The Netherlands, a tiny little country with a lot a typical habits you don't find in other countries. In this blog I made a list of  10 typical dutch habits. It's offcourse a bit stereotyp. Not all people are the same off course.

1. Complaining:

We often complain and if we don't complain we will just find something to complain about favorite subject we complain about: the weather, soccer, (stuck in)traffic, politics (but actually most people don't care about politics), our neighbours or the government.

2. Think we know it all

Our soccerteam had 16 millions coaches but never won a worldcup. Every championsship we seriously think we will win and if we do we praise our team and all think we will become worldchampion and if the lose we acuse our soccer players of being spoiled brads. If's good to have democracy but if the government failed, taxes get spended on commissions that wil find out the how and the why and who needs to take responsebility.

3. We eat our frites in with mayonaise!!!!

Yess we do!!! We have special mayonaise for the fries....and mcdonalds made his own friessauce for the dutchies..... because almost everybody orders their fries with mayonaise. we call it: fries with.....

And in north of the Netherlands we call fries:patat and in the south is it called friet

4. We always bring our own food if we go to an amusementpark.

If we go out we always bring our own luchboxes with ouw own spread bread and little package of applejuice because it much cheaper we we think it's a waste of money to buy expensive drinks at a funfair.

5. Act normal...then you are already crazy enough.

A typical dutch frase: Doe maar gewoon dan doe je al gek genoeg. My mum always said it to me when I was young... Dutch people. Just blend with the crowd and don't fall out...

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6. Orange

Whenever we have something national to celibrate the whole country turns into Orange. The people go crazy and wear the most outrageous type of outfits. Every jear  kingsday and offcourse the soccer championships.

7.Summer

Dutch people love to go camping in the summer and work the whole year to spend their holiday for fun in a tent. With a little badluck it you have a rainy shower all day long and then you spend you're holiday playing dice games. But when the sun is shining the whole country goed to the beach or the swimmingpool at the same time to catch a piece of sunshine....

8. Sinterklaas

Ever year we celibrate Sinterklaas at 5 december. It's a celibration for the children. Sinterklaas is an old who never dies...and lives in spain. every year he comes with his boat and all his helpers to give the children presenst for his birthday (actually the parensts by the gifts.......we fool our children....). The last few years....during september the nation(the parents) argues about the helper black piet......... The discussion is pretty heavy(death treath not excluded)  and while the people strarve in africa or get hurt in syria.....we worried about Black Piet...... I will dedicate another blog to this subject to make you understand....because most foreigners don't. I don't blame them because i don't get the heat of the discussion either.

9.Dutch hostility

We prentend we are hostell but if you want to have dinner with a dutch you need to plan that..... If you visit a dutch person(not all) and they want to get rid of you they say..... O we have to eat at 5 'o clock. In other words: Go home! You don't think inviting you're self because you can get the answer: Someother time would be oke but i only have 4 slices of meat. So that's not enough for all of us

10. Dutch people and dogs

I don't have a dog but it's something I hear a lot from foreign people. Dutch people treat their dog as a familymember. We have playgrounds for dogs?! Doggychair.. en even trolley. If the dog is sick he gets special dietfoot. We have beaches for dogs and on top of all we take the dog to the manicure of his nails or a hairsalon to cut his hair...Some people let their dog sleep in their bed..  If you will get robbed the police says: "Sorry for you. we don't have menpower to solve it " but we have special animalcops who chase after animalmolesters.