Comments by "Jasper Mooren" (@jaspermooren5883) on "This European Country is the Most Organized in the World.." video.

Yeah greed is very much depending on how you define it. In some ways I'd argue the US is way more greedy. In the Netherlands there is very much the ideal that everyone pays their part, so indeed splitting the bill is very common here, but I don't know if it's greed, since it's both ways. If you're greedy, you'd be happy to let the other pay, but most Dutch would object to that as well. You just pay your fair share. Flaunting wealth is very much frowned upon in general, as is being stingy. Moderation is the key.
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Yeah I was a bit surprised by that statement as well. Although it is true that Dutch is the only official written language as used by the government. So all official documents are written in Dutch and only in Dutch.
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@tonyoffermans3676 ah not even that much dismay. Unless you're using it and implying the Randstad is the Netherlands (which some 'randstedelingen' do), then we do get a bit mad. But as a born and raised Brabander I've used Holland a lot in English.
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@Daniel-qz8bp then you're definitely the exception to the rule (not that that's a bad thing, it just is). Even in my student years I had to basically make an appointment to see my friends, sometimes it was only a few hours ahead of time, but still I couldn't just show up at someone's doorstep. And the older I get (I don't have kids or even a partner, but still) the longer ahead of time those appointments need to be. Even as a kid we would arrange ahead of time meeting with friends, I never just showed up at someone's doorstep in my life I think.
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12:46 Yes, the flag was orange white and blue, often called the 'prinsenvlag', or the Prince's flag, named after prince William of Orange. Red was adopted already in the late 16th century as the 'statenvlag', or the state's flag. Both were common at the time, there wasn't really a truly official flag back then. The red has always been more sybolic for the state and was a more republican symbol (in the literal sense, as in for the abolition or at least reduction of power of the crown, it has nothing to do with US politics), while the orange was more 'royal' and sympathising with the crown. However in the 30s the orange variant became very popular amongst Nazi sympathisers, and the red variant (as we know it today) got codified into law, as proposed by the queen in fact, in order to clearly distance the royal family from these Nazi sympathisers. Nowadays the orange white and blue has a heavy nationalistic connotation, a bit like the confederate flag has in the US.
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