Did you know that the American Santa Claus is based on the Dutch Sinterklaas? Thanks to Martin Jaspers, now we all know! In The Netherlands, December 5 is a holiday that celebrates the naming of the big man in red (accompanied here by a pair of Zwarte Piet):
(Via Lukas over at the Young Spacers Association.)
I’m dutch :3
Nicely done! But the gloves should be black instead of white.
The gloves of the Zwarte Pieten, that is…
Hey yeah! I’m Dutch too! Goed gedaan Martin!
Later!
Nice, I learned something new today!
So…if you’re bad the Zwarte Pieten take you off to Spain, right?
Apparently Sinterklaas used to have several black servants but in modern times it’s been changed to “friends”. In America, Santa still has slaves but the only legal slavery allowed is elf slavery.