I took a few semesters of Dutch in college, and pretty much everyone else in the (admittedly quite small) classes either had Dutch ancestry or was an art history graduate student auditing so that they could learn to read primary sources about Dutch painters as part of their research. Early on in my first semester, we learned how to explain in Dutch why we decided to take Dutch, and I had the distinction of being the only one taking the class "voor de lol", which even today still makes me chuckle due to how similar it is to the common English meme phrasing.