The people of Holland are referred to as "Hollanders" in both Dutch and English, though in English this is now unusual.
The people who live in the Netherlands are not Netherlandish or Netherlandians, they're…Dutch. While it's not too difficult to figure that out, the difference in nomenclature can reveal some interesting historical insights. Throw in the name Holland, and there's even more complexity.
Seeing as the Dutch refer to themselves as "nederlanders", there's no reason why the English can't use the equivalent 'netherlanders', in the same vein as 'greenlanders' or indeed 'new zealanders', but that's a different question.
Are Dutch people from Holland or the Netherlands? Because Holland isn't the name of the country, Dutch people are from the Netherlands. However, it's possible that you meet a Dutchie who is from Holland, but in this case, it would just mean that they're from either the province of North or South Holland.
The official name of the country is the Kingdom of the Netherlands. King Willem-Alexander is the king of the nation. Holland actually only means the two provinces of Noord-Holland and Zuid-Holland. However, the name Holland is often used when all of the Netherlands is meant.
The word Holland literally meant “wood-land” in Old English and originally referred to people from the northern region of the Netherlands. Over time, Holland, among English speakers, came to apply to the entire country, though it only refers to two provinces—the coastal North and South Holland—in the Netherlands today.
[ duhch-woom-uhn ] show ipa. noun,plural Dutch·wom·en. a female native or inhabitant of the Netherlands; a woman of Dutch ancestry.
There are several ways of acquiring Dutch citizenship. You automatically become a Dutch citizen if one of your parents holds Dutch citizenship when you are born. Or if paternity is acknowledged by a Dutch citizen. Or through either the option procedure or naturalisation.
Inclusive and welcoming culture
In general, the Dutch are welcoming to foreigners and make an effort to engage newcomers into the community. They are known for their egalitarianism and are a fairly liberal society. Expats moving to the Netherlands will have plenty of opportunity to meet people in the Netherlands.
Dutch people are usually very open, friendly and welcoming. In the Netherlands, only parents and children live together. In general, they do not live with grandparents, aunts, and uncles.
But over time, English-speakers used 'Dutch' to refer to people from the area which is now the Netherlands and Germany, before separating into 'Low Dutch' (people from the lowlands – Belgium and the Netherlands) and 'High Dutch' – the Germans). To this day, we refer to people from the Netherlands as Dutch!
We don't know if you've realised yet, but let us break the news: people from the Netherlands are tall, in fact, they're the tallest on the planet. Studies show that the average height for Dutch men is 1.86 cm (over 6′) whereas an average American is 1.76 cm (5'9”).
Because tourists primarily visit cities in the region of Holland, largely ignoring the other 10 provinces, the government has decided to work to attract focus on the country as a whole. The Dutch government is transitioning to using “The Netherlands” in all of its official branding.
The Dutch government has officially decided to drop the moniker of Holland going forward, and will only refer to itself as the Netherlands. The Netherlands actually consists of 12 provinces, two of which combined make up Holland, so referring to the Netherlands as a whole as Holland is just wrong.
The Netherlands (Dutch: Nederland [ˈneːdərlɑnt] ( listen)), informally Holland, is a country located in northwestern Europe with overseas territories in the Caribbean.
Dutch law has no provisions for the automatic granting of the Dutch nationality based on the actual place of birth, however, a child is Dutch if it was born to at least one parent, having his or her main residence in the Netherlands, Curaçao, Sint Maarten, or Aruba (or the Netherlands Antilles) at the times of the ...
The Dutch are the people who live in the Netherlands, or those that come from the Netherlands. Often the Netherlands is called Holland, but this is only part of the Netherlands.
A child can automatically become a Dutch citizen by birth, acknowledgement or adoption. This is also called getting Dutch citizenship by descent. It happens 'by (operation of) law'.
Historically Dutch was much more similar to German, having three grammatical genders (masculine, feminine and neuter) as well as marked declension for case. Modern Dutch however has lost most of these distinctions.
Dutch man and woman consider each other as equals
This means equal in all parts of life – girls don't expect your dates to pay for you. This is called 'going Dutch'. It's not meant to be rude; it just means that your date sees you on his level (or they are cheap, who knows). It is advisable to get used to this.
Germans refer to the people of the Netherlands as "die Niederländer" or "die Holländer". They're called Niederländer or Holländer (depending on how precise you wanna be).
Dutch people are known for their spirit of commerce, open-mindedness towards people from different countries, international ambitions and innovative ways of thinking. The ideal place for an international education.