Thok wrote:Rick d'Israeli wrote:I suddenly remember a Dutch commercial about an American family 'discovering' Wagner Pizzas. The mother says 'It's from Deutschland' (when she looks at the pizza box). The son asks to his father 'What's Deutschland?' And the father answers:
'That's that little country next to the Netherlands'
OK,
that I call humor
(part of the 'Calimero'-syndrome I guess).
That´s no humor.....
So well, Holland: Is as far as I know a "district" of the Netherlands. Ok, it´s a not good name for the whole country.
Of course it's humor :wink:
Concerning 'Holland': the Netherlands has twelve provinces. Two of them are called Noord-Holland (North-Holland) and Zuid-Holland (South-Holland). Now, as someone from the province of Noord-Brabant (North-Brabant; (South-) Brabant lies in Belgium), I believe the name 'Holland' is actually discriminating. A lot of Dutch will probably say that's overreacting; I believe however that 'Holland' only refers to the northern (Protestant) provinces in the Netherlands, and NOT to the two southern (Catholic) provinces, Noord-Brabant and Limburg.
