American Couple Reacts to How The Dutch Conquer Land That Doesn’t Exist

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[@LocaliaProject]

To Dutch viewers: I will be making a video asking random Americans questions about the Netherlands 🇳🇱 What should I ask them? Thank you all for watching! I will be up in the mountains this week making new videos. See yall soon!

[@randar1969]

Just ask them what they want to know from the Netherlands and tell them to be direct and without sugarcoating anything. Beating around the bush is only frowned upon here as if you aren't honest.. Just a culture difference. In fact we like critism as well shows that you care and want to help improve. Oww and you will see a lot of Dutch being unaware about American culture and laws... They will tell you to use an adblocker as they are very legal to use here and providers can't throttle traffic speed for certain usage of software like Torrents or Adblockers that's forbidden by law in our country..

[@allofus6133]

The windmills where also the reason for the golden age. They were very efficiënt in sawing. They provided the shipyards.

[@pietergreveling]

They also invented the crankshaft, for sawing several logs the same time!

[@matthewburden9403]

The Dutch still build windmills for sawing timber into useable boards. The large windmill that does heavy millwork along the Zaan with the large green shed is new as being built since I was last up in Wormer in the early 2000's. I miss watching the coco barges and smelling the coco in the air from the nearby chocolate factory.

[@RealConstructor]

The windmills shown in the beginning of the video, were mills at the banks of the river Zaan and were not for pumping water. Those were factory mills for sawing wood, grinding seeds and nuts for flower and oil and much other goods and products. The Zaan region was one of the first industrialized parts of Europe right around 1700.

[@hanneken4026]

The original video repeats something I've heard elsewhere but isn't right: the polders are not the place where flowerbulbs are grown in mass, that is generally done in areas right behind the sandy dunes. The polder soil is heavy clay. After it's dried out by willow trees and reeds, it's better for growing potatoes, cabbage and grassy meadows for dairy herds. The bulbs need the sandy soil where the dunes mix into the clay.

[@robertrijkers4923]

windmills weren't just for the war against water...also war against the english since the dutch could pump out a bigger fleet as lumber could be processed mechanically as the english had to do it manually.

[@dunk92]

the Windmills are still in use. They are not just there to remind the past. No.. They are still maintained for the same function. Some wooden parts inside are replaced with metal parts, but they also often replace wooden parts, because the whole inside mechanism is build so you can easy replace specific wooden parts over time. there is alsmost no original piece inside anymore.

[@luceurlings2156]

Nice video greetz from The Netherlands ( above sealevel ) province of Limburg

[@dslight113]

man i am rapid fire watching XD , we even got windmill pictures pressed in very iconic cooky's :)

[@VINCENTROOS1]

Jovie's home tels alot about life in the Nederlands

[@barrygerritsen7053]

If you're interested this is an old movie showing how some of the parts of "het Ijselmeer" the former "Zuiderzee" where made into polders/dry land. I even saw someone still wearing the iconic "klompen"/Dutch wooden shoes. It is narated in English. url: kzbin.info/www/bejne/p3KTepx4brWhbck

[@BobWitlox]

That is indeed how you pronounce Gouda. Gowda, not Gooda. Btw, in Dutch we don't refer to the cheese as Gouda, but as "Goudse kaas" (cheese from Gouda, or Goudan cheese). If we say Gouda, we mean the town, not the cheese.

[@bertkassing8541]

To make it even more complicated.....I love North Dutch cheese. That is a Gouda cheese from North Holland :-) In my opinion the very best cheese there is. It is also the only European protected cheese.

[@WFHermans]

Gelul. Als iemand zegt dat hij een stukje Gouda heeft gegeten dan begrijpt iedereen dat daarmee "Goudse kaas" wordt bedoeld.

[@BobWitlox]

Dat zegt niemand

[@bertkassing8541]

@@WFHermans Als iemand begint te reageren met "Gelul" lees ik de rest al niet meer.

[@mariadebake5483]

@@bertkassing8541 Inderdaad

[@palantir135]

Windmills were also used to squeeze oil from seeds, as a saw mill, for grinding corn. Yes, you pronounce Gouda wrong. It’s pronounced as in the video. Some other names in the video are pronounced wrongly.

