What Dutch REALLY Think About Americans 🇳🇱🇺🇲

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• That’s Canadian too.

  • Yess very similar

  • Canadians are even nicer. Also holding the door open for the person entering behind you is very much a norm in Canada

  • ​@TuAmigoElMorrocoy Isn't that just common courtsey? I apologise when I don't. (Im British, so maybe I'm just too close to stereotypes.)

  • ​@@davestrider4973I'm English, it definitely is common courtesy.

• I appreciate Dutch honesty.
  Obviously I can't vouch for every American but I would say to the Dutch couple that if you have a good American friends you have friends that would do almost anthing to help you should you need it.
  I do have a small town mentality but we do watch out for our friends and neighbors.

• 😂 that’s so funny. I’m American. I’m used to our hospitality, when I go to European countries I always think many of the people are so rude! Especially in France 😂

  • 🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯

  • Forget that they rude , they cheep . Continent of Europe witch I travel extensively is very very cheep . Few generous people in Europe I meet where American.

  • That’s pretty much been my experience in Europe too. I can remember when I was in grad school we had a disproportionate number of European students and I saw several of them get their butts kicked seriously by playing the rude snob game and not knowing when to shut up.

  • Absolutely. Europeans ARE rude (I'm European myself and can't stand how arrogant we are)

  • Nothing more american than lumping us europeans altogether. So, not difference between the french, irish, portuguese, ukranians and italians for you?

    All rude compared to the americans? Really?

• Americans aren't fake its just a formality that they follow. Tell them your opinions on politics and I bet they will change attitude real quick.

  • That's still being fake. It doesn't have to be followed. I certainly don't follow it unless I'm cornered by someone that does. Then I play along. But it definitely IS fake

  • @@BlackStarXplosionIt’s not fake necessarily because no one is trying to really be sincere, it’s more a formality to take ambiguity out of the relations between people, or plaster over power structures, basically a cover for master-servant of capitalism and other structures for instance. A cope.
    The Dutch don’t have this need as much because of the whole “laat iemand in zijn waarde” mentality (don’t look down on someone, but just look at them as being sensible or not) . There are power structures and hierarchy but no one is intrinsically better than the other.
    Course for outsiders it is fake because it’s all theatre. But for them it’s just normal way of life, or at least not calculatingly fake. I think for Americans fake is seen more as pretending you’re someone you’re not. So higher degree fakery lol.

  • @@BlackStarXplosion I would say no because its such a trivial fundamental cultural foundation. Almost like saying shaking hands during a good business transaction is fake too.

    No one wants you to cry your eyes out and lean on their shoulder when they ask it, but it is said as an assumption that everything is fine and you are going to say "good" to reassure this assumption. Essentially Dutch people might be taking the question too intimately, that doesn't make it fake.

  • @@BlackStarXplosionThere is nothing fake or phony at all about it. We are raised to be friendly, courteous and polite. In Business, when serving the public it is emphasized to be friendly, helpful, courteous and polite and not to be reserved rude snobs with delusions of grandeur like so many Euros. So… have a nice day. 😂😂😂

  • @@Mottleydude1 this isn't about business. This is about being somewhere, and a random stranger acts like they're interested in your life, when they really aren't. It is fake. It is phony. Maybe YOU actually care (I can't imagine why), but most people don't, and they only ask how you're doing because it's a cultural habit in the States. People aren't asking because they want the real answer. Have you ever responded with the truth to a stranger at the gas station when you're having a horrible day? Something like "my day has been horrible. My dad died and I spent all day dealing with the Mortuary"? Nobody wants to hear the real answer to the question "how are you?" when they're not someone you actually know. I'll tell you what ... Answering honestly throws a wrench and oftentimes freezes people up, because they're expecting you to lie and say things are going great, because along with asking "how are you?" out of habit, they're expecting the habitual answer of "Fine, how are you?". It's absolutely fake.

• I wonder how to make a Dutch friend.

  • Europeans in general, especially western and Northern societies, are lonely and very hard to become friends with. It's a disaster.

  • with some shared hobby and some patience, beer also helps.

  • Take a crap and befriend it.

  • Just go to Japan you'll automatically learn to be friends with Europeans 🤣

• American clerks are really friendly though and you can have great conversations with them, particularly when they understand you're not American! They are genuinely curious about other cultures!

• Nothing has made me dislike an entire nation like this video.

  • Aren't they awful?

  • Yes...They come across as cold and rude. They call it "direct"... Sad!

  • Dutch are really cheap. They usually go dutch for everything.

• Miserable and cold pinched off euros

  • Well said! (I'm European myself) and can't stand the European arrogance

• Are the ones they are talking about are the storekeepers or cashiers or just the ones working in the service industry? Because if that's the case, just cut them some slack. I don't think they are being fake. It's just their job to make sure the customers are having a nice time in whatever business they are working for. Not showing enthusiasm or having a positive attitude towards customers could get them fired. I'm no American but as someone who lives in a country where tourism is important, I understand that.

• American retailers HAVE to do that "nice guy" crap. Personally I'm more Brooklyn-ese: "Wadda-ya want?!"