This time it's about a holliday. Many people make the mistake of thinking that Sinterklaas, a Dutch holliday, is our way of celebrating Christmas. Well, actually it's not.

They are two seperate hollidays for us. And however sick this holliday may sound to you after I explained it then think about the fact that we grew up with it and it's rarely weirder then some other celebrations made up on this planet. Trust me. Watch the video.

So Christmas is on the 25 and 26 of December. Sinterklaas is the 5th of December. Our December month contains four celebrations if you count new year.

1: Sinterklaas

2: Christmas day 1

3: Christmas day 2

4: New year

Okay, I might have cheated with counting both christmas days. But that aside, let me explain what happens on Sinterklaas.

Sinterklaas is a holliday we have had for a long loooong time. We celebrate that instead of Halloween. A man, Sinterklaar or also called Saint Niklaas on the fancy way, comes to the Netherlands with a huge ship from Spain full of his helpers who are called zwartepieten. Now there is no trancelation for that but I can tell you what the first word means.

Zwarte. It means Black. I know I know it sounds racisit as hell because all the zwartepieten are black and at the moment there is a huge conflict about the whole ordeal here but I'm gonna talk about it anyway.

The zwartepieten are the ones who help Sinterklaas, bring the pressents with him, give kids candy that we eat for that celebration and make jokes and do tricks. They keep it all light and away from a boring old mans celebration seeing Sinterklaas himself is well, pretty old. The zwartepieten are loved by all the kids and because of that every year around the 5th of December a show comes out on TV about how they live with Sinterklaas in his huge castle in Spain.

Yes you read it right. Spain. Because that is where he comes from every year with his ship the packjesboot 5 full of toys and candy made by him and his zwartepieten all year.

He wears long clothes mostly red and white with golden imbordery joined with his staff which he practicly uses as a cane. He also has a white horse called Ameriko to drive him through the city he arrived in that year where he, in the middle of it, will give some kids early pressents and talk with the mayor and stuff.

The way there to they show on tv. Small kids who still believe will give drawings and get some candy and the people from town will do performenses.

The zwartepieten wear colorfull clothes of all kinds combined, have an afro, have red lips and a feather in their hat's. I think I'll add a picture.

Now the whole thing that causes the ruckus here in the Netherlands you might have guessed, yes, rassism. Or thats what people say. But if you ask me it's all bullshit. We have had this cellebration for soooo many years why change it now? It was never meant as rassism towards black people. They are no slaves or anything. They are his helpers. And I can imagine he needs them, he is suposed to be doing this for centuries already. Can you imagine making pressents for the whole Netherlands on your own.... When your 9572 or something?

His helpers started to exist origionally because Spanish boy started helping him out crawling through chimneas to deliver the pressents. That's why they are showed to this day as black people. Okay, I give in. In the years the black on their skin kinda fadded to brown, who cares? Make it black again. Solved! Am I the only one seeing that? But politcs get my bad side out so let me try to shut up Xp.

Anyway, if that is called rasism then what more. Halloween? Rasism to the monsters.... leprecon day or something, rasism to the little people and leprecons. If we take that political rode there is no way society will live.

My family and I say if you don't like it here then go back to where your from. 'Cause all this roukus gets caused by imigrants and shit mostly. Anyway, let me shut up because I'm not here to insult anyone. I don't care where your from or how you look.... Well. Unless you look like Voldemort, then forgive me but I will not be able to keep myself from laughing.

Back to the celebrating part tho. Sinterklaas get's celebrated a week after he arrives. He arrives half way November before the 5 December and every evening children put their shoes at the chimney and sing a song. Some even put in a drawing for the Sint (his nickname) or the Piet (also nickname) or a carot for Ameriko. Next morning they have a little something in place of it.

The 5th is the big cellebration. At the evening "Sinterklaas" or rather a family member Xp bangs on the door and when the door is opened a big bag full of pressents stands there. The next day, the 6th, he will return to Spain.

That is basicly Sinterklaas so as you see Sinterklaas en Christmas are verry different. We cellebrate Christmas the same as othets only we never believe in Santa Xp. So just to be clear, SINTERKLAAS IS NOT SANTA IDIOT! Not saying names. *coughcoughMatthewSantorocoughcough* I'll leave the video in which I won't say his name HhaaaMATTHEWSANTOROshoooo made the huge mistake. Watch it if you like. He tells about many other ways Christmas get's cellebrated which are hella weird let me tell you that.

Gelukkig nieuwjaar allemaal en niet te veel drinken. Xp

Happy newyear everyone and don't drink too much. Xp

Posted; 30-12-2014