The Dutch healthcare system is based on a social system. Healthy people pay less and ill people pay more. NO ... the basic healthcare insurance is for everyone almost the same. You are free to have extra cover with your insurance. That is your own choice. So that why it is affordable for everyone. And people who really can't afford the whole amount of his insurance, they getting an addition from the gouvernement (zorgtoeslag). Smoking weeds is "legal" when you buy and smoke in a coffeeshop. Smoking weed in public is officially not allowed. But the municipality/local authority certain the way of enforcement. This kind of law we call toleration law. Only 10% of Dutch people ever go to a coffeeshop. According to the agency CBS (The agency that monitors national activities) In the Netherlands prostitution (Red Light District and Escort Service) is officially a profession. Those Woman and Man they have rights like employment condition, healthcare insurance and disability insurance (if they can't work, they also get a unemployment benefit). Yes ... they also have to pay taxes. The second reason why its legal and a profession is to protect them against human traffic, exploitation and other illegal things.
@@AdvdWyea definitely. I actually cut the explanation on this in the video because the video was sooooo long! Hahahah but yea you’re completely right..:)
@@AdvdWI was mainly talking about people who keep telling me that the Netherlands is fully under a socialist system to the point where they talk like it’s a communist country.. and I’m like.. really.. get out my face lol 😂
And drugs. It seems like is easier to get drugs in the US than in The Netherlands. When I was in the US in the nineties (in my thirties), everyone I spoke with had smoked weed or tried hard drugs, except me. They were all astonished because it was legal in The Netherlands, wasn’t it? I always had to tell it wasn’t legal, but allowed, in small amounts, but could easily be bought. Even the hard drugs. I have never used any kind of drugs other than medicines and alcohol.
I lived abroad for some time when I was young. One day I got really fed up with all those people asking about the supposed massive drug use in my country So I started telling that in my country we had drugs lessons at school, as our government was of the opinion that if everyone was using anyway, at least they'd better learn how to determine whether the drugs was any _good_ (instead of substandard quality). Except that most of the time, those lessons were called off because the teacher was still too stoned from the previous hour. And stopped it when I found out some people actually _believed_ me . I don't think actual drug use is that much higher than in most other countries, but we do have that name.
@@RH-ro3sg Research after research that drug (abuse) is way higher in countries with strict laws upon them compared to those where it is more or completely legal. It seems Drugs being illegal has a lure on people especially youth. Also society has an influence your not seen as cool using it.
The Dutch aren't rude, we're direct. Huge difference. It's actually considered a matter of respect. For example, when I ask a person what they think of my new haircut/perfume/clothes/whatever and they lie to me, that's disrespect. Don't sugarcoat it! I don't need that. I can handle the truth. Lying to my face is rude. Being honest and direct is anything but rude.
The Dutch aren't direct, they're efficient. Inefficiency is equal to a religious sin. People hate lines that aren't straight, which you can see everywhere you look. Cultures not as anal about efficiency call that direct.
Going to a different country and openly question whether they are rude or not while making use of their generous benefits, like tax breaks for expats is, of course, not rude at all. Now try that in say, Teheran or Moscow. You'll get thrown in prison and most likely tortured - only to be put online to declare how hospitable and wonderful the people are...with one or two black eyes and a few broken ribs of course.
Dutch compliments: Naar de kapper geweest? Wanneer maakt hij het af? Been to the hairdresser? When will he finish it? Nieuwe broek gekocht? Jammer dat ze je maat niet hadden! New trousers? Nice, pity they didn't have your size.
I am an expat in Maastricht since 2018 and really all of my local coworkers are neither rude nor direct. Never ever. I would say, they all are very diplomatic and soft-spoken. In my role as a team leader, they never criticize me too harsh, when they "agree" in a certain minor undertone, it means they are not convinced while trying not to embarrass me in the group. I would say, it is very much like both in the Strasbourg and Brussels regions, where I worked before. I noticed this a lot of times.
Last weekend i flew from DC to Amsterdam. Plane full of dutchies and Americans. The plane broke down and we had to take an emergency landing, we all survived, but at the time we didn't knew that. The dutch accepted there faith and went quit but the americans where fighting it. Like saying to aircraft personel b**** if you dont this plane save at the ground i am gonna sue your ass or i demend you tell me what our chances are etc. Like why make the last seconds of your life an other person miserabel. It really baffles me
You talk as if Dutch people never lose their shit I’ve seen so many crazy Dutch neighbors that I’m having a hard time to believe you that every Dutch in that plane stayed calm. Come back to reality.
'Rotterdam is known for their harbour or something..?' I love this understatement of the year. ;-) It's nr. 10 in tonnage worldwide, and nr.1 that's not in Asia. About 50% bigger than L.A.
From 1962 until 2004, it was the world's busiest port by annual cargo tonnage. It was overtaken first in 2004 by the port of Singapore, and since then by Shanghai and other very large Chinese seaports.. In the meanwhile country's built bigger ones, but yeah, small as we are, we use to have THE biggest.
I'm Dutch and I'm rude. I recently visited Paris and took my wife to see the Eiffel Tower. She wasn't feeling well that day so was mostly caring about her. But on the groundfloor there was this French lady of color changing the bags in the garbage bins. And there was this American (U.S. Citizen judging from his accent) shouting at this poor lady: "I'm a guest in your country". And when I say "shouting", I mean "SHOUTING". It was very rude of me not to intervene in this situation. I could have gone up to this American and said "how would you like it if I came to your home and started demanding differential treatment at the top of my lungs -etc.". It was very rude of me not to do so.
@@NS-un5lzI take it you are unfamiliar with Paris' demographic multiculturalism? A search on the word "Banlieue" combined with "Paris" (and possibly "Riots") may shed some light on it for you. Please also take note of the fact that I did not mention any particular ethnicity and or race. My wife is a person of colour, having proudly been born in Bangladesh.
The dutch have a very low tolerance for arrogance or people who think they are beter then others. And yeah... it was kind of weird and a racist mindset to mention her color without it having any added value. It was waiting for some racist remarks from the american. Why only mention her color? Weird but hey, most americans and recently more europeans have an obsession with race.
@@MarkudenAgain, I did not mention race at any point. "Woman of Color" is the most PC way of saying "possibly ethnically disadvantaged female" within French culture. "Of color" is the way African and Indian companies tend to refer to their customers in cosmetic adds - creams and lotions - not controlled by westen companies. This is NOT a reference to "coloreds" or "colored" as used in the U.S. until well into the 1960s in the U.S.A. You should respect being a person "of color" as a badge of honour. As a white person I keep having to defend my partial Jewish heritage despite my grandfather having died in a N@*I camp.
Well, speaking of hard work. My 24 year old daughter has a 2 year old son, studies at the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences (Design and Product Engineering), has a boyfriend (also takes time) and works 20 hours a week. She has one day off, which is Sunday, where she does a lot with her 2 year old sun. Man, I have so much respect for her.
As a Dutchie, what I also like about the directness: it's such relief to be open and honest about making mistakes or not understanding something. If you're in a meeting and something you or someone else did created a major problem, it's not easy but to just say: I made a mistake or I screwed up or I forgot, to just own up to what caused things to go awry. The energy is then focused on fixing the problem. Or to say: what exactly do you mean by that, I don't understand your point or what you're asking of me. This can be hard to ask in a meeting, but all of this saves so much time and in general people appreciate and respect it.
What is Social according to Cambridge dictionary: “relating to society and living together in an organized way”. That means taking care for one another.
Great video I truly enjoyed it. As a half Dutch/Maroccan beeing born in the Netherlands I can say a lot of you're debunks are truly right. Love it, keep you're story going. You just got a new subscriber👍. Let's not forget to also make a lot of fun. It's what we do also besides Hard/effiently work 😉. Stay safe stay cool, I'm gonna wait till next video drops ✌
If you wanna learn to speak Dutch, just ask people to speak Dutch to you. And when you try to speak it, don't be affraid to make "stupid" mistakes. As a 66 year old Dutch male I'm more impressed with a foreigner trying then the ones just assuming you understand their tonque. I like your vids young man, you have a good view of what's going arround here. 👍👍👍
as a real proud dutch guy I would state that you should not bother learning dutch. everyone speaks english and the dutch language is spoken is so few countries that you better spend your time in learning spanish or chinese :) an native english speaking person learning chinese would impress most Dutch people much more then learning a little dutch :)
Once upon a paper time; delivering news papers in the early morning before school. Or distributing house to house local news weekly with some extra advertising folders. As a kid I got everything I needed, but for 'luxury' I had to safe pocket money or do a little job. Also teaches kids how to handle money, and that it doesn't come for free, you have choices to make in spending.
@@lolalilolily now in the states… kids don’t work even at 16 anymore.. I mean they do.. but it’s very rare because everyone’s afraid. I remember working when I was 16 and the whole place was filled with teens in highschool.. now it’s just a bunch of old people working at movies and grocery stores :(
The Netherlands has the lowest percentage of youth unemployment in all of Europe. Unemployment among the general population is also only a couple percent. That is somewhat negated though by the highest percentage in Europe of people who work part-time . The Netherlands is a part-time champion and this causes shortages of workers in all kinds of sectors. Healthcare, schools, and construction are a couple big examples.
Well, I work at an American company as a Dutch person, and what strikes me is often the focus on short-term only, the lack of the willingness to bring structure in chaos, the lack of healthy bottom-to-top feedback and the inefficient social 'dances' you have to do. I guess every work culture has its pros and its cons.
I'm British, but some years ago I spent nearly a year working for a Dutch company in Amsterdam. The contract hours were 8:30am to 5:30pm, with 30 minutes for lunch (which would be considered unusual for an office job here in the UK). But the company's stance was that they didn't mind if you came in at; say; 11 and went home at 4 as long as the work got done and deadlines were met.
Yeah that’s what I like about Dutch office culture. Of course there’s sometimes still meetings for the sake of meetings, but in general it’s just about doing the work. You don’t have to look busy, you don’t have to spend all day physically in the office, you just have to make your deadlines.
One other benefit of being direct is the top-down or bottom-up approach in businesses. The most succesfull way to accomplish a change within a business is doing it bottom-up. Only point is that it will take or can take very long. The top-down way is really quick but easily crashes. When a CEO in the Netherlands announces a top-down approach he will get immediate remarks from all people who think there are problems to be foreseen. And these employees can give their remarks in the elevator or in the canteen because they recognize the CEO and the CEO steps into the same elevator and has lunch in the same canteen. That's the difference and that is what makes companies in the Netherlands smart.
As to healthcare, from a dutch person, we have a system of mandatory health insurance, much like the americans. There are 3 major differences. 1: our government set price controls on maximum price for basic insurance with a definition of what has to be in that coverage at least and a maximum on copays and deductables (collectively called personal risk here) 2: the insurance is personal, rather than tied to a job, so you cannot get trapped in a bad job by needing healthcare, nor lose your healthcare coverage from taking sick days 3: sick leave is legally protected at full pay, and our employees are actually ensured for their productivity loss from this.
wait, sick leave isn't legally protected at full pay is it? We don't get paid the first 1-2 days of sick leave, and then it goes from 70-90% pay (depending on your contract). Or am I misunderstanding what you meant?
