Greenhousebuilder here and can confirm our greenhouses are all around the world now. I build them in more than 40 countries

the succes of the dutch economy is a combination of a good education and cooperation between people without reguard of their class or money and thinking in solutions instead of problems. that is key to think outside the box and come up with new developments.

@annebokma4637

5 күн бұрын

It also helps that we are nuts 😂

Nexit would be a disaster for the Netherlands as a trading countrie we benefit a lot from the open European market.

@dimrrider9133

Ай бұрын

You really have no idea whats really going on in the world

The Netherlands first made a tradepact with Belgium and Luxembourg called BENELUX. It also was one of the founding members of the EEC which is the predecessor of the EU. All these unions/pacts were made to increase the benefits from trade. Rotterdam harbor nowadays is responsible for over 80% of our annual GDP. So NEXIT is completely impossible because our whole country depends in some way on all the trademarkets. It is probably also the reason why usually 2 to 4 foreign languages are tought at highschools. Why negotiating and high tolereances (at least outwards) are held towards other cultures, societies etc. It doesn't matter what you're believes are, as long you are willing to trade with us, it is all good.

As for earthquakes, these actually never occurred in the Netherlands, and that also remained that way for a long time once we rere already drilling for natural gas for a very long time in the province of Groningen, the gas field located under Groningen is the second largest natural gas field of the entire continent of Europe in case you didn't know already, but once earthquakes started to occur in Groningen due to soil subsidence, this prompted us to stop drilling for it, as this has meant that a huge number of houses in Groningen are no longer safely habitable anymore because there are now cracks in the walls of a lot of houses built there, a lot of these cracks were created by the earthquakes caused by drilling for natural gas.

@tonnydegraaf8433

Ай бұрын

O yes, it does, google Limburg 1993 Roermond. I was shaking in bed, my hole house was shaking and we had a lot of damage

one of the biggest things that made The Netherlands into the country it is today is: efficiency some examples of Dutch efficiency: - back in the day when the Dutch were fighting for their independence, against the Spanish empire. our (de facto) leader, Prince Maurits of Orange reorganized the Dutch military. he made it into (one of) the best organized military of Europe (at the time). - one of the reasons why the Dutch become the global leader in trade was the invention of an automatic sawmill. back in the late 16th century the Dutch invented a way of using the power of the windmill (of course) to saw logs into planks. and because of this, now they were able to do in a week what used to take around 4 months. and the more planks you have, the more ships you can build. - during the Dutch golden age the Dutch often instead of outright colonizing, tried to become friendly with the local government and was mainly interested in doing business. so the local leader could still govern his subjects, and the Dutch would profit from their trade with them. a good example of this is the Japanese, for almost 300 years the Dutch were the only non-Japanese people allowed to trade with Japan. - reclaiming land. because The Netherlands is tiny we need to be creative in getting more land for our people. we don't have the strength or might to take land from others, so we take it from the sea. - and right now the Dutch economy is the most productive per hour worked in the world. meaning that for every hour worked, the Dutch add the most value to their products/work. always trying to find a better/more efficient way of doing things. getting more out of your work with less effort. that is something the Dutch have done for centuries, and still a lot of Dutch people have that mindset (or maybe it's more instinct nowadays).

