That was awesome! Thank you! Our Saint Nicolas feast (het Sinterklaas feest) is a Catholicized version of the feast. The roots are actually from more ancient pagan religions. I quote from a perplexity search I just did: "As Christianity spread, Krampus became intertwined with the Christmas celebrations, particularly around December 5th, known as Krampusnacht (Krampus Night), when he is said to roam the streets alongside St. Nicholas." So the milder version is what we still have in The Netherlands, and the Krampus version is called 'Sunneklaas' in maybe two or three spots in The Netherlands. In the pictures you can see both versions. The pope-looking guy on the horse is Sinterklaas, which is the catholic version. And the dressed up people are part of the Sunneklaas feast, which is the Krampus version. Also here in Dutch culture it's mostly a day for the kids. They get gifts and we tell them stories about Sinterklaas and act as if all the gifts were delivered that evening by Sinterklaas himself. (Popular giftnight tactics: let a neighbour put the bag of gifts in front of the door when everyone is in the livingroom. Neighbour then bangs on the windows as if Sinterklaas is in a hurry and quickly let's the family know the gifts are here. Neighbour quickly goes inside again and we roleplay the thing with the kids.) There's not really a culture of drinking around it in the way there is with christmas or new years eve for example. Anyway, thank you again for this presentation, I actually do feel prouder as a Dutchie. Although I allready was pretty proud of that allready ;) Greetings from The Netherlands!!
Name of the Dollar originates from the German word Thaler. This silver coin was became like a branding name for silver coins. The Dutch name for it is daalder; daalder..Dollar. Dutch saying; on the open air market your guilder is worth a daalder (1.5 guilders).
@ROKBUZZCUT A Daalder was 30 stuivers (5 cents). Also the Rijksdaalder was used (worth 2,50) and remained after the introduction of the 1 cent coin. After that introduction the Daalder became defunct.
I scrolled a bit through the video. Do have to say some Dutch words are a bit translated badly to what it should be in Dutch (I'm Dutch). I could be a little confused with old Dutch which I don't know a lot about. But words like Boos shouldn't be spelled like that. Boos is mad or angry, Bos is woods or maybe it was spelled Bosch back than. Jonkeer should be Jonkheer I think. Anyway, don't know if I missed it in the video, but your declaration of independence is almost copied from our Plakkaat van Verlatinghe.
Good lecture, a few details: The VOC only had a monopoly East of the Cape in South-Africa, it didn't dominate global trade therefore. The far bigger and far more frequent European trade was dominated by independent Dutch merchants. The Dutch Republic had codified the freedom of conscience, i.e. freedom of religion, even before it declared independence, the 7 Northern Netherlands united around that, the Southern Netherlands (now Belgium) bottled out of it. The Republic of the 7 united (Northern) Netherlands was religious tolerant, but the catholic church itself was not allowed, catholics were allowed to be openly catholic but the church as an institution was part of the enemy Spain. In the 10 Spanish Netherlands, now Belgium, there was no religious tolerance, so the protestants and jews fled to the North and some ended up in New Netherland. Belgica was the latinized name for all the unsplit Netherlands, and that is where Nova Belgica comes from. Only after the reunification failed after only in 15 years in 1830, the North took the Dutch name for itself and the South took the latinized name for itself. Yes, it's confusing, but that is because of what happened almost 2 centuries later. The Dutch Republic had no monarchs, and even the only remaining relevant noble family the Oranges was completely sidelined between 1650 and 1672. Dutch liberalism was gifted to the English too because the Dutch Republic did a military intervention in 1688 to prevent Engeland going back to catholic absolutism and teaming up with Franch against the Dutch again. This intervention resulted in the current British parliamentary monarchy and the Dutch brought John Locke and the Bill of Rights too. The Dutch Republic was a bit messy though, the founding fathers studied it's political structure and de facto constitution and weren't too impressed, especially the USA codified the Dutch liberalism far more neatly than the Dutch ever did.
