Why Doesn't the U.S. Know About its Own Dutch Origins? 

Did you know the term “Yankees” (English slang for Dutch settlers in the America’s) comes from the Dutch names: Jan and Kees!?

@@samuelclaessens7699 I know I'm late but what does that mean?

ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-8yeiTIn19ho.html

Will you be reopening your map shop any time soon?

Flushing - Vlissingen (dutch city), Wall Street - Waal straat

Rhode Island = Rood Eiland

Ik kom uit Breukelen. Breukelen is een dorp, geen stad. Een city is een stad met een kathedraal.

Hey Jelle. Waar kan ik dit allemaal kijken of lezen ? Zijn er boeken van of iets vind dit wel leuk om in te verdiepen ,😚

Veel aannames maar geen bevestegingen

America is number 1🤡

@@Student0Toucher Nr. 1 in being a 3rd world banana republic ;)

@@pietsnotty8283 Thats why You’re on youtube talking bad about America on a American app🤟

@@Student0Toucher One thing has nothing to do with the other. The 3rd world part is for instance about the lack of social healthcare, which they have in 3rd world countries, yet not in America. The banana republic part, well that one is obvious innit! ;)

@S Hendriks Australians invented wifi lol also America invented GPS,Internet,airplane,phone,Television and much more

I always try to keep New Amsterdam in Lenape territory (with cheats) in EU II :)

Great game!

U wish u had coffeeshops there haha

@@ricardokamp7213 I have coffeeshops right around the corner here ... I live in the netherlands after all. But honestly the US policy on marijuana is more lax and less restrictive than dutch laws. By comparison ... we are backwards and primitive now lol. All the weed innovation which used to be one of our strength has been usurped by the american industries now which are much much larger and more innovative compared to dutch ones.

Maybe i should move there then hahaha never knew it changed like that

Tell them that some Presidents had Dutch familie :) Or that WiFi and Bluetooth an Dutch invention is :)

@@keesbos4147 ... and the Casette-tape & CD. Developed by Philips together with Sony.

Autocorrect error with "supersizing"?

@@ericheuvel7864 jep :)

@@keesbos4147 goed geengelst kees!

They are lol. I actually just read the first chapter of “The First Tycoon” which is about Cornelius Vanderbilt and it mentioned that some found New York refreshing to do business because they were direct while people in Philadelphia beat around the bush.

@@GeographyGeek yeah that sounds about Dutch. Here in the netherlands we don't always realise it, but we say almost everything exactly as we mean it, not beating around the bush or using more subtle language most of the time. I for one actually like it much better that way. It can be cold but at least you won't be left wondering what someone truly thinks of you.

@@GeographyGeek thats their dutch dna popping out lol

@Wim Privé inderdaad. Maar de waarheid is ook het best te zeggen. Beter dan een leugen die later harder terug komt

I never understand why people have problems with people being direct and honest. Sure, being nice is good. But the people who are known to be less direct, usually aren’t genuinely nice. They may not say things directly, but may let it shine through in their behavior or talk behind your back. At least when someone’s direct, you know what you’ve got. Being honest and direct isn’t’ rude. I’d rather call it being fair. I’d rather have someone tell me they have a problem with me. Then I know they also mean it when they’re nice. And won’t smile and compliment me, then turn around and flip me off.

That is no dutch joke for no dutchman would ever say he is from holland, but from the netherlands

@@RIcklacantina he probably ment Haarlem and not Holland

I’m Dutch (from the city of Haarlem) and I often tell people I’m from Holland (which is true). In Some countries they know what “Holland” is, but not “The Netherlands”, so Holland is easier.

That's pretty funny...but also sad lol

In the 17th century Delft pottery ware had “made in Delft Holland” on it and was widely exported so…..”Holland” was used for selling goods (long ago) from the prosperous counties of North and South Holland.

Not too sure about that. We mostly introduced slavery to the USA. A reason why the Dutch don't really know much about the Dutch history of the USA either: it's a bit embarrassing.

