Comments on: Sinterklaas!! http://journal.ngaloppo.org/archives/2005/12/04/sinterklaas/ Collected chaos. Redesign in progress, 11% done... Wed, 07 Jan 2009 08:33:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Nico http://journal.ngaloppo.org/archives/2005/12/04/sinterklaas/comment-page-1/#comment-1023 Nico Tue, 13 Dec 2005 13:00:25 +0000 http://journal.ngaloppo.org/archives/2005/12/04/sinterklaas/#comment-1023 <p>Hehe, yes, racist indeed, but I doubt you realize that being a kid. Back then, I was mainly concerned about being a <em>good boy</em> instead of weither Sinterklaas was paying social security fees for his Zwarte Piet's. I was more concerned about not ending up in Zwarte Piet's bag.. Sinterklaas' bag was pretty much filled up with toys and goodies, so you wouldn't end up in there ;-)</p> Hehe, yes, racist indeed, but I doubt you realize that being a kid. Back then, I was mainly concerned about being a good boy instead of weither Sinterklaas was paying social security fees for his Zwarte Piet’s. I was more concerned about not ending up in Zwarte Piet’s bag.. Sinterklaas’ bag was pretty much filled up with toys and goodies, so you wouldn’t end up in there ;-)

]]> By: Jeff http://journal.ngaloppo.org/archives/2005/12/04/sinterklaas/comment-page-1/#comment-1022 Jeff Tue, 13 Dec 2005 05:47:42 +0000 http://journal.ngaloppo.org/archives/2005/12/04/sinterklaas/#comment-1022 <p>I forgot about Zwarte Piet. I wasn't sure if that extended to Belgium or was mainly a Dutch thing. Either way, it's one of the weirdest, most racist holiday traditions I remember hearing about. Santa's black Moorish helper who stuffs the bad children into Santa's bag and takes them to Spain. That's the myth, right?</p> <p>Still, it's nice to get Christmas care packages (:</p> I forgot about Zwarte Piet. I wasn’t sure if that extended to Belgium or was mainly a Dutch thing. Either way, it’s one of the weirdest, most racist holiday traditions I remember hearing about. Santa’s black Moorish helper who stuffs the bad children into Santa’s bag and takes them to Spain. That’s the myth, right?

Still, it’s nice to get Christmas care packages (:

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