Some American historians think that thanksgiving originated in the 3 October festival in Leiden. The pilgrim fathers lived there for a decade, (another Dutch influence), before going to America. The declaration of independence is partly copied from the Acte van Verlatinghe Especially the religious argument why it’s ok to abandoning your king, and becoming a republic. That the people have the right to revolt if the king doesn’t do his job correctly. (It always irritates me that the republic of the Netherlands became a kingdom later). And I think the structure of the unites states resembles a lot the states in the republic of the Netherlands. It’s indeed a bit crazy to think that Britain was the founding factor, where the USA wanted to get rid of them.
It's a fully decent talk, but to a Dutch person the spelling and pronunciation errors are a bit irksome, especially how it often kind of defaults to High German which just isn't Dutch. I can understand that a random American would lack the fundamental knowledge to do that properly and some effort is shown, so don't take it as very serious criticism, just saying work can be done there.
Een stoep = stoop, sidewalk Een jonkheer = a nobleman Een boerderij = a Farm Koekjes = cookies Snakken naar = longing for = becomes: snacks Beschuiten= biscuits Breukelen = Brooklyn Pieter Bruegel Kool sla = cool slaw Kool salade = Cabbage salad Provincie Utrecht = province of Utrecht Vlissingen = flushing
Precies. By the way a heer was master or lord of a house or castle. Jonkheer was a son from that household. Often written as Jonker too, but then as they were from nobility. But it was not used consistent.
28:05 IMHO, this isn't fully true, or lacks some nuances. I'm Dutch, and in the Netherlands, there is this split: below rivers and above rivers, the North and the South. The South was Roman Empire territory, and the North Germanic tribal lands. The South also had pre-Roman expansion. Celtic and Germanic tribes lived here. I'm from Heerlen, or Coriovallum in Roman times; my city is 2000+ years old. Amsterdam will have its 750th anniversary this year (2025). The Low Lands had 17 Provinces, with Brabant being the biggest. Brabant now has one province in the south of the Netherlands, known as North Brabant, which might seem confusing since it's in the south and the only province named Brabant in the Netherlands. But cross the border, and you'll find the rest of Brabant, which is not called South Brabant but Flemish and Walloon Brabant, and Antwerp. So Brabant here got split into three provinces. I'm from Limburg, or technically East Limburg, with West Limburg being a Belgian province. In the Netherlands, I'm from South Limburg. We have a middle and North Limburg division as well, but we are counted as one province in the Netherlands. Belgium Limburg, or West Limburg, was the second largest province of the 17 provinces of the Low Lands. Gelderland was the third largest. Now Gelderland is the largest province of the Netherlands. South Limburg has three major centers/hubs/cities. Maastricht is the capital city of the Province Limburg, located in South West Limburg. I'm from South East Limburg, with Heerlen being the largest city in that area. I mentioned three cities. The third is up in the bottleneck part of our province, Geleen/Sittard, or I should say Sittard/Geleen, since now Sittard is the biggest of these two. Then there is also Middle Limburg and North Limburg with their divisions and cities. Limburg is the 11th province of the Netherlands, and one of the main reasons we are part of the Netherlands and not Belgium was because Holland wanted to keep the Maas river under their control and out of Prussian hands. The Belgian hands were not that big of a problem, one big dysfunctional family. Back to the point: the south of the Netherlands is still Catholic and has Catholic roots, while the North is the Protestant side. Also, it's not that black and white; places above the rivers can still be Catholic as well. All part of the history of this territory and the power and influence of the Roman Catholic Church, and christening Europe before Protestantism was seeded and took root. We have a very complex and interesting history, that much is true.
Utrecht en Maastricht are about the oldest towns in the netherlands and are from the Roman area. The names have the same origin. Trecht and tricht means a crossing in a river. Like a shallower part. In these cases the river U and the Maas. Broek is also interesting. It means a dry piece of land in a marshy area. So a lot of town names do have a meaning.