@@puikepuck Total nonsense

@Marnix Kalkman So were the Roosevelts, basically :)

@@puikepuck slavery was already invented by every tribe way before the netherlands existed. We did introduce the stock exchange though.

@@puikepuck go back to your left antifa basement. You don’t know anything… Read ‘Bloedblarre’ his comment for example!

Lol, that was exactly what I was going to say. What do Americans know beside their own country? They also often think that they create everything. So many Dutch inventions that influence them without them even knowing it.

I watched a documentary about a man who lived in an RV his whole life claiming he had travelled the world with it. I was wondering how he crossed oceans with it untill I heard him say "from Seattle to Miami". Turned out he had never left the country. :)

They know about Russia and China, believe me. But I guess they can think it is on another planet.

I used to believe this until I moved to America - now I feel embarrassed that I generalized Americans like that. I met so many intelligent and knowledgeable people here.

@@eveline1725 I've lived there for a while, and yes, plenty of intelligent, well-spoken and informed people actually live there. I had a great time there, and you'll never get those nuances if you've never actually spent any time there. But still you'll find a good many others to confirm some of those stereotypes (which obviously happens wherever you'll go in the world). I had teenagers that asked me if we had TVs and cars in the Netherlands, which made me laugh my butt off. It's not their fault their country's education system is failing them in their world view, but it is. It has something extremely appealing, the way they love their country and believe the world revolves around it, when you're there. And I mean it is a wonderful country aesthetically and culturally speaking. But it comes with its flaws as does any country, and I believe their self-centered city on a hill view of who they are as a people and country and what they mean to the world..that's definitely defined their whole identity, but for some people it serves as quite an impairment because they'll continue to have blinders on when looking at and reviewing the rest of the world.

Me too

Hebben jullie dit op school gehad met geschiedenis?

@@guillermogorissen3375 nee helaas niet veel. Wel een beetje maar niet uitgebreid… Heb er zelf een boek over gelezen. De Hollandse Indiaan.

Is that book available in English? What is the title?

@@drjohnson98 Hello. I don’t think so. But it was called: Hendrick de Hollandsche Indiaan. Very interesting! There are plenty of more books though. Look them up.

As someone from Holland I am deeply offended by your remarks! Vive la Holland!

Oh wat erg zeg Holland Holland Holland

@@protectorh9167 It was a joke. No offence meant.

@@johnbutt6912 Dan moet Grutte Pier maar even op bezoek komen.

@@marsmellow1589 I don't speak Dutch but are you inviting me to see a famous seaside pier?!

Was dat ff handig geweest!

If only🥲

Ik woon in Amsterdam, voelde mij in NewYork meteen thuis ! Is er toch iets blijven hangen 😄

....except, that depends. Remember, British people invented and speak English too, and they're ALSO a very important reason as to why many people speak English today (colonization)

Yes you would have "clogged " up this message board!!!

Thank you!! That means a lot. I think I have found it as well, I am grateful other people enjoy what I make.

That’s so cool! Where did you find that?

Thank you! Glad to hear!

@Sturmzug congrats another Dutch person trying to be American so bad

@@dotty4994 Nah thanks, i wouldn't like living in that third world country😘

America is number 1🤡

@@Student0Toucher Who is second and third in your opinion?

@@lbergen001 2.China and 3.Germany over all but if we focus on military most then 2.Russia 3.China

@@Student0Toucher ok, interesting ranking.

@@Student0Toucher America or USA??? Because Canada, Mexico, Brazil and Argentina, just to name a few, are also America. The USA is only part of America (and not the best or the brightest part, to be honest!). I always laugh when someone calls the USA "The best country in the world". In my humble opinion, the USA is about 180th or thereabouts! Not quite in the last place, but there is not much difference!

Wow I didn't know that. I just looked it up. He caught a lot of crap on twitter for it. lol

Yeah, erasing history seems to be a thing of this time.

Right, they were just a bunch of extremists

They wanted the freedom to opress others

@@Terrorrai1 is it really freedom if you can't even opress others?

