amsterdam has allot more to offer.
you should come here again. and dont go to those places
i’m sure you would have a great time here .

Stolen stuff from hotels. well that happens everywhere and thats just bad luck.

the car incident well…… yeah thats a sad thing,

2nd – Sadly, educated, well-traveled Americans are not the majority of Americans

Those things being said, I have traveled to the Netherlands 4 times now. I remember my first trip like it was yesterday. I had no idea what I would find and knew very little about the person with whom I would be staying. My first thought about the place, made shortly after leaving Schipol was how familiar and connected I felt to the place. After spending 2 weeks with an almost total stranger that first thought was only reinforced. I was taken to almost every corner of the country and was treated like family by EVERYONE I met…not one of them stoned or standing in a window selling sexual favors. Several of those people have become very close and treasured friends over the intervening years.

My second trip was during a Queensday event. Never have I been surrounded by so many people, many of the very intoxicated, but not one of them acting anything but friendly and respectful of everyone around them. We were crowded into small streets, elbow to elbow – and sometimes closer – and the thought that kept coming to mind was that no one was being out-of-control or unruly and that there was absolutely no reason to need police. In fact, I rarely see police when I’m in the Netherlands.

I feel safer when I visit the Netherlands than I do anywhere else in the world…including my own home in an upscale neighborhood in Durham, NC!!!!

Everyone in the Netherlands is quick to speak English when they hear that I’m not speaking Dutch. In fact, that’s the subject of one of my favorite stories about my visits there. I was once in the Bijenkorf in Den Haag and was a little nervous that everyone was speaking Dutch. I need help finding my size for some pants and was a little hesitant about asking the salesperson for help. Shortly after I did ask for help, I noticed that EVERYONE in the entire store had switched to English! I’ve never worried about that again.

As I have returned again and again, I have fallen in love with the country and all of its many faces. I have friends that have come to be more like family than most of my relatives and my heart will forever be divided between Holland and the US. “Those people” that O’Reilly speaks with such contempt have proven themselves to be among the most loving and caring people I know and it hurts me deeply that he can be so calous and malicious with his comments.

I hope all of the people of Amsterdam and of all of the Netherlands know that they are more than welcome to visit here and that few Americans will greet you with the attitude that he expresses.

Many thanks to Robbert and his partner for responding with such ferocity towards these horrible comments and congratulations on your award. The diversity population of Holland is always a breath of fresh air and a welcome change of pace to me and if I could, I’d move in a heartslaag.

!HUP HOLLAND!
Buseruka

In addition to the examples already used in the videos, The Netherlands offers a lot of other examples to the rest of the world.

The country has one of the lowest teenage pregnancy rates in the world (11.6 per thousand women vs. 75 per thousand in the US, so few criminals that prisons are closing down (or lending their prison cells to other countries, and of course the safest roads in the world too.

Keep up the good work with these very well made videos.

let them spend all the money they waste on the ‘war on drugs’ on health care and make some people better instead of locking the better part of the black population behind bars.