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I felt so betrayed when I found out Germany isn't called Germany in Germany (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 10 months ago by to c/showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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To add insult to injury, what they call it, Deutschland, sounds like what we should call Netherlands

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[–] 3 points 10 months ago (2 children)

What do people from the Netherlands call themselves if not Dutch or the Dutch?

Like, people from the United States call themselves Americans, there's the Spanish and French.

Are they called Netherlanders or something?

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  • [–] 7 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 child)

    Well in Dutch they call themselves Nederlanders or Hollanders. Though Hollanders is technically only correct if they are from the Dutch province North-Holland or South-Holland

    here is a CGP Grey video about the difference between Holland and the Netherlands https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eE_IUPInEuc

    And the reason why the Netherlands is also known as Holland is basically before the unification of the Low Lands every province was a self governing state and Holland was the richest province. Hence why most traders who went abroad from the Low Lands were people from Holland. It's therefore why people abroad would call the Low Lands Holland since Hollanders were the only people from the Low Lands they met and and after the Netherlands was formed the name Holland for that area stuck in many languages.

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