@@michelvanderlinden8363 het is vanaf dag 1 vergoed tenzij je in je personeelscontract hebt ingestemd met 1 of 2 wachtdagen, en in dat geval kun je ze als nog vergoed krijgen door verlofdagen op te nemen.
@@shadeblackwolf1508 een verlofdag opnemen is een vrije dag wat in principe alsnog je eigen geld is. En ziekteverlof is dus in principe bepaald door je contract, en niet door de staat. Punt 3 klopt dus niet helemaal.
Sick leave is legally protected to at least 70% of your wage up to 2 years of sick leave. If you get more this is part of your companies regulation or collective labor agreement (CAO). The same counts for not getting paid for the first or second day of sick leave. This is not standard and usually is only applied through company regelation or CAO in branches where there is a lot of frequent sort term sick leave (more than average).
Nice vid dude 👍 I like your style, your voice and your chilness :) This reminds me of one time I was smoking weed in the train (I'm dutch), wayyy back in the day ^^ There was like 25-30 min till the next stop, and I stood up and asked all 6-7 ppl in the cabin if they would mind if I lit up.. All quiet. When the conductor came, and he told me I'm not allowed to smoke here, I said something like "only if ppl mind, and I asked everyone here". One guy raised his hand and said "well, actually I do mind", and the conductor said to him "Well, too bad, you should have said something when he asked" and just continued on 😂😂
The Netherlands runs what is called the 'Care State'. By this we want a capitalistic system that enables people, but catches the poor and weak. For example, it regulated education for children. Social security for low income. Basic pensions for the elderly. However, every rule has requirements. For example, to get that pension, you need to have paid a number of decades of income tax. Many subsidies are income dependant. Unemployment benefits shrink to 0 if you don't apply often or take any job within X time period. Many discounts and benefits automatically apply if you have children, allowing you to spend more of your income on your childrens needs. If anything happens to you, we believe government can be your safety net. Rather than you being hungry, homeless or struck by something medical.
Care system is transformed in participation state. Work for your money but faciliate circumstances that people from all layers and with all kinds of disabilities can partipcipate in stead of being hospitalised and helpless
Id say we are a capicalist system, with underlying socialist applications in some situations to keep costs down and try to protect the more vulnerable where needed. And if Im honest, it's not a perfect system, but it's a very acceptable middleground in a lot of areas.
I realy enjoy watching you're content, its refreshing hearing how you apreciate the little things us dutchie's take fore granted. You'r vieuw of us is spot on, recocnizing myself in a lot of what you're saying. Great job, keep it up bro.
Once it's legal to do something, that edge is gone, it becomes less interesting for a lot of people. Specially for teenagers and young adults, it's often those things your are not allowed to do or are forbidden to do, that are most interesting to try.
@@dutchman7623 Case in point (a moral but not a really a legal problem) being teenage pregnancies. The Netherlands has one of the lowest figures per capita in the world, the USA easily makes the top ten of highest.
The Dutch East India Company (VOC) was founded in 1602. Because the VOC was also established in the countries with which it traded, the VOC is also called the first multinational in the world so basically we invented the whole concept...
@@evdweideStock Exchange comes from either Antwerp or Bruges but the share based stock exchange indeed is from Amsterdam. The first company share was handed out in Enkhuizen early 1600s. The beurs from Hendrick de Keyser opened its doors on the Rokin. Nothing remembers us about it. Not even a plaquette or a sign. As if Amsterdam erased its past.
Lol socialist hehehe, Americans tend to not understand the term socialism, as all social systems within a country are considered proof of a country being socialist. Universal Heal Care is the main one that makes Americans state this. You should in future if you hear anyone say this, ask them what socialism is, let them define that and afterwards explain what socialism actually is, than ask them again if a social system that functions in nearly 90 or so percent of the world is any indication of socialism ? I am sure they might see the error this way.
Keep in mind that the Americans still have a lot of anti-communism rhetoric. And they include socialism in that. We barely talk about communism in Western Europe, but Americans are still a bit obsessed with it. The fact that some far-leftists in the U.S. actually promote communism does not help.
There's actual socialism, aka the workers owning the means of production, and there's the vague overarching term that is so broad it almost meaningless. A lot of these people will claim that socialism is a spectrum, meaning any social welfare policy somehow makes a country more socialist.
The oldest hospital in the Netherlands was there for travelers, pilgrims and all those with dubious health. Just outside the town walls. Financed by the town citizens who didn't want contamination to spread through the town. They were offered a bed, food, clean water, and care. Doing good to those in need was seen as an obligation. This is around 1230. Soon followed by welfare care for the poor within the town, run by monks and nuns, but financed by the community.
I read the GOP agenda for this election, and it’s full of stuff about removing socialists and communists in the government and education. And it scares me a bit, because often it just seems like anyone a Republican disagrees with might be a socialist or communist. I’ve seen Harris and Walz get called socialists, Obama was supposedly a socialist. It’s so meaningless in the US. The red scare has never really ended.
Modern capitalism originated here, in the Dutch Republic in the late 1500's and early 1600's. A lot of elements had already being going on in Flanders earlier, but public stock companies, de facto central banking and a lot of financial and insurance products completed it. Upward social mobility and proto industrialization came about around the same time. Socialism has different versions, social-democrats take a lot from it and would often call themselves socialists, and even sang 'the internationale'. But socialism is a political system and capitalism is a system of productivity, they are not mutually exclusive and even the communist countries of the past could not do without state capitalism yet. For the 2nd half of the 20th century, the Netherlands was mostly governed by social-democrats, who work within and with capitalism, and "christian democrats" who are social in many ways too. This century we are dominated by neoliberals rather than proper capitalism, and that hurts. That is free market intervention by government in favour of the big corporations, not genuinely capitalist.
Dutch, 51, never smoked in my life, certainly not weed, and I’m no exception. In my entire life, I’ve only known two persons, a co-worker and her partner, to smoke weed regularly. Drugs and prostitution are not necessarily legal, but legalized. Because everything that is out in the open is easier to control, think human trafficking and drugs kartels, and it is taxed so money-laundering is next to impossible. We are the tallest people in the world, that doesn’t mean that we’re all extremely tall, it simply means that we’re taller than average (175,62cm / 5ft 7,96 inches). I’m only 1,64 but I have at least three people in my closest family/friend circle that measure close to 2m (6.56ft). And as for the rudeness, of course we’ve got jerks here too, but most people prefer honest, direct conversation, especially in the west of the country, in the eastern and northern provinces, communication is not as straight forward.
Large cities used to have quite a large heroin problem in the ‘80s. But then this huge methadon programme was rolled out, and most people got off the heroin. The Netherlands is big on XTC producing and in the dance scene pills are popular. But we don’t have the oxy or meth problems like the States.
you kinda dont see locals at coffeeshops because we just take it away and smoke it in the comfort of our own home. Also weed doesnt make you like a zombie like fennie does to people in the states. Also regarding weed being legal: its sold legally, you can have a max of 5grams on you and it isnt considered a crime. Regarding most other drugs, possession of an user sized amount and using it doesnt get you in trouble (you may still be rejected from clubs if they find it or see you're on them), only the selling of substances is highly illegal
Also, for cannabis use, and drug use in general, the Netherlands is a bit average in Europe. Cannabis use in the Netherlands is on par with Germany, higher than in Scandinavia and Switzerland, but much much lower than in Belgium, France, Spain, the U.K. and the US. Also the quality of illegal drugs is high in the Netherlands because we have the harbours of Rotterdam and Antwerp nearby for heroine and cocaine, and we are the top producers of cannabis in Europe and of amphetamine and MDMA in the world. Meaning we are very close to the production line, with few pollution by cutting the drugs. This reflects also in methamphetamine never becoming popular here for example, because there is enough affordable high quality amphetamine. And addiction medicine is available to everyone, including people suffering from addiction and homelessness.
Weed is... interesting here. Buying and selling it is legal, growing it is not. It is "tolerated" to smoke it outside, however it isn't legal. If the police suspect you of anything, and they see you smoking weed, they are allowed to search you due to you using substance outdoors (the same goes for drinking outdoors). Its insanely rare for this to happen though, and thats why a lot of people think it's just legal here. It isn't. Its kind of weird how it works. But at least it works :D
@@michelvanderlinden8363 Producing, possession, selling, buying, importing and exporting of weed is illegal in the Netherlands. Even at home or in a coffeeshop. The only company that has a license to produces THC containing cannabis is Bedrocan and they only sell on prescription via the Transvaal pharmacy in Den Haag. Buying in the coffeeshop or growing up to five plants at home is also illegal, but tolerated if you don’t cause any nuisance. But the police can still confiscate that weed at will, even if you follow those “rules”. Hundreds of people are evicted from their homes and black listed for social renting each year for having more than 5 plants. And the mayor can close any coffeeshop at will, it is not legally protected like other businesses. The coffeeshops are heavily involved either organised crime anyway, since they have to find that 500 grams of illegally produced cannabis at their back door several times a day. The only thing that is not illegal is using cannabis, but that is the case for all illegal drugs. Reason for this is to ensure people won’t hesitate to ask help when using an illegal substance causes serious health issues.
its always nice to hear people from the state living in Nederland, talking about the country, and your where in Rotterdam the City where i was born and grow up, so nice, thanks for your video
@@ItzSKYVlogs some Dutch classic childrens books are amazing to read even as an adult and a nice way of learning Dutch. Try Anne Frank(ofcourse), Koning van Katoren, Kruistocht in spijkerbroek and any Roald Dahl book in Dutch. Roald Dahl is British ofcourse, but most Dutch kids(and adults) read books from this writer and the translation to Dutch is excellent.
Exactly, when i was 8 and very active in helping in making the house clean and do chores and working in our garden we grow vegetables. And when i was 12 i brought newspapers in my village i worked in the bulbs and i was babysitter so. The dutch are very hard workers. My parents had an own bussines in selling concert tickets with a bus ticket. And i was also involved in the business and was catering in the bus. And after the concert cleaning the bus. The dutch are hard workers period! 😎
Some U S. family of ours , called my daughter a nazi because she said she preferred a socialist society. Do Americans learn about the difference between socialism , communism and social democracy?
That's funny that you mention rudeness. Until your comment, the only time I've heard someone mention rudeness and the Dutch was from my friend who is Dutch, and came to the southern portion of the US in her mid- 20s. I'm sure it's that directness thing. People say the same about people from the northeastern US. They also don't get dry humor. No matter how absurd a comment you make, there are still so many people who will take you seriously. 🤠🤠☕
'directness' and 'rudeness' are two different things, though I can understand how someone from another culture could interpret our directness as rudeness. Unfortunately, in my opinion there also are some Dutch that are actually rude, but that try to pass off their rude behaviour as being direct.
We definitely do have homeless folks sleeping in tents here, although it tends to be outside of the city centers (usually in more secluded areas) and it's likely way fewer people, relative to the population, than it seems to be in the US.
The Netherlands is, by and large, a social democratic country that follows capitalist principles. I’m still not sure when or why socialism and communism got mixed up to mean the same thing in Americans’ brains but here we are.