@@RedbadofFrisia spirit of the USA!

and in the american books they say they wanted it even more free bitch we where too free

Tarrytown, aka tarwe (Dutch word for wheat) town. Peekskill, derived from the surname of Jan Peeck, who was the first person to make formal contact with the Lenape or Sachoes people in the area and later formalized a trade deal with them, and the word "kil" or "kill", which is old Dutch for stream aka a small or narrow river.

@@RudyBleeker Very interesting channle; I know "kil" means creek. However, to most the suffix can be a bit off putting. ( like Fishkill:))) There are a few loan words used in American Standard English that derives from Dutch, '

Thank you!

🤦‍♂️😂

His actually Dutch name was Maarten van Buren. Which sounds like Martin in English. Theodore and Franklin D. Roosevelt also had Dutch origins.

@@Joey-ct8bm FDR fit Belgian Americans before he has roots in France and the Netherlands both countries language are the languages of Belgium

Thank you!

I appreciate it!

Thank you! I didn't think about that. An interview would be pretty cool! I'm not sure if I'm big enough for him to care but I guess it's worth a shot.

Found a dutch article about it. THE BEGINNING: HENRY HUDSON AND THE ISLAND “MANNAHATTES” Difficult to imagine for the modern traveler, but Manhattan was once a green and forested island where only a few Indians lived. In the year 1609, the British navigator Henry Hudson, employed by the Amsterdam chamber of the Dutch East India Company (VOC), sailed into the area around present-day New York in search of a new route to Asia. He sailed on the river that would later be named after him into the current city of Albany. Hudson's journey led to new trade missions from the Dutch in the following years, without any major settlements being established. That only changed in 1624, when the ship the Nieuw-Amsterdam, owned by the West India Company (WIC, which was actually responsible for all activities in the west, today's North, Central and South America and the Caribbean) entered the area. In addition to the crew, the Nieuw-Amsterdam had about thirty families on board. Men and women whose sole purpose was to build a new life. Although the people on board came from the United Seven Provinces, as the Netherlands was called at the time, they came from all over Europe: many Walloons and Flemish, today's south of Belgium, some Swiss, Italians, etc. On Noten Eylandt, today Governor Island in the bay of New York City, most disembarked, some sailed on to Albany and founded several settlements there and on the way there. Plans to create a fort that would protect the mouth of the Hudson River (and further northern settlements such as Albany) eventually led to Fort Amsterdam being founded in 1626, on the approximate site of the US Custom House today. is located just next to Battery Park.

Very cool. Growing up in NYC, I met very few Dutch. There was a Dutch butcher on 3rd Ave and 20th St. There was a visiting Dutch guy in my building. I finally dated an American woman with Dutch ancestry to my knowledge. But they left a rich legacy.

@@edwardwong654 My branch of that family was in New Jersey at the time of the Revolutionary War, then later Pennsylvania and established new towns in Illinois. That branch of the family tree also produced Ronald Reagan, who was 2nd cousin to my Grandmother. I learned all these details when I looked up his family tree.

Thank you! I’ll do my best!

Thank you!

Bingo! You're absolutely right. The winner gets to write the history, and the British spent a couple of centuries erasing the history of the Dutch and other competitors from the New World after they were defeated.

Thank you! I've never heard of this. I'm taking a trip in about a month to Hyde Park. Any recommendations on some places in the area I should add to the itinerary?

@@GeographyGeek When I went on a field trip there way back in 5th grade we also went to the "Beekman Arms and Delamater Inn" in nearby Rhinebeck (oldest operating hotel in the country) and the Vanderbilt mansion (also in Hyde Park). Rhinebeck also has the Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome but the weekend flight shows end 10/17. Up north in Columbia county is the Martin Van Buren home and park in Kinderhook and the Luykas Van Alen house. If you get a look at the Catskill Mountains across the river see if they dont resemble the sleeping form of a giant Rip Van Winkle like I was taught as a child (With his head in the north towards Albany and his feet sprawled out in Woodstock) Have a good trip ! 😃

Thank you!

That's quite a sobering view of things, to me and possibly to many Americans, and it makes a lot of sense. Thanks for sharing.

