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[PersonSP]

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[spagooti]

My favourite part is eaten food with family. We don't do presents on Christmas since we've got "Sinterklaas" on 5 Dec. but i's nice to get together with family and watch movies, I don't see them that often.

Sinterklaas???

 

[PersonSP]

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Sinterklaas???

It's a Dutch (but also Belgium and Bolivian) holiday. Sinterklaas would literally translate to Saint Claus. It's a party for the same guy, but earlier because he got here earlier when travelling from Spain. There are a couple of differences; first of all sinterklaas is not fat/short but rather tall, he rides a white horse called Americo instead of a sled, Americo walks over the rooftops and does not fly, his helpers are called Zwarte Piet (Black Pete) and they clime trough the chimney instead of Sinterklaas, instead of socks we use shoes and of course the songs and sweets are totally different.

Sinterklaas/Santa Claus was the bishop of Mira (jup, he did exist but he's been dead for ages) and there are still quite some stories about him. For example why is his helper a black guy dressed like a Spanish noble? Well Sinterklaas bought him as child at a slave market and set him free because he thought it was unethical to sell people, let alone children. Black Pete was so thankful for that that he decided to stay with Sinterklaas for the rest of his life. Another one; why are some of the sweets we get in our shoes chocolate coins? There was an old father with two daughters and at the time of Sinterklaas, women could only live with their husband or with their father or the whole society would spit on hem. (Juk, I really hate the middle ages.) The father was old and therefore desperate to see his daughters marry but he could not pay for the dowry. Ever night the father and his daughters would put their shoes underneath the window pane and go to sleep. Sinterklaas heard their story and asked Pete to fill their shoes with gold while they were sleeping.

Of course there is much more to be said about such an old tradition but I hope this clears it up a bit.

 

[spagooti]

Thanks ^^

It's a Dutch (but also Belgium and Bolivian) holiday. Sinterklaas would literally translate to Saint Claus. It's a party for the same guy, but earlier because he got here earlier when travelling from Spain. There are a couple of differences; first of all sinterklaas is not fat/short but rather tall, he rides a white horse called Americo instead of a sled, Americo walks over the rooftops and does not fly, his helpers are called Zwarte Piet (Black Pete) and they clime trough the chimney instead of Sinterklaas, instead of socks we use shoes and of course the songs and sweets are totally different.

Sinterklaas/Santa Claus was the bishop of Mira (jup, he did exist but he's been dead for ages) and there are still quite some stories about him. For example why is his helper a black guy dressed like a Spanish noble? Well Sinterklaas bought him as child at a slave market and set him free because he thought it was unethical to sell people, let alone children. Black Pete was so thankful for that that he decided to stay with Sinterklaas for the rest of his life. Another one; why are some of the sweets we get in our shoes chocolate coins? There was an old father with two daughters and at the time of Sinterklaas, women could only live with their husband or with their father or the whole society would spit on hem. (Juk, I really hate the middle ages.) The father was old and therefore desperate to see his daughters marry but he could not pay for the dowry. Ever night the father and his daughters would put their shoes underneath the window pane and go to sleep. Sinterklaas heard their story and asked Pete to fill their shoes with gold while they were sleeping.

Of course there is much more to be said about such an old tradition but I hope this clears it up a bit.

This sounds religious but I thought it was SINterklaas XD

 

[PersonSP]

XD Nope "Sint" means "Saint" and it's not so religious (any more, it must've been religious long ago) it's just a lot of singing, sweets and presents and dressing up as Black Petes to fool the younger kids. In the same way there are Santa's everywhere we have hundreds of people who dress up like Black Pete, but there is (of course) only one Sinterklaas. It's a lot of fun, the whole county plays along.

 

[spagooti]

XD Nope "Sint" means "Saint" and it's not so religious (any more, it must've been religious long ago) it's just a lot of singing, sweets and presents and dressing up as Black Petes to fool the younger kids. In the same way there are Santa's everywhere we have hundreds of people who dress up like Black Pete, but there is (of course) only one Sinterklaas. It's a lot of fun, the whole county plays along.

Just like Christmas practically? Good to see a tradition of Christmas is being throughout the world.

 

[Antrix]

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