I am Dutch.. born, raised and still living in Rotterdam.. and 'rude' LOL. I love your videos and I tell my USA friends about them. I am happy you love this country. Some info about the inner harbours in Rotterdam. Where you were standing, Oude Haven, Kubuswoningen.. Markthal, is where the river de Rotte was in the ancient time. This city 's name is Rotte-r-Dam so to speak... Dam at the ( river) Rotte. Amsterdam is Dam at the (river) Amstel. I live on the East side of Rotterdam, a 3 minutes walk to where the original river still flows, my house is almost 7 meters below sea level. The river went through Rotterdam, but 1. they built a dam in ancient times so the direction changed and in / after WW II they put the debris · rubble from the Bombings on our City in the river.. and rebuilt the City on top of that. They are still planning to create a stream, small, but visible through the city where the original River Rotte was...
My theory for tall ppl is: We live mostly below sea level so if we're tall enough we can keep our head above water without problems when things go verry wrong XD
I love SA ever since I visited in 2011 for the first time, 2018 for the second time. Through my job (I work for a bank) I got acquainted with several SA people from the African cycle team. Some of them came to live in the Netherlands because of the current (economic) situation in SA. When I was walking my dogs a young couple approached me. Because of their accent I asked them where they're from. SA! They live(d) across the street. They loved my dogs, and we chatted frequently. Haven't seen them in a while, so I reckon they moved, since they told me they bought a house in the middle of the Netherlands. Good for them✌🏽
great video, but.... do you know that at 5:10 you walked next to an inportant building, during the war, one of the few buildings still standing. if you look closely again if you in the neighborhood. there are still bullit holes of the battle of the bridges.
@@ItzSKYVlogs oh ok, no problem man, if you like things about history, you almost stumble on very old history, next time when you in the train station Blaak. there is a part of the old city wall. they found it when digging out the tunnel. i believe is from around 1250, they put it back on the place where the found it,. soo cool to see, and think about it for a minute or so. let the history sink in....
@@eobi-edobi4275 Yes, bullet holes as a silent token to remember... Could be plastered over and forgotten, but now they remind those who pass by, without being 'in your face'.
He went to Schiedam😊 6:32 you are correct. It is called 'Oude haven' = old haven just you in the 🇺🇲 have a place called New Haven. Don't forget Rotterdam had a lot more canals and waterways before ww2 and the moustached painter from Austria was having a good time. A lot of canals were filled up with the rubble of the blitz. Where you were walking you still can find the old innercity back via streetnames. Wijnhaven = docks were vats of wine were went ashore. Fruithaven were fruits came. Kolk behind Blaak station et cetera Bigger docks are situated closer to sea. They've build Maasvlakte 1 and 2 in Sea
As a British man who visits Rotterdam on the regs (my 15 Yr old son was born and raised there)...I find it to be both Vibrant, friendly and culturally diverse...whilst simultaneously being often generic (specially the phrasing of linguistics), sterile (certain spaces appear quite soulless) and a sterness (emotionally speaking). Though Love the architectural mixes , cultural/musical hubs,dance scene and the large international community (either studying or working there - Which has grown exponentially in the last 10 yrs.) All in all a great place to raise a child.
Hello Sky , love watching your vlogs . You're such a nice guy. As a Dutchie i had to Google some of the slang words like pippin but i like how you speak. It is so amusing. Keep on vlogging. Greetings from Roermond
I have lived in the Netherlands for my entire 61 year life and as far as I know I've only met one person who was addicted to drugs. He was an American.
Fun fact: The building with the ALEX sign you look at at 8 minutes and 7 seconds into the video is called Het Witte Huis (The White House) and was the highest skyscraper in Europe back when it was built.
Also, about dutch being tall, yes we are being tall, but this is how: when you measure the length of every people in a country and take the average length for that country, the Dutch will be at the top of that list. We do have some shorter people obviously, but most people here are taller than others. Its above average. Not by an extreme much length, but by quantity of people being longer than others.
I start working at 10 years old in 1974 in a petshop in Haarlem , Wednesday afternoon and saturday , from my 16 year a work fultime 6 days a week , i am now 60 , 7 years to go.
When do you come to visit Groningen? The Netherlands is not only Amsterdam and Rotterdam!!! There are also Drenthe, Groningen, Friesland etc.... But Groningen is the best and als friendliest😉👌
I am a black woman who wants to visit areas outside of the Randstad area but I am scared of racism. Which areas do you recommend that aren't racist/xenophobic towards people of color, besides the one's you listed (Drenthe, Groningen, Friesland)?
@@smithhbea Hai I 'm also a black woman and living for 22 years in Appingedam. A city in Groningen. Look it up. Never had anyone let me know I'm from another rase. Almost all of my friends are white.😊
@@smithhbea Nowadays, it's only really the smallest towns that have overt racism. Nobody will bat an eye in any of the province capitals, except maybe Assen? Start in the capital cities, Leeuwarden, Maastricht, Groningen, Zwolle, Amersfoort, Eindhoven etc are all great to spend a day in. Just skip Drenthe lol
@@Lemmy_Kilturtle Ok thanks, I won't go to Assen. I wanted to go to Enschede, Wageningen, and Tilburg. Are those ok places to visit as a black woman? I am going to the Netherlands next week.
I'm Dutch, and I've been visting the states for close to twenty years now, it just seems every year I visit now... things are worse with homelessness, drug abuse & violence. It truely saddends me, I have very fond memories about proposing to my wife in San Francisco about twelve years ago... we wandered through the entire city and it was great. My last visit 3 years ago.... I quickly took a u-turn and gave up on trying to walk down memorylane as there was so much grief everywhere.....
😂In Who Am I Jacckytoight me how to properly get of my bike! In the movie he also borrows a recumbent bycicle. As he arrives somewhere he fully hits the breaks and catapults himself very elegantly off the bike. I use a recumbent as my first bike for decennia, but seeing him doing that mad this my preferred way of getting off the bike. First stopping and then climbing off takes much more effort. Gor 10s of years I do thisultiple times per day now. Granted, I don't added his subsequent pirouette but still. Thanks Jacky!
Thank you for reminding :):) we are an amazing country 😊 we work hard and efficient and we have so much respect for each other despite differences, proud to be Dutch 🇳🇱🇳🇱🇳🇱
By heritage we're a nation of sailors and farmers. You can see it in all our sayings and proverbs, they're all about ships/sailing/farming... or the weather. And that's the perfect recipe to end up with very cut-to-the-chase direct communicating people. :P
exactly. I red a few studies that Americans work crazy amount of hours and have almost no free days per year but the work is not efficient. If you look at the hours spend at work, then yes, the dutch can be called lazy. If you look the amount of productivity per person, then it kind of equals but in way less hours. Some indicate that working a lot of hours just makes you less efficient because you get more (brain) tired and thus becomes less productive. food for thought :)
I like your videos, it's interesting to see your take on the Netherlands as a native Dutchie. I've been to NYC in 2009 and Las Vegas in 2011, to be honest I liked Las Vegas because it's clean and ppl come there to party/gamble, but NYC? Maybe Manhattan and some other areas... but we were students back then, stupid and broke. We stayed in Harlem and went to the Bronx to check it out, we were pretty shocked, the poverty, gangs and drugs was astonishing. Even the better areas, homelessness and it felt dirty. I don't get it why ppl call the city amazing. I know many big cities have some kind of problem but the US feels way off in my opinion. I've been to Tokyo and even with the homeless people it feels safe, NYC did not.
I think we have legalised the selling of cannabis to a certain maximum per person. The funny part is that we creation of cannabis for sale is currently still forbidden, so the frontdoor (selling to people through coffeeshops) is legal, but the distribution to the coffeeshop is done by the backdoor (read: not fully legal). But we are working on it… The Netherlands is all about - I let you do what you do, when you leave me to do want I want to do.
Socialist vs capitalist is not a dichotomy. You can have a mostly market economy where certain things are regulated. It's not a binary choice. This is the thing some US Americans can't seem to grasp.
Most people that smoke weed or whatever do it at home. Because that's the best place to relax. If you smoke in the open.... it could cause an argument or a fight because you just want to chill out.
USA has more socialist systems than the Netherlands! Postal services for example, the VA healthcare and Medicaid. Plus many utilities are provided by government agencies in the USA, while almost all utilities here in the Netherlands are privatized. The NS has a very similar structure to Amtrack, where it is a privatized company but with the government being the only shareholder. Our healthcare is privatized, our postal services are privatized plus water, electricity, internet and gas are all privatized. National parks in the USA are mostly funded by congress while in the Netherlands it is mostly non profit organizations like natuurmonumenten or water companies like PWN who pay for the upkeep and 3ven own the land. There are state subsidies obviously, but still more private involvement.
They have a similar construct to the NS, where they are privatised, but the shares are all owned by the local government, such as municipalities and provinces.
PWN, Dunea, Vitens and many others are privatized, in a corporate structure called NV or naamloze vennootschap. To be fair, the main shareholders are usually provinces and or other government agencies. My father worked for PWN and was involved in the privatization process in the 1990s.
A lot of people from the US (and other countries) only think of Amsterdam when they think of the Netherland and when they do they only think of all the stereotypes. And thanks for calling our country the Netherlands and not Holland!! And thanks for this video. You have such a cheerful personality! 😃
a quick explanation about the coffee shop: In the Netherlands you are allowed to have 5 grams of weed with you for personal use. The strange thing for the coffee shop is that they are allowed to sell the weed but not to grow it, so it is actually not allowed. Due to the Tolerance Criteria for coffee shops For the sale of weed and hash, coffee shops must adhere to rules (the tolerance criteria). A coffee shop must meet the following conditions: No more than 5 grams of soft drugs may be sold per person per day. No hard drugs may be sold. No soft drugs may be sold to minors. Minors may not be allowed into a coffee shop. No alcohol may be served. No advertising for drugs and the coffee shop may be made. No nuisance may be caused to the environment. The commercial stock may not exceed 500 grams. No access for or sales to anyone other than residents of the Netherlands.
Little addition about healthcare, basically Dutch healthcare system is most easily described as a mandatory subscription, the government demands that we get it (from some company, theres a bunch of options) and regardless what company we choose we pay ~140 bucks a month. If somebody can not afford that they do get completely free healthcare. When you have healthcare and go to the doctor/hospital, 99% of costs are covered, but some non-medical things (the food? honestly not sure) are not. If you go there when you do not have health care they will still help you, at the same time they will try get you healthcare, if you really don't qualify for any of the government aid then its decided that you f-ed up by not following the law, suddenly you get american healthcare prices of several thousands for some basic stuff. While the monthly fee keeps rising and we're all unhappy about that, overall i couldn't be happier with this system, because its so standard and ive been doing so all my life i really dont mind paying that amount monthly & it sure is nice to have access to great healthcare and get almost no bills for it. A couple of years ago i woke up with some breathing issues so went to general practitioner which sent me to hospital, had some xrays taken and turned out to be a collapsed lung, they instantly shoved me in a wheelchair and put me on a floor full of coughing old men (lol), instantly got small surgery (drilling a hole in my chest lol) and staying for observation & at the end of all that i had to pay 40 bucks 🤷♂
Come to the city Breda in the south, is is 1,5 hours by train from Haarlem. My friend from Haarlem visited me by train, yesterday. Breda is so much slow.. more Bourgondië.. relaxed people.. water around the inner city.. I would say.. come and make a video here! You are welcome!
By the way, I'm from Rotterdam. And it has been the biggest Harbour in the world. Since a couple of years it is one of the biggest and the biggest in Europe.
