For those who don't know it, it's the Dutch version of Santa Claus. (or better said Santa Claus is the american version of Sinterklaas)
It's celebrated amongst others in the Netherlands, Belgium, some northern parts of France.
the Santa Claus from american (or here just called Christmas man/ kerstman) is a ''redesign'' from sint nicolaas (the orginal name of the sinterklaas tradition)
sinterklaas was originally a Bishop in myra
coca cola was impressed about our ''sinterklaas tradition'' in the netherlands they have made there own sinterklaas a version who dont come out (hot) Spain but out the (cold) north pole
the day to celebrate this is on 5 December (the birthday of sint nicolaas) parents give there children presents
its also nothing about sanctify instead of sint maarten (an other dutch tradition smiler to Halloween)
the tradition is to set your shoe (with a carrot for sinterklaas horse or a drawing) and sinterklaas will give you a present
on 5 december he come to you and give you a lot of presents
in the Netherlands most children (1-7 year) believe sinterklaas is real and give him lots of respect instead of the Father Christmas
its is forbidden by the law to say in commercials that sinterklaas is fake if ther come a movie that say sinterklaas is fake it MUST be a +12 movie
most familys dont give presents to there children on Christmas (they just alone eat luxurious)
probably from our (ashamed) slave trade. Some are agree with that the black pete is racialist . but COMMON its an children tradition
most chillers (really) believe in sinterklaas and if your mother say to you ''this year we have white pete's'' a child didn't understand that
and the story why the black pete's are black (what you say to children) is that they are black because they go by the chimney and they never wash each other
whatever now is all sinterklaas stuff go away and now we dutch ppl go to the next celebration Christmas and really for your American ppl it seems really stupid but we have fist sinterklaas and after 5 december we build up our Christmas stuff :)
I think its funny, Why kill the tradition i say though, Hell theres something racist against someone else in everything else, A white guy dressing black isnt that big of a deal :P.
happy sinterklaas (who celebrate it)
For those who don't know it, it's the Dutch version of Santa Claus. (or better said Santa Claus is the american version of Sinterklaas)
It's celebrated amongst others in the Netherlands, Belgium, some northern parts of France.
wiki explanation for those who are interested in it
It wasn't hard to figure out :) But happy red oldman, didn't know there is such a phrase before saying merry Christmas which is too early about
the Santa Claus from american (or here just called Christmas man/ kerstman) is a ''redesign'' from sint nicolaas (the orginal name of the sinterklaas tradition)
sinterklaas was originally a Bishop in myra
coca cola was impressed about our ''sinterklaas tradition'' in the netherlands they have made there own sinterklaas a version who dont come out (hot) Spain but out the (cold) north pole
the day to celebrate this is on 5 December (the birthday of sint nicolaas) parents give there children presents
its also nothing about sanctify instead of sint maarten (an other dutch tradition smiler to Halloween)
the tradition is to set your shoe (with a carrot for sinterklaas horse or a drawing) and sinterklaas will give you a present
on 5 december he come to you and give you a lot of presents
in the Netherlands most children (1-7 year) believe sinterklaas is real and give him lots of respect instead of the Father Christmas
its is forbidden by the law to say in commercials that sinterklaas is fake if ther come a movie that say sinterklaas is fake it MUST be a +12 movie
most familys dont give presents to there children on Christmas (they just alone eat luxurious)
here some more information
sinterklaas
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinterklaas
Father Christmas
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Claus
@Helral: Go
lol the dutch, their the ones with Black pete :P the most racist character since the 1800s :P
@Taintedwisp:
why they are ''black'' pete's i dont know
probably from our (ashamed) slave trade. Some are agree with that the black pete is racialist . but COMMON its an children tradition
most chillers (really) believe in sinterklaas and if your mother say to you ''this year we have white pete's'' a child didn't understand that
and the story why the black pete's are black (what you say to children) is that they are black because they go by the chimney and they never wash each other
whatever now is all sinterklaas stuff go away and now we dutch ppl go to the next celebration Christmas and really for your American ppl it seems really stupid but we have fist sinterklaas and after 5 december we build up our Christmas stuff :)
@rikky333: Go
I think its funny, Why kill the tradition i say though, Hell theres something racist against someone else in everything else, A white guy dressing black isnt that big of a deal :P.
hehe