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The netherlands as a whole should do this. Not just holland.

• wolvoleo 6mo ago
  Oh yes that's what I mean. I don't like calling it the Netherlands.
  • ur-whale 6mo ago
    > Oh yes that's what I mean. I don't like calling it the Netherlands. it was tongue-in-cheek dude. literal people are a hoot.
    • wolvoleo 6mo ago
      True everyone loves hooters :3
  • ezst 6mo ago
    Why not?
    • ezequiel-garzon 6mo ago
      I'm curious about this too. I thought saying "we in Holland" was equivalent to "we in England" rather than "we in the UK". Is it acceptable in the Netherlands? (Or maybe just in Holland proper?)
    • wolvoleo 6mo ago
      Oh there's just some stupid 'rebranding' going on. https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-49921029 https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-49921029 As I hate our government I don't play by their rules. Besides, Holland is shorter and easier to pronounce.
      • racl101 6mo ago
        I kid you not one time I saw the Netherlands spelled as: The 'Neanderthals' . I had such a good laugh. Almost choked on my coffee.
      • ezst 6mo ago
        I obviously don't have a horse in this race, but this seems... more correct this way? And with Holland being a region (or two) and not the majority of the territory, how do the Dutch not living in Holland feel about it? It would seem like referring to Canada as "Québec", way to piss-off the non quebecers...
        • wolvoleo 6mo ago
          We don't really see it that way. I mean some people do, but not the overwhelming majority. For most Dutch people "Holland" is totally fine even if they're from Brabant or Limburg. In fact until recently the country 'marketed' itself as Holland internationally. The Quebecians also inherited the chauvinism of the French (similar to the Wallonians in Belgium) so for them it's a huuuuge issue. But we don't really have that kind of nationalism.
    • racl101 6mo ago
      I just called them the Dutches. lol