I live in the Nederlands for about 10 years I had 2 dutch neighbours who smoked weed like crazy. It was so bad that the smoke would penetrate through the ceiling into my house. I have asthma and smoke would often make it worse. This by the way was in the middle of a city area. We moved closer up to the German border and now we hear people selling drugs in the middle of the night in a children's park. About healthcare it could not be worse. Because it's mandatory to have a healh insurance and all health insurance company's are private. They change what your doctor prescribe you with the cheapest medicine that has the same main substance. I use an asthma inhalator for over 20 years that's the one that works for me but my healthcare provider won't give it because it has an extra substance and the cheap one does not work. There is 1 euro difference in price. I even got a special prescription from my doctor saying they should give me my old one but nope they won't. I have to pay for my medicine eventho I pay for health insurance and all companies here does the same. What's more often is that if you have a complicated health related issue the doctors would see you but for a limited time. So lets say 10 minutes pass and u still have other health related issues, the doctor would often ask you to come for a second appointment. And wait times are long like couple months long. I have a relative that's taking pain medicine for a year and needs to get surgery, he is on a wait list for 4 months non the less they miss diagnosed him for a year.... There is alot of good stuff here in the Nederlands but drugs/weed or heathcare aint one of them. Don't get me wrong I have watched some of your video's before. It's just I don't like false information and unfortunately youtube algorithm keeps sending your video's my way. Talk about real stuff like the student loan, renters rights, sick leave, unemployment support, homeless shelters or disability support those are nice things about the Nederlands.
I like you! You tell it like you see it! great job!! But me as a dutchie also have a lot of thoughts about Americans... so I guess it's only human and it's great that you are honest instead of telling everyone what is wrong with the Netherlands like some youtubers... So you can stay!
Hi, I'm from the island of Curacao (part of the Dutch Kingdom) and have been to the Netherlands a couple of times. I've to admit that I love the city of Rotterdam.
Hi, you are often in Rotterdam and next time think of visiting Historic Delfshaven, the Pilgrim fathers left from there, you can find a beer brewery and a windmill and our national hero Piet Heijn is born there.. It is a former harbor from Delft and goes back to 1389, so a lot of history for you to find there. Keep up the good work. :)
You should make a video about farming in the Netherlands. (Efficiency) we are one of the smaller country’s in the world but produce a lot of flowers, bellypeppers, tomatoes. Watch it up and be mindblown (sorry for my poor grammatical)
With respect to free healthcare. It is not free and you pay your monthly insurance and a portion from your income. Both employer and employee pay a percentage. As for me my contribution, wage monthly insurance and self contribution, it ran up to 9000€ annually. It need to be rephrased, ACCESS to healthcare is free for all. Love your videos
The Netherlands has a lot of Asian food, so you came to the right country, tall most people are average, I'm small, only 187 cm. getting enough calcium in your food, milk & Cheese as a small kid helps you grow normally. Rude??: No we are HONEST. Telling lies/pretending/fake is RUDE.
You, my friend, are not short. Talk to me when you can’t comfortably put your feet on the ground when sitting because you’re too short to reach the floor all the way. On any seat, chair, couch, bench anywhere. Then you’ll be as short as me! Or, I’ll be a midget because the average height of a dutchie has risen so high that all seats are designed for giants lol
I started working at our local grocery store when I was 11. I think I made like 2 dutch guilders per hour. I wasn't treated very well, and the pay was less than a fifth of some of the adults that were doing the same job. That was in the 90s. It used to be very normal for kids to work small jobs from when they were 10-12 years old. Mostly babysitting, mail delivery, fruit picking. Probably today working at those ages is less common in the Netherlands, but it is certainly legal. Having a small job at 13 or 14 is not exceptional. Is it in the US? Probably there is a lot of difference between the states? One bizarre twist is that the Netherlands has no minimum wage for children under 15. You can legally hire them for one cent per hour. Or perhaps as free labor, I'm not sure any child has ever litigated for not being compensated. When I was 12, I helped my uncle sometimes (he was a carpet layer), he paid me 25 guilders per hour, like a regular employee :)
The Dutch height is actually area specific. So you have the most tall people mainly in the north (Friesland, Groningen and Drenthe) where men are easily above 6ft tall. However when you go south in Braband or Limburg, the height is much lower and more like the rest of Europe. So the very tall people in the north (and the ones with those genes walking in the rest of the country and seem like an exception) bring the total average so far up that the average height makes the Dutch overall still one of the tallest people on earth. This is also why on average the Dutch are the tallest nationally, but if you look at ethnical background there are certain small groups of people in the world who are actually much taller! :D Seriously, humans are amazing.
I will help you out. If you see water. And boats on it. And those boats aren't moving. Then you can be pretty sure it's a harbor! For next time. Also, great video as always
Little addition about drugs: Because its legal its probably a lot less cool compared to in most countries, for a lot of us weed is "an acquired taste" and not "a cool thing", the way most of us see it a joint isn't that far off from a good beer or good glass of wine, but it's something you either like or don't like. A fairly sizable portion of the population does smoke weed/hash but it's often just done at home (or near school during lunch break.. lols) so you don't really see it much & overall its actually surprisingly small numbers if you compare it with assumptions most people around the world (ourselves included) have made, for example in the last big survey they did on the population about this subject, "only" 1-2% of the country "smokes (nearly) daily", so that's not a whole lot, but then that same survey also says 76% of people between 16 and 35 have smoked weed at least a couple of times, so all things considered it does happen quite a lot, but most people just do it with a lot more moderation? Honestly, living only a stones throw away from Amsterdam, any time any American starts talking about drugs, "420" comes up (or worse, they are even wearing clothes with 420 etc) and i have to try prevent my eyes from rolling out of my head, that stuff is so pathetic lol, imagine being proud that you smoke drugs, American drug smokers are so sad lol, i get that they're happy they have some legal drugs now, but take it from somebody with 20+ years of experience, you can (obviously) enjoy it *_but it's not something to be proud of,_* "im doing drugs" is not a character trait you should be advertising 🤦♂
I’m Dutch and we smoked a lot when younger but it was in the house or in the garden so not on the street. If outside of the house it would be in the park.
The thing with the drugs is that (in my experience) because it's easily accessible it's not that big of a deal for us locals. Yeah sure we'll smoke something when we go out and with friends but it feels very similar to drinking. Some people do, some people don't. Both are chill. Whereas for tourists it's a very big deal, it's the thing u come to do. It's always on your mind.
Physical therapy after an accident is almost always covered by the basic health insurance. If you needed PT here you probably would not have to pay any out of pocket charges. Maaaaybe there'd be a small fee for special/specific meds/painkillers but then I'm talking 2 digits max. Not sure if I shared this before but appendectomy at age 30 added up to a total of 6500,-, of which I had to pay 0,-. Consults, ultrasound, anastetics, surgery, 2-3 days in the hospital, after care, getting stitches removed etc was all covered by my 150,- a month health insurance.
The big harbours in Rotterdam are outside the city now, Rotterdam is the biggest shipping port in Europe and was the biggest shipping port in the world before the Chinese ports grew and overtook them.
Yoooo happy Thursday!!! Hope you guys are doing well! Quick question.. are there strip clubs on the Netherlands!? Just wondering?
The Dutch healthcare system is based on a social system. Healthy people pay less and ill people pay more. NO ... the basic healthcare insurance is for everyone almost the same. You are free to have extra cover with your insurance. That is your own choice. So that why it is affordable for everyone. And people who really can't afford the whole amount of his insurance, they getting an addition from the gouvernement (zorgtoeslag).
Smoking weeds is "legal" when you buy and smoke in a coffeeshop. Smoking weed in public is officially not allowed. But the municipality/local authority certain the way of enforcement. This kind of law we call toleration law. Only 10% of Dutch people ever go to a coffeeshop. According to the agency CBS (The agency that monitors national activities)
In the Netherlands prostitution (Red Light District and Escort Service) is officially a profession. Those Woman and Man they have rights like employment condition, healthcare insurance and disability insurance (if they can't work, they also get a unemployment benefit). Yes ... they also have to pay taxes. The second reason why its legal and a profession is to protect them against human traffic, exploitation and other illegal things.
@@AdvdWyea definitely. I actually cut the explanation on this in the video because the video was sooooo long! Hahahah but yea you’re completely right..:)
stripclub: OQ at the Gravendijkwal 115. Rotterdam
@@AdvdWI was mainly talking about people who keep telling me that the Netherlands is fully under a socialist system to the point where they talk like it’s a communist country.. and I’m like.. really.. get out my face lol 😂
Are you asking for a friend?😂😂😂
Imagine an american saying "they have drugs everywhere" while their streets are full of homeless zombies😂
This. I live in a "bad neighbourhood" in the South of the Netherlands and it is heaven compared to what I see in the U.S.
@@harrym740 oooh man I know! Holy cow!
And drugs. It seems like is easier to get drugs in the US than in The Netherlands. When I was in the US in the nineties (in my thirties), everyone I spoke with had smoked weed or tried hard drugs, except me. They were all astonished because it was legal in The Netherlands, wasn’t it? I always had to tell it wasn’t legal, but allowed, in small amounts, but could easily be bought. Even the hard drugs. I have never used any kind of drugs other than medicines and alcohol.
I lived abroad for some time when I was young. One day I got really fed up with all those people asking about the supposed massive drug use in my country
So I started telling that in my country we had drugs lessons at school, as our government was of the opinion that if everyone was using anyway, at least they'd better learn how to determine whether the drugs was any _good_ (instead of substandard quality). Except that most of the time, those lessons were called off because the teacher was still too stoned from the previous hour.
And stopped it when I found out some people actually _believed_ me .
I don't think actual drug use is that much higher than in most other countries, but we do have that name.
@@RH-ro3sg Research after research that drug (abuse) is way higher in countries with strict laws upon them compared to those where it is more or completely legal. It seems Drugs being illegal has a lure on people especially youth. Also society has an influence your not seen as cool using it.
The Dutch aren't rude, we're direct. Huge difference. It's actually considered a matter of respect. For example, when I ask a person what they think of my new haircut/perfume/clothes/whatever and they lie to me, that's disrespect. Don't sugarcoat it! I don't need that. I can handle the truth. Lying to my face is rude. Being honest and direct is anything but rude.
The Dutch aren't direct, they're efficient. Inefficiency is equal to a religious sin. People hate lines that aren't straight, which you can see everywhere you look.
Cultures not as anal about efficiency call that direct.
Going to a different country and openly question whether they are rude or not while making use of their generous benefits, like tax breaks for expats is, of course, not rude at all.
Now try that in say, Teheran or Moscow. You'll get thrown in prison and most likely tortured - only to be put online to declare how hospitable and wonderful the people are...with one
or two black eyes and a few broken ribs of course.
Exactly! It's also way more rude to be late or not make it on the last second and leave people hanging than to decline an offer outright.
Dutch compliments:
Naar de kapper geweest? Wanneer maakt hij het af?
Been to the hairdresser? When will he finish it?
Nieuwe broek gekocht? Jammer dat ze je maat niet hadden!
New trousers? Nice, pity they didn't have your size.
