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  • @wowmao
    @wowmao  ปีที่แล้ว +1244

    took out anything the youtube algorithm can deem harmful (hopefully)
    what do you think?

    • @Amharizz
      @Amharizz ปีที่แล้ว +67

      I can’t think

    • @moneymanofficial
      @moneymanofficial ปีที่แล้ว +69

      Luxembourg is against tos

    • @AardvarkRS
      @AardvarkRS ปีที่แล้ว +12

      I loved the part 1 I think this one will be even better
      Edit: I THOUGHT IT WAS A SEQUEL NOOOOO

    • @IdiotToonz
      @IdiotToonz ปีที่แล้ว +2

      cool

    • @anzorunono4967
      @anzorunono4967 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Will you reupload the vids on second channel or are these lost forever

  • @pawahara
    @pawahara ปีที่แล้ว +5454

    Imagine how happy the Dutch people were when they discovered mountains for the first time in Dutch East Indies centuries ago.

    • @VVabsa
      @VVabsa ปีที่แล้ว +14

      In fact, they were so happy they had mountains that they kept ruling over it till 1949.
      Edit: And being so salty to lose it they never were able to properly talk about it, drowning themselves in social justice.

    • @pawahara
      @pawahara ปีที่แล้ว +586

      Broke: Colonizing for spices
      Woke: Colonizing for having mountains

    • @thestudentofficial5483
      @thestudentofficial5483 ปีที่แล้ว +285

      For fucking real. The city I'm currently living on was built for the sole purpose of Batavian governor's weekend home. Like, every other regency got railways because coal and spices but my region alone got railways just because Dutch people become that wojak pointing meme when seeing mountains

    • @fazertron9403
      @fazertron9403 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      @@thestudentofficial5483 West Java?

    • @bourbon4033
      @bourbon4033 ปีที่แล้ว +80

      @@rdrrr It's quite impressing that, at some point, we had access to every spice in the world. And our cuisine still manages to be worrible

  • @burkinafaso64
    @burkinafaso64 ปีที่แล้ว +4237

    Questioning Belgium's right to exist is one of my favorite hobbys.

    • @feragosmyxixarashtra7948
      @feragosmyxixarashtra7948 ปีที่แล้ว +46

      So True Bestie!!

    • @Tom-oj7si
      @Tom-oj7si ปีที่แล้ว +1

      It has no right to exist
      There is Flanders, Wallonia, and a piece of Germany in the East

    • @feragosmyxixarashtra7948
      @feragosmyxixarashtra7948 ปีที่แล้ว +116

      @@Tom-oj7si You mean a Dutch North, a French South and a small Bit of German East.

    • @user-qj9ye1uv8g
      @user-qj9ye1uv8g ปีที่แล้ว +5

      right????

    • @Dafoodmaster
      @Dafoodmaster ปีที่แล้ว +22

      and the belgian's too

  • @kon2175
    @kon2175 ปีที่แล้ว +2181

    As a Portuguese person, I can safely say that the number of people who I know that have relatives in Luxembourg is _staggering_ . It’s to the point it could probably be considered an SCP effect or something.

    • @joaocustodio7705
      @joaocustodio7705 ปีที่แล้ว +36

      Tem de ser, caro amigo

    • @najerrys5061
      @najerrys5061 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Majerus hell yes

    • @aga_100kr
      @aga_100kr ปีที่แล้ว +42

      An Sporting Clube de Portugal effect, make that a thing (i know you are refearing to another thing)

    • @moulicos8334
      @moulicos8334 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Pela patria e país 🇵🇹💪🏻

    • @JustAnotherYouTubeCommenter
      @JustAnotherYouTubeCommenter ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@aga_100kr why is he afraid of another thing

  • @LatinaCreamQueen
    @LatinaCreamQueen ปีที่แล้ว +867

    I remember reading a story about how a guy and some friends went out drinking in the Netherlands and tried biking home only to realize it wasn't their bike so he just chucked it into the river. He never found his bike either.

    • @thor1829
      @thor1829 ปีที่แล้ว +254

      Average night out in the Netherlands

    • @timalexander3966
      @timalexander3966 ปีที่แล้ว +129

      the lad that stole his bike had done the same

    • @acatwithwiskers9273
      @acatwithwiskers9273 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      The bait and switch

    • @idontknow-hf7em
      @idontknow-hf7em ปีที่แล้ว +64

      Thats just a random night at any random dutch city with with 100k people or more.

    • @RedbadofFrisia
      @RedbadofFrisia ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Bruh everyone i know has story like this 😂

  • @BackpackerBlokker
    @BackpackerBlokker ปีที่แล้ว +1338

    Jumped out of my seat thinking this was a sequel

  • @smithsmithony5401
    @smithsmithony5401 ปีที่แล้ว +1686

    I'd like to personally thank the English for adding a bunch of insults against the Dutch (Dutch courage, double Dutch, Dutch uncle, going Dutch, etc..) to the English language because of a war 300 years ago

    • @oscarlove4394
      @oscarlove4394 ปีที่แล้ว +284

      pettiness is very in character for the orcs.

