Dutch Islands off the Coast of Venezuela? People of Aruba, Curaçao and Bonaire (ABC Islands)

You make videos on subjects sufficiently intriguing yet no one else bothers to do a study about. I must say you're one of the few Youtubers with real ingenuity who deserve credits from audience like me who are tired of generic or misleading contents.

Speaking of the Dutch, there is a very interesting history of the Dutch sailors. In the 1500s, some Dutch sailors named Jan Jansz Weltevree is recorded to have landed in Korea by accident on his way to Japan. He ended up adopting into Korean society and had two children. Twenty years later, another crew of Dutch sailors landed in Korea, meeting Weltevree. This story is well documented in Hendrick Hamel's journals. They gave birth to perhaps the first mixed-race Koreans because the contact with Europe was very limited. In fact, I myself have 0.1% European DNA detected. I personally think this story is very interesting. Could you perhaps do some research on it and make a video? Thank you very much!

Brazilians love the ABCs, have been there twice, we kind of understand papiamentu... pasa bon dia :D

With my family being from Aruba, Curacao and Suriname, I am so happy you are talking about this unique part of the Caribbean. Growing up in the US, when I tell most people where my family is from, most of them have not even heard of it. The only place they know is Aruba. This is a great educational resource for so many people uninformed about this part of the world.

FINALLY an accurate video about the ABC islands and where Curaçao isn't pronounced as Curakao!! As you said Arubans generally have a lighter skin tone than people from Bonaire and Curaçao (where I'm from) and also the native Antilleans (what the people of the ABC islands call themselves) can differentiate between Aruban Papiamento and Curaçaoan/Bonairean Papiamentu because the orthography is different(i.e. in Aruba you would write casino as "casino" but in Curaçao it would be "kasino") and also small difference in vocabulary but we will understand each other 99.9% of the time. Aruba is more popular with the American tourists( Curaçao and Bonaire are slowly becoming more popular) while Curacao is more popular with the Dutch tourists. And our countries are NOT independent and neither do we want to be(atleast the majority). The Netherlands handles most of our international relations (i.e. war etc). And the Curaçaoans and Arubans also have Dutch Nationality and are EU citizens like Bonaireans. Also monolingualism is EXTREMELY rare because in school we are taught Papiamentu/o, Dutch, English, Spanish ( and French at some schools). So the vast majority does speak 4 languages.(We have the Dutch school system)

Awesome video!.  Papiamentu comes from Dutch, English, Spanish but predominantly Portuguese; as is determined by research. Funny fact: the closest language to Papiamentu is the creole language that is spoken on the island of cape verde (Africa). Interestingly Cape verde has a very similar history when compared to the islands during the slavery times. The africans that were living on the island during that time came in contact with mostly English, Spanish and Portuguese people, so Cape verdian (or just creole as Cape Verdians call it) developed similarly to Papiamentu, it just sounds more like Portuguese.  Another fun fact is that Arubans write Papiamentu differently compared to people from Curacao and Bonaire. They call the language "Papiamento" (with an "o" instead of a "u") for example. However everyone can understand each other, we just recognise immediately where someone is from depending on the dialect or the way the language is being written.  Another thing, everyone living on the islands are citizens of the EU since all inhabitants of the islands are Dutch citizens and have Dutch passports. Therefore citizens of Aruba, Bonaire and Curacao can travel and/or move easily to any EU-country, whilst the rest of the world upon seeing our passport think we are from Amsterdam :P

I moved to Aruba from Venezuela 17 years ago, just became Dutch citizen, learn to speak Dutch, English and Papiamento got a Havo and now going for the VWO Like we ain't The Singapore of the Caribbean but we are more develop than most Island in the region

Dude !, I am a 78 year old Afro American that loves History, Geography, Biology & Antropolgy. Yocover all the bases and in such detail yhat I am oftentimes overwhelmed. I love your videos. I would love to know more about you and you love of all mthe stuff I like too.Keep up the good work. Sincerely, dmaxIII

I met a retired gentleman from Curacao several weeks ago in Manila. We had a good hour long conversation of mixed Dutch, Spanish and English. I can only do that with people from the Netherland Antilles. People around us have no idea what language we were speaking.

I am from Aruba and you did tell our history pretty good, we call Curacao and Bonaire brothers, we are close in a lot of things but still each have their own unique identity. thank you for telling the world about our beautiful islands. only 3 islands in the world that speak papiamento/papiamentu. :) :)

ABC much love from the Netherlands!

I'm from bonaire and is great that you made a video about the abc islands.

Just a little note: Aruba left the Netherlands Antilles in 1986, not in 2010 like the other islands. Speaking for the majority of the population I'd say that they are pretty happy in their current situation and feel no need to be an independent country on their own. I think what the island inhabitants think of each other is mostly because of what happened between them in the past. They do get along though and will always try to help each other when needed.

Thank you sooo much for making this video! We ABC'ers could really use some more recognition outside of the Caribbean 🇨🇼🇨🇼🇨🇼!

Not Dutch or from the Islands, but Irish in Rotterdam. I am very happy to call them my neighbours in Rotterdam along with the people of Surinam. Every year there is a big festival called "zomercarnaval" in Rotterdam where everyone celebrates their Caribbean heritage.

Amazing how your channel grew so fast it basically skyrocketed in a few months.

Relevant topic and commendable philanthropy, Mason. Very well put together as always, keep up the good work!

I've been living in Aruba my entire life, and it's a beautiful and wonderful island, but despite this, I didn't learn much of its roots and history. So it was very educational to see this video to explain all of this. And I;m pretty sure that you put a lot of effort into it as well, so I really appreciate it. 5 star!!

Great vid bruv. The three islands are an extremely unique culture and we appreciate each other a hell of a lot. Hopefully more cooperation and collaboration between the islands in the future. One love

My parents are from Curacao! Much love for all three islands! <3