The Current Dutch Empire As Of 2022 (They Use The Dollar!?) 

Did they accept Brazil?

Yeah, they're dumb as hell

Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Monaco, Spain, Andorra, Brazil, The Netherlands?

@@MrSharkFIN plus Suriname!

@@dutchman7623 Oh yeah

Unlike the usa those dutch territories are free and have voting rights unlike puerto rico who is a colony with no representation

@@GwainSagaFanChannel Yeah, I now know. Just wanted to propagate general awareness of overseas territories and modern colonialism.

@@ErikUden they aren’t colonies… Those islands are better off then there surrounding countries so it isn’t “modern colonialism”.

So hecklng based

@@msmit3669 PUERTO RICO!

yeah its propotional representation in the simplest form. Party gets 5,2% votes out of all votes? they get the same percentage of seats in parliament closest to that number. local elections would be the same but then its about filling up the seats in the city council.

And I can vote on someone from Saba, like someone from St. Eustatius can vote for me. One country, one vote, one parliament. The entire population of all three special municipalities together would not be enough to get one representative. But of course people in the European part can vote on someone from the islands and thus they are in no way excluded from participating.

That's only 6 years after the U.S stopped, 1 year if you count the 40% silver half dollars.

People have done it for thousands of years

@@doodoodew Caribbean Cruise... That is where the smaller islands get their income from.

@@dutchman7623 im talking about people sailing from island to island on rafts and canoes

Ya its easy to know the hurricanes as they come in a season. The rest of the year its safe usually to travel around the Carribean.

American doesn't know the difference beteen Denmark and the Netherlands ...

I used to watch his main channel a few years ago as well, but have since then switched to this channel, although I do still occasionally watch some of his main channel videos

@dpassch7 Name one thing . As the portugeuse never accomplshed any thing not in science inovations . and what they discoverd on the global map was nothing .. I never heard a portuguese inventing a pendulum clock , nor navigational aids like telescoops . Nor the creating of a mapping system , nor the notion of longitude the atlas . I bit strange that the so called self proclaimed explorers failed to map anything . as 3/4 of the globe was mapped by the dutch . and had the largest trading empire in history . And even the discovery of the americas was done by 2 italians . . So please explain what is it you did first .

@KFC_Gas Shame on you for not knowing history of your own country and shame on you for not even knowing who mapped 3/4 of the globe . Go back to school and learn something that is tought in primary school .

I lost it when he called it krakendick

it’s more like the a in “spa” and the i sounds like the vowels in “reich” (it’s a german word but I think most english speakers know how to pronounce it)

@@LaurensHouweling I agree with you on spa. I couldn't think of a word that has the Dutch 'aa' sound. I don't know if English people can pronounce it correctly so I thought I would take a more common vowel in English that resembles it more closely But I think Reich and like sound mostly the same.

Nope! Sucking it up!

Not just flamingos. All Birds Aren't Real.

No, it is very simple. It is called proportional representation. Unknown however to English speaking countries.

The Dutch state has no colonies anymore their overseas territories are muncipalities or autonomous independent states who part of dutch state

@@GwainSagaFanChannel that makes it even weired tho. Some of them are considered equal to the European provinces then no? The Netherlands is supposed to be a very centralised state so it's weird some provinces and "territories" have different currency's while France just uses euros in their overseas territories

@@tunahan4418 I do think both currencies are accepted but dollar is in general accepted nearly everywhere in the american contintent so not surprising

@@tunahan4418 our system was set up with quite a lot of decentralised power for muncipalities and provinces. It is getting less but relative to other countries our central government cannot force a lot on regional and local governments. Example is that the senate is chosen by the provinces so they have to agree for national laws to pass

@@tunahan4418 ko

@Grote_Scheisse Aaah, I didn't know that. Thanks. :P

Also it has high poverty and unemployment rate and a lot of crime and its mostly dependent on tourism and dutch taxpayermoney sadly covid and natural disasters can cause severe damage its really completely different compared to dutch mainland

But hopefully, things will change over the years.

@@GwainSagaFanChannel It's sad :/

Only Bonaire got high poverty

If Puerto Rico becomes a state, it will be fully on par with all the other states with all the same rights and responsibilities, 2 senators, and Representatives apportioned by population. The direct comparison is Hawaii but I think a better comparison than Dutch islands is French overseas departments.

If Puerto Rico becomes a state... It will be a state. It will have like 6 people in the house of representatives and 2 senators. Other than that however, it won't change at all. Puerto Rico has already been American for over 120 years, all the people there are full American citizens, they have a "state" legislature (so to say), they have a governor, etc. There will be no legal difference between New York and Puerto Rico if it becomes a state (hopefully it does). In fact, even right now, the only difference between New York and Puerto Rico is that Puerto Rico has unfairly little representation in national government and no vote, but as for everything else, it operates as a regular US state, as do the US Virgin Islands, Guam and Samoa. PR has a lot more people though

@@prion42 Aruba, Curacao and St. Maarten are internally self governing. They have their own constitution and laws that deviate from those of the country Netherland. Only foreign policies, defense and budget are under supervision of the 'Government of the Kingdom' which consists of the ministers of Netherland and one from each other country within the Kingdom. So three from the islands. This in fact is 'Dutch' supervision, because they form the large majority. French overseas departments fall under the French constitution and law. For Saba, St.Eustatius and Bonaire there are transition rules, slowly Dutch laws are implied. There was resistance against some Dutch laws, like marriage open for all partners who are 18 y.o. and not related or under a guardian. But now even Aruba and Curacao are planning to imply the same law. Within the Statute that brings the four countries into one Kingdom, there are rules that make sure one country cannot imply laws that the others cannot uphold. Which limits the internal freedom of government.

