation and maybe a react video: Holland vs the Netherlands by CGP grey explains everything you need to know. Would love to see your reaction to it.
thank you! will check it out :) great suggestion
shoes off.. maybe it is a city thing, but I live in the country side and we take our shoes off first thing when we are inside!
Belly laughs..you guys are too much!!!
heheh thank you
I'm Irish and I also take off my shoes hahaha funny Dutch
Another fun video. I have to say though, there's lots of people that don't wear shoes indoors but go around on bare feet, socks, "pantoffels" or house socks with an anti-slip layer. And the people I know don't often use swear words, including youths and young adults. Perhaps it's an Amsterdam sub-culture thing.
I love pantoffels! (sara) In canada we have the same thing. and yeah you're probably right about the swearing, our experience is quite limited to Amsterdam culture! will be so fun to explore more of the NL outside of Amsterdam.
Am i the only one who thought "we irder" was a dutch phrase on the thumbnail?
Interesting to see how others experience our country. Yay. Past 50 years there have been a large amount of non originally dutch people coming into the country which made the average dutch person get shorter as it were. Personally I'm 1.89 and I've felt short often, however past 15 years I've felt taller and taller :D it's good to mix things up. Being tall sucks. It's so inefficient.
Hi I’m Aurelia the Daughter of remco I was scrolling true RUclips and I saw your video. Haha I love that you guys have a RUclips account. 😂😊
Hi Aurelia! Thank you you're the best. Can't wait to meet you
Dit is de eerste keer dat ik jullie you tube cannel bekijk, maar jullie zijn echt wel leuk.
Greetings from Spakenburg The Netherlands Gerben T.
P.s. Spakenburg is a old fhising town in the provincie of Utrecht. Whit is old fhising town ,whit a UNESCO SITE HAUBER.
Like, most of al the fhisstands on the markt.
And "t' STOEPJE ". Are also from Spakenburg.
thank you Gerben so nice of you to say. and thats super cool we will have to check it out sometime
The myth I heard is that someone who bread tropical birds in The Hague , unleashed them around 17 years ago, and now they are allover the Netherlands..But every city claims the similar origin stories , so who knows... ? I do know they suddenly appeared , and never left.
The niche of the words are called; curse words. What better way to curse with diseases. I think we forget how much "harder"/"rougher" live was in the past in comparison with modern times.
Other funny Nederlandse things;
When you come for thee you often get exactly one biscuit with it. When your still around at 17:00 and you didn't coordinate to stay for diner the hostess gets nervous and wants you to leave ("oh ik had niet op je gerekend met het eten hoor"). We talk a lot about politics but mostly do not reveal our personal part choice. Don't reveal your income either. Always remember everybodies birthday. Ooooh you haven't had a chance to see all of the marvelous festivals yet? Definite bucketlist ;)
When your not in Amsterdam but small cities and villages total strangers greet eachothers in passing, might just be a nod.. yeah we're weird and proud of it^^ gezellig!
Liesje! Thank you for your comment, we love this. We have only seen the biscuit with thee (missing this a lot too since cafes are closed). but we're excited to experience the rest... especially the festivals!!! hopefully we all get to dance soon. also super leuk that in small towns strangers greet each other. even in Amsterdam we've noticed this a bit too, it makes such a nice atmosphere. mega gezellig :)
@@thescanadians4208 you can remember birthdays more easily with one of those handy birthday calendars you find in the bathroom (toilet, we call it). I believe that's very Dutch too.
Houses are typical for cities …… you may want to have a look in the rest of the country! The hooks are there, as originally they were warehouses in the past, to get all the spices and stuff they use to trade in. The warehouses even slightly tilted forwards so stuff would not slam in the facade of the building. Nowadays the hooks are easy to get furniture in, but they were not designed for that
We're called Dutch because the English did'nt want to recognize our statehood for a long time. We had been occupied by Spanish, Ostria and before that were part of Germany. Germany is called Duitsland (in Dutch) or Deutschland (in German)
The English, being on an island, found al the shifts in occupation, names and etnicities very lame. Confusing and a sign of weakness. So they didn't bother to keep up. Germany comes from 'Germanen' who were the people living in that area around the time of the vikings.
I guess they were busy drinking thee in the UK.
Of course the exported their offensive names to America and they exported it all over the world.
I am a Nederlander and I speak Nederlands, thank you very much.
