Suriname is more interesting than you may think
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- čas přidán 8. 09. 2024
- If we’re being honest, most people have never heard of Suriname. We’ll at least not here in the United States. Which is unfortunate because it’s actually played a small role in US History.
But hopefully…this video will help put Suriname on the map.
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Iam proud to be a Surinamees
Wel i live in Suriname
The only problem is that the president is a KILLER & DRUGSDEALER
@@martijn7593 who is?
@@martijn7593 You are wrong. Bouterse is out, Chantokhi is president.
I'm from Suriname and happy seeing people Talk about our Country🇸🇷🇸🇷🇸🇷❤
Same🇸🇷🇸🇷🇸🇷 lobi sranang❤
Zelfde hier
Mooi zo !
Sana motion
are you a djoeka?
I just got back from Suriname, it was the best trip of my life. The people are so friendly.
Some people
Well you got lucky I guess
I head there early Feb, any recommendations?
@@allthingsshanti918 if you get a chance, take a tour to the Brownsberg nature preserve. It's cheap, 80$USD, about two and a half hours from Paramaribo. They give you food and drinks, you get to see the lake, and walk to waterfalls. We saw so much of the country on that tour. If you're looking for a place to stay that's cheap, try the overbridge river resort. If you're in Paramaribo check out Zu Zoes restruant and the palm gardens across the street. If you're looking for a place to stay in Paramaribo I suggest the Prins Hendric Suites, it's kind like a bed and breakfast in a 150 year old historic home. Check out the Paramaribo Zoo and definitely the Slaugth Sanctuary.
@@ilayaramadhin4182 oh, it's like that everywhere. Just ignore the ones who aren't and focus on those who are. It helps if you try to learn some of the local languages. We spent 6 months practicing Dutch so that we could at least great people in their language.
wauw, amazing, as someone who is a history nerd from Suriname, you got everything right, which is something not many people achieve, not even historians of my country. well done
Thank you!
But he could do loads more, don't you think? Up to Bouterse perhaps?
So true
The only problem is that the former president is a KILLER & DRUGSDEALER... so there are allot of corrupt politicians in Suriname
Thank you so mush for dis video men love you❤✅💥
My dad was in the Dutch army located in Suriname. Since I was a kid my dad talked a lot about the country, he loved it :)
My father in law as well.
I'm also Dutch. My dad was on a geological mission for 2 years in Suriname. He lived in the city amongst the people instead of the enclaves that were popular amongst westerners. He has many stories about the great times he had there and the people were really friendly.
As a Dutchman living in Suriname I appreciate this video very much... Well done and researched.
Thank you!
As someone who is Surinamese I am so happy that you made this video! Every time I mention to people outside of the Netherlands that my family is from Suriname they usually have never heard of the country before. Thanks so much for making this 💛🇸🇷
I have the same! Its good to see that Surinam is popping more up
My mother is from (former British) Guyana. Nice to see this part of the world being covered.
Guyanese have heard of Suriname.
I know Suriname 🇸🇷 because I visit Guyana 🇬🇾
And recently they found oil in the ocean (north of Suriname). So hopefully in 10-15 years this will pay off to the Surinam people.
I did my Masters in California and some people there thought Suriname was in Asia or Africa… They also thought the Netherlands was a city in Denmark. I’ve never met so many people with no geographic knowledge…
The u.s, and European union blue helmets will invade there soon in the name of "security" "peace mission". No doubts
Ahh American geographic ignorance!!!
We're not all that geographic ignorant
@@apeman9238 yeah imaging thinking an entire country of 330 million is this ignorant. these anti American jokes are old
@@AC-qx7eg cry on snowflake. Not even anti-American. But ask yourself, do you think that most people in a country of 330 milion have a rats ass knowledge about the world?
I'm from the Philippines and soon i'm about to work in Paramaribo, looking forward to learn more about the country and the people.
Welcome to Suriname !
suriname has a lot of javanese.
Your gunna love it
My father was an engineer at the sugar factory at Marienburg, I was a little boy and still have fond memories of Suriname and the people.
How nice that you payed attention to this beautiful country and it's special popupation! I'm Dutch, my wife is from Suriname and we thank you for this!
population ofcourse :-)
I’m glad you both enjoyed it! Thank you for watching!