@VolrinSeth

21 күн бұрын

You're presenting a selective and misleading version of history. "- back in the day when the Dutch were fighting for their independence, against the Spanish empire. our (de facto) leader, Prince Maurits of Orange reorganized the Dutch military. he made it into (one of) the best organized military of Europe (at the time)." While in WW2 we were fighting with outdated weapons, on bikes, relied on outdated tactics and got crushed. "- one of the reasons why the Dutch become the global leader in trade was the invention of an automatic sawmill. back in the late 16th century the Dutch invented a way of using the power of the windmill (of course) to saw logs into planks. and because of this, now they were able to do in a week what used to take around 4 months. and the more planks you have, the more ships you can build." And because of piracy and colonisation, let's not forget those. "- during the Dutch golden age the Dutch often instead of outright colonizing, tried to become friendly with the local government and was mainly interested in doing business. so the local leader could still govern his subjects, and the Dutch would profit from their trade with them. " Most colonial nations did this, out of necessity. It was far more profitable and less risky than trying to forcefully occupy. "a good example of this is the Japanese, for almost 300 years the Dutch were the only non-Japanese people allowed to trade with Japan." Not because other nations tried to conquer Japan, but because Portuguese traders tried to convert the Japanese to Christianity, which we promised we would not do. We were also force ably confined to the artificial island of Deshima. "- and right now the Dutch economy is the most productive per hour worked in the world. meaning that for every hour worked, the Dutch add the most value to their products/work." Souce? What do you base that claim on? According to this: www.zendesk.co.uk/blog/most-productive-countries-in-2022/ We're not even in the top 5. And that does not even address how inefficient our education and care systems have become.

My employer has assets of €530 million. And the owner of Heineken is worth 7.6 billion. Bunschoten-Spakenburg, the place where I live. There are also plenty of multi-millionaires. Like Dennis Bergkamp's parents-in-law. +- 87 million, my old employer +- 71 million, my brother-in-law's parents-in-law +- 12 million and there are quite a few more.

The main reason for Dutch success was probably the freedom of religion and a welcoming attitude towards immigrants we had very early. For that reason a lot of rich and educated and enterprising foreign people came over. Huguenots from France, Sefardim Jews from Spain and Portugal, Pilgrim Fathers from England, German Protestants and so on. We never had a closed society.

@hardyvonwinterstein5445

Ай бұрын

Therefore, Nexit is a joke really.

@EGO0808

Ай бұрын

Joh!

@Be-Es---___

Ай бұрын

​@hardyvonwinterstein5445 As is limiting immigration.

@diegomalone6693

Ай бұрын

If only more people kept this in mind when talking about traditional Dutch values. All this talk of limiting immigration is terribly un-Dutch, yet so popular in politics.

I think indeed people in the Netherlands want something different then the VVD generally speaking. VVD is the party for companies and the rich to me at least. They also caused the more free market that also had negative sides to it in my opinion, but I guess VVD just did what is happening in the USA which I don´t want to begin with ahaha. We are not the USA.

Charlene de Carvalho-Heineken 14.5 B USD

Hahaha When I saw the Title Uk should learn from the Dutch I just had to react. UK always been jealous of the innovation and riches not to mention trade back into the early 1700 / 1800. We had several wars / naval battles with them both good and bad. Now days we have good relations back then man we kicked there buts when we had De Ruijter at the helm :)

@colinmorsink9685

Ай бұрын

Yep, the Dutch navy even sailed up the Medway and stole their most precious ship at that time, the HMS Royal Charles their flagship.....Fun fact, the Dutch navy was the first navy that operated a marine corps! Even funnier fact, King Willem the 3rd also known as William of Orange ruled the UK from 1689 til 1702 until he died.

I have a tip if you go to the netherlands, visit the top 10 most populated cities and you can see how different those cities are.

We learn all of this shit at the age 6, so basically they make sure that trading becomes the basic principle of our culture, and since we never stopped trading we dont really need our own national resources, we just buy shit and trade it. To make sure it doesnt stop we build high tech quality machines for the persons that we buy shit from, we build it so they can make shit better and faster, we also build quallity stuff for them to keep the resource guy happy, because when resource guy is happy we can continue to buy shit for good prices, so that we can trade it and make profit...but most of the benefits are obviously for the richer part of the country, we are just allowed to spend our money in their shopping malls, and drive on their roads(lmao) living costs in general i think are to high

No none of the above (roughly 3:20 in the video) !!! Necessity !!! If there is a problem you solve it, and do it well. You look towards the future and try to prevent any possible negative outcome.