    • @kamiriniko
      @kamiriniko ปีที่แล้ว +36

      @@oscarlove4394 this impies that those forms of speech aren't used by the french reling class of Britain

    • @ashnagog8534
      @ashnagog8534 ปีที่แล้ว +43

      To be fair, it was more like... 5 wars over less then a century

    • @TheSuperappelflap
      @TheSuperappelflap ปีที่แล้ว +176

      theyre just salty because they actually managed to lose once against a country with 1/5th their population and even after they won a dutch guy still ended up on the english throne.

    • @dutchuncle2716
      @dutchuncle2716 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Me too!

  • @JakeFalconer7
    @JakeFalconer7 ปีที่แล้ว +531

    POV: you asked a flemish person their opinion on walloons
    🇦🇹🎨

    • @salimelmouaffaq1351
      @salimelmouaffaq1351 ปีที่แล้ว +116

      Most left wing Flemish person:

    • @willfakaroni5808
      @willfakaroni5808 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Josef Abel?

    • @Billnotic
      @Billnotic ปีที่แล้ว +4

      least racist flemish person

    • @u9477
      @u9477 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      @@Billnotic least based*

    • @KrokLP
      @KrokLP ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Flemish people when they find out it was a Walloon who 🇦🇹🎨 said of "If I ever had a son I wish he would be like him"

  • @OnlyInMelsele
    @OnlyInMelsele ปีที่แล้ว +486

    As a Belgian I can confirm that 1:38 is the most accurate thing I have ever seen. The German speakers are just standing there

    • @blobvisfan666
      @blobvisfan666 ปีที่แล้ว +93

      The 7 people living in Eupen when someone acknowledges them for the first time in 8 months: 🤯🤯🤯🤯🥳🥳💥💥🤯

    • @Elloguys390
      @Elloguys390 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      ​@@blobvisfan666 yea fr
      Irl they are around 0.9% of the population

    • @makssachs8914
      @makssachs8914 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

      Wir existieren.

  • @golagiswatchingyou2966
    @golagiswatchingyou2966 ปีที่แล้ว +1402

    damn this is so good, as a Dutch person I can honestly say this video has been properly ''GEKOLONISEERD!''

    • @ThatOneMalaysianGuy
      @ThatOneMalaysianGuy ปีที่แล้ว +13

      What does "gekoloniseerd" mean?

    • @Theakritas_
      @Theakritas_ ปีที่แล้ว +66

      @@ThatOneMalaysianGuy colonized

    • @jesse9710
      @jesse9710 ปีที่แล้ว +75

      @@ThatOneMalaysianGuy it's just a meme that whenever a non Dutch TH-cam channel mentions ANYTHING about NL all dutchies somehow flock to it and take over the comment section, hence gekoloniseerd (colonized)

    • @Venator-Class_Star_Destroyer
      @Venator-Class_Star_Destroyer ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Hey moeras man. Herinner dat het stuck land dat zuid light. BELGIE heet. Niet zuid nederland

    • @cawsomeaolin
      @cawsomeaolin ปีที่แล้ว +1

      😬

  • @JonBow_
    @JonBow_ ปีที่แล้ว +154

    As a dutchman I can confirm cancer is the ultimate curse word

    • @thefirstkingdogo1126
      @thefirstkingdogo1126 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Hurts tho,
      Offends 2 religions
      1 pepools group
      1 illness

    • @oh-rs9qi
      @oh-rs9qi ปีที่แล้ว +15

      ​@@thefirstkingdogo1126 cancer gay

    • @dqvudjqkey-pi3rv
      @dqvudjqkey-pi3rv 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Niemand vroeg

    • @finnvaneekelen4966
      @finnvaneekelen4966 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      The dutch only have three ways to curse
      Disease
      Just english swears but pronounced like dutch
      The reproductive organs

  • @oogy488
    @oogy488 ปีที่แล้ว +466

    The amount of Netherlands inside jokes is crazy

    • @scriptyshake
      @scriptyshake ปีที่แล้ว +5

      ikr and I love it

    • @jonirischx8925
      @jonirischx8925 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      Literally the most cursed nation on earth. I lived there once, and now I'm in my 27th year of intensive therapy.

    • @not2hot99
      @not2hot99 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      ​@@jonirischx8925 I will pray for you

    • @dacup9454
      @dacup9454 13 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@jonirischx8925 im dutch its pretty cool here, free speech means litteral free speech here. you can insult gay people you can say racist shit (most of the time its starts by someone saying either monkey or someone saying cheeseman). sicknesses are used as insults (most of the time cancer). disabilitys are laughed at. depression gives you not so helpfull attention. id say were pretty chill.