@@robkoning6019 True, however Maastricht is older than Utrecht. Maastricht is 25 km from Coriovallum/Heerlen. Heerlen was also a city but smaller from the same time, *a day's walk* away from Maastricht, and like wise Coriovallum is in between Maastricht en Aachen/Aken. They didn't fall from the sky ending up in Maastricht and Utrecht. Just think about it. Different reasons why certain cities became the capital as others didn't. But there have been settlements that predated the Romans. Also in Maastricht en in Heerlen.
I just read the book "de Tawl" by Philip Dröge, a Dutch writer. In this book, he travels through New York and New Jersey, in search of remains of Dutch culture and language. A variant of Dutch, somewhat similar to Afrikaans but a unique language nontheless, was spoken in these areas until the beginning of the 20th century. Sadly Dutch dissapeared as a semi-official language, but Dutch culture left a significant impact on American culture and can be recognised until this day.
I've studied the hx of the demographics of NYS but more importantly the area in which I was born raised more importantly the hx of Chautauqua county and the mid Hudson Valley. It was most descriptive especially finding what families settled where and how intrinsic the Dutch were in the mid Hudson Valley. The Swedes were much more prominent in and around the Chautauqua area. Very interesting to hear more about the hx of the. Mid Hudson Valley more notably Dutchess County.
Amazing lesson. Thank you, from a Dutch. Dankjewel. About the British, they never ruled us but we ruled them once, William III of England (King Billy).😉
And your language... Its not US English, but has its origins in Danish-Dutch Frysian. And the Netherlands financed the US independence war against the Brits. The Netherlands was the first country that recognized the US.
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@@erikwoudwijk728 Yes and the red island is in Dutch: Het rode eiland" and you almost exactly pronounce is as Rhode, only the r is a bit more pronounced in Dutch. If you say the word without article, the, it's "rood eiland" which is the same.
Here we go.... We go to Londen by Eurostar in a couple of weeks. From Grootebroek trainstation to Kings cross in 5 and a half ours. Just have a look a the British.
I'm dutch and living in the netherlands too and went through the complete presentation. For me nothing new. Just was wondering about the spelling of some of the words. Like boerderij, jan-kees, Breukelen, and so on. I know some about old dutch because im a genealogist in my spare time and read al lot of old documents. There has been a few different spellingforms in dutch. Specially the ij, eij, ey and ei (all the same sound an the y in why?) But also the ae and aa or the au and eau. Also the dutch language has the extra letter the ij where the i and j are written as one letter. Keyboards don't always support that. The pronanciation of ee, aa, eu, oe and oo sounds are completely different from english. By the way blitzen is lightning in german. In dutch it would be flitsen (flashing) Sint Nikolaas has a derived first name. Klaas. We have many of course. Like johan, john or jan from Johannes (the saint John) piet en pieter (from saint peter). Wijk comes from uitwijken of wijkplaats. Ik means a quieter place from the busy city. Mostly summer residences. Now a days the suburbs of a city are called wijken. But uitwijken has still the same description, to avoid something....
lightning in Dutch is "bliksem" (Donder and bliksem), they belong together. ( Donder en bliksen wat was dat) thunder and lightning what happened. And so we have Donner and Blitzen (Donder and Bliksem). Wijk comes from the "Vicus" which where a couple of houses outside a town or millitairy camp, in the germanic languace "Vicus became wick or wijck. Outside Maasticht ( Mosa Trajectum in Roman) you can still find "Wijck" (localy pronounced wiek) and in some towns in the Netherlands you can find streets or squars the begin with "Vicus" pointng or hinting at that origin something you will also c in a town called "Wijk bij Duurstede" which was at the most northern border of the Roman empire where there was also Roman castellum.
Unfortunately there are many spelling mistakes in the Dutch words shown here. Spellings that never have been used in 17th or modern Dutch. Please ask Charles Gehring or one his colleagues to check them. The same goes for the pronunciation. I don’t expect an American to pronounce Dutch words perfectly well, but even Dutch sounds which are (nearly) the same as in American English are pronounced here in a completely different way. Again, please ask Gehring or one of his colleagues for the best (possible) pronunciation.
