Dutch Hospitality is Shockingly DIFFERENT! 🇳🇱

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• If you invite someone to your party, you pay. Period!!

  But if you all decide to have a party, you all contribute for the party!!

• I've never imagined a culture could be devoid of the most basic gracious hospitality 😳😧, especially towards outsiders or family. Combine that with their well known brutal bluntness, and I don't think many would visit them if not for their more questionable or debauched industries.

  • Welcome to the Nordic and Germanic counties, now here’s your bill.

• If you are going to act like a restaurant, don’t lie and call it a party.

  • Exactly!

• as somebody who worked with dutchies before, they seem the kind of people who wouldn't go out of their way to do something selfless, it's always 'what's in it for me?'

• Charging after inviting its too cheap

• If you do this in Greece, your whole village/town/city will be laughing at you next day..We have certain "nicknames" for such behavior. Omg, this is sad...

• I would not pay them. That’s is intentionally manipulative to spring that on someone AFTER they attended. Also, exceptionally insincere, ungracious, and selfish.
  If you need other people to cover the cost of your party in your own home, ask ahead who consents to pay in order to attend your home - and expect to share the receipts to them as proof of costs incurred. Or, just don’t run an illegal restaurant 3 feet away from your bedroom. What an unattractive quality.

  • That tells a lot about their people in general

  • It’s a disgusting cheapskate culture. If i had lunch at someone’s house and they sent me a bill for it afterwards, I’d delete and block such a person from my life

  • No doubt the Dutch are the cheapest. Rumor has it, they perfected the Tikkie when they colonized, rape and plundered Indonesia, Suriname, etc for centuries

• This is crazy. If you invite someone over to your home for a party, you are responsible to pay for it. Sometimes I will offer to kick some cash if the food was a pizza, sub sandwiches or wings, but normally the host will fund everything. The only exception may be alcohol. In that case, they will tell you beforehand to bring your own beer or whatever.

• That's worse than here in Australia young people make an invite but for a bbq and then ask people to bring their food and even their own chair!!!

  • @filippos4648 The outdoor chair thing is only for public bbqs at a park or if it’s expected that everyone will eat outdoors. That same 20yo isn’t gonna have 30 chairs just lying around in storage, nor would most 30 or 40yo

  • Having a BYO bbq is fine because everyone knows prior what to expect. Even if it’s BYO, the host will still usually provide snags and burgers at the very least. And will usually have soft drinks and beer, even if it’s still polite for guests to bring a few stubbies (or whatever they prefer).

    But the idea of going to a bbq at someone’s house and then they invoice you later is laughable. Ridiculous tightass culture

  • It's a bit different for a BBQ, because they tend to attract a large number of people and the host is also a twenty year old that can't afford to feed all of them. In the case I think it's excused, but the chair thing is a bit weird😅, never heard that before.

  • Did they have to bring their own chair though? @@rvail136

  • When I was in school, for holidays that people couldn't go home to families, we "stayers" would get together, everyone bringing a dish. I've done many a Christmas and (american) Thanksgiving meal together. Your dish is your contribution

• Jeez that is so cheap, these people are not friends at all 😅