My great grandfather moved to the US from Suriname and I still have a lot of family there. I am dying to go visit !
I know Suriname thanks to Netflix's K-drama "Narco-Saint" and got me interested in this country. Love from Vietnam 🇻🇳❤️🇸🇷
Nice to see people speak about our unknown country, it is a beautifull country with very generous people.
A lot of Surinames people live in The Netherlands
Why are so many? As a Dutch woman I live my whole life in the Netherlands and from what I see is that, Suriname is more beautiful in land, lesser pace in everyday life, whether much much better, people more friendlier and much more in connection with nature.... 🤷🏼♀️ As Im writing this, its occur to me that I may spend my old days there 😆
@@janetvanladesteijn5951 a coup in the 80's had a lot of us move to the Netherlands.
Thanks love from Suriname🇸🇷🇸🇷🇸🇷
@@janetvanladesteijn5951 If only life was that simple... Su is beautiful and the people are as well, but in the 70's and 80's the country had not much to offer to the people, so poverty and lack of opporunities drove many to the Netherlands, which they considered as their own country and they were right.
@@janetvanladesteijn5951 lol baby brained woman
The fact that I did a whole debate representing Suriname yesterday and was frustrated I couldn't find any videos talking about it
There really isn't a lot! Was this a model UN?
Visited Surinam twice for work. Amazing country, amazing people.. And most of all THE FOOD is amazing, so many different options and they all taste great.
I have been to Suriname once, they are one of the most friendly people of our planet for sure.
Are you sure ?
Becauase some Suriname people Who are living in the Netherlands are different. Maby not all, But i have seen a hole other Suriname in the Netherlands.
@@findersluck5694 I don't know about those who are living in the Netherlands but those whom I meet in Suriname they are really great in terms of friendliness..........
@@tuffhappy thanks , then ther is stil hope.
Ik vindt het leuk dat je dat zegt ❤
ehhh..
denk et niet hoor
I am Dutch,and i can honestly say,people from Suriname fit in just great here😇,there are a lot of them here.
Friendly,nice food😊,and goodlooking men🥰.Love their culture❤️
No joke, can't imagine the Netherlands without the people from Suriname. Also, roti best food for sure.
@@thehigherman9918 surinamese food is the best food change my mind
As a surinamese person, thank you for talking about our country ❤️❤️
Give it up for the pic of Clarence Seedorf, Patrick Kluivert and Edgar Davids of the Dutch 🇳🇱National Team ⚽️...that was tight brother. Good teacher! 1 🌎 thank you.
Suriname has the best food in South America, maybe even the world. The people are amazing, nature is impeccable. Nice resorts, nice capital. It’s a great country to visit for a few weeks!
As someone from Surinam I barely see any videos of it, great job💖
Thank you!
Friendly people, great food and great countyside to explore. The history is very important and can serve as a blueprint for bigger issues on a wider scale. My dad is from Indonesia so i always find it very easy to connect to the culture of the people of suriname. And i always get credit by the elder ppl that i can eat their home made spicy sambal and enjoy it :D. Rule is, most are not rich but they always have food and they always ALWAYS share. I love it!
Great video. I’m from Suriname and all your information is legit🙏🏾
From the bottom of my heart i want to say thank you for reviewing my country🙏🏾❤️
Love and support from Suriname ❤️🇸🇷 🇸🇷🇸🇷
Thank you for watching! I'm happy I was able to make such a well received video on Suriname!
If you’re from Suriname 🇸🇷,then you can’t like the video,that starts with false information of our country Map! The Map he’s using is not the right one!
@@IronMan-ed9vg what was shown was factual. The areas are disputed, and was a correction from a prior video. I don’t make videos to push an agenda of a particular country. I understand your view point but there are multiple sides to the dispute and I am not taking a side in my videos.
Edit: I’m not sure you can tell but that was a Dutch map showing the disputed territories. It wasn’t shaded dark green but it did lightly color in the topography. So at the time of it being published it was made by your own government, not me.