[@eddiecreutzburg7375]

Windmills gave the Dutch an advantage in building ships quickly.

[@JJ-rc4sc]

Hi Localia i am dutch and ive seen you are verry intrested in the Netherlands and saw that you wanted to learn some dutch and learn more about the country i have some channels for you in english from dutch people if you are intrested : minesterie van defensie (channel from the dutch army) dutchies to be (dutch language teacher) sandrhoman history ( battle, siege and war history channel) history hustle (history by a history teacher) I hope you have some use for these they all have loads of great video's they all are credible and no bs Keep up the good work :)

[@brabbelbeest]

As somebody that works for a over 750 year old government organization that manages water levels and maintains the dikes (as well as lots of other surface water related tasks) I can't help feeling a little bit proud as I watch this! Awesome video!

[@brabbelbeest]

Small correction, I exaggerated, our organization is only 732 years old... And yet we aren't even the oldest organization of this kind, there are two that are even older with the oldest being 766 years old. :)

[@DenUitvreter]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/mZe2enZun9yVh9U

[@brabbelbeest]

@@DenUitvreter I have seen this clip before and think it’s an awesome piece of living history. Our neighboring Waterboard Rijnland is indeed the oldest Waterboard in the Netherlands. I think it’s cool that they keep that bond running, just for the novelty and historical value of it.

[@marcusfranconium3392]

Verry nice , the picture in the beginning of the coast and canal , i was born at the coastal town north of the north-sea canal . a verry nice area to live close to the beach . only 20 minutes from amsterdam 1 hr from rotterdam , utrecht and denhelder.

[@TTTzzzz]

You have a got a great channel. Not big but still great. Keep 'em coming!

[@OsmosisHD]

The guy in the vid pronounced "Gouda" right, it almost sounds like "Cow-da" It's not "Gu-da" like most Americans pronounce it PS. Use a adblocker like "uBlock Origin" No more ads on YT!

[@shrike6259]

Cow-da ?? No no you need the Guttural "G" Gou-da where the ou is like au in english

[@lystic9392]

@@shrike6259 You don't need a guttural G. You can use the much sexier soft G.

[@qedqubit]

if you're that interested in the Netherlands, i recommend these 4 YT channels : NotJustBikes , Dutch Amerikano , Casey KillMore and Kim Jautze 6:30 i think the both of you pronounced 'Gouda' pretty well on your 1st try ! (say it, don't spray it ;-) !)

[@anniek4681]

Yes the man in the vid pronounced it correctly.

[@dekemp1986]

Look up the dutch city Gouda on maps. It is the city the typical cheese is named after. However there are endless brands of cheese named after the city or region they come from here. Gouda cheese (or 'Goudse kaas' in Dutch) is the overall name of the type of cheese.

[@vlinder6329]

I live in Volendam, a village on the IJsselmeer with a dike and a windmill. Volendam is probably the most famous🥰 village in the Netherlands. 36,268 people live here. The village receives together about 1 million visitors per year. Also famous people were here..... Mohammad Ali and Larry Hagman -JR Ewing and many more. The village is a musical village in the Netherlands with many famous artists .... but also for its typical costumes, the fishing boats. There are many videos of that ... interesting to watch. Sorry for my bad English🙄 Thank You and Love from the Netherlands 🇳🇱🌷🌷🌷🇳🇱 ❤🤍💙🙋🏼‍♀️😘

[@matthewburden9403]

Isn't Volendam the place where the music group The Cats hailed from?

[@vlinder6329]

@@matthewburden9403 Yessss Piet Veerman from The Cats, lives around the corner from me😍 And I love the cats ❤️ They are AMAZING 👋😘

[@matthewburden9403]

@@vlinder6329 My wife and I would sit up nearly till dawn listening to and watching the CATS music and videos. WHY is my favorite as the group walks along a Netherlands beach - Maybe somewhere on Texel.... I am an American and my wife Dutch and I often remark at how Anglo/American this group was at that period of turbulence. I also say how sorry I am that they did not make it to the US at that time, whereas I understand there was a following in the UK but I do not know that for sure. Thank you for your response and please tell Piet Veerman how much we continue to be inspired by his music.

