Fun video to watch, you have such genuine reactions! Greetings from Rotterdam, the Netherlands!

I am Dutch. Viewers need to remember that the Netherlands is not only rich but also a very small country and densely populated. Compare to Kerala which has over 38,000 km2 while the Netherlands has over 41,000 km2.

@roddo1955

23 күн бұрын

I'm Dutch too and I can't get my head around how small this country is. I recently found out that the distance between Enschede and Rotterdam is the same as the distance between Manhattan and Long Island....that's still within New York city limits! One city! 😅

@maplelafe7671

23 күн бұрын

​​@@roddo1955 yeah and NY has 1 Mayor we have 876 😂😂

@teresita1320

22 күн бұрын

The area of ​​Kerala is over 38,000 km2 with a population of almost 33,500,000 (census 201 1). Will now be more in 2024. The area of ​​the Netherlands is almost 42,000 km2 with a population of almost 18,000,000 in 2024. Compared to the Netherlands, Kerala is more densely populated than the Netherlands. But the Netherlands is also becoming densely populated.

@lienbijs1205

22 күн бұрын

Isn't interesting how many children don't have breakfast in the Netherlands because of poverty?

@s.m.1354

20 күн бұрын

@@teresita1320how many squared meters do cows receive in India? In the Netherlands there are laws that forbids the farmers to have more than so many cows or chickens per 100 m2. Since the Netherlands produces a lot of Food products, those animals need a lot of Space.

I drive the afsluitdijk weekly and have driven it more than 500 times...Greetings from Friesland...

Thanks from the netherlands

2 years ahead of shedule! unheard of for projects on this scale. Now you understand why we build a statue for that engineer who designed the plan. (obviously also because it did what was promised)

Thank you for your interest in our country❤

Originally the Netherlands was a swamp/delta and nobody want to live there; only people running from agressive tribes. Maybe we should help the Bengladesh as well to deal with the water problems.

@InfinityIna

14 күн бұрын

YOU SHOULD FIRST PAY BACK TO WHAT YOU GODDAMN STOLE FROM INDIA, INDONESIA AND AFRICA, JUST LIKE THE BRITS YOU DAM HISTORY RAPERS!!!

@Apollorion

10 күн бұрын

The Rhine, the Meuse and the Scheldt don't have the problem of releasing the water dumped by a monsoon, but the Ganges does have that problem (just like the Nile), and Bangladesh lays in the delta of that Ganges so that won't be such an easy task. And, 'of course', there's the problem of money.

@jpdj2715

6 күн бұрын

@@Apollorion - "we" in the NL are in the flood planes of these rivers. We have no problem with them, generally, since we put dykes around them. But after monsoon type rains, you'll for example see flooding of the Rhine river in Germany with disastrous results. In the NL you can visit villages along these rivers and find marks that indicate how high the river's water rose, once upon a time and in all these cases there was flooding and loss of material things as well as lives. In some cases, such floodplains had three dykes at a distance of each other and with different height. You can find these with names like "guardian dyke" (highest, inner), "dreamer dyke" (medium height), and "sleeper dyke" (lowest, outer). These are very old and between these dykes you'll have a flooding area that works as a buffer between the river and the inhabited land. In recent decades, NL people have started to use the floodplains more but that's silly and asking for wet feet or loss of everything, not just material but lives as well. The reason people lived here, in what's now NL, was not just aggressive tribes. Homo sapiens has had very long time windows of living along water where fish and crustaceans provide an easy access to proteins. During such long periods we lost our ability to synthesize vitamin B12, and later gained the ability to build a B12 reserve in our livers (B12 is essential in our energy processes). In the thinking of old cultures there was a divide between fish and crustaceans from the sea versus from rivers. Sea was considered much better than river. In my home town, the "fish hall" was built in a primary location against the basilica church while the "river fish market" was elsewhere. The disadvantage of living near water may be "swamp fever" - the Dutch not-as-bad-but-still-bad variant of malaria. We also used to have "winter midges". Note that many "polders" got pumped dry - the land claimed - as a way to get rid of these infectious problems as primary motivation and the claimed land as secondary. In some cases, like uncovered in Scotland or Great Britain, Stone Age people mitigated the infectious problem by building houses on poles above water, with a walk-way to them from shore. Between 5m and 15m from shore, there are no biting infectious flying insects any longer that you would have in the swampy land. "Managing" water levels in an organised way, outside the dominant political system, may have started already some 1000 years ago. Collaborating in the construction of dykes may be as old as about 2,000 years. Dykes started as walk ways between the mounds that people in the floodplains built their houses on. Its easier to put a protective dyke around a larger area than to connect every house to every other house. But this requires collaboration. And next management. And deeper knowledge where it doesn't matter who has the loudest mouth or biggest something because deluded "leaders" will cause you, or your children, to lose everything. What mattered was valid and relevant in-depth knowledge.