Cheerfull vid, thnx Scandanadians!
dank je Nederlander ! so much good info
Fair enough to make a bit of fun of the Dutch language when you are Scandinavian 😆🙊
About the cursing, not everyone uses names of diseases like tyfus and cancer. In fact, when you use these words as a curse quite a lot of people get offended or annoyed when you do it. So bear in mind that it’s not being done by everyone in the Netherlands. And I think it’s more used like that in the region north and south Holland, Utrecht and Brabant. Where I live I rarely hear people using the word cancer as a curse.
yesss that is true we've heard from some friends from outside Amsterdam! We definitely don't want to offend anyone, but it is definitely interesting to hear how it is used in these parts of the Netherlands !
I'm a very very Dutch guy and I recognize everything you two are jokingly talking about. And I love you for it! I do seem to miss a typical Dutch gene though, 'cause I actually hate this agenda culture. It IS a spontaneity killer for sure! So please stay foreign in that sense!
Fun to see non-Hollandics react on our sweet country , BUT: there 's more than Amsterdam ! .. few houses are build on .. piles?. :) .. and we can handle a big bed in the house.. MAAR : Please go on; you're a fun duo :) .
you're right we are very limited to Amsterdam. we should do a segment on the rest of the NL. Do you have any suggestions for us :D ? road trip?!
@@thescanadians4208Come to Groningen, the most beautiful and pleasant (student) city in the Netherlands that has no closing times in the nightlife .... if there is no lockdown.
@@vewsince1979 we've heard its an awesome city!!! as soon as things open up we will definitely take a weekend trip up there :)
@@thescanadians4208 You are welcome!
@@thescanadians4208 go South... Maastricht..or up north : the islands.. the beaches..our place🥳
My plans got cancelled, can i call you guys? :p
Lovely made. But the official name is Kingdom of the Netherlands, as that includes the few islands we still have in the Caribbean. The Netherlands is the European part of the country. And Holland is two provinces within that.
Another 'Voice of Holland'. You are wrong. When English speaking persons say Holland, in their language, it's oké. After all, it's their language.
@@vger5857 You are right but check 11:05 of the video, where they explain the real name to foreigners. That's what I reacted, not on foreigners calling us Holland.
Damn, you girls can stay!!!
thanks :)
Bram is looking good
About 25 years ago a guy in den haag let go a 100 green ringneks that why you find them in the west of the Netherlands.....😘welcome to our beautiful little country where everybody is strait forward and don’t beat around the bush
hahah thats too funny! thank you, it is a beautiful country and we love the people so much
@@thescanadians4208 its a little country tht for sure knows how to fight water income! We have have the most genius people that know how to fight water.....but we are the most famous of wooden clocs,our cheese, flowers, windmills, haring(raw fish, that we eat with onions), and our sweet and lovely stroopwafels.......🥰😁
@@moncherry4372 we love stroopwafels and kaas! zo lekker. and yes you are quite an innovative bunch! can't say we are a big fan of haring yet, but maybe it will grow on us haha
I Like your video's, but please turn up the sound a bit.
(normally the volume is at 50%. This is fine for mostly all vid's, but at yours I must go to 90%...)
🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉❤
i got 1 more for you
when a man/woman [were i live] asks couple of people if they want something to drink for example
and they do not get a reaction of 1 they wil ask '' wil jij niks drinken?'' don,t you want something to drink ?
the answer is the opposite of what they want [[ no ] if they do not want a drink ] while it should be yes i do not want a drink
it is a bit like in a courthouse in the usa when they ask the suspect didn,t you do blah blah blah
it would be correct & funny if the resonse was yes ,,, long pause,,,,,, followed by,,,,,,,,, i didn,t do blah blah blah
hahah thats funny! how odd. will try this out once cafes open
you shoud look further in the rest of The Netherlands about the houses thay are strait recht but you only been in A dam i think
yes its true we've only been in Amsterdam! need to explore more
Sweet and funny girls.
Thank you Dave
Tering nice!
The colonizations mostly happened from Holland. So the Hollanders are the introduction the world at large had with the Netherlands. Not the Frisians, not the Groningers, not the Drentenaren, Gelderlanders, Brabanders, Limburgers, Overijselnaren. Australia was New Holland before the Brits took it, New Zealand we all still know. It's these coastal provinces that where the dominat Dutch sea men (mostly) in the age of Dutch colonization.