@@IronMan-ed9vg did you watch the whole video?? Cuz if you did you’d never say this, he explained everything (according to my level of understanding)
Im a surinamese and some of this stuff I didn’t even know lol. Nice to learn new things about my country and thanks for talking about a Country so little 🇸🇷💞
hey lol
@@whereisasa44 hey lol
Hey . I plan to visit Suriname in 2 weeks 😊
Im so happy to see my country in one of these video's
Everything was spot on
in South Africa..the promise of gold /(Diamond) mines was a casus belli for the british to invade and overrun the dutch orange free state(s) boers.
Luckily for Surinam, it concerned the french (after Napoleon defeated) and a russian arbiter (more leaning towards the dutch..).
This is my opinion, Suriname has some of the most beautiful spaces and architecture in the world 🇸🇷🇸🇷🇸🇷🇸🇷 l love Suriname
Im from Suriname and I love when I see people talk about it cuz you never hear people talk about our country
Je hebt helemaal gelijk
Greetings from Suriname
Thanks for covering my country
And I always knew about the Surinen however it is not thought in school
*our country
No problem! Thanks for watching!
Exactly! I think they didn't want us to know about a lot of facts!
As per the late historian Andre Loor, there never was an native tribe called surinen. Please check his book Suriname 1850 - 1950 where he discusses this topic
@@raymondreggie8395 was was his theory on the name? Or did the name still come from the tribe though they didn’t exist?
Nice to see people get to see a little history from my country
Thank you for making this video of my country 🇸🇷....very very educative! That of the Russian "arbiter" i didn't know.
I made this video with the help of those that commented other interesting facts about Suriname in my prior video on the country. I also tried to correct any of the mistakes I made in that one. I apologize for any mispronunciations in this video.
Past video on Suriname - "The Strange Demographics of Suriname" - czcams.com/video/55XArVdnVec/video.html
Thank you,I'm from suriname 💚🤍❤️💛❤️🤍💚🇸🇷
Im from Suriname. Im not trying to be bias but very good content. Great work for detail and information! Joy to watch your videos
@@davongreen3606 Me too
Ik ook
Sir,please use the right Map of Suriname 🇸🇷 This is false information that you are showing the world right now.
@@IronMan-ed9vg I displayed a map showing the disputed territories. If I purposely show the disputed territories as belonging to one country or another I am being biased.
You kicked off spot on by correctly explaining where the name comes from, which is highly exceptional.
Fact: Surinam is one of the only two carbon negative countries together with Bhutan. Surinam is removing more carbon than it emits.
That's awesome!
Wow that's impressive work, how do they do it.
@@benegmond6584 most of the country is Amazon 😅 and there aren’t that many people. so it’s pretty logical
@@benegmond6584 because we’re 99% jungle and produce next to nothing for export
Bhutan the happiest country or kingdom as its called I'm the world
Love this, great video & greetings from Suriname 🇸🇷 🇸🇷
Ma shaa Allah alhamdulilah❤️
Thank you for Sharing🙏🏼❤️
Love Surinam🇸🇷🇸🇷🇸🇷😍😍😍❤️❤️❤️
Hi there! I really appreciate you making a video about our amazing country!
I’m from Suriname 🇸🇷🇸🇷And I’m glad you made this video❤️❤️
Glad you liked it!
@Tattoo Shop Cover hahaha
I'm so glad someone is finally making a video about my country.
yoo thats my country thank you for making this video i dont see alot of videos of my country, i just finisht wachting ur vid from suriname from 3 months ago lol
Thanks for highlighting my birth country, Suriname is an amazing place full of rich culture and experiences, so revisiting the past to better understand the present was great.
Check the story of the Winhuk, the German merchant/liner ship that escaped to Brazil in the outbreak of the war. the crew staid from 30-44 pretty much at ease until Brazil entered the war and the crew was set to a "Brazil prisoner camp". The ship band was the best in town, and after the war many staid in Brazil and opened what is still to this day one of the best German restaurant in Brazil and basically still following the ships. menu.
Great video 😊 keep up the great work
I appreciate it!!
Thank you for doing this video about our country suriname
No problem! Thank you for watching it!
I’m from Suriname, thank you for making this awesome video!!😃
A country I learned about in Prep school and was always fascinated by its position and culture .