I just can't understand why this is not common knowledge in the US...Why do the American people not know their own history. I'm Dutch and I know the history of my country as well as the history of the US (I learned some new stuff from this video, but the majority I am/was certainly aware of...)
The victor writes the history. If you read the Spanish version of the 17th century Dutch history, you get a whole other story than the Dutch version of 17th century Dutch history. THE truth does not exist. It is all perspective. The US is dominated by the English colonial history. The Dutch lost.
@@ronaldderooij1774 That was already clear to me that the victor writes history, but what I meant is: the are numerous sources that you can access as a historian. So a deep dive into your own history from more than one angle is key...The US have had that opportunity but clearly no one was challenged to perform more research
@@ronaldderooij1774 Let's say the system we live in now of (fractional) capitalism originates mostly from Holland. The establisment of a shipping industry and new markets like the stock markets and central bank and insurrance and securities for trading gold all over the world or stacking markets and free thinking (spinoza, protestantism and book printing) independace system of a king originated in Holland. This was later taken over by the English but the Dutch brought it there (protestantism and central bank etc). The blueprint of our world nowadays is Dutch and not English and we also funded the liberation of America by delvering weaponary from the Caribbean to beat the English.
Yeah, but this is perhaps the most clear example moment in history thus far of the mess 'we' (I am Dutch) left behind or is that the English mess (aristocracy) finally taking over?
Classical liberalism. The inventor of that, John Locke, an Englishman, even lived in the Netherlands for a period of five years. Taken from Wikipedia: " While she says that "Locke's strong empiricist tendencies" would have "disinclined him to read a grandly metaphysical work such as Spinoza's Ethics, in other ways he was deeply receptive to Spinoza's ideas, most particularly to the rationalist's well thought out argument for political and religious tolerance and the necessity of the separation of church and state."[32] Among the friends he made in the Netherlands are Van Leeuwenhoek and Van Limborch, the leader of the Remonstrants.[31] In the Netherlands, Locke had time to return to his writing, spending a great deal of time working on the Essay Concerning Human Understanding and composing the Letter on Toleration.
Name of the Dollar originates from the German word Thaler as it was worth nothing in the second war. TV: Numismatiek, Geschiedenis van het Geld. th-cam.com/video/dghU-5Esv2U/w-d-xo.htmlsi=XejoqANmGD8Zm6fd
That was awesome! Thank you! Our Saint Nicolas feast (het Sinterklaas feest) is a Catholicized version of the feast. The roots are actually from more ancient pagan religions. I quote from a perplexity search I just did: "As Christianity spread, Krampus became intertwined with the Christmas celebrations, particularly around December 5th, known as Krampusnacht (Krampus Night), when he is said to roam the streets alongside St. Nicholas." So the milder version is what we still have in The Netherlands, and the Krampus version is called 'Sunneklaas' in maybe two or three spots in The Netherlands. In the pictures you can see both versions. The pope-looking guy on the horse is Sinterklaas, which is the catholic version. And the dressed up people are part of the Sunneklaas feast, which is the Krampus version. Also here in Dutch culture it's mostly a day for the kids. They get gifts and we tell them stories about Sinterklaas and act as if all the gifts were delivered that evening by Sinterklaas himself. (Popular giftnight tactics: let a neighbour put the bag of gifts in front of the door when everyone is in the livingroom. Neighbour then bangs on the windows as if Sinterklaas is in a hurry and quickly let's the family know the gifts are here. Neighbour quickly goes inside again and we roleplay the thing with the kids.) There's not really a culture of drinking around it in the way there is with christmas or new years eve for example. Anyway, thank you again for this presentation, I actually do feel prouder as a Dutchie. Although I allready was pretty proud of that allready ;) Greetings from The Netherlands!!
We Dutchies aproved this video !! Thanks for sharing !
Name of the Dollar originates from the German word Thaler. This silver coin was became like a branding name for silver coins. The Dutch name for it is daalder; daalder..Dollar.
Dutch saying; on the open air market your guilder is worth a daalder (1.5 guilders).
