> but the Dutch are not hampered by politeness. And our brutal honesty might help keeping standups efficient.

Anecdotes are fragile; I've had the exact opposite experience, Dutch people taking offense for being direct when reviewing code.

You’ve never heard the anecdata that the Dutch are notoriously stubborn?

The offense could have been the Dutch person being direct about their stubbornness to feedback.

Also possibly a point in favour of political speech vs directness. Much easier to politic a stubborn person than tell them to do something directly.