You are right when you said you observed a shift to the right. Although I might be completely wrong, here's my two cents. We've been slowly drifting to the right and I think a lot of my parents' generation have been sort of fooled into thinking most of our issues have been caused by the left. Had a tough talk with my parents and when I said, who's been in power the last decade and then some? The left or the right? So my parents thought the left. They even thought that the VVD was a leftist party. Therein lies the cause in my humble opinion. The right has become so good at spin and propaganda that the less informed voters think they're suffering from leftist policies while the right ruling parties slowly chips away at our social nets to then blame the consequence on (you guessed it probably) the left and migrants. (And I hate to say this) although we're not there yet, certain countries are already very much closer to what Hitler and the Nazi's did by blaming the opposition and "illegal aliens", Jews, etc. My parents seem to fall for that stuff too since they sadly voted for PVV with Geert WIlders who's nothing more than a weak version of the Hitler type IMO. And I understand their reasoning when they told me. They are being told that they're getting less pension because of all the money and housing and stuff the gov gives to asylum seekers, migrants etc. The reason that they get that is because of leftist policies they are being promised the right is going to fix (don't forget we are one of the richest countries in the world). So when I ask them why they think that would mean there isnt enough money for their pensions, good healthcare etc it always gets back to the scapegoat theyve been pointed to. I then tend to point out that during corona, when everything got so much more expensive for normal people, the companies (fucking all of them) seemed to be suffering none of that squeeze.. In fact, their profits havent stopped going up since the last financial crisis, supermarkets dump tons of food while people need food banks and for some reason, after corona, after the supply chain problems, did those prices go down? And maybe a more important question, WHY did those prices have to go up so much AND did their profits have to go up? There is more than enough money, food, space etc to accommodate every living person on this world, just not enough will. And while the right will go to the ends of the world and back to protect the financial interests of those who have so much money they don't know what to do with it (except not giving it to those in need) , they sadly have the people that DO NEED the money believing that the parties that would fight to get you help are the parties that do what the right is actually doing. Greed is maybe the ugliest blight on humanity there is. I think we can solve a massive chunk of the worlds problems like, food insecurity, housing, medical care and safety to name some, by TAXING THE RICH AND WEALTHY. Of course you may reap the benefits of whatever company, idea or whatever you made or built or bought. Sure you can make several millions blah blah but NO PERSONS ON THIS EARTH NEEDS BILLIONS. If you make billions, you can sure pay 80 to 90% in taxes. If you throw containers of food away (and not even give it to people who are without) you need to lower the prices in your supermarket. Anywho, sorry for the rant but you did ask for it :)

Groningen has earthquakes because of the gas depleting, but they arent actually hard its a bit of shaking at most but a lot of houses are starting to break down because of it thats why they decided to stop.

@hardyvonwinterstein5445

Ай бұрын

Limburg has had the worst quake in the Netherlands ever. 1992 I fell out of bed because of a 5.9 Richter quake in Roermond. And I live some 50 miles away. Some heavy aftershocks as well. Crazy.

@anouk6644

Ай бұрын

@@hardyvonwinterstein5445I remember this! It woke me up even though I lived all the way near Delft. The funny thing was, my sister lived in Maastricht at the time and slept through the whole thing!!

@hardyvonwinterstein5445

Ай бұрын

@@anouk6644 I live in Vaals, just 25 km from Maastricht and nobody here slept through this. Paintings fell from the wall, cabinets went over, glass everywhere. And before you came to your senses it was all over. Next day at the office in Heerlen, an aftershock hit. It felt as if the building was hit by a train. In Japan or the Bay Area they may find this story amusing, but it was not.