1 Daalder = 2,5 Guilders
@ROKBUZZCUT A Daalder was 30 stuivers (5 cents). Also the Rijksdaalder was used (worth 2,50) and remained after the introduction of the 1 cent coin. After that introduction the Daalder became defunct.
Wonderful! Thanks guys!
No, 2,5 Guilders is a Rijksdaalder. A Daalder is 1,5 Guilders.
@ROKBUZZCUT A daalder was 1.5 Guilders. A "Rijksdaalder" (a Daalder from the state) was 2.5 Guilders, approximately what is now a Euro.
1:02:08 "KEE" is not a name; it's KEES, short for Corneli(u)S
KEES is pronounced like CASE, not keys
konijn is pronounced like co9
Thank you. Knew some things; learnt a lot. (from Amsterdam)
I scrolled a bit through the video. Do have to say some Dutch words are a bit translated badly to what it should be in Dutch (I'm Dutch). I could be a little confused with old Dutch which I don't know a lot about. But words like Boos shouldn't be spelled like that. Boos is mad or angry, Bos is woods or maybe it was spelled Bosch back than. Jonkeer should be Jonkheer I think. Anyway, don't know if I missed it in the video, but your declaration of independence is almost copied from our Plakkaat van Verlatinghe.
No, you could defend that the declaration of independence was inspired by the Plakkaat, but not, by far not a translation.
@@ronaldderooij1774 Looked at them both a little closer. I think you are right. The theme is very similar. The words a little different.
_Plakkaat van Verlatinghe_ - the Act of Abjuration (1581, repudiating Philip II of Spain).
Post content about the Dutch and we will come 😂
Good lecture, a few details: The VOC only had a monopoly East of the Cape in South-Africa, it didn't dominate global trade therefore. The far bigger and far more frequent European trade was dominated by independent Dutch merchants.
The Dutch Republic had codified the freedom of conscience, i.e. freedom of religion, even before it declared independence, the 7 Northern Netherlands united around that, the Southern Netherlands (now Belgium) bottled out of it. The Republic of the 7 united (Northern) Netherlands was religious tolerant, but the catholic church itself was not allowed, catholics were allowed to be openly catholic but the church as an institution was part of the enemy Spain.
In the 10 Spanish Netherlands, now Belgium, there was no religious tolerance, so the protestants and jews fled to the North and some ended up in New Netherland. Belgica was the latinized name for all the unsplit Netherlands, and that is where Nova Belgica comes from. Only after the reunification failed after only in 15 years in 1830, the North took the Dutch name for itself and the South took the latinized name for itself. Yes, it's confusing, but that is because of what happened almost 2 centuries later. The Dutch Republic had no monarchs, and even the only remaining relevant noble family the Oranges was completely sidelined between 1650 and 1672.
Dutch liberalism was gifted to the English too because the Dutch Republic did a military intervention in 1688 to prevent Engeland going back to catholic absolutism and teaming up with Franch against the Dutch again. This intervention resulted in the current British parliamentary monarchy and the Dutch brought John Locke and the Bill of Rights too. The Dutch Republic was a bit messy though, the founding fathers studied it's political structure and de facto constitution and weren't too impressed, especially the USA codified the Dutch liberalism far more neatly than the Dutch ever did.
We just keep to our constitution better
Some American historians think that thanksgiving originated in the 3 October festival in Leiden. The pilgrim fathers lived there for a decade, (another Dutch influence), before going to America.
The declaration of independence is partly copied from the Acte van Verlatinghe
Especially the religious argument why it’s ok to abandoning your king, and becoming a republic. That the people have the right to revolt if the king doesn’t do his job correctly.
(It always irritates me that the republic of the Netherlands became a kingdom later).
And I think the structure of the unites states resembles a lot the states in the republic of the Netherlands.
It’s indeed a bit crazy to think that Britain was the founding factor, where the USA wanted to get rid of them.
Leidensontzet is the celebrating of the liberation of Leiden from the blockage of the Spanish on october 3th 15 hundert something (I forgot the year).
