American Reacts to Dutch Culture (Mind Blown)

In this video, an American reacts to Dutch Culture.
I react to various cultural things from the Netherlands like: Dutch Cuisine, Dutch Directness, Guus Meeuwis, Swearing culture, SinterKlaas and more!
Get us to 3000 likes and we will make it our channel's mission to meet the incredible Guus Meeuwis!
0:00 - Intro
0:28 - Dutch Cuisine
1:49 - Dutch Directness
3:06 - Biking Culture
4:08 - Guus Meeuwis
5:27 - Cursing with Diseases
6:34 - Dutch Urinals
7:23 - Baby Signs
9:13 - Sinterklaas

[@MetDaan2912]

I own 4 different bikes 😅 One I use on a daily basis for going to uni, friends, etc. One old Oma fiets I use for work One mountain bike And one bike at the campside we always go to :)

[@xFionna]

I have an electric bike for daily use, A mountain bike for cruising, my grandma's bike as a backup bike and i used to have a bike for drunk evenings out but my dad gave it away without asking me which i didnt appreciate since the saddle was amazing and wouldve liked it on my electric one.

[@JohanCompagner]

Guys, you know we exported Sinterklaas to the USA, and then you changed it a bit and named it Santa (Sint) Clause (Klaas), then we got it back and now we have 2 of them...

[@mollusckscramp4124]

That story about that one little refugee boy from Iran crying when he realized he was the only kid who didn't "get a visit" from Sinterklaas or get any presents was so sad! It was kind of weird to see them laugh about it and pretty hard to stomach.

[@jezusbloodie]

The history of cursing with disease is a tradition that dates back to the Protestant Reformation (and the independence of the Netherlands). Instead of cursing someone/thing with something after life, like damnation, as the Catholics do, the local Dutch flavour of Protestantism believed that God would show His disfavor in this worldly life with for example dissease, hence a rich vocabulary of health afflicting expletives

[@khushivarshney2741]

The Dutch are the most crazy people I ever met (in a good way)

[@BrutusMaximusAurelius]

4:08 I have three bikes; 1 for my daily commute, one mountainbike and one backup.

[@Thetravelingmindshow]

Fair enough! You live in the city?

[@vorcanvorcan9032]

How to eat herring; Step 1: grab herring Step 2: open face Step 3: move herring into face Step 4: consume herring

[@Thetravelingmindshow]

hahaha makes sense thank you

[@cyriell]

​​@@Thetravelingmindshowmay sound ridiculous but its the truth you eat it raw, the culture is tilt your head backwards pick up the haring by its "tail" and just eat it like that 😂 never done it myself because i do not like fish food beside smoked salmon tuna on pizza or kibbeling

[@B0K1T0]

There is no other way 👄🐟👌 Just a few weeks until Nieuwe Haring!

[@r.m.97]

I live in Landgraaf (in the Netherlands) and i have 2 bikes. One mountainbike and one what we call a "herenfiets" (gentlemans bike"). The use of the mountainbike is just for sports, riding through the Brunssummerheide. The herenfiets (an English Raleigh from the eighties) i use for small groceries or having a relaxing ride with my daughter.

[@SintHonek]

I cycled USA from Seattle to Boston in 2003, with travel agency cycle america. Took approx. 3 months.

[@1-9-8-3-]

10:44 as a 15 year old Dutch Person, I just realised, Sinterklaas is actually funny asf

[@rbleisem]

And the songs can be seen as warnings for a dirty old man, hence the roe. lol

[@mabu1760]

Funny thing about the urinal is that there are only a few, in Amsterdam (only?) and they are merely a feature (not 'a thing') because they are somewhat weird. I wanna look up how many there are actually, but that's besides the point, which is they are probably the most photographed of filmed urinals, in the world. edit: chatgpt reluctantly gives me around 35 in total in Amsterdam, but that would be a number from a feww years ago and btw, France has 'pissoirs'. They stem from a time when they were fighting diseases roaming around in big cities.

[@r.m.97]

Sinterklaas is also visiting Flanders in Belgium, the Dutch Antilles and even some parts in Germany.

