How the Dutch built the Netherlands

The ocean? It's free real estate.

[BritMonkey]

Anyone who points out the image at 5:43 is Almere, not Lelystad spends a night in the box. I got the message. You do not need to comment it anymore.

[ColinCartoons]

This is why you can’t put water in the nether

[elaynepas]

The Dutch will stop expanding their land until they share a land border with the UK, Norway and Denmark.
North Sea? Oh you must mean the North Lake and Polder area.

[DarthNoox]

"The Netherlands declared war against the sea, and the Dutch are winning"

[johanjansen]

That's why dutch people are so tall, so they don't drown

[Censtudios]

"why spend millions of euros building new land when you can also steal it"
The Dutch already stole a lot of land. Been there done that, we wanted a new challenge.

[res_-kmkv]

I love that is just all dutchies being all happy about this video

[timpyrules]

The year is 2400, most of Europe has flooded due to rising sea levels,



The Netherlands has become an island nation

[idrisseraj]

The same technology can be implemented in Bangladesh too.The country is land hungry, lots of rain and 3 major rivers carrying about 2 billion tons of rich silt from upper Himalayan mountains...

[dalrplays]

It's simple.
If it ain't Dutch,
it ain't much.

[ariearie]

This video makes me so patriotic I'm crying.

[Anonymous-hxte]

BritMonkey: "When you can do as the rest of Europe did and simply steal it."
Dutch: Yep, totally did not steal any land. No sir, we'll build our own land. Yes sir, no stealing here. *rummages some history books and VOC ledgers under the carpet*

[Freeze]

On the Deltaworks there is a saying: Here the tide is governed by the moon, the wind and us.

[Jaxxobl]

Letsgo dutchies, we boutta expand our borders to australia, whos with me

[majorfallacy]

The year is 2100: London is now completely submerged due to climate change and tensions with the Netherlands are rising as they keep settling on British fishing grounds

[islamandthesoul]

Beautiful Video about beautiful people. As an African living in the Netherlands, it makes me sad when i meet the youth who have no interest in science and technology. I read chemisty in high school back in Africa and studied about Van der Vaal and the covalent forces and asked myself when there was a debate to remove the statues of the the slave era. I said, why not replace these good for nothing statues with those of these great scientists to motivate and encourage this generation about what make you great?
How possible should 5G be difficult for people of this great history?

[Jakeznk]

This video gave me goosebumps, proud to be Dutch

[axvic]

"They named their new city Lelystad" *shows picture of Almere Centrum*. I'd know, I walk in that exact spot that the photo is taken once or twice every week when heading to the coffeeshop just out of sight on the left side.

But go Flevoland! It's quite remarkable to live in a city that's younger than my parents. The buildings, the parks, the very ground is so young and you can tell. Amazing city planning, things just make sense, everything looks new and high tech. Love it!

[piccolo]

one of the things that never fails to bring me to tears is a short poem written on a memorial dedicated to both the completion of the deltawerken and the 1953 flood:

hier gaan over de tij,
De maan, de wind en wij

Here the tide is ruled by
the moon, the wind and us

it's a declaration of victory over the sea that has killed and destroyed countless men, women, children, animals, plants and homes for centuries. I think you have to be Dutch to truly understand how much that means.

[luxinos]

I'm Dutch myself. And it's all true. It's crazy what we have accomplished...