Because what’s a better way to celebrate Jesus’ birth on the wrong date than to take a dive into a freezing pool of water? What’s that you say? Everything? Well, the people in London, Ireland and Nice will disagree with you. They dive the fuck out of that freezing pool of water.
Black Pete (Belgium, Netherlands)
One that’s caused quite a bit of controversy among the local population in recent years, Black Pete or Zwarte Piet is part of the Sinterklaas celebration in early December. While Sinterklaas is pretty much a literal translation for Santa Claus, he’s actually named after Saint Nicholas. Santa Claus is translated as “Christmas Man” to avoid overlap. Because why only celebrate once when you can do it twice? Anyway, Black Pete is Sinterklaas’ servant (we don’t say slave anymore). The story says it’s a white person that has a black face from crawling through all the chimneys to bring the presents to the kids. Which means it’s a white person in blackface. Yeah. Also, they dress Santa-but-not-Santa up like a priest.
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