@@dutchman7623 Helpful info. Ty.

Krollendick...

I second that

Those aren't part of the Netherlands...

No? Not of you use modern technology 😂

@@hkgehts9061 what do mean? In the video he's talking about phone calls. If you make phone call from France with a French phone number to a dutch phone number, that's a different tariff than inland calls. It might not be a ton more expensive, but it almost never is the same price as an inland call (this of course depends on your contract).

@@b34m270 within the EU you can call other EU countries without charge, at least on Vodafone and Aldi... If France charges extra, that's messed up

@@hkgehts9061 the EU law only applies while you are physically within the other country. So one can call their french mom with my french phone number while in the Netherlands but that's not the same thing as calling a dutch number while in France. I have lived in several EU country and it was like that in Croatia, Germany and Italy as well.

Nothing real but it might be a fictional representation of what the Dutch empire would look like if they won every conflict.

The dutch asked if these territories wished to be independent or be muncipalties with representation and voting rights like any other dutch muncipality

Maybe because they wanted to stay? Idk the specifics for those but if u vote or want to stay then your not really a colony your part of the country

Also there territories not colonies

I don't think you understand what a "colony" is. What you listed are territories. It might surprise you, but there is in fact neither moral nor legal reason why a country that is located on a continent shouldn't be allowed to also own islands.

Most tourists have dollars in their pockets.

And about their citizenship: the Kingdom of the Netherlands has only one citizenship. Since the (country) of the Netherlands is an EU member, holders of the corresponding nationality are EU citizens. This includes the Carribean Dutch. They can pack up and emigrate to Sweden for example under the same conditions as any other Dutch citizen if they want to. However the funny thing is, even though the citizens are full EU citizens, their islands are not EU territory.

Oh. And not all French overseas territories use the Euro. New Caledonia doesn’t (at least not when I visited in 2009) and if I’m not mistaken neither do French Polynesia and Wallis & Futuna.

Right.

No its a different system. Fun fact: my friend (married to a German wife) moved to Germany and brough all the appliances to Germany from the US and tried using transformers. He literally blew up his washer/dryer/dishwasher being hard-headed. LOL

That makes 0 sense. By your logic, literally every single country on earth would be either a colony or a colonial because there is not a single piece of land where the people today are the direct ancestors of the very first people that settlet it. Russia doesn't "control" northern asia. Northern asia is part of Russia. The USA is not a european country. It's an american country founded by europeans. That's it. Please stop with this nonsense.

@@donaldmustermann7236 Usually you call someone indigenous to a place when his ancestors lived here for thousands of years. Of course if you go back far enough we are all indigenous to the place where the Big Bang happened, but it is the human scale that matters to humans. Russians are indigenous of Eastern Europe. Their culture reflects this civilization. The USA is the same, being of direct Western European extraction. The only significant American thing of the USA is the place where it is located. You don’t speak Navajo.

Zondag met lubach literally made a video covering dutch carriben and their legal status in the dutch realm

you're not a quarter Dutch, you're a 100% American haha

@@Langharig_Tuig yea haha u cant say u are a quater dutch if you have never been to the Netherlands and cant speak the language. maybe far away in your genes, but you are in no way dutch.

@@brodoxl Is that how the Dutch (authorities) formally define these things?

@@genossinwaabooz4373 no thats how everyone not American defines these types of things, if you dont live there and dont speak the language, you arent dutch. If i have 1% black genes i cant say the N-word can i?

The Dutch did not convert Indonesia. So, Indonesia is still Muslim (circa 12th century), and also Catholic where it was a colony of Portugal, and also there are Hindu where Islam did not convert.

There wasn’t an effort to convert the island in the same way. Philippines for example was ruled from Mexico City so their official religion was Catholicism and lead to many converting to such. When America ruled the Philippines they didn’t really alter the religion stuff because the US government didn’t really care about that stuff one way or another. Then when Philippines was finally independent many Pinoys were still Catholic and remained as such

Comment?

Probably not Many many countries have stronger currencies

I'm from Aruba. They allow the dollar because of influx of US tourists but all arubans are born EU citizens and have a Dutch passport. Why we don't have to queue for 5 hours to get into Europe unlike you and your dollar 😜

@@Dazbog373 bold of you to assume we want to enter Europe

@@FlopFan69 bold of you to assume europe wants to use the dollar instead of the the euro might I ask to do research before saying random nonsense that makes zero sense my american friend

@@Dazbog373 I mean aruba is a dutch muncipality so they have a dutch passport that is eu passport even if its located in the americas