@mormacil

Күн бұрын

Not true, humans have lived here since the Stone Age. Turns out river deltas are super fertile. Obviously people all around the world figured that out.

Ah! An Indian pronounced the name of my hometown Urk. That was good. Nice video.

@InfinityIna

14 күн бұрын

AN INDIAN WHO DOES NOT KNOW THE HISTORY OF INDIA........... M.FO*****

Now do a video on how Brussels/Davos deconstructs the Netherlands.

7:20 That's my province. Zeeland (Sealand). The Delta Works are impressive, even when you live there. "Luctor et emergo" ( I struggle and overcome) is the spell of the Province. You can still see houses with erosion from the disaster in 1953. Even tho I live below sealevel, I'm not worried of floods. Besides the dikes that form the coastline here we also have many inner dikes. That way we have plenty of time to evacuate. Nice reactions from you guys. Greets!

Fun fact: all the soft clay ground in the newly claimed land (the "polders") is very fertile. It is especially good for growing tulips and herd cows. That's one of the reasons why we are the biggest exporters of tulips in the world, and we do export a lot of cheese, mainly because 17% of the total land area is this kind of fertile ground. Gouda cheese is the name of a type of cheese nowadays, the type most well known over the world. It has been traded in the city of Gouda since the year 1198.

Honestly I was baffled by the fact that we, this tiny country are the 2nd biggest food provider in the world.

@Molentik

13 күн бұрын

2nd biggest exporter. Primarily because they import a lot of raw products (like coffee and cacao beans for example) and export the finished product.

Yes, all these works were very expensive, but it took dutch engeneering skils for watermanagement to a much higher level. This knowledge is being exported all around the world. The special vessels that were necessary for the works boosted the Dutch shipyards in a lot of complex ship and off-shore building. So it brings a lot of money back to the Dutch economy Greetz Jacques

The afsluitdijk [the first dike] is now 90 years old and needs renovation. In 2018 a company was found that would do it. An estimate of the cost was 900 million. After some delays the cost rose to 2 billion . OEPS.

@ricardomeertens9165

24 күн бұрын

trillion so a 1 with 18 zero's? in dutch its miljoen-miljard- biljoen-biljard-triljoen-triljard. in english it is: million-billion-trillion-quadrillion-quintillion-sextillion. so its totally different. i think you meant 2 miljard wich is 2000 million. or 2 billion in english. or did you meant the english trillion so 20000 million ? because thats a insane number.

@randar1969

24 күн бұрын

@@ricardomeertens9165 Can't be a trillion our GDP is around 1,5 trillion/year.

@nukubulibre

24 күн бұрын

@@ricardomeertens9165 sorry billion

@ricardomeertens9165

23 күн бұрын

@@randar1969 yeah thats why i asked what they meant XD

The video missed one of most impressive dam-like structure. De maeslandkering

The Netherlands also had an idea to make a dam from north England to Norway and from south Englands to Franse to make even more land

Oh we did not only defeated the sea, we also found a way to stop the wind. 😂

Lol they are reacting like seeing a firework show. Ooohhh aaaahhhh ooooeeeewwwww wwwaaaauuuaaawww 😂

Maybe one day the Netherlands can start helping Bangladesh and similar places

@InfinityIna

14 күн бұрын

THE DUTCH SHOULD FUCKING REPAY FIRST

@mormacil

Күн бұрын

They do, there have been programs for decades now.