    • @jonirischx8925
      @jonirischx8925 12 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@dacup9454 Bruh barged in here to let us know he enjoys slurs 💀. Least bigoted dutchie...

  • @raghavmehrotra8639
    @raghavmehrotra8639 ปีที่แล้ว +314

    Only real ones remember the old version fr fr.

    • @shekelboi
      @shekelboi ปีที่แล้ว +24

      What changed though? I can't remember the difference

    • @Revolutionary_Fish
      @Revolutionary_Fish ปีที่แล้ว +42

      @@shekelboi Hit*er opinions on Waloon

    • @timjohngibraltar1552
      @timjohngibraltar1552 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Can someone send me the old version

  • @samedman1
    @samedman1 ปีที่แล้ว +906

    Me, a dutchman, can confirm we kanker love this

    • @Mango_Eter
      @Mango_Eter ปีที่แล้ว +96

      On god that zwarte pieten stijl reference hit so hard

    • @ventreal4292
      @ventreal4292 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      kanker hi im kanker not dutch (kanker)

    • @Mango_Eter
      @Mango_Eter ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@thotslayer9914 denk het man

    • @Mango_Eter
      @Mango_Eter ปีที่แล้ว

      @@ventreal4292 That's our word teringlijer

    • @Mango_Eter
      @Mango_Eter ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@thotslayer9914 google translate. Use it.

  • @MMFan2004
    @MMFan2004 ปีที่แล้ว +42

    Belgium only exist so the French could make more Tintin comics.

    • @Neoxiik
      @Neoxiik 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      lol what

  • @Squirrelanditsnutz
    @Squirrelanditsnutz ปีที่แล้ว +132

    For some odd reason, when I was in Luxembourg, the only monolingual people that I interacted with were francophones. Somehow, all of the German and Luxembourgish speakers could speak all three languages and spoke English as well. I primarily spoke German with them as to not look like a bumbling American constantly, which worked out incredibly well. 10/10, would recommend Luxembourg to anyone who's interested in visiting.

    • @LMvdB02
      @LMvdB02 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      This also true for Walloons and French people

    • @Squirrelanditsnutz
      @Squirrelanditsnutz ปีที่แล้ว +12

      @@LMvdB02 yeah. Isn’t Brussels not a Flemish city, but French is becoming a majority in that city? I could be wrong, because I’m not informed in the social structures of Belgium beyond “hier, ‘nen Euro”.

    • @sztallone415
      @sztallone415 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      @@Squirrelanditsnutz not becoming, is for a while now. at 0:58 the map is right - Brussels itself is a majority French speaking island inside the sea of Flemish, afaik because the ruling class where Walloons since the beginning. and yes, this represents problems for the country, but surprisingly i think it's one of the major factors behind unity. because, what would become of Brussels if we divided Belgium along ethnic borders?

    • @Squirrelanditsnutz
      @Squirrelanditsnutz ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@sztallone415 Yeah, makes sense, as Germans call it "Multi-Kulti". I think it's only a "major issue" to people like me who somewhat understand Flemish and refuse to learn French.

    • @sztallone415
      @sztallone415 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@Squirrelanditsnutz well yeah, if you have the time/energy etc. to learn a new tongue ofc it's not a big deal. But as an outsider it's really crazy to hear that if you go outside the full French capital district you almost immediately stumble into a Dutch speaking countryside.

  • @juusto7171
    @juusto7171 ปีที่แล้ว +136

    dutch police when they see a tractor: *ptsd flashbacks*

    • @KarlSnarks
      @KarlSnarks ปีที่แล้ว +25

      Dutch police in 2040 talking to their grandkids: "It was the summer of '22, I'll never forget those horrors.."

    • @dutchturtle3351
      @dutchturtle3351 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Even though i'm dutch, i sometimes question what order our flag is really in after the whole farmer situation.

    • @TR3Bblackmanta
      @TR3Bblackmanta ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@dutchturtle3351 🇳🇱

    • @UmbraResistis
      @UmbraResistis ปีที่แล้ว

      @@dutchturtle3351 I'm also Dutch, and I'd love to support the farmers, if they didn't have the IQ of a fuckin' rock.

    • @waitasecond5366
      @waitasecond5366 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@dutchturtle3351 traitor

  • @rotteaardappel1
    @rotteaardappel1 ปีที่แล้ว +124

    As a Belgian I can confirm this is true, should've probably included us crying about 'french' fries or smth.

  • @askingstuff
    @askingstuff ปีที่แล้ว +62

    As a Finnish Kuwaiti living in Hawaii, I am proud to be Wallonian.