[@jezusbloodie]

Dutch immegrant to Germany (and back) here. I've lived through the German Saint Nicklaus at a young age, 2 decades ago. The black Pete was so so much worse than in NL. In Germany, they don't wear colourful clothes, most colour are the bright red lips and bright gold earrings, absolute caricature of slaves, and they don't have this gleeful happy vibe like Santa's Elves and Dutch Petes, but are to be grumpy, stern and are the ones to "deal punishment" to the bad kids. (Where in NL it is the Saint and his bag that comes with the threath of punishment to bad kids)

[@monkeyboy1377]

All places where people speak Dutch you have Sinterklaas

[@Seyone030]

​@@jezusbloodie funny a Christian celebrating Pagan fest. Bet you do Ostara and Halloween too.

[@jezusbloodie]

@@Seyone030 ​ @Seyone030 😂😂🤪 fucker thinks I'm a desert tribe religion follower. My runic display name contains the Germanic postfix "-thryth", meaning Daughter of Thor while my original KZbin name drives the spot with Jezus. most Dutch aren't religious, just like Christmas these "holi"days (or as transliterated from Dutch "party-days") aren't celibrated in a religious context by most. The time from traditional North European Christmas up to the New Year's are simply known as "De Feestdagen", Thé Party Days. These days serve as a time of get together and to celebrate life and being together. The epitome of the Dutch cultural core phenomenon known as "gezellig" Sinterklaas is just a partyday slightly before those specifically for childeren to celibrate. The fertility practices (which you have given?the name of a suspected Germanic Goddess, not a holy day), like masive bonfires, painting eggs and whatnotgot subsumed into Eastern holiday. Halloween's ball only got rolling her in northern Europe after much and long exposure to hollywood. But seeing as you find all that somehow paradoxical lemme have you know: Christianity is only as successful as it is because early on it (as if it were a singular group lol but for this point I'm making, kind of is) was so succeful in adapting local deities as saints and angles while keeping local traditions by putting them in a Christian suit.

[@addeenen7684]

Bitterballen do not taste bitter. The name is derived from the strong alcoholic drink called bitter, which was drunk while eating the fried meatball. Stroopwafels do not come from Belgium. Every Belgian city has its own waffle recipe. However, stroopwafels originally come from Gouda. So your video is neither very accurate nor informative.

[@NietzzTube]

Dutchie here! I own two bikes. A regular one and a racing bike. My boyfriend has three. Fun fact: I believe we have around the same amount of bikes per capita as the US have guns. Nice vid!

[@PerfectAlibi1]

As a kid, at one point I owned 5 bikes... Although 3 of those were so called "bus krakjes" Roughly translated, basically a bike in such a poor condition, no one will want to steal it. Used to bicycle to and from the bus stop.

[@kingoftherain]

"I've never tried it in my life."

[@MokumHVB]

😂

[@abacaxiveer]

Funniest bit is the Dutch tried to get old style Zwarte Piet accepted as 'world cultural heritage' at the UN, which is based in NYC of course. That did not end well.

[@mollusckscramp4124]

I was really surprised to not see a single person having offered a reply on Dutch directness for the question his friend asked... especially as I figured the people known for their "directness" would not shy away from answering his question. Perhaps that man was just rude after all! 😂

[@rensdegamer6779]

if there is one thing the dutch language is beter in than any other language, it's making unique curses

[@tetaomichel]

The herring is Viking food. It's very healthy for the heart. Real men can not do without :)

[@abacaxiveer]

I got 3 bikes. Because of reasons. The reasons being that I thought one frame was irreparably damaged, so I got another one, then I found a workaround for the first bike. Then I got more demanding for some technical characteristics for my main bike, so I got another bike with more appropriate specs. However the first bike is customized so much for my taste, I still end up using it a lot. I do not currently own a bar bike, or a railway station bike. Give it time.

[@avancefarter2]

Oh heerlijk dit en heb ik echt met een "big smile" bekeken 🤗

[@luciferrutjuh]

I've never really liked Guus Meeuwis, untill you sang it! Do come to the Netherlands, see if you are right in your view and expectations of the place. I hope you are, because it makes me feel awesome most of the time. Stay critical though. Great vids. PS: do visit all of the country, not just the West. You're friend is from the south, that should help. Also don't forget the north;-)

[@DT-wp4hk]

6:16 wishing that someone suffers from a disease. That the local name for a disease has become a curseword itself. Basically the opposite of wishing someone the best.

