They have never said that everybody SHOULD get one.
First off, we’re fucking with you. Yes, the Dutch lost their empire (“even old New York was once New Amsterdam”), but they do have some pretty tulips and windmills. Second, why not? I think everyone should shelter in with a fuck buddy. Maybe replace some of the human inventory that’s dropping like flies.
True.
It hurts my feelings to see that we lost our empire, and lost New Amsterdam
(but then again, we kinda traded it for Suriname and Guyana)
It's funny that you mention this.
The area where I live now (in the US) was part of New Netherland
( basically parts of New York, New Jersey, Delaware, and Connecticut, Pennsylvania and Rhode Island )
It's funny (for me) to see how many Dutch words I see in town names, street names etc.
Even a lot of common english words are actually dutch.
Brooklyn, Yankee, Coney island, Staten island, harlem, hoboken
might be familiar for being dutch words,
but also words like dollar, tickle, freight, decoy and cookie are dutch
I believe that 1% of english are dutch words.
Not bad for a freakin small country