The official theory about Dutch is that is refers do Duits/Deuts
As the Netherlands became independent it was mostly made up out of Duchies (which in a way functioned as an independent country) and Dukedoms (similar things basically) that united. Where are you from? Duchie so and so... What do they speak? Dutch.
Tering is just a different word for tuberculosis.
Ye also deutch or dutch, who's counting
Another fun fact: the Netherlands are bigger than Amsterdam….
No that's Just Amsterdam
Don’t by giggling. That’s stupid!!
OK here are some explanations:
1) Yes we are perverts :-) So that is settled.
2) Yes we are getting taller and taller. I am 1.85 m and my wife is 1.78 m and my son is 1.95 m and my nephew is 1.98 m and my niece is 1.80 m. Dutchies are taller per new generation.
3) The crooked houses is an effect of the wooden poles but these were pinewood poles that could resist water. But because of modern water management the water level of the soil lowered and these poles started to rot. And so the fundamental support was lost on 1 side and hence: crooked houses.
4) Parrots. (They are actually parakeets) Actually you can find them for already 15 years in all city parks from Amsterdam to down south in Spain (Barcelona). Brussels has been for decades the center of illegal animal trading and flights with exotic animals came by Brussels airport and were sometimes confiscated and had to be killed. Some official thought this was too cruel for a group of these birds and released them and they survived as they live originally in mountainous areas in the Tropics ( colder areas) and now there are an estimated 85.000 of them in Europe.
5) Tering = TBC = Tuberculosis Tyfus= Typhoid fever Kanker= Cancer .... any other horrible explanations or requests?
5) klere / kolere is cholera, pleuris is pleuritis tuberculosis, pokke is smallpox
hahaha thank you for your funny and informative reply! Wow your whole family is so tall!!! Such great genes over there. and the parakeet story is fascinating.
"Halsbandparkieten" (ring-necked parakeet or rose-ringed parakeet) are for long a very common pet in the Netherlands (they were already pets by the ancient Egyptians and Greek). I had a few of them in Breda in the sixties (one escaped). I doubt if the parakeets in Amsterdam have something to do with Brussels (it is a resident bird).
@@jeroenvanrooijen1086 so cool thanks for the info!
the old houses are built on wooden poles, which, obviously, start rotting over the years, because the upper layers on which the houses are built consist of clay. The poles have to be about 10m long because that is how deep the solid layer of sand lies.
Lovely observations of you both, although being little bit to polite. More weird Dutch things in the next video please, let say our behaviors, characters, attitudes to other people by first contact and so on. Would say be more direct, even slightly blunt in a humorious way and that is allowed. Taking in consideration that brave Canadians, even many died during the war operation, liberated the Netherlands at the end of WO-II. Thanx in advance.
Not taking shoes off goes way back. It has got everything to do with status. See If yer just another farmer (people of low status) yes of course you will take of your shoes or klompen, since they are probably covered with cow do or dirt. You don't want cow-do or dirt in your farm house. If/when you are no farmer but you are a city-slicker, your shoes or klompen probably not covered with cow-do nor dirt, you just wipe your shoe-soales at the doormat and you go in while wearing your shoes. City-slickers do not want to be associated with farmers, since city-slickers think they have a higher status. When people call you a farmer here in The Netherlands it basically means you are uncivilized as a human. No manners; to burp loudly , shout at everybody, not being able to discuss worldly issues, being a d*ck ah, well you know what I mean, you know...like the moron Trump (formal Prez.of USA).
The High class people in the Wig-Time in the 18th century always wore their shoes, especially the Wig-Time ladies, for the very simple reason that they could not reach for their shoes due to their hoop-dresses. actually they could not reach for anything inside their hoop-dresses due to the metal or wooden hoops and so doing a poop was to be done standing up in the corner of a room. No wiping of course, since this also was impossible... And this all was socially accepted behavior in that era. Those people must have been quit smelly...No wonder that this also was the era people came up with perfume...
These are escaped parrots. It is in more Dutch major cities.
Amsterdam is not all of the Netherlands!
yes we know! we need to explore more, where do you suggest we check out soon? :)
@@thescanadians4208 Utrecht
Noord-Brabant, the Loonse en Drunense duinen
The only weird thing is this video is the two of you.
oh trust us, we know. what else is new hahah ;)