Dutch Bag Flags Explained | United States of Europe.
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Unlike America, Dutch homes rarely hang up the national flag on their homes... Except for certain occasions like high school graduation. But only if you hang up your school bag as well. Why is it only then okay to be patriotic? I asked some Dutch people.
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Usually when it isn’t sure if someone will graduate or not they’ll say: After my exam one thing will hang for sure. It’s either my bag or myself.
I used the Heineken flag instead of the dutch flag. They supported me far more than the dutch government did in my education and deserved that spot
Legend
😂😂 serieus
Nah dude, It only shows that you like disgusting watery beer. Grolsch and Hertog Jan are atleast good beers.
@@virtueelverslaafd4270 that's how they want to divide us, by letting people fight over our brands we will never be able to unify our ideals. Come with me brother, and lay aside our differences.
Beer Over Bureaucracy! BOB! BOB! BOB!
That’s a good joke
Throw it away?! I used that same backpack all the way through college and still use it today. It just won't break.
Still got mine, still works
Mine is a book bag (one that hangs by your side or around the small of your back if you shift it that way) and the strap is held together on both ends by metal wire.
I still have it and it is still intact. Torn to shit, but intact.
My brother graduated and when we were kids me and my brother both had a bag with our names on. My parents used that bag to hang it outside, we used it at that time and it wore out a bit but still has value with the name on
Lmao i can't even use my bag 1 year
No1 gives a fuck
'Graduated from the closet' is just too funny 😂
Yay Pride Month!
No
"this student is one drugs" no, we all are on drugs. How are we supposed to live through that hell they call VWO?!
That's what I got from "this student graduated higher than the other"... lol
Lmao I did my exams just after having surgery for appendicitis so I graduated very high haha, from all the painkillers so I could even sit in that gymnasium
Also VMBO.
Schoolwise it is okay but the students are hell so we need the drugs aswell
It cant be done
U spelles vmbo wrong
Al deze Engelse comments zijn waarschijnlijk allemaal Nederlanders😂😂😂lmao
Ja egt he
You gotta step off the 'patriotic' thing. It's not about patriotism, hanging up your schoolbag means exactly zero for patriotism in the Netherlands. It's about announcing to the world, look, I graduated, yay me. And everyone driving or walking by can see that in that house, someone's having a good week.
In the USA, the flag is all about patriotism, it's basically holy. Here, not so much, it's symbolic more than patriotic. Yes we are proud of the flag, yes we are proud to be Dutch, but with the graduation flag, hanging up a small flag or a big one, a flagpole or a window improv, forget the patriotism that you are obsessed with over there. There's a flag and a schoolbag, that's all that matters.
For other occasions, we hang the flag for what the flag stands for, but in this 'flag event', the flag isn't what's important, the schoolbag is.
Thank you for clarifying.
- Sam the Eagle
Greg Shapiro You're very welcome :)
- The Orange Lion
I think it was a joke.
Well I hope it was a joke.
So much text for such little information
@@rbartels1996 Well I guess I just like to be thorough, instead of just saying it's not as important, I'd rather explain why too. To each our own.
I once saw a Gucci bag hanging from a flagpole. I mean I get it, but how could you leave something so expensive out there?!
My daughter is straight up Hema bag
Seeing as it is the Netherlands-it probably is a fake.
@@furorfrisii7679 we don't have a lot of counterfeiters in the Netherlands. We are not Asian...
@@fopdoodler9427 lol AliExpress got loads
Well aliexpress isnt dutch
Hahaha, I love how he is getting a Dutch accent!
4:13 Yeah I would hang the Turkish flag also. It actually doesn't matter which flag you use, if there is a flag and a bag, then you know that people graduated
multifandomtrash no questions i hung both, its nice.
you should only fly the Dutch flag. This is not Turky, your nationality is not Turkish, and you didn't get your grade in a Turkish school. Maybe you have a Turkish descent, but that's only to me remembered of unless you return to the stupid country that follow Islamic rules
It's an old tradition. We used to hang real school bags/satchels on the pole. It made it more obvious. But nowadays kids only use backpacks apparently.
Maybe because they use the backpacks during school times?
ferrynator15 yes obviously :)
I'm 58 and we only used 'real' schoolbags in the first year. After that they turned into army 'pukkels' and backpacks.