I am an expat in Maastricht since 2018 and really all of my local coworkers are neither rude nor direct. Never ever. I would say, they all are very diplomatic and soft-spoken. In my role as a team leader, they never criticize me too harsh, when they "agree" in a certain minor undertone, it means they are not convinced while trying not to embarrass me in the group. I would say, it is very much like both in the Strasbourg and Brussels regions, where I worked before. I noticed this a lot of times.
Last weekend i flew from DC to Amsterdam. Plane full of dutchies and Americans. The plane broke down and we had to take an emergency landing, we all survived, but at the time we didn't knew that. The dutch accepted there faith and went quit but the americans where fighting it. Like saying to aircraft personel b**** if you dont this plane save at the ground i am gonna sue your ass or i demend you tell me what our chances are etc. Like why make the last seconds of your life an other person miserabel. It really baffles me
I come from the south of the Netherlands, a tip: Maastricht is also a beautiful area
Type walking in maastricht and you will see on youtube
You talk as if Dutch people never lose their shit I’ve seen so many crazy Dutch neighbors that I’m having a hard time to believe you that every Dutch in that plane stayed calm. Come back to reality.
@@MoonlightSonata160 Many dutch are not dutch......
'Rotterdam is known for their harbour or something..?' I love this understatement of the year. ;-) It's nr. 10 in tonnage worldwide, and nr.1 that's not in Asia. About 50% bigger than L.A.
From 1962 until 2004, it was the world's busiest port by annual cargo tonnage. It was overtaken first in 2004 by the port of Singapore, and since then by Shanghai and other very large Chinese seaports.. In the meanwhile country's built bigger ones, but yeah, small as we are, we use to have THE biggest.
Port Rotterdam is still the only harbour in the world that guide ship traffic in the same way as what become world wide and normal in air traffic.
I'm Dutch and I'm rude. I recently visited Paris and took my wife to see the Eiffel Tower. She wasn't feeling well that day so was mostly caring about her. But on the groundfloor there was this French lady of color changing the bags in the garbage bins. And there was this American (U.S. Citizen judging from his accent) shouting at this poor lady: "I'm a guest in your country". And when I say "shouting", I mean "SHOUTING".
It was very rude of me not to intervene in this situation. I could have gone up to this American and said "how would you like it if I came to your home and started demanding differential treatment at the top of my lungs -etc.". It was very rude of me not to do so.
Wtf does her race have to do with anything? You ARE rude and not in a good way.
@@NS-un5lzI take it you are unfamiliar with Paris' demographic multiculturalism? A search on the word "Banlieue" combined with "Paris" (and possibly "Riots") may shed some light on it for you.
Please also take note of the fact that I did not mention any particular ethnicity and or race. My wife is a person of colour, having proudly been born in Bangladesh.
@@NS-un5lzthe american propably think it s normal to shout and disrespect woman of color so it s verry important
The dutch have a very low tolerance for arrogance or people who think they are beter then others. And yeah... it was kind of weird and a racist mindset to mention her color without it having any added value. It was waiting for some racist remarks from the american. Why only mention her color? Weird but hey, most americans and recently more europeans have an obsession with race.
@@MarkudenAgain, I did not mention race at any point. "Woman of Color" is the most PC way of saying "possibly ethnically disadvantaged female" within French culture. "Of color" is the way African and Indian companies tend to refer to their customers in cosmetic adds - creams and lotions - not controlled by westen companies.
This is NOT a reference to "coloreds" or "colored" as used in the U.S. until well into the 1960s in the U.S.A.
You should respect being a person "of color" as a badge of honour. As a white person I keep having to defend my partial Jewish heritage despite my grandfather having died in a N@*I camp.
Well, speaking of hard work. My 24 year old daughter has a 2 year old son, studies at the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences (Design and Product Engineering), has a boyfriend (also takes time) and works 20 hours a week. She has one day off, which is Sunday, where she does a lot with her 2 year old sun. Man, I have so much respect for her.
damn, ik ook!
Aww, wil je een medaille, flapdrolletje? Zullen we het nieuws bellen?
jaaaa Uva net al mijn kleintje 25 jaar masters socio❤
socialist uni😂😂😂
Awesome.
As a Dutchie, what I also like about the directness: it's such relief to be open and honest about making mistakes or not understanding something. If you're in a meeting and something you or someone else did created a major problem, it's not easy but to just say: I made a mistake or I screwed up or I forgot, to just own up to what caused things to go awry. The energy is then focused on fixing the problem. Or to say: what exactly do you mean by that, I don't understand your point or what you're asking of me. This can be hard to ask in a meeting, but all of this saves so much time and in general people appreciate and respect it.
When Americans say "Socialism" they tend to mean Communism, but when a European says "Socialism" they tend to mean Democratic Socialism.
Social democracy... There is a difference.
People in the US can't conceive having a government working for the people and providing services in exchange for tax money, apparently.
@@Vanders456 yeeaaaa exactly!!! I said that but cut it!! I had to get the video down to from 40mins to 19
What is Social according to Cambridge dictionary: “relating to society and living together in an organized way”. That means taking care for one another.
But came from the Jew Karl Marx.
Great video I truly enjoyed it. As a half Dutch/Maroccan beeing born in the Netherlands I can say a lot of you're debunks are truly right. Love it, keep you're story going. You just got a new subscriber👍. Let's not forget to also make a lot of fun. It's what we do also besides Hard/effiently work 😉. Stay safe stay cool, I'm gonna wait till next video drops ✌
If you wanna learn to speak Dutch, just ask people to speak Dutch to you. And when you try to speak it, don't be affraid to make "stupid" mistakes. As a 66 year old Dutch male I'm more impressed with a foreigner trying then the ones just assuming you understand their tonque.
I like your vids young man, you have a good view of what's going arround here. 👍👍👍
Love it when americans try Dutch, it sounds so funny..
as a real proud dutch guy I would state that you should not bother learning dutch. everyone speaks english and the dutch language is spoken is so few countries that you better spend your time in learning spanish or chinese :) an native english speaking person learning chinese would impress most Dutch people much more then learning a little dutch :)
My son (now 28) started his first job at 14, just as I did.
Very common for younger teenagers to work in supermarkets
Once upon a paper time; delivering news papers in the early morning before school.
Or distributing house to house local news weekly with some extra advertising folders.
As a kid I got everything I needed, but for 'luxury' I had to safe pocket money or do a little job. Also teaches kids how to handle money, and that it doesn't come for free, you have choices to make in spending.
@@lolalilolily yea!! That’s so amazing! We can’t work at 14.. but I wish we could
@@lolalilolily now in the states… kids don’t work even at 16 anymore.. I mean they do.. but it’s very rare because everyone’s afraid. I remember working when I was 16 and the whole place was filled with teens in highschool.. now it’s just a bunch of old people working at movies and grocery stores :(
@@dutchman7623 ooh that’s so great! I bet you learned about money too! Which is nice!
The Netherlands has the lowest percentage of youth unemployment in all of Europe. Unemployment among the general population is also only a couple percent.
That is somewhat negated though by the highest percentage in Europe of people who work part-time . The Netherlands is a part-time champion and this causes shortages of workers in all kinds of sectors. Healthcare, schools, and construction are a couple big examples.
Well, I work at an American company as a Dutch person, and what strikes me is often the focus on short-term only, the lack of the willingness to bring structure in chaos, the lack of healthy bottom-to-top feedback and the inefficient social 'dances' you have to do. I guess every work culture has its pros and its cons.
Why would you pursuit a disciplined work culture inside a money laundering company?
And having to wade through 10x more emails a day
I'm British, but some years ago I spent nearly a year working for a Dutch company in Amsterdam. The contract hours were 8:30am to 5:30pm, with 30 minutes for lunch (which would be considered unusual for an office job here in the UK). But the company's stance was that they didn't mind if you came in at; say; 11 and went home at 4 as long as the work got done and deadlines were met.
Yeah that’s what I like about Dutch office culture. Of course there’s sometimes still meetings for the sake of meetings, but in general it’s just about doing the work. You don’t have to look busy, you don’t have to spend all day physically in the office, you just have to make your deadlines.
One other benefit of being direct is the top-down or bottom-up approach in businesses. The most succesfull way to accomplish a change within a business is doing it bottom-up. Only point is that it will take or can take very long. The top-down way is really quick but easily crashes. When a CEO in the Netherlands announces a top-down approach he will get immediate remarks from all people who think there are problems to be foreseen. And these employees can give their remarks in the elevator or in the canteen because they recognize the CEO and the CEO steps into the same elevator and has lunch in the same canteen. That's the difference and that is what makes companies in the Netherlands smart.
Sounds like you have done a masters in Management & Organisation 😀 Did you read The Goal by Elyahu Goldrath? And Lean Thinking by Womack and Jones?
As to healthcare, from a dutch person, we have a system of mandatory health insurance, much like the americans. There are 3 major differences.
1: our government set price controls on maximum price for basic insurance with a definition of what has to be in that coverage at least and a maximum on copays and deductables (collectively called personal risk here)
2: the insurance is personal, rather than tied to a job, so you cannot get trapped in a bad job by needing healthcare, nor lose your healthcare coverage from taking sick days
3: sick leave is legally protected at full pay, and our employees are actually ensured for their productivity loss from this.
wait, sick leave isn't legally protected at full pay is it? We don't get paid the first 1-2 days of sick leave, and then it goes from 70-90% pay (depending on your contract). Or am I misunderstanding what you meant?
@@michelvanderlinden8363 het is vanaf dag 1 vergoed tenzij je in je personeelscontract hebt ingestemd met 1 of 2 wachtdagen, en in dat geval kun je ze als nog vergoed krijgen door verlofdagen op te nemen.
@@shadeblackwolf1508 een verlofdag opnemen is een vrije dag wat in principe alsnog je eigen geld is. En ziekteverlof is dus in principe bepaald door je contract, en niet door de staat. Punt 3 klopt dus niet helemaal.
@@michelvanderlinden8363 Ziekte verlof is vanaf dag 1 wettig gedekt tenzij je contract 1 of 2 wachtdagen specificeert, die default maakt uit
Sick leave is legally protected to at least 70% of your wage up to 2 years of sick leave. If you get more this is part of your companies regulation or collective labor agreement (CAO). The same counts for not getting paid for the first or second day of sick leave. This is not standard and usually is only applied through company regelation or CAO in branches where there is a lot of frequent sort term sick leave (more than average).
Nice vid dude 👍 I like your style, your voice and your chilness :)
This reminds me of one time I was smoking weed in the train (I'm dutch), wayyy back in the day ^^ There was like 25-30 min till the next stop, and I stood up and asked all 6-7 ppl in the cabin if they would mind if I lit up.. All quiet. When the conductor came, and he told me I'm not allowed to smoke here, I said something like "only if ppl mind, and I asked everyone here". One guy raised his hand and said "well, actually I do mind", and the conductor said to him "Well, too bad, you should have said something when he asked" and just continued on 😂😂
Lachuuu!
The Netherlands runs what is called the 'Care State'. By this we want a capitalistic system that enables people, but catches the poor and weak.
For example, it regulated education for children. Social security for low income. Basic pensions for the elderly.
However, every rule has requirements. For example, to get that pension, you need to have paid a number of decades of income tax.
Many subsidies are income dependant.
Unemployment benefits shrink to 0 if you don't apply often or take any job within X time period.
Many discounts and benefits automatically apply if you have children, allowing you to spend more of your income on your childrens needs.