[@hansv.d.hooven5232]

@@vlinder6329 Hi VL, but first of all you are a big Nightwish/Floor Jansen fan 😉 Greetz from Hengelo NL. 🤘🇳🇱🤘

[@vlinder6329]

@@hansv.d.hooven5232 Ja ik ben zeker een Nightwish+ een FLOOR fan. Ze maken toch fantastische muziek? Bedankt hé🥰 en groetjes uit Volendam 💥🔥🤘🙋🏼‍♀️😘

[@yvobroekhoven972]

The small Netherlands are the second agrocultural exporters of the world (after the big usa) but it's taking its loll...

[@acrofanatic]

I actually live in the city called Gouda (the G is pronounced gutteral). The cheese with the same name was at first produced in this city. Nowadays it's name is connected to the way it is produced and aged, no matter where it is made.

[@user-wn8cp3qf1x]

Gouda cheese wasn't produced first in Gouda but at its surrounding farms and taken to the Gouda weigh-house to be weighed and then sold at the market place in front of the building. So the name Gouda for the cheese originates from its city's selling place and not from the one it was (first) produced in. BTW, I live in Gouda too.

[@markschattefor6997]

The deltaworks should be an example for St Louis and the surrounding lands/states. But I'm afraid that short term gain wins over longterm common sense. After all it is the USA, Introduction to Strong Towns & Financially Insolvent American Cities [ST01] - KZbin

[@jonastona]

I live in 1 of the olderst polders of the netherlands

[@eobi-edobi4275]

fun fact, in the movie the monuments men, there is a shot, with a map about western europe, you'll see als the netherlands, but with the province of Flevoland, but it didnt excist in ww2, kinda movie mistake.

[@matthewburden9403]

In Dutch the "G" is pronounced as an "H" which is why the section of Manhattan where Pedro Stuyvesant had his farm in the Groenwijck (Green District) is now called Greenwich Village being a corruption of the Dutch word Groenwijck since the English could not, or would not pronounce the Dutch word correctly - - - you may want to study the highly complex polder/dike and railroad network in the Netherlands. In short all of the polders in the Netherlands are engineered to pump out water to a higher level and then to the next higher level and so on until the excess water reaches the sea. Gang windmills were and still are used to lift this water, whereas one windmill will raise water five meters. Most of the railroads are raised to an optimal level to facilitate foot evacuations during emergencies, which few Dutch people are aware of - have you ever noticed that eerie siren throughout the nation every first Mondag?

[@tisketisja5528]

In Dutch the "G" is pronounced as an "H" - No its not and I have been speaking Dutch for 59 years

[@hjvdd]

i live in the netherlands at a depth of -3 meters below sealevel....

[@johnveerkamp1501]

it is not the OCEAN IT'S COLD THE NOORD-ZEE.

[@shrike6259]

Get Adblocker :-)

[@eddyvaneden8017]

Watch : The Dutch way of working

[@Markwjansen]

Dude, you need an adblocker.

[@svengoris6468]

it's a kind of logic that one mispronounce words from other languages when first heard: vowels and consonants differs in pronunciation. Once you know the correct pronunciation; stick to that - it will enrich you as a person and as a nation in the long run ;)

[@SatumangoTheGreat]

Did the video say that 65% of the land is below sealevel? That is not correct. It should be somewere between 25% and 33%. Not sure about the exact number, but definitely not 65%.

[@marcusfranconium3392]

Correct 60 +% is 1 meter above sealevel .

[@BramLastname]

You can also tell that the illustration did use the correct numbers

[@Jfat69]

Goodah lol, learn to say it right. I live 8km from Gouda...

[@TTTzzzz]

Gooda is pronounced Gauda as in au.

[@anniek4681]

There is a saying "God created the world, but the Dutch created The Netherlands"

[@moonheems3558]

Yes you say gggggooouuudaa not coeda.

[@bentels5340]

"God created the world, but the Dutch created The Netherlands" 😉

[@TheBarretNL]

Get yourself an adblocker, coz that was not good. no offense :P

[@mariadebake5483]

The man you were listening to in the video, pronounced Gouda the correct way. English speakers always pronounce it wrong. It would be nice to hear you react to a video about the deltaworks. Also there's a video by TheSimoesFamily named The Netherlands and the Dutch culture. It's funny and informative maybe you could watch it too