Patriotism, a lost resort sentiment, when the person can't find something good in himself. You should read Schopenhauer on that.

eh... that's just not true. A German invented the idea of individual liberty, the French used the idea and made some grand moves with it, the Dutch used it to create legislation guaranteeing it and America is the latest greatest symbol of it. The sad part is that America is losing it and I don't see another Empire standing up to take the torch and continue the advancement of Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness.

@@apuapustaja1958 the collapse of an empire is coming and I also think the liberty amd freedom we are having is at great risk due riding nationalism in a lot of the western countries

@@Draregkoeliekalie no it's quite the opposite. it's Globalism aka Judaism that is causing the downfall yet again

They made it so that they take all the credit

The English just a very different vision in their colonies, besides the Afrikaans language in South Africa there are barely any traces left of dutch colonization whereas in English colonization you can see by simply looking at a map. We found a colony in north America, gone its now the state of new York. We find New Zealand and New Holland, New Zealand stays (somehow) but New Holland is now Australia and England's personal prison. Colony in South Africa, English show up and to this day the Afrikaans speakers still hate the English speakers to a degree, not to mention that there's plenty of hate to go around there. they were the biggest contribution to the fall of the VOC and the WIC. If you look at Dutch history England was kind of like team Rocket that show up everywhere you do just to mess with you.

@TheWeeaboo actually 40 million white Americans identify themselves as "Americans" the majority of them probably are of english descent. It simply doesn't make sense that the majority of white Americans are of german descent

@TheWeeaboo I said that 40 million alone identify as americans, and many of them are of English or Scottish decent and that's a fact. If you those 40 million and join them to the 25 million Americans who reported to have English ancestry you will realise that the majority ancestry group in the US is English.

@TheWeeaboo and how does that refute my point?

Impressive observation, really.👍So in heart USA is closer to NL than UK.

The english are very feudal in their class system, exceedingly single minded and anti-anyone who isn't british. They are complex, biased and unforgiving. The dutch are so friendly and I love the language! The Americans are also so friendly and welcoming. So sad to see present regime flushing it down the toilet.

If you really want to see English influence on America, go up into Connecticut and Massachusetts.

ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-z3DIy8bMvts.html Dutch football fans vs Ukrainian journalist.🤣

Depends on which aisle you are in. The Dutch are way more progressive than the British. We beat almost all of the world in that. The British are more conservative. First to make a bike culture, sex work is legal, first to legalize smoking weed, first to legalize magic shrooms and first to legalize gay marriage. Very progressive compared to the UK or the rest of the world. We definitely have the same spirit in fighting for rights like the US. Maybe we secretly we love our country more than in the US. The sea of orange shirts always amazes me at sport events.

This is true. Most people don't know this as well.

The Dutch Sinterklaas was born about 270 AD in the port of Patara in the Greek province of Lycia in Asia Minor (present-day Turkey).

@@Brozius2512 ... a lot can be told about the Lycians and the Lycian road...

Dark and Blamefull? ;)

Not sure why dark and blameful. You're acting like the entire world wasnt using slavery or (what is now considered) barbaric treatment of people not belonging to their group. Acting like western countries didnt uplift an insane amount of people.

The US of A is a young nation in the view of the non indigenous who had always been there..

like the u.s. didnt do anything wrong. ehhh indian genocide, atom bomb on japan twice etc... i would say we humans are all the same when under the same circumstances.

@@JK-Visions there wasn't an actual genocide. The Atom Bomb was justified at the time. They weren't aware of the fallout damage. They also flyered over the cities to warn them they possessed a single bomb that could wipe an entire city. Lots of japanese didn't believe it. Plus their cities were already being wiped via firebombings. I mean. Look at history through it's context, not our 20/20 hindsight context.

I live in Leeuwarden and our historic centre is just a big starfort! Love those things.