Aaw ,that means alott to us ,we want to make our country more known around the world
Very much appreciated video about our country 💪🏾
Suriname is awesome!! Happy that we are now resuming aid to the country, I hope the Netherlands and Suriname can have friendly relations in the future :)
Yess thank you for teaching me more about my country it's history
Great Video! Thank you for this!
I appreciate it! Thanks for watching!
I'm from Suriname, thanks for the video, Suriname is very underrated 👏👏👏
Great...have signed up for 'Geography Geek Newsletter' 👍👍
Hello i am from suriname 🇸🇷🇸🇷👋
Hey there! Thanks for watching!
Woah, my country is on youtube?
WOW, thanks whoever you are, for putting my country on the map
No problem! Thanks for watching!
Happy you pay attention to our country! 🇸🇷♥️💪
You are always welcome here!
my dad is from suriname and i love the country! i live now in the Netherlands but sometimes i speak family over there i love the way they talk
Nice to see this video! My mom is from Surinam and my dad is Dutch (I’m born in the Netherlands)
Great to see people talking about my home country 🤎🇸🇷
And I’ve been there (only in Paramaribo) and it was so nice people there. Want to go back and see more of the country
Im so proud to have a Suriname family and that i live in the Nederlands❤
I enjoyed this video for Iam from Suriname but live in the Netherlands, i really miss my homeland ,and thank for sharing this video...
Many dutch professional footballers have Surinamese decent. Virgil van Dijk, the Dutch team captain is one of the more notable figures.
Suriname has a haa 163.820 km2 , the Capital is Paramaribo has 609.569 inhabitants ( 2020). A lot of recources, oil gas, bauxiet, marine fish, lots of nature, lots of wild birds, wild animals, plants, trees in AmazoneJungle, many rivers with fresh water fishes, mountains, waterfalls, eg, indigenous people, marrons, a beautiful country with their own culturen, dance, songs, kitchen/meals, drinks, diverse klederdrachten, tradional costumes,, friendly people. and a sunny land in the tropic, month September, Oktober, November, December and a very big firework end of the end on December 31 during the day, with a lot of happy Surinamese and other people to gether a big party.
Facts Brother
Enjoyed learning about Suriname. Thank you. D.🌞
Nice 👍🏽 very informative as specially about the Aluminium production story the name of the industry was " Alcoa Suralco" at Paranam mining 🇸🇷👍🏽
Can we talk about the way he pronouce the names its so good
I'm from the US but grew up partly in Suriname. I learned quite a bit from this video.
Awesome Country! Lived there for a year and a half in the 1980s. Back when it was real. No cell phones, just really great people to talk to. Going into the bush was quite the experience. The Cayman didn’t worry me, the piranha no problem, most of the snakes were evadable but intimidating, the monkeys were butt heads. The big cats were worrisome, but two things drove me crazy down there. The big assed spiders, and I don’t know what the hell it was but while in a rubber duck/raft, I saw something roll in the water that had to be 10 to 15 feet long because it just kept rolling right next to us and as big around as my thigh. We were deep in the jungle and the water is like tea so you can’t see down into it or you’d probably piss yourself. Anyway, I never found out what that thing was, and I’m good with that. I’ve rambled enough, Suriname is great!
Probably an Anaconda snake.
Great Video. Greetings from Suriname 🇸🇷
Nice follow-up to your previous video on the country; very informative.
Keep up the great work!
Thank you! I'll do my best!
Fun fact: the coloniser of the most forested narion in the world is the most deforested nation on the world
How would you define most deforested? Most times, biggest area, comparitive to it's size?
Not saying the Netherlands might not win (quite a number of complete deforestations) but I'm also not sure on the deforestation numbers of other countries.
@@bastiaan4129 iirc it was the percentage of forested land that has been cut down. It was something like 95% of the dutch original forested land area is gone. Basically all contemporary forests here are planted
@@jezusbloodie what are original forests though? A large part of their teritorium has been reclaimed from the ocean or is below sea-level, at what point has that been original forests? If we are talking about the eastern part of their country, it still has a lot of forests, but the south and the north do not really have a lot left.
@@pepin8277 the name Holland literally comes from old nordic/germanic for Woodland. Only roughly 17% of dutch land area is reclaimed. Below sealevel doesnt mean that trees cant grow there. Basically all forests in the east or elsewhere here are planted.