Speaker starts at 2:20
It's a fully decent talk, but to a Dutch person the spelling and pronunciation errors are a bit irksome, especially how it often kind of defaults to High German which just isn't Dutch. I can understand that a random American would lack the fundamental knowledge to do that properly and some effort is shown, so don't take it as very serious criticism, just saying work can be done there.
America First / Netherlands Second 💪🤓
Een stoep = stoop, sidewalk
Een jonkheer = a nobleman
Een boerderij = a Farm
Koekjes = cookies
Snakken naar = longing for = becomes: snacks
Beschuiten= biscuits
Breukelen = Brooklyn
Pieter Bruegel
Kool sla = cool slaw
Kool salade = Cabbage salad
Provincie Utrecht = province of Utrecht
Vlissingen = flushing
Precies.
By the way a heer was master or lord of a house or castle. Jonkheer was a son from that household. Often written as Jonker too, but then as they were from nobility. But it was not used consistent.
28:05 IMHO, this isn't fully true, or lacks some nuances. I'm Dutch, and in the Netherlands, there is this split: below rivers and above rivers, the North and the South. The South was Roman Empire territory, and the North Germanic tribal lands. The South also had pre-Roman expansion. Celtic and Germanic tribes lived here. I'm from Heerlen, or Coriovallum in Roman times; my city is 2000+ years old. Amsterdam will have its 750th anniversary this year (2025).
The Low Lands had 17 Provinces, with Brabant being the biggest. Brabant now has one province in the south of the Netherlands, known as North Brabant, which might seem confusing since it's in the south and the only province named Brabant in the Netherlands. But cross the border, and you'll find the rest of Brabant, which is not called South Brabant but Flemish and Walloon Brabant, and Antwerp. So Brabant here got split into three provinces.
I'm from Limburg, or technically East Limburg, with West Limburg being a Belgian province. In the Netherlands, I'm from South Limburg. We have a middle and North Limburg division as well, but we are counted as one province in the Netherlands. Belgium Limburg, or West Limburg, was the second largest province of the 17 provinces of the Low Lands. Gelderland was the third largest. Now Gelderland is the largest province of the Netherlands.
South Limburg has three major centers/hubs/cities. Maastricht is the capital city of the Province Limburg, located in South West Limburg. I'm from South East Limburg, with Heerlen being the largest city in that area. I mentioned three cities. The third is up in the bottleneck part of our province, Geleen/Sittard, or I should say Sittard/Geleen, since now Sittard is the biggest of these two. Then there is also Middle Limburg and North Limburg with their divisions and cities.
Limburg is the 11th province of the Netherlands, and one of the main reasons we are part of the Netherlands and not Belgium was because Holland wanted to keep the Maas river under their control and out of Prussian hands. The Belgian hands were not that big of a problem, one big dysfunctional family.
Back to the point: the south of the Netherlands is still Catholic and has Catholic roots, while the North is the Protestant side. Also, it's not that black and white; places above the rivers can still be Catholic as well. All part of the history of this territory and the power and influence of the Roman Catholic Church, and christening Europe before Protestantism was seeded and took root.
We have a very complex and interesting history, that much is true.
Utrecht en Maastricht are about the oldest towns in the netherlands and are from the Roman area. The names have the same origin. Trecht and tricht means a crossing in a river. Like a shallower part. In these cases the river U and the Maas. Broek is also interesting. It means a dry piece of land in a marshy area. So a lot of town names do have a meaning.
@@robkoning6019 True, however Maastricht is older than Utrecht. Maastricht is 25 km from Coriovallum/Heerlen. Heerlen was also a city but smaller from the same time, *a day's walk* away from Maastricht, and like wise Coriovallum is in between Maastricht en Aachen/Aken. They didn't fall from the sky ending up in Maastricht and Utrecht. Just think about it. Different reasons why certain cities became the capital as others didn't.
But there have been settlements that predated the Romans. Also in Maastricht en in Heerlen.
An interesting and accessible lecture!
Also for us Dutch 😉
Greetings from The Hague. 🇳🇱🤝🇺🇸
Some of the Dutch words in the language section are spelled wrongly: Jan-Kees was/is a Dutch name (not Jan-Kee), Jonkheer, not Jonkeer.