[@Saturns_Grannie]

I used to be in school with juul/jules meeuwus the son of guus and the son of gers pardoel

[@TheSuperappelflap]

I usually own 3-4 bikes. One for me to get around, one for visitors, one at my parents house so I can ride my bike around their town, and then sometimes one at the office if necessary. It still takes up a lot less space than owning one car :)

[@user-ij9ui8kz8s]

Sinterklaas is a idol of saint nickolas (sint nikolaas) and is actually turkish in origin...

[@samandcheese_1225]

some context for 11:35 onward, they just used to be black until about 2018 because of the smut from chimneys at least that was the story for children so people could disguise themselves, but now people realized it basically looks like thousands of people are doing blackface and it looks like Sinterklaas just commands a lot of black people (even though they were never meant to be black just dirty from going through the chimney). It did allow people to basically disguise themselves while giving presents to children, like sometimes you could be given a present by someone from your neighbourhood without realising it but again it was basically doing blackface which I don't need to explain why that's bad.

[@markschattefor6997]

Totale stierenpoep; bekijk de documentaire die Arnold Jan Scheer gemaakt heeft over de oorsprong van het fenomeen "Zwarte Piet", Wild Geraas. Hij was daar al lang mee bezig voordat lamlendige ( buitenlandse) zeurpieten het nodig vonden om ook deze traditie als slavernij en discrimminassie te moeten betitelen. Eeuwige zielepieten, die na de onafhankelijkheid van die verschrikkelijke blanken niet wisten hoe snel ze naar het land van die onderdrukkers moesten komen..... En nog steeds klagen, en Burn Loot Murder steunen, en even niet willen weten wat er in Rhodesië/zimbabwe en Zuid-Afrika aan de hand is, en waarom het daar zo slecht gaat. Ik kan nog veel langer doorgaan maar ik sluit het af met een gezellig muziekje; kzbin.info/www/bejne/nZDNhqefgLiZZ7s

[@TheSuperappelflap]

Its bad for Americans, who have a tradition of doing blackface. It used to be fine in the Netherlands until we imported a lot of people and a lot of American culture.

[@B0K1T0]

1:39 You just eat your herring holding it at the tail above your head: 👄🐟👌You could add a little chopped onion, but no other bullshit and no need to cut it in pieces. It's one of the best things in life, especially during herring season, which will be there in just a few weeks 🤤🐟🐟🐟 I'm from Rotterdam though.. up north they do all kinds of weird stuff with their herring I believe.. 🙄

[@mennovroom5537]

Hi Guys, it is a ‘visschaal’ with haring. The little flags are like tooth picks. You grab it with your fingers and bring the haring carefully to your mouth.

[@BramLastname]

I live in a student home and we have so many bicycles that our landlord gave us the key to the storage shed, Because it turns out that having 20 working bicycles and a bunch of broken ones is not gonna fit inside a bicycle rack with capacity for 15 bicycles. Not to mention that bicycles like the double height bicycle and the tandem Just straight up don't fit in the regular bicycle parking.

[@jacobwillemvandervelden7216]

The strangest thing about the Sinterklaas tradition is that as a kid I used to be terrified of the thought of being taken to Spain.

[@Woekkie]

Don't worry naughty in this case just means non catholic and female , but 15000 little girls where kidnapped and put on a boat never to be seen again.

[@nilisstaal1984]

Derek isnt the right source, he just says what you want to hear

[@SintHonek]

Salted herring: pick the herring up by the tail, tilt your head backwards, and lower the fish down into your mouth. Start munching. Lekker!

[@longtreecityltc9325]

As a Dutchman don't know how to eat herring (also called Hollandse nieuwe)... lol... I liked it a lot. You eat it with the chopped onions on it. Very tasty, but it is one of the most expensive food here.