    • @Silence_stp
      @Silence_stp ปีที่แล้ว +2

      You have so many reasons, wallonia is so amazing and incredible (i'm not even walloon)

    • @tripox7749
      @tripox7749 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Wallonië is a stinky ugly place full of lazy sloths that leach of our money and only complain for more like the Communists they are. Nothing to be proud of.

    • @avianokke2281
      @avianokke2281 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      dont be :))
      //from a flemish-swede

    • @dacup9454
      @dacup9454 13 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@avianokke2281 you speak nerfed dutch.

  • @liamflanagan7490
    @liamflanagan7490 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +36

    Honestly as an American, watching Europeans from different countries insult each other is more entertaining than sports

    • @kevinbot1314
      @kevinbot1314 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      It's interesting because we need to indulge in actual lore and history to insult eachother.
      We don't need to do that to insult the United States of murica. Not that its possible to dive into the history anyways, seeing the lack of.

    • @sypexchiicken9272
      @sypexchiicken9272 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Honestly a Dutchmen, Watching Europeans insult America is even beter because you guys don't even get it.

  • @JacobM04
    @JacobM04 ปีที่แล้ว +252

    We need a welcome to the Balkans video

    • @noyes9984
      @noyes9984 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Doesn’t that already exist

    • @zardsire2012
      @zardsire2012 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      There hundreds of Balkan videos already.

    • @JacobM04
      @JacobM04 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@noyes9984 not yet

    • @JacobM04
      @JacobM04 ปีที่แล้ว +38

      @@zardsire2012 yea but we need a wow_mao version, it’ll be the greatest one yet

    • @amind8324
      @amind8324 ปีที่แล้ว +25

      @@zardsire2012 not enough 💀

  • @qopiqq3629
    @qopiqq3629 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    We have a record in broken bones in one week in The Netherlands this week, due to rain during the day and quite cold nights entire streets froze over, yet no one stopped using their bikes.
    Most people from my job fell at least 3 times, and everyone knows someone who broke their ellbow, arm or leg this week. We. Cycle. To. Work. Nothing stops this

    • @mad_fleming
      @mad_fleming ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Velomobiles will stop this, they have 3 wheels!

    • @grootsyt
      @grootsyt 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      @@mad_fleming You will get laughed out of the Netherlands if you have one of those. Unless you can't ride a normal bike for disability reasons.

    • @dacup9454
      @dacup9454 13 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      when is was a kid i fell pretty hard on my bike when it was slippery on the road. always cycled to school and then my teeth went through my lips still went to school on my bike that day.

  • @empireofchad
    @empireofchad ปีที่แล้ว +7

    On 2:09 it isn't X-mas, it's Sinterklaas. An old man called Nicholas gives gifts to good kids and nothing to bad kids. That song is just one of many songs.

    • @sonicfanboy3375
      @sonicfanboy3375 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      In older versions of this tradition the "Piet" would punish kids by hurting them with q stick or sending them to Sinterklaas his home country Spain

  • @Jurietto
    @Jurietto ปีที่แล้ว +7

    And yes again, as someone from Belgium I can confirm that the average teenage boy uses the word "kanker" ( cancer ) 2802498741827201809842908309R8 times in each sentence.

    • @dacup9454
      @dacup9454 13 วันที่ผ่านมา

      wouldnt say its only teenagers honestly its just everyone but it can depend on their personality. well thats how it is in netherlands.
      one thing that could explain a teenage boys personality would be "driller".

  • @chellienippie2300
    @chellienippie2300 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    2:19 I swear to god, everyone knows us because of Black Pete (and assumes that Dutchies are racist because of this), but we’re actually one of the most culturally diversive countries in the world right now.

    • @dacup9454
      @dacup9454 13 วันที่ผ่านมา

      cuz we allow a ton of immigrants to get in our country unlike croatia

  • @PakBallandSami
    @PakBallandSami ปีที่แล้ว +246

    “Courageous Belgian people, you have conquered decisively! Make sure now to take advantage of this victory, your enemies are dumbfounded, let us not lose a moment,Let us be united dear compatriots, and we will be invincible, the true order, it is indispensable to preserve our independence. Long live Belgium!”
    ― Louis De Potter

    • @ReddoFreddo
      @ReddoFreddo ปีที่แล้ว +36

      Make Belgium patriotic again

    • @LaCarchita
      @LaCarchita ปีที่แล้ว +31

      Harry potters rare oom lmao

    • @jojojojo4332
      @jojojojo4332 ปีที่แล้ว

      th-cam.com/video/RF2fQyiCv_E/w-d-xo.html

    • @Thanadeez
      @Thanadeez ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@ReddoFreddo Fax, check out the Belgian Legion channel

    • @onlinepokeraddict
      @onlinepokeraddict ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Wow i didnt know harry potter was bulgarian

  • @diogenes926
    @diogenes926 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    1:26 Dutch people and their irresistible urge to return to the days of the VOC

  • @jayzandstra1830
    @jayzandstra1830 ปีที่แล้ว +27

    as someone who lives in the netherlands every single clip shown here is just our daily routine tbh

  • @klaasluiten771
    @klaasluiten771 ปีที่แล้ว +34

    as a dutchman, i can totally relate to everything in this video about the netherlands

    • @rosaragnvindr6198
      @rosaragnvindr6198 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      You agree with Thierry Bodet?