@anouk6644

Ай бұрын

@@hardyvonwinterstein5445 My sister was known to be a heavy sleeper. Other students in her dorm were all awake will cabinets flew open and things fell out. I don’t know why she wasn’t awoken by it. Must have been a scary experience.

the wealth gap did visibly grow in the Netherlands since corona, as you expected. We had elections half a year (or so) ago and the cost of living and social safety nets were a major topic this time. Our new government just formed and economically their plans kind of a mixed bag. I have a feeling it's mostly going to benefit the below-average wages, but don't quote me on it. in terms of immigration, this new government is a hard swing towards the far right (although I think it's weird to call this right- or left-wing). I feel the current trust in the new government is at an all-time low, but that has to do with many more factors besides political views. One among which was a rather clumsy formation period.

Richest person is Charlene de Carvalho-Heineken (and you know where it came from ;)).

High rents and high house prices are everywhere in the NL🇳🇱, not only A’dam.

@ronaldderooij1774

Ай бұрын

And not only in the Netherlands, but in the whole western world, including the USA and Canada.

@helenooft9664

Ай бұрын

@@ronaldderooij1774 it is global

are you not Scottish? Due to the Football/Fussball Euro Cup 2024 in Germany, the Scottish team arrived in Munich and their supporters do a lot of bagpipe noise ;)

There are earthquakes in the south of the Netherlands, relatively close to the surface so impact is only high around the epicenter. Earthquake of 1983 around Liege Belgium, and 1992 around Roermond, were felt by me and the house was shaking. In the north, Groningen, there are trembles, due to natural gas mining. Small but frequent, and houses are cracking slowly because of this.

😀

When the british went for brexit,it felt like a good old friend was leaving us...

Have you seen big brother? The guy who made that is one of the rich here 😂 We never trusted government. But somebody has to govern, sadly....

Have a look at this comparison between the middle-class situations for average folks in the US vs the NL: kzread.info/dash/bejne/eKmOl7mIaNvVm9Y.html Quite insightful.

I think the Netherlands has basically created the modern world it thrives in. Modern capitalism (not so much the hugely overestimated VOC and hugely overestimated stock market), upward social mobility, freedom of religion and speech, free trade (mare liberum) the shift from nobility to merchants, from land to waterways as the most important and profitable. In capitalism it always pays to be first, and even in the piss poor 19th century there was old money for investment. Ireland for example had to offer huge and unfair tax breaks to get capital in, while the Dutch had historic capital laying around that was available for investment.

@EGO0808

Ай бұрын

What a load of BS😂😂😂

@TheSuperappelflap

Ай бұрын

I dont know about you but for the vast majority of the population, we are not exactly "thriving" right now. It would be more accurate to say, we are barely hanging on for dear life and every year we are more poor than the year before. All the profit goes to the happy few, who dont pay taxes.

@DenUitvreter

Ай бұрын

@@TheSuperappelflap I tend to agree, a lot of the "economic growth" is actually not real growth but adding masses of immigrants often working for foreign companies with foreign shareholders profitting from Dutch infrastructure while pushing up cost of living and housing in particular, which translates to higher GDP too without adding value or increasing productivity.

@TheSuperappelflap

Ай бұрын

@@DenUitvreter most immigrants don't work

AND NOW SOMETHING COMPLITLY DIFFERENT !!!! you alrady know lots of my insane country. But what do you know about our insane festvals??? I would love to see your reaction on DEFCON 1 ENDSHOW 2022 !!!! Pleace have a look. and have fun !!

@dimrrider9133

Ай бұрын

Power hour 2023 ;p stupid YT delete all my reactions pfff

The Netherlands does *not* have first-past-the-post elections. Nor does it have unelected Lords. This makes Dutch politics ... tricky. But that is why politicians have to *work together,* because that is the only way to form a coalition government. Compare that to Britain where the Tories and Labour always blame eachother for everything ... Right now the PVV is the biggest Dutch political party; a relatively new party still. If you don't want any of the existing parties 🤷 fine! Found a new party (look up FvD and NSC and BBB) and see what happens (the new coalition government of PVV, NSC, VVD and BBB is made up of two really rather new parties, the PVV and not-so-good old VVD). SEE? It's *tricky* BUT IT WORKS!