I just read the book "de Tawl" by Philip Dröge, a Dutch writer. In this book, he travels through New York and New Jersey, in search of remains of Dutch culture and language. A variant of Dutch, somewhat similar to Afrikaans but a unique language nontheless, was spoken in these areas until the beginning of the 20th century. Sadly Dutch dissapeared as a semi-official language, but Dutch culture left a significant impact on American culture and can be recognised until this day.
At 7:16 min.: Russell Shorto's second book is called 'Amsterdam, a History of the World's Most Liberal City' (2013)
I've studied the hx of the demographics of NYS but more importantly the area in which I was born raised more importantly the hx of Chautauqua county and the mid Hudson Valley. It was most descriptive especially finding what families settled where and how intrinsic the Dutch were in the mid Hudson Valley. The Swedes were much more prominent in and around the Chautauqua area. Very interesting to hear more about the hx of the. Mid Hudson Valley more notably Dutchess County.
Great lecture!
Amazing lesson. Thank you, from a Dutch. Dankjewel. About the British, they never ruled us but we ruled them once, William III of England (King Billy).😉
And your language... Its not US English, but has its origins in Danish-Dutch Frysian.
And the Netherlands financed the US independence war against the Brits. The Netherlands was the first country that recognized the US.
True
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I seem to have missed the names of the books he is talking about. Where can I find those?
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Sinterklaas (St. Nicholas) is celebrated on the 5th of december. Not the 6th.
In Belgium we celebrate it on the 6th.
De Sint kan niet overal tegelijk zijn!
@@timpauwels3734 Ah yes, i forgot about that one. I guess we got to conclude that 'the Dutch' just means Dutch/Flemish/Walloon to Americans.
You can read it in the museum Amsterdam..
The Dutch may have named Rhode Island. I'm sure they must have navigated that area and may have called it Red Island, in Dutch of course.
Yes they did. Red is rood in dutch. Pronounced like rhode
@@erikwoudwijk728 Yes and the red island is in Dutch: Het rode eiland" and you almost exactly pronounce is as Rhode, only the r is a bit more pronounced in Dutch. If you say the word without article, the, it's "rood eiland" which is the same.
Oh you mean Rood eiland. Maybe it had a red color to it from the stones.
Here we go....
We go to Londen by Eurostar in a couple of weeks. From Grootebroek trainstation to Kings cross in 5 and a half ours. Just have a look a the British.
I'm dutch and living in the netherlands too and went through the complete presentation. For me nothing new. Just was wondering about the spelling of some of the words. Like boerderij, jan-kees, Breukelen, and so on. I know some about old dutch because im a genealogist in my spare time and read al lot of old documents. There has been a few different spellingforms in dutch. Specially the ij, eij, ey and ei (all the same sound an the y in why?) But also the ae and aa or the au and eau. Also the dutch language has the extra letter the ij where the i and j are written as one letter. Keyboards don't always support that. The pronanciation of ee, aa, eu, oe and oo sounds are completely different from english. By the way blitzen is lightning in german. In dutch it would be flitsen (flashing)
Sint Nikolaas has a derived first name. Klaas. We have many of course. Like johan, john or jan from Johannes (the saint John) piet en pieter (from saint peter).
Wijk comes from uitwijken of wijkplaats. Ik means a quieter place from the busy city. Mostly summer residences. Now a days the suburbs of a city are called wijken. But uitwijken has still the same description, to avoid something....
lightning in Dutch is "bliksem" (Donder and bliksem), they belong together. ( Donder en bliksen wat was dat) thunder and lightning what happened. And so we have Donner and Blitzen (Donder and Bliksem). Wijk comes from the "Vicus" which where a couple of houses outside a town or millitairy camp, in the germanic languace "Vicus became wick or wijck. Outside Maasticht ( Mosa Trajectum in Roman) you can still find "Wijck" (localy pronounced wiek) and in some towns in the Netherlands you can find streets or squars the begin with "Vicus" pointng or hinting at that origin something you will also c in a town called "Wijk bij Duurstede" which was at the most northern border of the Roman empire where there was also Roman castellum.