Hanging your bag is so freeing because you carried that thing through the trenches and now you're hanging it on the flag as a symbol of victory
Nah im hanging myself because i have the freedom to do it now
“This student apparently used her whole school career a handbag” - yeah that’s pretty normal here for all those kechies tbh
En dankjewel :(
Appeltje Anouk 😂😂
almost all women use handbags as their schoolbags. They go threough the hassel of walking to their locker in between classes just to look more feminine.
Even if I use a backpack I need so much books per day that it's almost impossible not to go to your locker.
@@jelenakrikke6412
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Back in the day when I used a handbag it gave me a back and shoulder injury. Now I only have a few readers and a tote back.
Most of us just don't take all the books we need to school.
And its fucking disgusting backpack for life I ain't no whore
'With only a handbag' had me dying 😂😂 sooo many people use that kind of bag for school
"This student graduated from the closet"
I'm dead now
Originally the tradition included quartering your bike. But after inflation that was considered too expensive.
What's 'quartering your bike?'
No one’s really ‘patriotic’ with flags to be honest, it’s more a tradition thing, same with 4th of may, or kingsday
If you see a german flagg hanging out the window in Germany at another time than world cup that can mean 2 things
A:That person is a stupid patriot that don't mind other people thinking of him as a right winged person
b:That person indeed is right winged
@@YukiTheOkami what's wrong with being a patriot? It's good to love your country, you don't have to be right winged to love your country
Not true.
Those little orange triangles are to show support for the women's football team.
Or Maarten who is swimming the Elfsteden.
Maybe a bicyclist who takes part in the Tour de France.
Or maybe left after kingsday, to show there is another one coming next year...
I was asked in my citizenship exam ‘who would you support if US plays NL in World Cup Final?’ Well, this year that might happen...
Greg Shapiro The question is though, what did you answer?
@@FoodsGamez
He will not tell you because of his split nationality syndrome.
@@FoodsGamez The question for me is why the heck that question is asked for a citizenship exam, and what the right answer is supposed to be.
Wow. It's a great video. I didn't know this tradition. In Spain, we aren't too proud to show to our neighbors that we graduated. We do nothing except having dinner with our classmates in a restaurant and share funny moments. I'm shocked by this tradition. I'll take it into account as I'll be graduated in September. Maybe I put a Dutch flag, although my neighborhood doesn't understand it. Of course, I'll hang the biggest one I can find. 🇳🇱🎒
Yeah put up a dutch flag to symbolise that the Netherlands has now invaded Spain instead of the other way around.
@@henk-3098 I'm sorry for the stupid idea of invading the Netherlands some centuries ago. Our King wanted to have the biggest empire ever seen. But I understand that The Netherlands is so beautiful that they wanted to have it. Your country has a very rich culture, specially Dutch art. I'm not proud of all things that Spaniards did in the past. Things changed. Nowadays, there's a little "invasion" of the Dutch in the province of Alicante. There are lots of British, Germans, Belgians, and Russians as well. But I'm quite happy with it because being touristic and international brings positive things to us. We're learning a lot from them too. 😉
@@cristina_garcia It's cool. It's just sort of a meme nowadays in the Netherlands to refer to the old war between us but now it's all good and I have to tell you that I absolutely love Spain!
@@henk-3098 I know, don't worry. I'm not angry at all. I just wanted to say that I'm not glad of who we were, but I know that the Dutch love Spain. I had two Dutch Erasmus classmates. Dutch humour is very special. 😄 We also make jokes about other wars, because we fought against almost all European countries, and some South American ones. I love the Netherlands so much that I would put the flag proudly. I have photos in lock screen and wallpaper of Amsterdam. 🇳🇱
@@cristina_garcia Maybe you should put the Spanish flag? You still graduated in Spain tho.
When I had graduated it was the same day my neighbour had died. Therefore the backpack only hung 1 day and the flag was from the province of Zeeland (where I was born). Bit strange to put out the flag when your neighbour died, but his wife understood the correct message...
Awkward...
Don’t throw away the backpack. You take it inside after celebrations.
You don't trow it away, you burn it in a ceremony with friends and family.
That's what we did, actually. Zuinig.
@@poppop-oj6by I only burned the books, I still use the backpack to this day.
@@qwertyuiopzxcfgh I sadly had to hand them back in, the books. Several of em would've met a fiery demise had that not been the case... Maths in particular
If the flag is a lot bigger, isn't on a flag pole or used in any other way it just means they didn't feel like buying a pole / pole holder / new flag. In most cases is doesn't have anything to do with patriotic stuff. Like a dutch saying, 'roeien met de riemen die je hebt'.
edit; I was dumb, didn't understand the sarcasm.