If anything happens to you, we believe government can be your safety net. Rather than you being hungry, homeless or struck by something medical.
Care system is transformed in participation state. Work for your money but faciliate circumstances that people from all layers and with all kinds of disabilities can partipcipate in stead of being hospitalised and helpless
Id say we are a capicalist system, with underlying socialist applications in some situations to keep costs down and try to protect the more vulnerable where needed. And if Im honest, it's not a perfect system, but it's a very acceptable middleground in a lot of areas.
@@michelvanderlinden8363 Totally agree! I'm very grateful and happy to live in Holland 👍😍
I realy enjoy watching you're content, its refreshing hearing how you apreciate the little things us dutchie's take fore granted. You'r vieuw of us is spot on, recocnizing myself in a lot of what you're saying. Great job, keep it up bro.
Once it's legal to do something, that edge is gone, it becomes less interesting for a lot of people. Specially for teenagers and young adults, it's often those things your are not allowed to do or are forbidden to do, that are most interesting to try.
And those against it, started information campaigns, so everyone knows the dangers and effects.
Openly discussing about it, prevents a lot.
This, and once so.wthing is legal, there can be more regulation and taxation.
@@dutchman7623 Case in point (a moral but not a really a legal problem) being teenage pregnancies. The Netherlands has one of the lowest figures per capita in the world, the USA easily makes the top ten of highest.
The Dutch East India Company (VOC) was founded in 1602. Because the VOC was also established in the countries with which it traded, the VOC is also called the first multinational in the world so basically we invented the whole concept...
We also invented the stock exchange - can't get more capitalist than that.
Yes slavery and spice trade was quite international :P Stock market helps in that regard as well.
@@randar1969 At least we can all sleep now knowing China is doing a much better job in Africa currently...
@@evdweide That is the worst invention ever.
Soapbubble money.
@@evdweideStock Exchange comes from either Antwerp or Bruges but the share based stock exchange indeed is from Amsterdam. The first company share was handed out in Enkhuizen early 1600s.
The beurs from Hendrick de Keyser opened its doors on the Rokin. Nothing remembers us about it. Not even a plaquette or a sign. As if Amsterdam erased its past.
Lol socialist hehehe, Americans tend to not understand the term socialism, as all social systems within a country are considered proof of a country being socialist. Universal Heal Care is the main one that makes Americans state this. You should in future if you hear anyone say this, ask them what socialism is, let them define that and afterwards explain what socialism actually is, than ask them again if a social system that functions in nearly 90 or so percent of the world is any indication of socialism ? I am sure they might see the error this way.
Keep in mind that the Americans still have a lot of anti-communism rhetoric. And they include socialism in that.
We barely talk about communism in Western Europe, but Americans are still a bit obsessed with it.
The fact that some far-leftists in the U.S. actually promote communism does not help.
There's actual socialism, aka the workers owning the means of production, and there's the vague overarching term that is so broad it almost meaningless. A lot of these people will claim that socialism is a spectrum, meaning any social welfare policy somehow makes a country more socialist.
The oldest hospital in the Netherlands was there for travelers, pilgrims and all those with dubious health. Just outside the town walls. Financed by the town citizens who didn't want contamination to spread through the town. They were offered a bed, food, clean water, and care. Doing good to those in need was seen as an obligation. This is around 1230. Soon followed by welfare care for the poor within the town, run by monks and nuns, but financed by the community.
I read the GOP agenda for this election, and it’s full of stuff about removing socialists and communists in the government and education. And it scares me a bit, because often it just seems like anyone a Republican disagrees with might be a socialist or communist. I’ve seen Harris and Walz get called socialists, Obama was supposedly a socialist. It’s so meaningless in the US. The red scare has never really ended.
@@LalaDepala_00 McCarthyism + American Exceptionalism
Modern capitalism originated here, in the Dutch Republic in the late 1500's and early 1600's. A lot of elements had already being going on in Flanders earlier, but public stock companies, de facto central banking and a lot of financial and insurance products completed it. Upward social mobility and proto industrialization came about around the same time.
Socialism has different versions, social-democrats take a lot from it and would often call themselves socialists, and even sang 'the internationale'. But socialism is a political system and capitalism is a system of productivity, they are not mutually exclusive and even the communist countries of the past could not do without state capitalism yet. For the 2nd half of the 20th century, the Netherlands was mostly governed by social-democrats, who work within and with capitalism, and "christian democrats" who are social in many ways too. This century we are dominated by neoliberals rather than proper capitalism, and that hurts. That is free market intervention by government in favour of the big corporations, not genuinely capitalist.
On behalf of the whole country thank you for telling it the way it is ❤
You're the only TH-camr whose facial expressions on the thumbnails match your actual facial expresssions. I salute you, sir.
Dutch, 51, never smoked in my life, certainly not weed, and I’m no exception. In my entire life, I’ve only known two persons, a co-worker and her partner, to smoke weed regularly. Drugs and prostitution are not necessarily legal, but legalized. Because everything that is out in the open is easier to control, think human trafficking and drugs kartels, and it is taxed so money-laundering is next to impossible. We are the tallest people in the world, that doesn’t mean that we’re all extremely tall, it simply means that we’re taller than average (175,62cm / 5ft 7,96 inches). I’m only 1,64 but I have at least three people in my closest family/friend circle that measure close to 2m (6.56ft). And as for the rudeness, of course we’ve got jerks here too, but most people prefer honest, direct conversation, especially in the west of the country, in the eastern and northern provinces, communication is not as straight forward.
Dude, really like your positvity! First video i whated. Will definitely watch other video's!
Do you know that at 8:07, you showed the first high rise building in Europe. It's called the white house and was build in 1898.
Large cities used to have quite a large heroin problem in the ‘80s. But then this huge methadon programme was rolled out, and most people got off the heroin. The Netherlands is big on XTC producing and in the dance scene pills are popular. But we don’t have the oxy or meth problems like the States.
Just supersaying, i like your video's and your laughter makes me smile everytime! Keep it up buddy!
you kinda dont see locals at coffeeshops because we just take it away and smoke it in the comfort of our own home. Also weed doesnt make you like a zombie like fennie does to people in the states. Also regarding weed being legal: its sold legally, you can have a max of 5grams on you and it isnt considered a crime. Regarding most other drugs, possession of an user sized amount and using it doesnt get you in trouble (you may still be rejected from clubs if they find it or see you're on them), only the selling of substances is highly illegal
Exactly, same!
Also, for cannabis use, and drug use in general, the Netherlands is a bit average in Europe. Cannabis use in the Netherlands is on par with Germany, higher than in Scandinavia and Switzerland, but much much lower than in Belgium, France, Spain, the U.K. and the US.
Also the quality of illegal drugs is high in the Netherlands because we have the harbours of Rotterdam and Antwerp nearby for heroine and cocaine, and we are the top producers of cannabis in Europe and of amphetamine and MDMA in the world. Meaning we are very close to the production line, with few pollution by cutting the drugs. This reflects also in methamphetamine never becoming popular here for example, because there is enough affordable high quality amphetamine. And addiction medicine is available to everyone, including people suffering from addiction and homelessness.
Weed is... interesting here. Buying and selling it is legal, growing it is not. It is "tolerated" to smoke it outside, however it isn't legal. If the police suspect you of anything, and they see you smoking weed, they are allowed to search you due to you using substance outdoors (the same goes for drinking outdoors). Its insanely rare for this to happen though, and thats why a lot of people think it's just legal here. It isn't. Its kind of weird how it works. But at least it works :D
@@michelvanderlinden8363 Producing, possession, selling, buying, importing and exporting of weed is illegal in the Netherlands. Even at home or in a coffeeshop. The only company that has a license to produces THC containing cannabis is Bedrocan and they only sell on prescription via the Transvaal pharmacy in Den Haag.
Buying in the coffeeshop or growing up to five plants at home is also illegal, but tolerated if you don’t cause any nuisance. But the police can still confiscate that weed at will, even if you follow those “rules”. Hundreds of people are evicted from their homes and black listed for social renting each year for having more than 5 plants.
And the mayor can close any coffeeshop at will, it is not legally protected like other businesses. The coffeeshops are heavily involved either organised crime anyway, since they have to find that 500 grams of illegally produced cannabis at their back door several times a day.
The only thing that is not illegal is using cannabis, but that is the case for all illegal drugs. Reason for this is to ensure people won’t hesitate to ask help when using an illegal substance causes serious health issues.
@@michelvanderlinden8363 We now have legal weed farms, "staatswiet".
its always nice to hear people from the state living in Nederland, talking about the country, and your where in Rotterdam the City where i was born and grow up, so nice, thanks for your video
There's a difference between working and working hard. Basically they get 8 hrs of work done. And normally we don't dilly-dally, ever.
they also think we all have tulips in our hair, walk on wooden shoes, while eating cheese
I am Canadian.. Many Americans still think, that we have year
round snow and live in igloos. lol...
4 years in the Netherlands, time to learn dutch.
@@FHSlobbe heck yea! Already got my teacher!!!
@@FHSlobbe and I ask people questions and trying to speak it more everyday!
@@FHSlobbe but you guys make it hard.. as soon as I speak.. you guys switch to English! 😂
I know I’m bad but dang am I that bad!? lol
@@ItzSKYVlogs Excellent!! Just insist on talking dutch, izzy, and keep trying!
@@ItzSKYVlogs some Dutch classic childrens books are amazing to read even as an adult and a nice way of learning Dutch. Try Anne Frank(ofcourse), Koning van Katoren, Kruistocht in spijkerbroek and any Roald Dahl book in Dutch.
Roald Dahl is British ofcourse, but most Dutch kids(and adults) read books from this writer and the translation to Dutch is excellent.
Exactly, when i was 8 and very active in helping in making the house clean and do chores and working in our garden we grow vegetables. And when i was 12 i brought newspapers in my village i worked in the bulbs and i was babysitter so. The dutch are very hard workers. My parents had an own bussines in selling concert tickets with a bus ticket. And i was also involved in the business and was catering in the bus. And after the concert cleaning the bus. The dutch are hard workers period! 😎
Some U S. family of ours , called my daughter a nazi because she said she preferred a socialist society. Do Americans learn about the difference between socialism , communism and social democracy?
They learn shit about geography nor history
Dang, nzi is so out of pocket in that context. Gdang
@@infj4w511National Sozialismus. Not out of pocket at all.
Your family member wasn't wrong. Seems you don't know what a socialist country is.
@@NS-un5lz Someone certainly doesn't and it's not OP...
That's funny that you mention rudeness. Until your comment, the only time I've heard someone mention rudeness and the Dutch was from my friend who is Dutch, and came to the southern portion of the US in her mid- 20s. I'm sure it's that directness thing. People say the same about people from the northeastern US. They also don't get dry humor. No matter how absurd a comment you make, there are still so many people who will take you seriously. 🤠🤠☕
@@1pinestreet hahahaha that’s so funny!! I know exactly what you mean about the south vs the north. Lol 😂
@@1pinestreet I heard a lot of that when I was living in Georgia
'directness' and 'rudeness' are two different things, though I can understand how someone from another culture could interpret our directness as rudeness.
Unfortunately, in my opinion there also are some Dutch that are actually rude, but that try to pass off their rude behaviour as being direct.