  • @ian3087
    @ian3087 ปีที่แล้ว +111

    oh its chrismas really, lord wow mao finally dropped a god tier content again

  • @sohype6827
    @sohype6827 ปีที่แล้ว +46

    As a Belgian this is so spot on 😭😭

  • @rosaragnvindr6198
    @rosaragnvindr6198 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

    The 'Zwarte Pieten stijl' is not from Christmas, it's from a Dutch Holiday called 'Sinterklaas' on the 5th of December (It's very similar to Christmas). You can compare the Pieten to the elves and Sinterklaas to Santa Claus. So basically we have Sinterklaas and Christmas YIPPEEEE

  • @PR-ot7qd
    @PR-ot7qd ปีที่แล้ว +69

    Nobody:
    Dutch speaking belgians in the netherlands: hi diddly ho neighborino

    • @khybar17
      @khybar17 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Amai

    • @VVabsa
      @VVabsa ปีที่แล้ว

      Dutch to Belgians: You guys are dumb because we use english words in our vocabulary!

    • @kimashitawa8113
      @kimashitawa8113 ปีที่แล้ว

      ​@@VVabsa English🤢

    • @VVabsa
      @VVabsa ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@kimashitawa8113 The Dutch using english. 🤮

    • @kimashitawa8113
      @kimashitawa8113 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@VVabsa I'm Dutch and i agree with you, it's gross.

  • @Sander_van_de_Reep
    @Sander_van_de_Reep ปีที่แล้ว +10

    As a Dutch person I can confirm this is true. Although if we want to climb a mountain we have to go oversees to Saba to climb the sleeping volcano Mount Scenery which is unbelievably 887 meters tall.

    • @relo999
      @relo999 ปีที่แล้ว

      pik, verkeersdrempels zijn als eng genoeg.

  • @theepicjoey3215
    @theepicjoey3215 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    Dutch Belgian here, can confirm that this is 100 percent accurate.

    • @brooxeyyy
      @brooxeyyy ปีที่แล้ว

      KIES EEN KANT KLOOTVIOOL

    • @brooxeyyy
      @brooxeyyy ปีที่แล้ว +2

      kga ook ni zegge waar ik vandaan kom puur om te kutte

    • @FriendOfNightknight122
      @FriendOfNightknight122 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@brooxeyyy alsof da ertoe doet éy, te ni da ge klapt gelijk nen 'ollander awa

  • @venepskeuten9206
    @venepskeuten9206 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Some guy: *insults us*
    The Dutch: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_diseases

  • @chocodoco4855
    @chocodoco4855 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    50% sea.
    50% weed
    100% filled with mossels

  • @EeveesGuild
    @EeveesGuild ปีที่แล้ว +22

    As a Belgian I am offended but flattered at the same time

  • @loisarends3968
    @loisarends3968 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    People praise us Dutchies for our engineering and smarts but one of the most viral phenomenons in the Netherlands is internetgekkies, an entire youtube subgenre dedicated to Dutch people doing dumb things lmao

  • @jfk4589
    @jfk4589 ปีที่แล้ว +37

    2:09 the Zwarte Piet tradition comes from Saint Nicolas. It is kind of Christmas but before the invention of Santa Claus. It is also very celebrated during the 6th of December in the whole Belgium, the West of Germany, Northeastern France and I think Luxembourg. However, de Zwarte Piet (or Père Fouettard in French) wasn't supposed to be black. In fact, he is Saint Nicolas servant who has to clean the chimneys so that Saint Nicolas can deliver presents to all the kids who have been nice during the year. Thus, he has a black face because of the cinders from the Chimney he had to clean. Saint Nicolas is like Santa Claus (Claus is literally the same name as Nicolas) except he was there sooner, he originates from Christianity he is just cooler and he actually existed. We could argue that Santa Claus is just a ripoff from America. However if he is celebrated as the Saint of pupils and students here in the "lowlands", it's worth mentioning that he is also celebrated in other countries. For example, he is celebrated as the Saint of sailors in Greece.

    • @JongeKroost
      @JongeKroost ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Did Piet also get his bright red lips and black curly hair from working in the chimney?