There are remnants of star forts all over the USA. Most of them are mere foundations (places like British Fort Pitt, Pennsylvania and French Fort Caroline, Florida) and some are still pretty obvious on the landscape (the American fort at Ninety-Six, South Carolina). I'm actually a (American) National Park Ranger who spent years working at various historic forts, so I geek out about this lol

Early editions of the map don’t have Nieuw Jorck but after the English takeover it was added. However, this map was made by Dutch cartographers so they kept Nederlandt at the same time. Mar Del Nort was commonly used to refer to the northern half of the Atlantic. It seems to be nearly universal for the time period. Wikipedia gives a British cartographer John Sellers credit for naming it but maps were already using the name. I wish I knew more at this time.

@@GeographyGeek Thanks !

Thank you! I actually noticed the same after I had published it. I’ll have to find a way to makes quotes clear in the future.

Exactly, " briefly"

I thought that that word came from a German silver mine called “Thaler”?

Yes as is "laager" camps

Same counts for marine navigation terminology, e.g., stuurboord, bakboord, etc..

Partially correct! His parents were not from the Netherlands but they were decedents from immigrants from the Netherlands. Van Buren spoke Dutch as his first language and is the first and only president for English not to be his first language. Thank you! Happy you're here!

I wish I could disagree.

History is always writen by the group that is in power.

Its not just the US its the entire western world that want to see our own narrative more prevalently represented, just happens that the English were the long term winners of the Colonizing game and thus write history.

@@just1it1moko that's how the world works. But if you dig deep into history you can always find the truth

@@just1it1moko Isn't that how pretty much the whole world teaches its history to its youth? You think in Russia they focus on Western Europe and the US? You think in China they focus on the Western world mainly? No, offcourse not. This ridiculous rewriting of history is getting absurd. Suddenly our Philosophy Canon HAS to be rewritten by some Woke-head who decides that there are not enough women and non-Western philosophers mentioned in the current Canon, which MIGHT very well be true. BUT, the reasoning for that should be the delivered contribution from a certain philosopher instead of what sex or etnicity a certain philosopher has and then too subjectively tally so you arrive at a certain amount of women, non-whites, non-christians, etc. That's just so wrong and why Woke is actually a danger to our open societies and free academic thinking, which we (should) hold dear , here in the Western world.

Then you should also know the Dutch conquered Philadelphia (or at least the Swedish fort that was along the river there). Only took a decade or so until the English came, burned everything down and sold the Swedish and Dutch people as slaves.

That's because the Dutch barely played a role in the Atlantic slave trade. Only 5% of all Atlantic slave trade was committed by the Dutch. The Asian slave trade is a different thing, however. For the rest, the Dutch barely played a role in the Americas. So obviously not much would be taught about that.

@@TheJH1015 While you are right about that, it is still one of the few claims of (dubious and marginal as it may be) fame, historically.

As OP said, we’re not learned in school how our ancestors influenced the slave trade. Yeah they tell us about the great benefits from the slave trade. But do they learn us about the bad things? No they don’t

@@TheJH1015 The Dutch didn't so much trade in slaves themselves, however they did transport slaves for basically every country that were trading slaves. Payment often came along with a couple of slaves for the Captain of the ship to keep, with a lot of them ending up in Suriname. It's a black page, that is removed or never told in most Dutch history books.

@CAPTAIN HOOK That is what it feels like to me at this point.. Things like colonial exploitation and slave trade is pretty much the only thing discussed about our history these days.. You cannot discuss anything in our history anymore like cultural revolution of the Golden Age without someone dragging these thing into it and just ruining the entire subject.. All discussions about history these days seem to be begin and end with Colonialism and slavery and exploitation.. Never about interesting things like shown in this video.. People say negatives should also be given space.. However give it to much space and the subject isn't fun anymore.. Take the Colosseum in Rome.. Brilliant piece of history and cultural heritage.. Or in modern cynical perspective nothing more then a symbolism of the blood lust that was wide spread at that time and complete disregard for any life form especially those of slaves and animals.. And you could go on and on in history and destroy every and all country, culture and religion pretty much to its core.. People were terrible to each other, and people still are.. That is the only thing history tells you with the cynical view of modern day.. Hence the "revisioning" you see literally everywhere.. Tearing down historical figures and buildings just like the Iconoclasts did in the old days when they viewed history they don't like.. I used to be a great fan of history and reading into it and talking about it.. Not anymore however.. People just ruined the entire subject I feel like..