Thanks! I've lived here for 12 years and didn't know that!
You never noticed it in twelve year time??
@@Saartje05 haha
That video in your favourites, winne the pooh hail satan👌
@@flyingdutchman4393 huh?
@@Saartje05 how old are you?
And a strong wind can turn it..........French!😱
Check the bucket already
I left my flag out for a full month, it took me 6 years to get that degree so everyone has to know
Vwo-nerd
Hey, be nice. Maybe the 6 year diploma was 'Gymnasium,' and then half the planet thinks you studied dodgeball.
@@Victor-07-04 jaloers?
@@Ricardowieringa jaloers?
@@sepperademaker8158 Nee joh ik heb tenminste nog een leven na school
the flag will also be hanged on other occasions. For example on kingsday, commemoration day of the dead (on 4th of may) but then the flag will be hanged 'half-stok' so it won't be hanged at the top because we're not celebrating anything. Also, when an important person died, the flag will be hanged 'half-stok'. So for example when someone from your family died or an important person in your neighborhood, the flags in the neighborhood will be hanged 'half-stok' or when a Dutch person you looked up to died. Also on the 5th of may, liberation day of WW 2, the flag will be hanged to celebrate the liberation.
Not all Dutch people will hang their flags on these occasions and sometimes people just forget to hang the flag, we are pretty loose about the topic. The most common day to hang your flag is when you graduated and on kingsday.
3:08 No, this student is so patriotic cuz they graduated from France 😂 4:05 that student graduated from Poland
‘THIS, is actually a boat.’. 😂😂😂
It derives from the dutch saying "De lier aan de wilgen hangen." Wich means to be done with something, in this case done with shool. Since not everyone has a willow tree, the ones graduated used a stick or a flagpost instead.
I like that
Why didn't you tell the audience that it is common for strangers to congratulate the graduate by leaving a sixpack of beer at their doorsteps? 😂
I could have done that with my daughter!
4:17 I WHEEZEEDDDD
2:14 Jay and Silent Bob in Clerks 4.
I still have my backpack, because back in the day we had some awesome quality bags 👍🏽 yep, it has been outside with the flag, but I'm not going to throw away an expensive bag! We have washing machines.
3:10 French flag, that is.
Usually you also hang up some (school)books aswell next to the bag.
Really? I've never seen that
Dutch people indeed don't flag that much. Only during national holidays or days such as commemoration of the dead or when our national football team plays in a big tournament.
Though I think it would be a good thing if we flagged a bit more. There is no shame in taking pride for your nation. We have a beautiful county after all.
Its illegal tho, there are rules. Just like at kingsday you have certain hours when you can hang it
@Ryan King lol arent we the most liberal country?🤔 but yeah its true
As someone else replied- yes there are rules for hanging flags on public buildings; no the rules don’t apply to private homes. Hang that flag! Support Dutch team in World Cup 2019!
@@gregshapiro ah oke, i thought you had certain times with kingsday. But yeah the flags are out with the World Cup!
@@gregshapiro I never said there were rules for private homes. I litterally just said these are the only days Dutch people flag and that it's not a shame if Dutch people would flag more. Cuz their is no shame in taking pride for your country.
That Polish flag... :) "Doesn't like blue" (I stand corrected. It is the Indonesian flag instead of the Polish flag. No one offended I hope)
Red-White: That's the Indonesian Flag. Former Dutch colony Indonesia removed the blue of our Dutch flag and made Red-White their new flag after WW2. (Poland is White-Red)
Good catch! I didn't pay enough attention.
Or Monaco
They also put out the flags on the 4th and 5th of may. the 4th to commemorate the war (on half-mast) and the 5th to celebrate the freedom after the war. (on kingsday they put out the dutch flag too).
Strickes And on government buildings and on those of big companies they also put out the flag on birthdays of the royal family.
Flag?
When you dont have a flagpole you improvise 😂
Not everything is aloud the pole need to be high not half way then you discrimante the king & queens house , yep old traditions
Never knew this could be funny, LOL/ROFL
Een week ophangen? Die van mij was binnen een dag alweer binnen haha
I've checked the bucket and it got a hole in it
Bo!
Hole(s) ? That defeats the purpose. Maybe it's a crate ? A wooden crate ?