    • @shrekwithawillsmithface465
      @shrekwithawillsmithface465 ปีที่แล้ว +33

      @@JongeKroost
      yes

    • @Sikke_Kok
      @Sikke_Kok ปีที่แล้ว +11

      @@JongeKroost bruh I was cleaning my chimney the other day and before I knew it, I started to speak with a thick Surinamese accent and what not

    • @Sumowning
      @Sumowning ปีที่แล้ว

      Not entirely true ;)

    • @gentleshark972
      @gentleshark972 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      The idea of the "piet" has haf a lot of variation, the one of zwarte piet as a freed black slave was present, but there were a LOT of versions since the beginning of recorder tradition, including the now popular folklore version of a sootcovered companion since propably the bezinning of the 20th at least.
      However, the latter version would pretty much take over, for example it was aparently the official version in flanders in 1975, and by the 21st century I´d recon practically noone even considered the former as to be the "real" story.
      In the end nowadays its transoformed more and more into a more litteral depiction of "a guy with sooth and ash in his face", so eh, people really shouldnt treat it as a big deal.

  • @sp_ce.
    @sp_ce. ปีที่แล้ว +8

    The "sexual feeling" he got on the bike is actually just a "very nice feeling" or "very comfortable feeling" but they had to do him wrong with the subtitles

  • @manasvenraina351
    @manasvenraina351 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Belgium- the official holiday spot for the Netherlands. That's the only reason it exists.

    • @lavamatstudios
      @lavamatstudios ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Places in Belgium that are real:
      - camping in the ardennes
      - plopsaland
      The rest is a myth.

  • @DrHydra47
    @DrHydra47 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    0:55 he added History Matters voice in it

  • @Epic_Eggroll
    @Epic_Eggroll ปีที่แล้ว +6

    bro the "hardest working man in wallonia" got me tweaking, as a based flander I totally agree, this vid is pretty good but you should also add how belgium has had and is having a love/relationship with the netherlands, and the color 'oranje'

  • @glorck7064
    @glorck7064 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Don't question sinterklaas

  • @user-cp9id1mj8b
    @user-cp9id1mj8b 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    0:08 This is not some random ass guy btw, this is the leader of a pretty big political party (FVD).

  • @surgeonsergio6839
    @surgeonsergio6839 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    GEKOLONISEERD !

  • @maximiliaanvanderveek5157
    @maximiliaanvanderveek5157 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    I'm dutch and I can confirm this video is very accurate, also: G E K O L O N I S E E R D

  • @bosse9311
    @bosse9311 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    companies in luxemburg man, yk it is a fucking tax haven

  • @MoreColtraneChanges
    @MoreColtraneChanges ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Imagine being known in the west for 3 animated girls…

    • @kimashitawa8113
      @kimashitawa8113 ปีที่แล้ว

      Who?

    • @sniedendepoes
      @sniedendepoes ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Ongezellig is a gem

    • @grootsyt
      @grootsyt ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@kimashitawa8113 the netherlands, check out Ongezellig

    • @cranberrysaucekrazybloke1.891
      @cranberrysaucekrazybloke1.891 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      >Netherland that place with the orange sellers or somthing

  • @Dewombargsegamers
    @Dewombargsegamers ปีที่แล้ว +111

    As a Dutch person, i only have one thing to say....
    G E K O L O N I S E E R D

  • @AamuAurora
    @AamuAurora ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Once I spent my holidays in Luxembourg after high school graduation. I felt asleep on a train from Luxembourg City and I woke up in Belgium. I started to cry because I didn't know how long did I sleep and how far into the country was I. It was 2014, I hadn't been addicted to my smartphone back then so I took an ancient Nokia with me not to lose my good phone further during the trip, in Paris (I was right, it got stolen at Champs-Élysées). Someone wanted to help me but they didn't speak English. I got more stressed but finally someone put me in a proper compartment back home. My boyfriend laughs I'm the only person who has ever been to Luxembourg. I had many adventures in Benelux. I was in Netherlands for a student exchange program. Nothing against you people but when I got this bread with sprinkles for breakfast I had to excuse myself and cry in a toilet. I asked if they had "black bread" and they asked me whether this question was a hate crime.

  • @owaisislucky5827
    @owaisislucky5827 ปีที่แล้ว +41

    The remastered version should have just been a 2 second video of the world map with the benelux removed

    • @ForelliBoy
      @ForelliBoy ปีที่แล้ว +15

      AND IF YOU CLOSE YOUR EYES

    • @owaisislucky5827
      @owaisislucky5827 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@ForelliBoy *benelux gets thanos snapped*

    • @AudieHolland
      @AudieHolland ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Why?
      Only Beneluxians would notice.
      I mean, only Dutch people would notice.

  • @nIcholasbrAdy287
    @nIcholasbrAdy287 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    2:24 average Friesland resident

    • @maxzuul96
      @maxzuul96 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Fr

  • @teunebeun4295
    @teunebeun4295 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    So glad that you've put this masterpiece back online!!! and an even better version of it!!!!