Haha, lovely video again! I'm glad you're addressing these assumptions!
@@phyliciajoykloes wow thanks so much! So happy you enjoyed the video!
@@phyliciajoykloes this was a video I had to make.. so when I had that zoom call… that was the push. 😂
one thing I see in your videos is that it is very clean and peaceful there, and that is a huge plus
We definitely do have homeless folks sleeping in tents here, although it tends to be outside of the city centers (usually in more secluded areas) and it's likely way fewer people, relative to the population, than it seems to be in the US.
Now we even have 'bin divers' looking for cans and bottles with return money. But poverty is not as harsh and visible as in the US.
The Netherlands is, by and large, a social democratic country that follows capitalist principles.
I’m still not sure when or why socialism and communism got mixed up to mean the same thing in Americans’ brains but here we are.
Communism is a form of socialism. National socialism is also a form of socialism.
It's sad the netherlands getting influenced by US BS. It ruins what we had.
I am Dutch.. born, raised and still living in Rotterdam.. and 'rude' LOL. I love your videos and I tell my USA friends about them.
I am happy you love this country.
Some info about the inner harbours in Rotterdam.
Where you were standing, Oude Haven, Kubuswoningen.. Markthal, is where the river de Rotte was in the ancient time.
This city 's name is Rotte-r-Dam so to speak... Dam at the ( river) Rotte.
Amsterdam is Dam at the (river) Amstel.
I live on the East side of Rotterdam, a 3 minutes walk to where the original river still flows, my house is almost 7 meters below sea level.
The river went through Rotterdam, but 1. they built a dam in ancient times so the direction changed and in / after WW II they put the debris · rubble from the Bombings on our City in the river..
and rebuilt the City on top of that.
They are still planning to create a stream, small, but visible through the city where the original River Rotte was...
I love your channel. You show america differences with other society. You know how to show it in a funny but also clear way! Top! 👌
Love your comments. Please tell more about the weather.
My theory for tall ppl is: We live mostly below sea level so if we're tall enough we can keep our head above water without problems when things go verry wrong XD
Funny!😂
hahaha geweldig!
Hey! Good to see some Rotterdam sites in your video! (coming from an expat [South African] living in Rotterdam)
@@LazyManJoe whaaat you live in Rotterdam! Aaahh I freaking love Rotterdam!
@@LazyManJoe if I could vlog there every week I would! Hahahah
I love SA ever since I visited in 2011 for the first time, 2018 for the second time.
Through my job (I work for a bank) I got acquainted with several SA people from the African cycle team.
Some of them came to live in the Netherlands because of the current (economic) situation in SA.
When I was walking my dogs a young couple approached me. Because of their accent I asked them where they're from. SA! They live(d) across the street.
They loved my dogs, and we chatted frequently. Haven't seen them in a while, so I reckon they moved, since they told me they bought a house in the middle of the Netherlands. Good for them✌🏽
great video, but.... do you know that at 5:10 you walked next to an inportant building, during the war, one of the few buildings still standing. if you look closely again if you in the neighborhood. there are still bullit holes of the battle of the bridges.
@@eobi-edobi4275 nooooo I didn’t!!! (Checking out time code)
Oooohhh I see it!!! Ahhh man!!! I didn’t even know! I’m over here talking about Jackie Chan and mean while im missing so much good history.
Wow.. thanks so much for sharing. I may try to go back next week. 🙏 thank you!
@@ItzSKYVlogs oh ok, no problem man, if you like things about history, you almost stumble on very old history, next time when you in the train station Blaak. there is a part of the old city wall. they found it when digging out the tunnel. i believe is from around 1250, they put it back on the place where the found it,. soo cool to see, and think about it for a minute or so. let the history sink in....
@@eobi-edobi4275 Yes, bullet holes as a silent token to remember...
Could be plastered over and forgotten, but now they remind those who pass by, without being 'in your face'.
He went to Schiedam😊
6:32 you are correct. It is called 'Oude haven' = old haven just you in the 🇺🇲 have a place called New Haven. Don't forget Rotterdam had a lot more canals and waterways before ww2 and the moustached painter from Austria was having a good time. A lot of canals were filled up with the rubble of the blitz. Where you were walking you still can find the old innercity back via streetnames. Wijnhaven = docks were vats of wine were went ashore. Fruithaven were fruits came. Kolk behind Blaak station et cetera
Bigger docks are situated closer to sea. They've build Maasvlakte 1 and 2 in Sea
As a British man who visits Rotterdam on the regs (my 15 Yr old son was born and raised there)...I find it to be both Vibrant, friendly and culturally diverse...whilst simultaneously being often generic (specially the phrasing of linguistics), sterile (certain spaces appear quite soulless) and a sterness (emotionally speaking). Though Love the architectural mixes , cultural/musical hubs,dance scene and the large international community (either studying or working there - Which has grown exponentially in the last 10 yrs.)
All in all a great place to raise a child.
Hello Sky , love watching your vlogs . You're such a nice guy.
As a Dutchie i had to Google some of the slang words like pippin but i like how you speak. It is so amusing. Keep on vlogging. Greetings from Roermond
@@hummel3479 heeey wow thanks so much! Thank you so much for watching
@@hummel3479 I get so happy when I get to get out and vlog.
@@hummel3479 I’ll definitely keep vlogging. Also sorry you had to google the slang. Hahahah
@@ItzSKYVlogsyou look happy when vlogging! Im just super sayin
I have lived in the Netherlands for my entire 61 year life and as far as I know I've only met one person who was addicted to drugs. He was an American.
Fun fact: The building with the ALEX sign you look at at 8 minutes and 7 seconds into the video is called Het Witte Huis (The White House) and was the highest skyscraper in Europe back when it was built.
Also the first.
@@apveening "Also the first."
Thát I didn't know, thanks. In my defence, they were barely scraping any skies back then, ghehehe.
If you use : when you're trying to point something out it turns into a link. 8:07 8.07
@@VluggeJapie22 Ah, cool, thanks.
@@kingoftherain 🤙
Also, about dutch being tall, yes we are being tall, but this is how: when you measure the length of every people in a country and take the average length for that country, the Dutch will be at the top of that list. We do have some shorter people obviously, but most people here are taller than others. Its above average. Not by an extreme much length, but by quantity of people being longer than others.
Don't forget that not everywhere in the country there is the same average height, the more northerly you get in the country the taller we become
I start working at 10 years old in 1974 in a petshop in Haarlem , Wednesday afternoon and saturday , from my 16 year a work fultime 6 days a week , i am now 60 , 7 years to go.
When do you come to visit Groningen?
The Netherlands is not only Amsterdam and Rotterdam!!!
There are also Drenthe, Groningen, Friesland etc....
But Groningen is the best and als friendliest😉👌
Precies Groningen is geweldig ❤
I am a black woman who wants to visit areas outside of the Randstad area but I am scared of racism. Which areas do you recommend that aren't racist/xenophobic towards people of color, besides the one's you listed (Drenthe, Groningen, Friesland)?
@@smithhbea Hai I 'm also a black woman and living for 22 years in Appingedam.
A city in Groningen. Look it up.
Never had anyone let me know I'm from another rase.
Almost all of my friends are white.😊
@@smithhbea Nowadays, it's only really the smallest towns that have overt racism. Nobody will bat an eye in any of the province capitals, except maybe Assen? Start in the capital cities, Leeuwarden, Maastricht, Groningen, Zwolle, Amersfoort, Eindhoven etc are all great to spend a day in. Just skip Drenthe lol
@@Lemmy_Kilturtle Ok thanks, I won't go to Assen. I wanted to go to Enschede, Wageningen, and Tilburg. Are those ok places to visit as a black woman? I am going to the Netherlands next week.
I'm Dutch, and I've been visting the states for close to twenty years now, it just seems every year I visit now... things are worse with homelessness, drug abuse & violence. It truely saddends me, I have very fond memories about proposing to my wife in San Francisco about twelve years ago... we wandered through the entire city and it was great. My last visit 3 years ago.... I quickly took a u-turn and gave up on trying to walk down memorylane as there was so much grief everywhere.....
Hey Sky, I tried to give you an answer of some topics. 😁 I really like your channel and watch almost every video. Keep up the good work. 👍
Fun fact; the Dutch health care insurances are fully privatized, just regulated, compared to the American system which isn't.
Oh man, did you also visit the Koopgoot (near the Cube houses)? That's where they filmed the car flying down a flight os stairs in the same movie.
Hahaha, I often see you filming at the railway viaduct Kruisweg-Stationsplein in Haarlem. I recognize so much of what you film.
😂In Who Am I Jacckytoight me how to properly get of my bike! In the movie he also borrows a recumbent bycicle. As he arrives somewhere he fully hits the breaks and catapults himself very elegantly off the bike. I use a recumbent as my first bike for decennia, but seeing him doing that mad this my preferred way of getting off the bike. First stopping and then climbing off takes much more effort.
Gor 10s of years I do thisultiple times per day now.
Granted, I don't added his subsequent pirouette but still.
Thanks Jacky!
Thank you for reminding :):) we are an amazing country 😊 we work hard and efficient and we have so much respect for each other despite differences, proud to be Dutch 🇳🇱🇳🇱🇳🇱
🇳🇱🇳🇱🇳🇱❤We are proud
By heritage we're a nation of sailors and farmers. You can see it in all our sayings and proverbs, they're all about ships/sailing/farming... or the weather. And that's the perfect recipe to end up with very cut-to-the-chase direct communicating people. :P
Nice to hear your experiences, as a Dutch it is nice to hear, Yes I am very Tall, but I am from the north....there are more like that than south
exactly. I red a few studies that Americans work crazy amount of hours and have almost no free days per year but the work is not efficient. If you look at the hours spend at work, then yes, the dutch can be called lazy. If you look the amount of productivity per person, then it kind of equals but in way less hours. Some indicate that working a lot of hours just makes you less efficient because you get more (brain) tired and thus becomes less productive. food for thought :)
I like your videos, it's interesting to see your take on the Netherlands as a native Dutchie. I've been to NYC in 2009 and Las Vegas in 2011, to be honest I liked Las Vegas because it's clean and ppl come there to party/gamble, but NYC? Maybe Manhattan and some other areas... but we were students back then, stupid and broke. We stayed in Harlem and went to the Bronx to check it out, we were pretty shocked, the poverty, gangs and drugs was astonishing. Even the better areas, homelessness and it felt dirty. I don't get it why ppl call the city amazing. I know many big cities have some kind of problem but the US feels way off in my opinion. I've been to Tokyo and even with the homeless people it feels safe, NYC did not.
I think we have legalised the selling of cannabis to a certain maximum per person. The funny part is that we creation of cannabis for sale is currently still forbidden, so the frontdoor (selling to people through coffeeshops) is legal, but the distribution to the coffeeshop is done by the backdoor (read: not fully legal). But we are working on it…
The Netherlands is all about - I let you do what you do, when you leave me to do want I want to do.
Socialist vs capitalist is not a dichotomy. You can have a mostly market economy where certain things are regulated. It's not a binary choice. This is the thing some US Americans can't seem to grasp.
Most people that smoke weed or whatever do it at home. Because that's the best place to relax. If you smoke in the open.... it could cause an argument or a fight because you just want to chill out.
