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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsWhy isn't Santa Claus ever portrayed as black, Hispanic, Asian, etc.?
If he lives at the North Pole it would make more sense if he was Inuit.
datasuspect
(26,591 posts)down in houston.
low rider santa.
HereSince1628
(36,063 posts)what's with the lack of diversity in the big religions?
La Lioness Priyanka
(53,866 posts)because his followers are more east asian now.
we mould god in our image.
HereSince1628
(36,063 posts)hedgehog
(36,286 posts)siligut
(12,272 posts)The lips and eyes I think. Aside from that, good to know.
backtoblue
(11,344 posts)suppose that's an inuit right?
HereSince1628
(36,063 posts)backtoblue
(11,344 posts)onehandle
(51,122 posts)And the tradition is Northern European.
dr.strangelove
(4,851 posts)There are lots of myths about him, but the one I was always told was that he made toys, was unable to have children and in teh winter at solstace he would deliver toys to all his neighbors. Then he magically became santa. He was always a northern european white male in this version of the myth.
I grew up in the Bronx and there were black santas as far back as I can remember. Black plastic santas in yards and on balconies. Black santas in stores. I think its rare in rural white areas, but in urban black centers, I think its common.
BarackTheVote
(938 posts)Rankin/Bass animated movie: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066327/
bluesbassman
(19,376 posts)Living up north in the Santa Claus and his Old Lady Commune.
davsand
(13,421 posts)Climbing around on your roof, sliding down your chimney, running around all night long, SNEAKING in your house...
I can hear the KKK having grand mal seizures as we speak, and I can see the NRA starting up an ad campaign to sell guns to homeowners along with chimney booby traps for "standin' yer ground!" Random sleigh stops are gonna become the rule, and lord KNOWS they are gonna want to do something about all the illegal reindeer fights being held in the back alleys...
Laura
raccoon
(31,111 posts)NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)although he's usually a white Dutch guy in horrible blackface
struggle4progress
(118,308 posts)raccoon
(31,111 posts)harmonicon
(12,008 posts)Haven't you ever listened to "The Santa Land Diaries"?