  • @Mezelenja
    @Mezelenja ปีที่แล้ว +2

    The first 30 seconds of this video is just people falling over

  • @joko49perez
    @joko49perez ปีที่แล้ว +15

    This is so much better! It actually feels complete now. I wonder what the other rap said that got the video taken down. Also love knowing that the pause before the French music was intentional and not a mistake, it's one of the funniest use of silence I've seen in a while.

  • @localareakobold9108
    @localareakobold9108 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    GEKOLONISEERD

  • @Atlaspower78
    @Atlaspower78 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I couldn't stop laughing, especially Baudet at the start "lizard people" 🤣

    • @nikedoesthings
      @nikedoesthings 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      boudet needs ggz.

  • @Beriorn
    @Beriorn 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Luxembourgh City is just one mass shipment of neon lights away from being Night City.

  • @owieOne
    @owieOne ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Don’t worry man, I will download this video and put it on the internet archive so that this insightful documentary about the area I live in won’t vanish into the shadow realm of history

  • @snownerdnews
    @snownerdnews ปีที่แล้ว +4

    You didn’t even mention how every surface in Belgium is either brick or conkrete

    • @Neoxiik
      @Neoxiik 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ever been to the Ardennes?

  • @ranjanbiswas3233
    @ranjanbiswas3233 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Benelux sounds like a luxury perfume brand.

  • @explosivenoob2205
    @explosivenoob2205 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    As a dutch fella i can approve everything about the netherlands in this vid 😂
    Like you just got everything right!
    Oh and btw: GEKOLONISEERD

  • @nielsprogamer9850
    @nielsprogamer9850 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Gekoloniseerd

  • @paraplu_2839
    @paraplu_2839 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    As a Belgian, this is an absolute fucking masterpiece.

  • @oli-ver2760
    @oli-ver2760 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    Every single aspect of this video is true and verifiable merry Christmas

  • @isaacdevries4948
    @isaacdevries4948 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    This truly is a Black Peter moment

  • @filippopaolillo2006
    @filippopaolillo2006 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Ok now i want a Welcome to the Mediterranean or nothing.

  • @Ham-oz9ce
    @Ham-oz9ce ปีที่แล้ว +1

    So glad to see this again, I hope it stays on! I really liked the vid and couldn't find it anymore...

  • @themuffincup
    @themuffincup 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    As a belgian, i can say that this is the most accurate explanation of my country.

  • @VVabsa
    @VVabsa ปีที่แล้ว +14

    Hallo allemaal, wat fijn dat je er bent!

  • @casper6405
    @casper6405 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Me a dutchman: belgium? Oh you mean the southern Netherlands

  • @zwampy1212
    @zwampy1212 ปีที่แล้ว

    I want to once again thank you for making this video after ive commented Benelux pls on every video of you when i remembered (at least 3)

  • @ian3087
    @ian3087 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    If you make a Welcome to SEA/ASEAN content, i will do great things in life i promise.

  • @clems_first
    @clems_first หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Luxemburger here. Everything in this video is extremely accurate, even the fact we boast skyscrapers and 300m high holograms to show ads. You guys don't know about it because we like to keep tourism low

  • @muhammadabyzard7970
    @muhammadabyzard7970 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    As a native of the East Indies, I can say that the video is 100% full of spices and...
    WEEEEDDD 😂😂😂

  • @lordbelou7279
    @lordbelou7279 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Now honestly, since 963, Luxembourg have had an extensive history, and a lot of dangerous events.
    Of course, I don't question the danger these mighty bovines represents.

    • @berlin4127
      @berlin4127 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Luxemburg was a part of germany until 1839 lol

    • @lordbelou7279
      @lordbelou7279 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@berlin4127 You know Luxembourg never was part of Germany ? Of the HRE and the German Confederation, yes, but never of Germany. Especially not until 1839, since Germany exists, as a state, only since 1871.

    • @berlin4127
      @berlin4127 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@lordbelou7279 mimimi Heiliges römisches Reich DEUTSCHER NATIONEN, Luxemburg is a german state just like Austria or Germany ,

  • @Nightcappy
    @Nightcappy ปีที่แล้ว +4

    as a person from belgium i can confirm that we are actually dutch (we're french) (we are not) (we are german but not really)

  • @TiananmenSquirrel
    @TiananmenSquirrel หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    As BELGIUM 🇧🇪 🇧🇪 I want to say you portrayed us 💯 % accurate ❤

  • @LuigiSantoriniXXX16
    @LuigiSantoriniXXX16 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Should've put us Belgians in smothering chocolate and fries all over our body.