Unfortunately there are many spelling mistakes in the Dutch words shown here. Spellings that never have been used in 17th or modern Dutch. Please ask Charles Gehring or one his colleagues to check them. The same goes for the pronunciation. I don’t expect an American to pronounce Dutch words perfectly well, but even Dutch sounds which are (nearly) the same as in American English are pronounced here in a completely different way. Again, please ask Gehring or one of his colleagues for the best (possible) pronunciation.
1:09:28 "a soft J..." not really, it's pronounced just as an english speaker would pronounce a "Y".
I don't know if this is true, but it is said that Theodore Roosevelt swore his oath on a Dutch bible.
I just can't understand why this is not common knowledge in the US...Why do the American people not know their own history. I'm Dutch and I know the history of my country as well as the history of the US (I learned some new stuff from this video, but the majority I am/was certainly aware of...)
The victor writes the history. If you read the Spanish version of the 17th century Dutch history, you get a whole other story than the Dutch version of 17th century Dutch history. THE truth does not exist. It is all perspective. The US is dominated by the English colonial history. The Dutch lost.
@@ronaldderooij1774 That was already clear to me that the victor writes history, but what I meant is: the are numerous sources that you can access as a historian. So a deep dive into your own history from more than one angle is key...The US have had that opportunity but clearly no one was challenged to perform more research
@@ronaldderooij1774 Let's say the system we live in now of (fractional) capitalism originates mostly from Holland. The establisment of a shipping industry and new markets like the stock markets and central bank and insurrance and securities for trading gold all over the world or stacking markets and free thinking (spinoza, protestantism and book printing) independace system of a king originated in Holland. This was later taken over by the English but the Dutch brought it there (protestantism and central bank etc). The blueprint of our world nowadays is Dutch and not English and we also funded the liberation of America by delvering weaponary from the Caribbean to beat the English.
Probably the history of the victor. They erased the dutch history....
The British hated the Dutch. Dutch treat, Dutch courrage, Dutch oven, going Dutch, double Dutch.
Strange expression. 'Back on the map '. Was it ever 'off the map' ? .
Yeah, but this is perhaps the most clear example moment in history thus far of the mess 'we' (I am Dutch) left behind or is that the English mess (aristocracy) finally taking over?
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New Amsterdam!
It's all about making money that's what the Americans learned from the Dutch.
If this is true we’re very sorry 😂
Education lis education .
The Dutch king William 3d was allso King of the Brits ended in 1702
Yes Dutch heritage is very forgotten, why, ask the English.😮
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If we invented America...did we invent Trump to?!?!?!?
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Kweet niet, maar Trump en Tromp klikken wel erg gelijkwaardige.. 🤔
Trump heeft duitse voorouders.
Yankees = Jan Kees
actually the scots invented the modern world (of which america is a small part) but good info 👍👍
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Classical Liberalism or today's version of Liberalism?
Classical liberalism. The inventor of that, John Locke, an Englishman, even lived in the Netherlands for a period of five years. Taken from Wikipedia: " While she says that "Locke's strong empiricist tendencies" would have "disinclined him to read a grandly metaphysical work such as Spinoza's Ethics, in other ways he was deeply receptive to Spinoza's ideas, most particularly to the rationalist's well thought out argument for political and religious tolerance and the necessity of the separation of church and state."[32] Among the friends he made in the Netherlands are Van Leeuwenhoek and Van Limborch, the leader of the Remonstrants.[31] In the Netherlands, Locke had time to return to his writing, spending a great deal of time working on the Essay Concerning Human Understanding and composing the Letter on Toleration.
Great stuff
Name of the Dollar originates from the German word Thaler as it was worth nothing in the second war. TV: Numismatiek, Geschiedenis van het Geld. th-cam.com/video/dghU-5Esv2U/w-d-xo.htmlsi=XejoqANmGD8Zm6fd