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That contained wine
For an Eton toff vase of wank
With weird hair
Then fix it, dear Henry
4:07 is the flag of poland just up side down.
Nah, the flag from Indonesia and Monaco.
@@Populiervogel
yea true those are more likely.
Anyway not a dutch flag without the blue stripe
When I graduated i put my bag and my bicycle on that pole
Ay you visited Volendam. Thats my town
Lawl, you dont need 4 min to explain that.
My bag got stolen from the flagpole
That is just sad
ik ga stuk😂
Wtf-!
Gekke dennis
As far as I know it is illegal to hang the Dutch flag for an event like graduation. You can hang the flag because of national celebrations but not because you graduated. No one will ever get complaints about hanging the Dutch flag but it’s still against the law. At our school we get a flag with the school name and colors that says ‘graduated’ on it. I hung out that flag and also the Canadian flag because I’m Canadian.
I've heard about rules against hanging the Dutch flag - BUT only for public buildings. re: School distributing its own flag: that's a good idea.
PS - I'm Canadian too, since 2016
You can hang the dutch flag out every day for any kind occasion you wish. It can't touch the floor or obstruct trafic. It has to be of the pole or inside between darkness and sunrise or you light the flag so that the collors are seen as per custom, so not obligated but kind of disrespectful. The wimpel (orange banner you see sometimes on top of the red white and blue) is only for certain royals. Government buildings and public buildings have different rulles they need to follow.
I'm looking for my soul, if only I could find a group of people to find it for me
Eddie
de laatste super , and this student is on drugs .... LOL
My bag hung on the pole in 1979
I definitely used a different bag for university. Other levels of education are sometimes referred to as schools, but even going to classes has a different word for it at university here in the Netherlands.
Edit: and yes, I was a bit of a snob.
Also when it's the king or a royals birthday
But not with the bag
One of my classmates hung up her bag with an LGBTQ+ flag. Legend
Respect!
Thuy An Nguyen you mean disgusting
Wow, I really like the language!
Ik vind dit wel leuk.
Nice, public hanging in the netherlands
The rotating circle used to be on a barber shop. So where is the stupid remark of drugs comming from?
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Greg Shapiro point taken. But having liberal idees and laws on drugs dosnt mean where abusers or everybody is using. When a joke is made to much its not fynny anymore.
Funny.
Most of the time they get a flag saying " graduated" and what school it is from
This year in Amsterdam I only saw the 'graduated' flag once, and it was half inside the window, so I couldn't use it. (I also saw none in Zwolle, Haarlem, Utrecht..)
Wel there are a lot in Limburg I live there and there's like 5 flags in my street
never seen a flag like that. Here they only use the red white blue, I think its a regional thing to have a 'schoolflag'.
I am dutch 😁
The flag is also on national celebrations like kings day and 2 or three fakes
I've seen a few on Bevrijdingsdag Liberation Day
There are quite a few moments when the flag is hung from government buildings:
The birthday of princess Beatrix (the former queen),
King's day,
Remembrance Day (the flag is hung half mast to remember and honour those that died in the second world war),
Liberation day,
The queen's birthday,
Veteran's day (the last Saturday of june),
15th of August, to celebrate the end of the second world war,
Prince's day (only in The Hague),
The birthday of the crown princess,
Kingdom day,
Royal births, mariages and deaths (half mast for the deaths),
Visits from foreign heads of state (only in the place being visited).
For the royal birthdays the flag is accompanied by an orange pennant.
People can hang the flag whenever they want, they are only asked to make sure it doesn't touch the ground or hinders traffic and to not keep it hanging out between sundown and sunset, or if they do, make sure it's properly lit.
My son graduated this year but won't us put out the flag etc. I don't now if it's just a local custom but in our area of limburg, we see notebooks also out the window on a rope
It's a Dutch tradition, but noone is surprised the spare Belgians don't join in.
We also hang up the flag for certain holidays, but in general, we see hanging out the flag all the time as overly nationalistic and in bad taste.
Unless it's the soccer European or World cup and then some people go crazy with decorations, including lots of small flags.
This usually happens more in poorer areas with social housing. When you're rich, or an intellectual, you don't watch soccer much and you play golf, read a book, or watch a documentary on the other channel. I'm a poor intellectual myself, so any comment with respect to what I'm supposed to do would be highly appreciated.
This must be the biggest bs that I have read today. Football is not something for the poor, it's the most popular sport of the Netherlands by far.