  • @DeSaxofoonVanPeter
    @DeSaxofoonVanPeter ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Dutch: ...
    Belgian: ...
    Dutch: ... AMAI GERTJE

  • @vampzyxo
    @vampzyxo ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Ge…gekoloniseerd…

    • @Pyro_fl
      @Pyro_fl 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ben je transgender

  • @exitspree
    @exitspree ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Great video, incredibly accurate representation of the BeNeLux.

  • @byrondw1456
    @byrondw1456 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I have watched this video 3 times already it is a masterpiece

  • @danielol6519
    @danielol6519 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    'GEKOLONISEERD'

  • @historynerd556
    @historynerd556 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Glad that this is back on TH-cam.

  • @THETANEMOIA
    @THETANEMOIA ปีที่แล้ว

    This is a typhoid good video, I laughed out cancer loud. Thank you very muts

  • @stella_h2o320
    @stella_h2o320 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    God damn no need to call me out like that LMAO, also you were very right about every thing about the Netherlands (sadly)

  • @KrisVandenBroeck1595
    @KrisVandenBroeck1595 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    As a native belgian, I applaud this.

  • @oof113
    @oof113 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    As a fellow Dutch i can agree that the memes are very relatable

  • @skuller5553
    @skuller5553 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    "Why does Belgium exist?"
    Well, there is a point where we needed to stop and we've clearly passed it but let's keep going and see what happens.

    • @T3ki1a_
      @T3ki1a_ ปีที่แล้ว +3

      "So France and Germany would stop fighting"
      That didn't go well now did it?

    • @FriendOfNightknight122
      @FriendOfNightknight122 ปีที่แล้ว

      Belgium is defined by borders set by everyone living near Belgium. Originally the people living in Flanders where a couple of tribes known to be the people who didn't allow the Romans to dictate them for the longest of times(even got a comic series, videogames and french voiced movies about that called Astrix et Obelix) in the end we became roman christians like everyone else in the western world. We lost our tribes, traded with the irish and lost our language. It's quite funny how all the worldpowers try to define what a "belgian" is supposed to mean when the original members of this plot of dirt never cared about anything ya'll tried to make us believe. It can't be a coincidence that a story about a guy who tried to defy the roman empire(where all people in power where jewish) is the one that was the downfall of our tribes. Also a less then tiny detail is that in the first bible the story was not about jesus of nazareth at all. It was a story about the creation of everything earthly and the rule of one allmighty figure who had a ton of "unearthly" beasts working for him. OH AND LAST BUT NOT LEAST and this goes into conspiracy levels(like everything called religious believe) It's pretty funny how the angels are described litterally the same as what psychonauts describe as interdimensional beings who've been seen trough the ages by tons of different societies who had no idea of eachothers existance both in space AND time. The last rumor spread had to do with some people working at NASA on vibrations and sound apperantly triggering a group "psychosis" where they all felt vibrations speaking to them with a message along the lines of this: "we didn't expect you to contact us again", "never do that again" and a clear distaste for humanity putting visuals before vibration/sound.
      Yeah didn't think the origins of the inhabitants of flanders and it's swamplands was that interconnected to some non comformist subculture. So the biggest noncomformists in history are linked to modern noncomformists perhaps?

    • @FriendOfNightknight122
      @FriendOfNightknight122 ปีที่แล้ว

      I am aware the comment is long for modern standards but its about history spanning more then 2000 years what could you expect XD

    • @FriendOfNightknight122
      @FriendOfNightknight122 ปีที่แล้ว

      Now you can ask yourself why the plans made by the World Economic Forum for the three state city covers allmost whole of flanders and just a tiny bit of germany and the netherlands. Yet it is still the case that only the farmers from a certain part in netherlands care about those plans enough to take action in protest.

    • @T3ki1a_
      @T3ki1a_ ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@FriendOfNightknight122 idk what you're smoking. But it's powerful and I really want some.

  • @LightlessLight
    @LightlessLight ปีที่แล้ว +3

    1:10 I know! I one time got to Luxembourg and it's like the future, weird metros things type of the ROAD, huge buildings bigger then all of EU
    Edit: im belgian

  • @thalionraw9747
    @thalionraw9747 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    well here we are again, it's always quite a pleasure

  • @RemingtonRowland
    @RemingtonRowland ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Oklahoma Texas and Canada next please!

  • @carterlok
    @carterlok 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Bro, we dutch sort of INVENTED christmas. Thats why the name "Santa Claus" is similar to "Sinterklaas".

  • @plunched2127
    @plunched2127 ปีที่แล้ว

    This video is one of most accurate description of how it is out here.

  • @maeveglue
    @maeveglue ปีที่แล้ว +3

    still one of the most accurate videos ever made. thank you

  • @tijmenhartung9864
    @tijmenhartung9864 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    What's the song during the introduction of futurist looking Luxembourg?

  • @hidde7290
    @hidde7290 6 วันที่ผ่านมา

    1:59 is super accurate. My home country is flatter than dwayne johnsons head