Some facts to give the clip more understanding… 1) since the Afsluitdijk hardly any covermental structure is build ahead off time. Its takes between 30 and 80% more time normally and cost normally also go between 100% and 300% then estimated. An example…. The renovation of the Dutch parlement area…called binnenhof. Calculated at 850milion euro Now its 2 billion…and still going up…the predict its going to be more like 3 billion 2) the Deltawerken didn’t take only 28 days to decide. The plan was already there but the coverment didn’t want to invest in it. They thought it wasn’t needed. It took 1800 deaths to speed it up under immense political pressure. Its a nice clip…but some facts are being told not in the correct way.

A good follow-up video is "How Does The Netherlands Help Other Countries with Water Problems". kzread.info/dash/bejne/Y2aEyNGwXbXTl5M.html

I think it would be a great idea if the both of you watch a clip solely about the deltaworks. It will blow your mind.

@Ensie80

18 күн бұрын

They should start with Kinderdijk to better comprehend why we are known for our watermanagement.

We build more and more, only for all the refugees 😂

The time laps are wrong! Wieringemeer was first! Afsluitdijk was later!

We got tired of stealing land we needed a new challenge ;p

"Necessity is the mother of invention." :Anon?

Our next project, is to prevent train chaos, in autumn. We will go see why Canadian trains never stop, and ours do 😂

@wimahlers

19 күн бұрын

Canadian railroad lines are sparse compared to the Netherlands (relatively). There also are less railroad crossings or cross sections (a lesser network, a lesser grid/coverage). And train frequency is much less in Canada then in the Netherlands. Despite all this there are far more train delays in Canada then in the Netherlands (delays mainly caused by freight trains). The Dutch railroad is fine.

@dennishendrikx3228

19 күн бұрын

@@wimahlers Right. But they also plow trough snow, while we get cancelled lines because of leafs. Ever seen how much woods Canada has, next to us?

@wimahlers

19 күн бұрын

@@dennishendrikx3228 There rarely is enough snow that stops a train in the Netherlands to justify a snow plow for every Dutch train. I can only remember one time in the past 50 years that this ever happened. As to leafs ... It is the oil in the leaf that is a problem. It extends the braking distance dramatically. Which is not a problem at all in Canada with the sparse and distant train schedules on a sparse railroad network. However, it definitely is a problem on a highly frequent railroad network with an intensively dense railroad grid. Which, contrary to Canada, the Netherlands is. By the way, Canadian passenger trains are sometimes delayed for hours because of freight priority. The train network in the Netherlands is absolutely fine. Other than perhaps the insufficient capacity during rush hours. But they are working on that to be solved ...

@dennishendrikx3228

19 күн бұрын

@@wimahlers I am not speaking about priorities, density or distances. I am not saying one is better than the other. I only said they can go trough snow, while we can't go on leaves. Like there are only pinetrees over there. Those are real woods.

@wimahlers

19 күн бұрын

@@dennishendrikx3228 Snow and leafs are two different things. With vastly different characteristics and problems. As I (tried to) explain before, the oil in leafs is pressed out by the train wheels. Resulting in oily railroad tracks. And consequently longer braking distances. This problem is the same for Canada as well as the Netherlands. The difference being that due to train traffic density (more frequent train schedules) this is no problem for Canada. But since trains in the Netherlands follow much closer it is a problem in the Netherlands.

You ain't mutch if you ain't Dutch 😜

Dees ook

Please don't think it's all perfect here, but yes, generally speaking we can't complain about the government. I personnely think it has to do with the protest christian culture of responsability.

@leunisvandewege9651

17 күн бұрын

sorry: protestant

Watching Indians react is like watching polution and garbage in rivers 😂greetings from Amsterdam het Ei ♥️

So much to be proud of as a dutchmen yet we are all complaining about how bad it is. Strange to see how people view the world differently when they are part of it opposed to outsiders. Yes we are a rich country yet poverty is getting worse and worse each year...

@randar1969

24 күн бұрын

Actually rising poverty is mainly due to immigrants expecting to share in the wealth without speaking the language or adjust to local costums. It's not a nice country for the uneducated that don't speak the language or atleast English. Or for those people that think they can just demand free money and a house. They tried though and now we have a more right wing government because reaction/counter-reaction.