Not least because most of the Dutch (bar some Frisians and Saxons) are Frankish and that part of our history is completely ignored in favor of a holland-centric and pro orange family history

Congrats if ur dutch

True, the dark period of slavery and our role i. It was taught extensively. Which is good, because only then can we learn from it. But in regards to colonies we barely get thought anything

Sadly this:(

@rolandtennapel5058 congrats buy a cake and celebrate it!!

Hopefully so!

Maybe so! I can see where some school districts and colleges are using some of my videos by looking at the external link clicks. Hopefully that list will grow. I teach 8th grade geography which is a district level class and I was lucky enough to help write the curriculum. I talk about New Amsterdam a little in the North American unit. I also work a lot of this in when talking about topics such as the movement of ideas and cultural diffusion. If only I could figure out how to change state level curriculum.

I mean realistically learning dutch influence on america is farrrr down the list of priorities for what needs to be taught in america

in new york you also see alot of dutch names, brooklyn is based from the village breukelen for example. and there many more. that whole area is lcuekly still duthcified a bit in history and naming

Yea, or "Wall Street /Waal Straat)

@@penked88 Wasn't 'Wall-street' the street that ran along the (inner) wall surrounding the old settlement?

The main state churches in the Netherlands now are either Hervormd or Gereformeerd. The meaning of the word in English is about the same, reformed. It is the Gereformeerde kerk that prints the Bible. Can't tell you much more, because I am not sure what the difference is between the two: Their traditions look the same to me, but they themselves seem to find the difference very significant.

En zo is het 😂👍🏻

Amsterdam best city in the world? It isn't even the best city in the Netherlands... in fact most Dutchies see Amsterdam as the shithole of the country.

@@nickdentoom1173 That's just because they are all jealous Amsterdam is number one in everything. So yes it's objectively the best city in the Netherlands. There is nothing wrong in loving your own city over all others, but numberd don't lie.

“History Is Written by the Victors” Winston Churchill

@@AlexanderWeurding they did not win

So true. And almost nobody realizes that most of world history outside Europe is based on the old colonists point of view.

The Dutch: *completely destroy most of the British Navy's ships laying in the harbour at Chatham and tow the HMS Royal Charles back to the Netherlands* British Historians: "I'll pretend I didn't see that"

@@TheJH1015 still the most humiliating defeat of the royal navies history

Just like the two Roosevelts both talked Dutch at home.

Thanks! I have. Great book! The ‘The Island at the Center of the World’ was my biggest source of information for the last two Dutch related videos I made. I’ve read ‘Amsterdam’ as well, another great book.

I agree! Thanks for watching!

That is correct!

Looking at his last name, I would hope so

Thanks man!

From how far I am in the coments I didn’t see one non Dutch person and I have bin scrolling for at least 10 minutes

Ok im back I have read all the comments and found 1 American and the rest was Dutch for as far I know

The Dutch are irrelevant and they hate on America for no reason

@@Student0Toucher what are you talking about?

@@Student0Toucher many Dutch people dislike American politics. Since guns are mostly illegal here we find American gun culture very strange. America has a two-party-system with both right wing parties and here in the Netherlands there's way more political diversity and because of that US politics often seem a bit ridiculous. There are many more things we, Dutch people, find strange about the USA. America is of course a great ally to the Netherlands and any Dutch person will acknowledge that but America is also very different than the Netherlands. And Dutch people might like to laugh at or be critical of those strange differences.

@@Student0Toucher "they hate on america for no reason" ofcourse there are reasons and dont generelize dutch people with hating on america.... i

@@mackermate8475 How is gun culture strange Switzerland is near and they have a pretty deep gun culture too

That is super interesting, and a long time ago. And that part of Brooklyn is quite aways from Manhattan.

Gast jouw ing verhaal klopt niks van

@@globalmoron8304 Ik werk voor ING, in dat gebouw. Staat letterlijk in de Staete wat hier op display ligt in de hal. Je bent altijd welkom.