Just to give you an idea, these photos represent standard Holland candy store displays this time of year... Yikes!
Saturday, December 6, 2008
Sinterklaas and Zwarte Piet
I don't have a social life in France, so it took reading EJ's post about Saint-Nicolas to remind me that today is the day that European children get to open their Christmas gifts, or at least it is for some parts of the continent (no time for further research at this time since I have barely enough time to comb my hair!). In any case, it's definitely true for Holland, where Santa has a black slave named Saint Peter. While this seems like no big deal to Netherlanders, it was absolutely flabbergasting for me and my North-American friends who visited Amsterdam last week. Are you not flabbergasted by it too?
Just to give you an idea, these photos represent standard Holland candy store displays this time of year... Yikes!
Just to give you an idea, these photos represent standard Holland candy store displays this time of year... Yikes!
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flabbergasted indeed. I went home after the St. Nick parade here, but my roommates tell me that at the church, the priest said some words and then made the two black demons in blackface disappear (!) And then there were fireworks. Sigh.
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