USA has more socialist systems than the Netherlands! Postal services for example, the VA healthcare and Medicaid. Plus many utilities are provided by government agencies in the USA, while almost all utilities here in the Netherlands are privatized.
The NS has a very similar structure to Amtrack, where it is a privatized company but with the government being the only shareholder. Our healthcare is privatized, our postal services are privatized plus water, electricity, internet and gas are all privatized.
National parks in the USA are mostly funded by congress while in the Netherlands it is mostly non profit organizations like natuurmonumenten or water companies like PWN who pay for the upkeep and 3ven own the land. There are state subsidies obviously, but still more private involvement.
As fast as I know, the water companies aren’t privatized. Or I must have missed something.
They have a similar construct to the NS, where they are privatised, but the shares are all owned by the local government, such as municipalities and provinces.
PWN, Dunea, Vitens and many others are privatized, in a corporate structure called NV or naamloze vennootschap. To be fair, the main shareholders are usually provinces and or other government agencies. My father worked for PWN and was involved in the privatization process in the 1990s.
Another excellent video. Enjoying learning about the Dutch.
A lot of people from the US (and other countries) only think of Amsterdam when they think of the Netherland and when they do they only think of all the stereotypes. And thanks for calling our country the Netherlands and not Holland!! And thanks for this video. You have such a cheerful personality! 😃
a quick explanation about the coffee shop:
In the Netherlands you are allowed to have 5 grams of weed with you for personal use. The strange thing for the coffee shop is that they are allowed to sell the weed but not to grow it, so it is actually not allowed. Due to the Tolerance Criteria for coffee shops
For the sale of weed and hash, coffee shops must adhere to rules (the tolerance criteria). A coffee shop must meet the following conditions:
No more than 5 grams of soft drugs may be sold per person per day.
No hard drugs may be sold.
No soft drugs may be sold to minors.
Minors may not be allowed into a coffee shop.
No alcohol may be served.
No advertising for drugs and the coffee shop may be made.
No nuisance may be caused to the environment.
The commercial stock may not exceed 500 grams.
No access for or sales to anyone other than residents of the Netherlands.
Little addition about healthcare, basically Dutch healthcare system is most easily described as a mandatory subscription, the government demands that we get it (from some company, theres a bunch of options) and regardless what company we choose we pay ~140 bucks a month. If somebody can not afford that they do get completely free healthcare. When you have healthcare and go to the doctor/hospital, 99% of costs are covered, but some non-medical things (the food? honestly not sure) are not. If you go there when you do not have health care they will still help you, at the same time they will try get you healthcare, if you really don't qualify for any of the government aid then its decided that you f-ed up by not following the law, suddenly you get american healthcare prices of several thousands for some basic stuff.
While the monthly fee keeps rising and we're all unhappy about that, overall i couldn't be happier with this system, because its so standard and ive been doing so all my life i really dont mind paying that amount monthly & it sure is nice to have access to great healthcare and get almost no bills for it. A couple of years ago i woke up with some breathing issues so went to general practitioner which sent me to hospital, had some xrays taken and turned out to be a collapsed lung, they instantly shoved me in a wheelchair and put me on a floor full of coughing old men (lol), instantly got small surgery (drilling a hole in my chest lol) and staying for observation & at the end of all that i had to pay 40 bucks 🤷♂
Come to the city Breda in the south, is is 1,5 hours by train from Haarlem. My friend from Haarlem visited me by train, yesterday. Breda is so much slow.. more Bourgondië.. relaxed people.. water around the inner city.. I would say.. come and make a video here! You are welcome!
By the way, I'm from Rotterdam. And it has been the biggest Harbour in the world. Since a couple of years it is one of the biggest and the biggest in Europe.
I live in the Nederlands for about 10 years I had 2 dutch neighbours who smoked weed like crazy. It was so bad that the smoke would penetrate through the ceiling into my house. I have asthma and smoke would often make it worse. This by the way was in the middle of a city area. We moved closer up to the German border and now we hear people selling drugs in the middle of the night in a children's park. About healthcare it could not be worse. Because it's mandatory to have a healh insurance and all health insurance company's are private. They change what your doctor prescribe you with the cheapest medicine that has the same main substance. I use an asthma inhalator for over 20 years that's the one that works for me but my healthcare provider won't give it because it has an extra substance and the cheap one does not work. There is 1 euro difference in price. I even got a special prescription from my doctor saying they should give me my old one but nope they won't. I have to pay for my medicine eventho I pay for health insurance and all companies here does the same. What's more often is that if you have a complicated health related issue the doctors would see you but for a limited time. So lets say 10 minutes pass and u still have other health related issues, the doctor would often ask you to come for a second appointment. And wait times are long like couple months long. I have a relative that's taking pain medicine for a year and needs to get surgery, he is on a wait list for 4 months non the less they miss diagnosed him for a year.... There is alot of good stuff here in the Nederlands but drugs/weed or heathcare aint one of them. Don't get me wrong I have watched some of your video's before. It's just I don't like false information and unfortunately youtube algorithm keeps sending your video's my way. Talk about real stuff like the student loan, renters rights, sick leave, unemployment support, homeless shelters or disability support those are nice things about the Nederlands.
I like you! You tell it like you see it! great job!! But me as a dutchie also have a lot of thoughts about Americans... so I guess it's only human and it's great that you are honest instead of telling everyone what is wrong with the Netherlands like some youtubers... So you can stay!
Hi, I'm from the island of Curacao (part of the Dutch Kingdom) and have been to the Netherlands a couple of times. I've to admit that I love the city of Rotterdam.
Hi, you are often in Rotterdam and next time think of visiting Historic Delfshaven, the Pilgrim fathers left from there, you can find a beer brewery and a windmill and our national hero Piet Heijn is born there.. It is a former harbor from Delft and goes back to 1389, so a lot of history for you to find there. Keep up the good work. :)
You should make a video about farming in the Netherlands. (Efficiency) we are one of the smaller country’s in the world but produce a lot of flowers, bellypeppers, tomatoes. Watch it up and be mindblown (sorry for my poor grammatical)
Your zoom friends need to watch your videos.
With respect to free healthcare. It is not free and you pay your monthly insurance and a portion from your income. Both employer and employee pay a percentage. As for me my contribution, wage monthly insurance and self contribution, it ran up to 9000€ annually.
It need to be rephrased, ACCESS to healthcare is free for all.
Love your videos
The Netherlands has a lot of Asian food, so you came to the right country, tall most people are average, I'm small, only 187 cm. getting enough calcium in your food, milk & Cheese as a small kid helps you grow normally. Rude??: No we are HONEST. Telling lies/pretending/fake is RUDE.
You, my friend, are not short. Talk to me when you can’t comfortably put your feet on the ground when sitting because you’re too short to reach the floor all the way. On any seat, chair, couch, bench anywhere. Then you’ll be as short as me!
Or, I’ll be a midget because the average height of a dutchie has risen so high that all seats are designed for giants lol
I started working at our local grocery store when I was 11. I think I made like 2 dutch guilders per hour. I wasn't treated very well, and the pay was less than a fifth of some of the adults that were doing the same job. That was in the 90s. It used to be very normal for kids to work small jobs from when they were 10-12 years old. Mostly babysitting, mail delivery, fruit picking. Probably today working at those ages is less common in the Netherlands, but it is certainly legal. Having a small job at 13 or 14 is not exceptional. Is it in the US? Probably there is a lot of difference between the states? One bizarre twist is that the Netherlands has no minimum wage for children under 15. You can legally hire them for one cent per hour. Or perhaps as free labor, I'm not sure any child has ever litigated for not being compensated. When I was 12, I helped my uncle sometimes (he was a carpet layer), he paid me 25 guilders per hour, like a regular employee :)
Even if we worked less, isn't that a good thing? We don't put so much value in working hard, we put value in enjoying our lives
The Dutch height is actually area specific. So you have the most tall people mainly in the north (Friesland, Groningen and Drenthe) where men are easily above 6ft tall.
However when you go south in Braband or Limburg, the height is much lower and more like the rest of Europe. So the very tall people in the north (and the ones with those genes walking in the rest of the country and seem like an exception) bring the total average so far up that the average height makes the Dutch overall still one of the tallest people on earth.
This is also why on average the Dutch are the tallest nationally, but if you look at ethnical background there are certain small groups of people in the world who are actually much taller! :D
Seriously, humans are amazing.
Thank You. For this beautiful and honest video.
I will help you out. If you see water. And boats on it. And those boats aren't moving. Then you can be pretty sure it's a harbor! For next time. Also, great video as always
@@NunTheLass Hahaah thanks!!
@@NunTheLass I just didn’t wanna assume 😂
Little addition about drugs:
Because its legal its probably a lot less cool compared to in most countries, for a lot of us weed is "an acquired taste" and not "a cool thing", the way most of us see it a joint isn't that far off from a good beer or good glass of wine, but it's something you either like or don't like.
A fairly sizable portion of the population does smoke weed/hash but it's often just done at home (or near school during lunch break.. lols) so you don't really see it much & overall its actually surprisingly small numbers if you compare it with assumptions most people around the world (ourselves included) have made, for example in the last big survey they did on the population about this subject, "only" 1-2% of the country "smokes (nearly) daily", so that's not a whole lot, but then that same survey also says 76% of people between 16 and 35 have smoked weed at least a couple of times, so all things considered it does happen quite a lot, but most people just do it with a lot more moderation?
Honestly, living only a stones throw away from Amsterdam, any time any American starts talking about drugs, "420" comes up (or worse, they are even wearing clothes with 420 etc) and i have to try prevent my eyes from rolling out of my head, that stuff is so pathetic lol, imagine being proud that you smoke drugs, American drug smokers are so sad lol, i get that they're happy they have some legal drugs now, but take it from somebody with 20+ years of experience, you can (obviously) enjoy it *_but it's not something to be proud of,_* "im doing drugs" is not a character trait you should be advertising 🤦♂
I’m Dutch and we smoked a lot when younger but it was in the house or in the garden so not on the street.
If outside of the house it would be in the park.
that harbour is called the old harbour, its the place to go in summer and enjoy nice drinks and good food with friends.
The thing with the drugs is that (in my experience) because it's easily accessible it's not that big of a deal for us locals. Yeah sure we'll smoke something when we go out and with friends but it feels very similar to drinking. Some people do, some people don't. Both are chill.
Whereas for tourists it's a very big deal, it's the thing u come to do. It's always on your mind.
Physical therapy after an accident is almost always covered by the basic health insurance. If you needed PT here you probably would not have to pay any out of pocket charges. Maaaaybe there'd be a small fee for special/specific meds/painkillers but then I'm talking 2 digits max. Not sure if I shared this before but appendectomy at age 30 added up to a total of 6500,-, of which I had to pay 0,-. Consults, ultrasound, anastetics, surgery, 2-3 days in the hospital, after care, getting stitches removed etc was all covered by my 150,- a month health insurance.
The big harbours in Rotterdam are outside the city now, Rotterdam is the biggest shipping port in Europe and was the biggest shipping port in the world before the Chinese ports grew and overtook them.
No you're right. I find it annoying if someone would not turn up while saying before the tjey would. I would really be mad
Litterly rolling one while u said we don’t do a lot of drugs 😂🙌🏻
Always my support man!
Edit: Now see you were in Rotterdam! Nicee
I must say the way you put your videos together wow