@Lord_RFAS

Ай бұрын

PVV: the party with basically one party-member. We'll see how Gaertsje perform now he's no longer just a curly blond little dog barking in opposition.

@AdLockhorst-bf8pz

Ай бұрын

@@Lord_RFAS yeah 🤷 but FvD is really just a one man show too. Bij1 is a zero person party 😈 which is nice.

@Lord_RFAS

Ай бұрын

@@AdLockhorst-bf8pz And yet: FvD still has 60.000ish members which influences it's course. Bij1 I haven't checked - too irrelevant. Wilders in his party is basically like the Orban he admires so much, the autocrat he aspires to be.

@Lord_RFAS

Ай бұрын

@@AdLockhorst-bf8pz And yet: FvD still has 60.000ish members which influences it's course. Bij1 I haven't checked. Wilders in his party is basically like the eastern autocrats he admires so much; the autocrat he aspires to be.

@Lord_RFAS

Ай бұрын

@@AdLockhorst-bf8pz Yet: FvD has 60.000ish registered members and their influence on the parties' direction.

"NEXIT" is not gonna happen, G. Wilders would lose half of his voters if he would try to do that. Most of us have learned from the UK BREXIT! 😎

@dimrrider9133

Ай бұрын

wilders is ook maar een puppet die niet achter het volk staat

@lethalmantis89

18 күн бұрын

Indeed. I think Brexit and the war in Ukraine show us that it is not a very bad idea to be in alliances with your peers.

We are so rich because we are ruthless businessman and women.

@RealConstructor

Ай бұрын

Bullocks, we’re not ruthless, we’re softies.

@dimrrider9133

Ай бұрын

We are not ritch, they are, the cabal

The Netherlands being as small as it is, can never be near the top in production of mass goods, and this has been the case for a large part of its history. Trade has always been a big part of the economy. Economic cooperation like with the EU is key to our economy. If the Netherlands left the EU in its current configuration, it would be a disaster, many times bigger than Brexit. Unfortunately there are still people who don't see it this way. The last elections were very much influenced by the (intentional?) mistakes of the former one and the fear for immigration. It's about time we start seeing immigration as an opportunity, instead of as a problem. The huge housing crisis plays a large role in the fear for immigration as well, but is more a result of policies of the neo liberal government of the last decade. Some of these results were very predictable, but not addressed, some others have turned out bad in hindsight. I'm curious to see what the new government will bring, but it's very much a result of populism and I don't think that's a good starting point.

@classesanytime

Ай бұрын

With the exponential growth of BRICS XL the EU becomes of less importance to the Netherlands! The Netherlands is the biggest NET contributor to the EU and the EU is roaming off just too much to make the Netherlands as competitive as it could be outside the EU and is also one of the reason that the bulk of our trade is within the EU! If hypothetical the Netherlands would step out of the EU and into BRICS XL it would be devastating for the EU and the Netherlands would be better off by regaining it's sovereignty and global trade profits in the long run which easily could be the very near future depending on the growth of BRICS XL! The EU is keeping the Netherlands on a short leash by their rules and pulls us back instead of giving us some slack to progress! We profit from trade within the EU but not as much as we could globally!

@user-xi6nk4xs4s

Ай бұрын

@@classesanytime BS!

@classesanytime

Ай бұрын

@@user-xi6nk4xs4s Not even close!!

@user-xi6nk4xs4s

Ай бұрын

@@classesanytime You better start doing some basic classes.