[@jezusbloodie]

I'm kinda sure, not overly so, that he's from the eastern Netherlands (from how he pronounced "rookworst") and eating raw herring although not unkown is definitly not as much of a tradition here as in most the rest of the Netherlands. Especially among our generation (as in mine and the guy in the vid) and younger, it is pretty rare to go to a fish truck to buy some raw herring and eat it. Kibbeling would be the go to. On the Enschedese Markt I see elderly, boomers and gen X eating herring, but I think it's primarily sold to German tourists lol

[@vlinder6329]

I come from VOLENDAM, the most beautiful fishing village with delicious fish 😋 HARING 😋 KIBBELING 😋 GEROOKTE ZALM 😋 BROODJE GARNALEN 😋 So delicious we eat it 3 times a week, also fried fish... yummy And my husband is the best PALINGROKER... He won 1st Prize🏆 a few times at the Dutch championships in Hoevelaken 🥰🏆 Nice Video guys 🔝 toppy 🇳🇱🌷Byeiiiiii ~ Doeiiiii 🙋🏼‍♀️

[@ham7806]

Im going to guus meeuwis

[@letstry46]

Ask your dutch friends about the Zwarte Cross(also culture) . The biggest festival (4 days) in the Netherlands with motorcross ,music and culture. 250.000 people. One day in your lifetime. Aftermovie last year : kzbin.info/www/bejne/poWbq6aDlL-kg8ksi=lKjtLh25qMEuWAac

[@HenrySteinsTrauma]

4:07 i usex to have like 4. Now i have 1. We sold them.

[@FaiT90]

We use things like kanker because its worse then saying F you to someone. Also if you're dutch you know it just feels good. Imagine "you hit your toe" then you say "KANKKUUUUUUR gek."

[@0.kaya.01]

I have two bikes, one for my sister and one for me👍

[@colinversteijnen1614]

Nice earbuds bro

[@McNessie101]

Derek, weet je nou echt niet wat haring met uitjes is? Hollandse nieuwe....?

[@gertstraatenvander4684]

Boerenkool = Kale, the socalled health food. I've eaten enough kale in my life to live forever. Okay, I lived in Texas for 3 months, in New Braunfels, and there were some bike paths. I don't even have a driver's license. But I stayed alive riding a bike there. Teringkanker, stel not van those crazy questions. Hey! Sinterklaas is also a Flemish thing.

[@TheSuperappelflap]

Its quite funny Americans sell kale at ridiculous prices and claim it as a superfood when here its just a traditional vegetable that everyone eats in the winter.

[@Xxlongbow]

Ya i got 2 bikes...why just cos we can!

[@History_Brothers]

about 6 as a dutchy

[@metalvideos1961]

how can he never have tried haring. and no its not from the north its form everywhere int he Netherlands. its mainly from the west our coast cities. kind of strange that he as a Dutchman never tried this and dont know where it comes from in the Netherlands. and he doesnt know how to eat it as well? i am sorry but is he REALLY dutch? its a stable food in our Dutch cuisine lol

[@mysteryloveIsTheName]

So sinterklaas was a Turkish gave gifts to orphans an saved kids and slave from poverty and gave them freedom. Sinterklaas is a holy figure om who santa is based. Sinterklaas used to be celebrated in more place now it is mostly in the Netherlands, the Dutch Caribbean A.B.C and S.S.S. islands and Belgium. I get why some people who see a black piet for the first time might find it offensive. But it is a century old holiday in honour of a Saint who helped the poor and slaves!!! Back piet is a representative of those slave who were saved and chose to help their saviour help others. If people looked into the history before they juge wil make a lot more sense!

[@cyriell]

Cant judge about the bikes, i have 1 my mother has 1 my father has 3 (1 normal 1 mountain bike and 1 racing bike) Also the urinals are most likely just for drunk people have somewhere to piss, i THINK "wild peeing" (just pee anywhere beside the toilet) and if you get caught you get a ticket of 150 or 180 bucks Also the disease swearing is weird but i can kinda see where it comes from, saying things like "fuck you" etc just doesnt do anything to most dutch people, so being more idk how to say it "lethal" i guess? Alot of people use swear words, im half ashamed that if ik starting ti lose it i do use cancer but the last time i seriously lost it was 17 years ago, i try however to stop doing it because everyone knows someone who has/had cancer, also trying myself to use "god dammit" but use misspelling to say it (instead of "godverdomme" ill say "hotverdomme")

[@ivsportiv]

We are a family of five and have 12 bikes😅

[@mavadelo]

1:36 BANISH HIM....wtaf. No it is not "from the North", I have seen herring and eatin it in basically any province including in the South (Limburg, Zeeland) and the East (Drente, Overijsel , Gelderland).How you eat them? in little pieces with a snack fork or toothpick or down the hatch like a proper Dutchman. Don't pretend you don't know how.