@@pepin8277 Once I've red a quote about the Dutch shipping history and how the glory days caused deforrestation in Holland. It mentioned "The days before the boom in ship building, when squirrels still could travel from Utrecht to Den Haag by treetop higway". That does refere to the western part.
thank you for showcasing my beautiful country
Thank u for sharing this geografie history “Switi Sranang”
I know of Suriname 🇸🇷 because of all the kickboxers that come from there. 👊 🤜 🤛
jamang,i love seeing video's like these about our beloved country🇸🇷🇸🇷🇸🇷
Im from surinam and im very proud of my country
Great job, thank u for sharing are history
Thank you! You bet
Much love to Suriname and Surinamese People around the world, from Amsterdam.
Thank you SOOOOO much🤗❤️
Thank you so much for making and sharing this video. Mostly of the people across don't know anything about Suriname. I have even met people who doesn't even know that there is a country in South America named Suriname. I'm glad seeing my country getting famous I must say... Thank you so much. 💓
Very cool. I would love to visit. I got close when I visited eastern Venezuela
I like countries with diverse cultures and people like Suriname. What part is more English friendly?
What would have happened if Suriname had chosen to remain a colony in this modern age of equality, would the Netherlands have been obliged to invest in Suriname so the prosperity would be equal to that of the Netherland?
Neighbouring French Guiana (like Martinique and Guadeloupe) does prefer to stay a colony.
@@Blaqjaqshellaq France is less of a wellfare state than the Netherlands. (Scandinavia even more wellfare)
@@Zero-oh8vm really? Have you ever seen poverty ridden Saba?
@@apeman9238 I see you're right, 40% of Netherlands Carribean inhabitants earns under the minimum wage.
No they wouldn't have had to. The Charter of the Kingdom of the Netherlands states that every country within the Kingdom is equal. The stronger or wealthier parts should support the weaker or poorer parts. That is very vague. To see how it would be, just look at how they treat the countries of Aruba, Curacao and Sint Maarten. The Netherlands was very stingy, to say it bluntly, to come in with financial help on these islands. Eventually these countries had to take loans from the Netherlands, in which the Netherlands has a lot of say in how it should be used. It caused a lot of strain on the relationship and Sint Maarten sort of even "sued" the Netherlands via the UN, for acting neo-colonialist.
Now I understand why the Dutch want some control over the money, because sometimes the islands, haven't been financially responsible with the handeling of money. So they want the assurance that their money won't be wasted. Even when we were a country within the Kingdom they weren't willing to invest in Suriname.
Hi i’m from suriname i love that you want to make surinam come on the list i love suriname love and support from suriname
Nice documentary ❣❣❣
here in the netherlands people from Surinam throw the best parties. just shows you that these people know how to live life!
nice to hear about Suriname is a country where i live
Underrated channel
Hello greeting from suriname suriname is my country.
I don't know if this is true I met a Suriname citizen working in my country she told me that there is a village in Suriname where Hindi is the first language hard to believe
As suriname dude living in the Netherland, I appreciatie this very much.
Zo leuk dat je een hele leuke film heb gemaakt vam suriname
As a Surinamese this is so awesome to see that people are talking about Suriname, it's so rare to see and I'm so very happy
🇸🇷♥️
SURINAME MY BEAUTIFUL COUNTRY 🇸🇷🇸🇷🇸🇷🇸🇷❤❤❤🌳🌳🌴🌴🌴
Nice to hear the HISTORY of Surinam..i think You know a lot about Surinam....and its geographic!!! Chapeau!!!!!!!!🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🌹🌹🌹🌹🌼🌼🌼🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🏵️🏵️🏵️🏵️🏵️🌺🌺🌺🌺🐝🌸🌸🌸🌸💐💐💐🥀🥀🥀🤗🤗🤗🤗😀😅
Same I'm in surinam
I found out about Suriname when l was visiting Holland in 1983 while in the US Air Force stationed in England. I had met a girl from there named Astrid, very beautiful
Google is listening. I spoke about Suriname cherries lately. No interest in the country, no searches whatsoever.
So?