@paulbulk7044

Ай бұрын

​@@classesanytimemet afstand is onze Export binnen de EU, nummer 1 Duitsland. Is ook al decennia lang het geval . Daarbij kan ik de tijd goed heugen dat we een handels boycot kregen van de VS waar we niks tegen konden doen . Als machtsblok heb je nu eenmaal een betere onderhandelingspositie. Dat hier ook nadelen aan verbonden zijn ben ik helemaal met u eens. Persoonlijk denk ik dat de Euro ons meer schaadt dan de EU

as for now with imigration we will have the strictest policy borders are closing for imigrants... and as far I know phillips is no more... cabinet rutte 2 and 3 have fecked up the whole country and now it is on the new government which is in a total different way too ... to fix all that has been broken at this time it is a big mess tbh.

@tomvanaarle2622

Ай бұрын

Bollocks that only feckless idiots believe.

The UK, (outside London) was stagnant for a long time, I think for 40 years at least. As for the Netherlands, it baffles me that we choose to limit immigration. It is soooo necessary for our future well-being, but still most people don't really want it. But then again, we are densely populated. Too densely. Maybe we should aim to half our inhabitants to around 10 million. I don't think that is possible, not even in the long run, but who knows. I don't see us ever leaving the EU. We earn 82% of our wealth abroad. That would be suicide. Worse even than Brexit, which was "only" an act of self harm.

@TheSuperappelflap

Ай бұрын

80% of the people we import dont have a job after 5 years here. Saying we need to import more people, for our well-being and for the economy and to combat the effects of an aging population is outright nonsense. They dont work, therefore they dont contribute to the labor market or the economy. We just pay more taxes to support these people, and it just makes everything worse. The economy would be a lot better without those people, and we would have more time and money to focus on actually combating the effects of an aging population. Like increasing labor productivity and motivating native Dutch people to pop out more kids. Besides, we shouldnt want more people. The country was already full at 15 million. Its now almost 18. People should be emigrating, not immigrating. Its not like leaving the EU would mean no more trade with other countries, it would only mean we, and other countries, get to decide on import tariffs for themselves. Seeing as how imposing tariffs on Dutch trade would be an economic disaster for literally any country on the planet, besides maybe North Korea, we would have little to worry about. Not that I think Nexit is a good idea, its not, but not for the reason you give. We need to have a voice and a vote in the EU government. The biggest thing the UK lost, besides the damage to its economy and free movement of people, is that they lost their vote in the EU, allowing the Franco-German alliance, with the Benelux in between, to dictate EU policy singlehandedly without opposition. Which is what the British have feared for centuries. They made their own worst fear come true.

@Maverick21491

Ай бұрын

@@TheSuperappelflap Your numbers are WRONG , or at least they only adress refugees , not migrants in general . Most of our migrants are NOT refugees but people from countries like Poland and Bulgaria , the vast majority of those people have jobs and actually pay in more into our economy than the total number of migrants takes out , so we are actually benefitting from migration as a whole . This is the same rethoric as was used in the Brexit campaign . Populst parroting , only telling half the story . For example , Britain has a higher number of jobs they cant find staff for than we have , we already have about 400.000 jobs waiting to be filled , this in turn makes it that companies cant grow or even go bankrupt for the lack of workers . So not having enough workers could seriously damage our economy . The only real issue I see with immigration is the lack of housing we have . Another one of those semi truths used in the Brexit campaign :" We pay 350 million a week into the EU" sure , they were , but they forgot to mention all the money that flowed back into the UK and the not having to pay tarrifs when exporting and importing goods . Again , not even half the story . And look at the UK now , the Pound Sterling has dropped over 20% since Brexit , labour shortage is at an all time high and we are only just starting to see the tru effects of tarrifs since most have only quite recently come into effect .

@TheSuperappelflap

Ай бұрын

@@Maverick21491 people from other EU countries aren't migrants, they have free right of travel in the EU. But you are correct in some sense. More than half of Ukrainian people who fled here also have work now. It's the people from some...specific...areas....of which 80% is unemployed. The issue is there are 50 to 100 thousand of them coming in every year and the government doesn't send them back.