[@juriaanboogaard312]

Hi, I own two bikes and je oortjes zien er grappig uit Derek

[@hoihoi726]

Shoutout to all Dylanos. You two are going to end up marrying eachother don't lie.

[@tuneskramer69]

The American complaining about ice skating boring, what about nascar?

[@mysteryloveIsTheName]

About the swearing, swearing or curing is someting you not suppose to do but when you hate someone, or something. It whas meant to cure you, so say in f* you is not really affective as a cures... but whising someone to die from a horrible diseases, that is a curse. Curing as we do nowadays is not lke it use to were cursing whas a bit less of al hourly thing 😅

[@Tilburger]

You will not notice Zwarte Piet.

[@weetjijwel050]

Sure the Black Petes would be ok in the States as well, as its all about the story. They were his helpers, not his slaves . And as they climbed down the chimnees (to bring presents) , its hard to stay clean. It has never been any problem here, untill people started comparing Black Pete to Blackface. Stupid imo, people are way too sensitive nowadays. Some (conservative) areas in the country still have Black Petes as they are stickin to Dutch traditions. Besides that, i think the original Sinterklaas was not Dutch, but Turkish . As long as one comes to the Netherlands with an open mind, he/she (i guess i have to add 'it' nowadays 😉) will have a great time, no doubt 👍.

[@rbleisem]

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[@user-mw2nm3vs3k]

i am dutch i no what coler they used to be it was black then some terorists from rara hated that they were black so it changed it is real sad that now there not black like tje slaves

[@molliggemandarijn]

im not even watching this video. I just know uts gonn be bs talking back at my country. Probably claiming things are racist and bla bla. cya L'er.

[@daphneschuring5810]

At Least we don't have school shootings

[@jsb7975]

'Kanker' as a curse word didn't exist 30 years ago. Just fill in why it is current nowerdays ......

[@RAMDH]

Nonsense, I used the K word 40 years ago and before I used it I heard it too. So maybe 50 years of using the word kkr?? I don't want to say it consciously anymore. The young people in The Hague now use it for everything (if they can speak Dutch), not just for swearing. Kkr wat een vette auto. Het is een kkr mooi feest Heb geen kkr te doen enz enz

[@TheSuperappelflap]

enorme onzin, ik ben oud genoeg om te kunnen zeggen dat je keihard uit je nek lult. mensen schelden al heel lang met kanker. mn opa is van de trap gekankerd en toen was hij dood. rip.

[@MokumHVB]

Ik zat 30 jaar geleden op de basisschool en hoorde dat toen op school al om me heen hoor. Bijna geheel blanke school, ik neem aan dat dat is waar je op doelde? Zo niet wat bedoel je dan? Qua schelden met ziektes: pleurisgezeik (komt van pleurites), tyfuszooi, tyf op, klerelijer (kolerelijder), teringwijf, schrik me t leplazerus!, is toch juist typisch Nederlands.. Als je van vroeger opnames ziet dat mensen plat Amsterdams praten komt dit standaard in voor. Er is ook onderzoek naar gedaan. Amsterdamse notariële akten van 16e-18e eeuw kwam het wel voor maar niet zoveel. En in de 19e eeuw werd het schelden met ziektes populair, af te leiden aan die akten, omdat men vroeger dat aangaf als men beledigd was en dat liet optekenen bij een notaris die geschillen bijlegde.

[@jsb7975]

@@MokumHVB alles wat je zegt maar 'kanker' of 'je kankermoeder' zat toen niet, of minder, in het repertoire.

[@Haroekoe]

Yes it did... I used it, we used it as children. Often. Just like pleuris, tyfus, kolere.... More than 30 years ago I was doing my military service. That's where I really learned to swear. Every third word was actually „kanker" 🫡

[@Mrpure.jsjxhfjxjfjfj]

STAY AWAY

[@albertkassenaar7735]

Nederlanders whe are not dutch this mains duits the country in the east you cal that germany 84358845 people ho say the live in Duitland whe dont like liars so whe say what whe think Brits and USA ers cal us dutch