Dutch Keep Water at Bay

[MrStaticrocker]

GLOBAL WARMING????

HAHAHAHAHAHA

People still believe this???? LMAO!!!

[Prinsgezindepatriot]

@MrStaticrocker do you still believe it isnt?

[TheBhoyJoe]

I know! It was only a joke for fuck's sake! I see now that the Dutch (Netherlandish/Hollandaise) lack humor of any sort... :-( FUCKING HELL

[CCDevlin]

@TheBhoyJoe your earlier comment 1 year ago was not in any way funny. It was a serious question without any smiley or haha or something like that. So how can you blame anyone for giving you a serious answer? There are many people who are confused about Dutch/Netherlands/Holland and we Dutch are always politely willing to help out with this.

[TheBhoyJoe]

@CCDevlin You're right, there can be no humour derived from this confusion - none whatsoever.

[Ronaldvdb81]

God created the world, but the Dutch created The Netherlands

[dubinthedam]

So that's what the country is such a mess.

[klote2314]

lol a mess where did you get that from?

bill O reilly

[dontmindme831]

nature is going to do what it's going to do. there is no stopping it. sure we affect it some with what we do. but the thing is the world has been here a whole lot longer than we have, we are in no position yet to say it isn't a stage.

[GFlipsH]

lol i think global warming is just a stage, and goverments are wasting money to prevent notheng lol but thats my opinion

[barefootmessiah]

The planet is not and was never in a state of homeostasis. It is always changing. The last ice age is still melting off and what people say is "global warming" is just natural progressive change.

[daanz4]

you can't deny global warming, and please don't discuse this, it is proven by thousends of sceintists, you are just a person with a meaning, it this case , we can not trust on opinions,but we have to rely on facts, if we had trust on opinions, the world would be gone a long time ago.

[sbeer6er]

@GFlipsH word

[rjkkkwizzzzle]

the dutch are from holland, which is the unofficial name for the netherlands

[punchthedog]

The Netherlands is made up of 12 provinces. Holland is made up of two of these provinces, North Holland and South Holland. The Netherlands three biggest cities, Amsterdam, Rotterdam & The Hague are located in Holland, so if you are a visiting foreigner to The Netherlands, chances are you would be visiting Holland. The name 'Holland' is usually mistakenly used to refer to the whole of The Netherlands. But you would be forgiven for doing so as even the Dutch themselves do it.

[ReadeRomke]

@punchthedog, I am a Frisian living in the Netherlands. I speak Frisian and Dutch. I don't want to be called Holland!

[TheBhoyJoe]

If it's Netherland and not Holland like you say, then who are the Dutch?

[Mrcold07]

is the group off people that speak dutch

[GulleGelderlander]

@TheBhoyJoe Your comment is 2 years old, still I'd like to clear it up. Holland is a region within the Netherlands, currently existing out of two provinces: North-Holland and South-Holland. Holland was one province in history. It was the strongest and most important province of the Netherlands. Therefore some foreign countries start to call the Netherlands Holland. It's the same kind of mistake as calling the UK 'England'. Holland was later split up in two provinces, to balance the others.

[Dofol]

@GulleGelderlander Well you can't blame the foreigners for calling it Holland. The Netherlands even promote their country abroad as Holland.

[GulleGelderlander]

@TheBhoyJoe The Dutch are the citizins of the Netherlands. The Dutch call themselves "Nederlanders" and the country "Nederland". Dutch was historically the denomination for the inhabitans of the Holy Roman Empire. At one point in history the Dutch split of the HRR. At that time the Netherlands became a major world power. Since it was a world power the English kept calling the Dutch "Dutch". The other inhabitans of the HRR were then called "Germans".

[GulleGelderlander]

@TheBhoyJoe This is very annoying for Dutch people learning English. The Germans call themselves "Deutsch", the Dutch call the Germans "Duits", while the call themselves "Nederlands". At the time NL split of the HRR, the Dutch still called themselves Duits or Diets. This changed through the centuries to Nederduits and later to Nederlands. The English kept calling us Dutch. This may confuse Dutchmen. Here was a bit clarification for you :) .

[TheBhoyJoe]

@GulleGelderlander And the Pennsylvania "Dutch" at actually "Deutsch", as in German ancestry.

[GulleGelderlander]

@TheBhoyJoe Yes, true. They are mainly Germans. Though there are many Dutch communities in the US as well, but not the Pennsylvania Dutch. 5 American presidents were of Dutch ancestry: Martin van Buren (native Dutch speaker), Theodore Roosevelt, FD. Roosevelt, George Bush Sr and George Bush Jr.

And ofcourse the most Afrikaners, the white South-Africans, are of Dutch ancestry.

[TheBhoyJoe]

@GulleGelderlander 4 of those presidents, I'm not sure about van Buren, have Scottish heritage. Over 95% of all American presidents have a recent Scottish ancestor.

[GulleGelderlander]

@TheBhoyJoe No, Van Buren was definitely Dutch. His ancestors were Dutch immigrants. New-York was founded by the Dutch as 'Nieuw-Amsterdam'. It was later swapped with the English for Suriname. Though there were many Dutch colonists who stayed at New-York. Many of those colonists had typical Dutch given names such as Jan or Kees. The English made the nickname yankees for the New-Yorkers. Martin van Buren was born in a little Dutch settlement Kinderhook. He spoke Dutch as first language.

[GulleGelderlander]

@TheBhoyJoe And he had ofcourse a typical Dutch name: Martin van Buren. But yes it's correct that the most presidents were of British/Irish descent. I find this quite surprising, because there were many Americans with Spanish and French ancestry as well, but I don't know any American president with those ancestries. Though I have to admit that I don't know all the presidents.

[stopglobalwarming08]

prevention is the key

[GertNutterts]

:) watermanagement... something I'll allways be proud of as a dutch citizen.

Altho I live on the "hondsrug", which means I won't drown anyway if the dikes fail.

[Leeroy49]

well chosen information about that ;)

[notoriouslynx]

this topic really interests me. 5/5