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So what's your culture's weird ass Christmas tradition?
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That's the feast of Saint Nicolas, not Christmas, celebrated on December 5th or 6th depending where you're from. This is also the origin of santa clause, the custom having been taken to the US by Dutch immigrants and it morphed there
Look, if you're going to celebrate Saint Nicholas bringing gifts in December it's Christmas, even if you do it on the wrong date.
Plus, the modern Santa has been influenced by Sinterklaas, but is mostly just the English Father Christmas wearing red rather than green. Even the American version of Santa has never been of the pope arriving by steam boat from Spain.
Then I guess dutch people celebrate Christmas twice?
i thought the red clothes was unironically a coca-cola corporation invention
It's a common myth, but no, the modern image developed somewhere around the end of the 1800s, and coke started using him in the 1930's. No idea when the red came in, but it was definitely before the coke marketing campaign, as there's cartoons from the 1910's or so that show the modern fat jolly red dude.