@TheSuperappelflap

Ай бұрын

@@Maverick21491 as for the unfulfilled job openings, keep in mind that if those jobs were fulfilled, not only would we not be able to meet climate targets, it would also push wages down for native Dutch people who are already struggling financially. It's better to have a competitive labour market and thus, competitive wages, instead of abundant cheap foreign labour.

@TheSuperappelflap

Ай бұрын

@@Maverick21491 the lack of housing is also a politically manufactured, AstroTurf narrative. We have 18 million people and 8 million houses. Last time I checked my math, that's 2.25 people per house. And the average house has space for at least 4 people. We don't have a housing crisis. We have a housing distribution crisis. The government just uses that crisis as an excuse to buy out farmers and then sell the land to housing project developers at 10x the price. Its all rigged. That's not populist rhetoric. Ask any economist and they will tell you the same thing.

all I can say is I am proud to be Dutch

You ask a lot...

National resources: we have the euro, so no guilder anymore. Therefore, no more negative economic. Next, the gas sector is not as important as in the 70's and 80's.

We are "rich" because we work, study, and trade. Know your languages, your sciences, history and geography, economics. Be honest, don't lie, be direct, (don't waste other people's time), be on time, never be late, keep your promises.

Most very very rich people move out of the netherlands because of taxes

@EGO0808

Ай бұрын

Not only ‘very very rich people’.

@SideWalkAstronomyNetherlands

Ай бұрын

no they didn't, we are a tax haven even...lol Kroeg verhaaltjes??

@EGO0808

Ай бұрын

@@SideWalkAstronomyNetherlands I read you’re confused: one may argue corporate taxation in NL is considered to be a ‘heaven’, however taxation for citizens in NL is anything but a ‘heaven’.

@teunvanderwal646

Ай бұрын

@@SideWalkAstronomyNetherlands niet voor individuen. het is een tax haven voor bedrijven.

@teunvanderwal646

Ай бұрын

@@SideWalkAstronomyNetherlands dus de rijke mensen wonen zelf ergens andere belastingen lager zijn en zetten via het grote bedrijf in nederland het geld over naar een ander land. Het is heel veel ingewikkelder dan dit maar dit is het versimpeld

First comment

The Dutch had the great luck to have never had a British Tory government.

Not mutch trust

Second comment

I think, and I'm serious, is the fight against water. From the Medeavel period till now we've had to make a consensus between different parties. In those days it was the Counts, Dukes, Bisschops and regional water authorities to do it. Now we always have different parties to make a coalition in the government. It's sometimes called 'The Polder Model'. We always have to discuss different views and come to a solution everybody can live with. Neither parties fully agree but we know we must make it work. I think this is also a reason why we are called direct or blunt. We say what we think fast, but are open to other peoples views. The last big 'problem' was Sinterklaas. Many black people were offended by the fact that Sinterklaas had black 'helpers' who gave the presents to the kids. We have argued about it severly. Some foreign countries said it was racist. When I was young however I loved Black Pete and was affraid of Sinterklaas. So I never saw the problem. But now I understand how humiliating it can be for black people so we chanched Black Pete to just Pete. They conecin all kinds of colors. From yellow to blue, green and purple. That's I think the strength of Dutch culture. A traditon of over 300 years, changed in 5 years!

@EGO0808

Ай бұрын

En toen kwam de olifant met een lange snuit en die blies het verhaaltje uit. Welterusten.

@marcelrenes2435

Ай бұрын

@@EGO0808 Slaap lekker.

@anouk6644

Ай бұрын

I agree, it’s one of the most important aspects of why ‘we’ as a such a small nation have done so well. If there is no real hierarchy anyone’s opinion can be heard and innovative solutions can be found. I do feel as if we’re drifting a bit from that tolerant, collective, cooperative society and am not sure what the cause is. Is it outside influences, growing individuality, no big common threat to fight against? But overall we still have so much going for us compared to other countries. Something a lot of people seem to forget these days.