@@youriiiboy The comment about the rich playing golf was facetious, but the comment about the many decorations tending to occur on social housing estates is what I have observed myself.
Just checking, but does your surname translate to Nail Farmer?
@@gregshapiro Well, it does today, but the Spijker refers to the word spyker, which was a kind of storage barn. My ancestors didn't grow nails.
Lol I tought it was in more lands
It may be in more lands, actually. But not in Chicago.
Maybe it should be. Like the oudejaarsconference, this tradition is ready for export.
No we are not all that flaggy. But wait unit our national soccer team play's at a major tournement. There is so much orange and flags out there it puts the yanks to shame.
Still waiting for the 'Oranjegekte' to break out for the Womens team...
@@WeideVanEnt Kan je lang wachten😂😂😂
Fred G I know! Lol XD
Illy Khan then go to France, they’re everywhere
@@WeideVanEnt There seems to be plenty.
Kingsday, april 27, is also a day the national flag comes out,
Pretty sure I removed it after a day
Im from nl. I have it now for 3 weeks hahaha
Mijne hing er maar een dag
Sad
One i saw several bags and then it started storming.
F in the chat
Free bags
Mijn tas hing samen met de vlag aan de mast van mijn ouders vrachtschip en 3x tooooooeeeeetttthoorn
not everyone throws it away thats nonsense
Dat is ook onzin een rugtas kan je altijd gebruiken dus niet alleen voor school
If we had a tradition like that in Germany most of the flags would be flags of the city or federal country also Turkish Italian and Indian flags xD
We also hang our flags on the birthdays of our royal family... Or the 5th of may, our celebration of being libarated from the germans
Sometimes you get a flag from school😂
We just keep using the bag. Bags can handle one week outside.
We did too. It rained a bit after the first day & my wife said ‘bring the bag in.’
I used the Gay flag when I graduated
Thats gay
@@kimovoorbraak hahahaha
I hung a Turkish flag since we don’t own a Dutch one as Turks.
Unfortunately it disturbed my neighbourhood and we got a fine in the mailbox for “parking our car next to our house instead of in front of it”... some people are really weird😂
As a Turkish guy I would rather buy the Dutch flag as wel to hang both of the flags or none at all. Turkey didnt help me in finishing my school here.
I'm sorry, but hanging just the Turkish flag is just a bit disrespectful to the Netherlands. You got educaded in the Netherlands, and the country profided your education so you should at least have hung a Dutch flag too.
Sigh....
I failed but still i sacrificed my bag, need it even less than those who graduated.
Funny man😂👌
People keep the backpack bytheway... _as if_ we cheap Dutchies would throw it away afterwards.
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* G E K O L O N I S E E R D
you crazy man :)
I think its even illegal to raise ur flag on random days, if im right. (?)
You're probably right. I'll switch to a US flag.
@@gregshapiro rather burn that one ;)
no, it's not. You're allowed to raise it anytime, even after sunset. The rules only apply to government buildings like ministries.
Also, they're not rules but guidelines.
@@las1147 Insert PoC theme
Please get your facts straight. There are more days when we hang a flag, if we have one, and most of us hang a bag or other school supplies like books outside without even a flag. I used an old bag and and old book which we where planning to throw away anyway.
No they don't hang their books outside since you have to return all the books at the end of the year.
@@amartje0108 I'm Dutch and I did hang some books I didn't have to return.
@@dudie5403 Notebooks you mean?
Thank you for your help getting my facts straight. Also Dudie means poo.
like anyone was actually carrying books in that thing...
Of course we did, otherwise the teachers would send you home to get your books
Ik ben gezakt👍🏼
Geen vlag?
@@ShipSpottingNederland zeker niet
Hehehe I'm gonna use an USSR flag
Good conversation starter with the neighbors.
Actually, almost every girl in the Netherlands uses a handbag
Instead of a book bag... You mean like Hermione Granger?
Greg Shapiro No, I really do mean just a handbag. Crazy right?
Short arms😂👊
haha
Im Dutch
Ik niet!
Hahahahaha!
thats the Indonesian flag
paying respect to the empire
We can get it back but it will cost time, money and lives
Poland
No need to watch the videos. Its for when you graduate from high school
4:26 VMBO'er confirmed
I exualy hung up 3 flags
One flag we got from school that said we graduated
One was the dutch flag becuase ... reasons
And the last one was a gay pride flag because im wel.. gay