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Originally posted by: NFS4
Originally posted by: Trell
Santa Clause is based on a real man. Saint Nicholaus was (I believe) Dutch, so yes he should be a white man.
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If that's the case, Jesus should be darker-skinned and not Irish pale white 🙂
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Heck, I'm a white Christian and I agree that Jesus probably looked nothing like what he's portrayed as concerning skin color.

I also believe Santa, if he was real, would be white.
 
Originally posted by: DeadByDawn
Originally posted by: GoPackGo
I like Santa from Futurama
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"Your mistletoe is no match for my TOW missle!"

or something like that haha
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"You've all been very very naughty! Except for you Doctor Zoidberg, this is for you."

"A pogo stick!"
 
Santa Claus also delivers gifts to children living along the equator. There are good Christian kids out there too. Maybe he got a tan?

Just a thought.
 
Originally posted by: amdhunter
Originally posted by: blue1friday2
Um Santa is not real... so I don't think it really matters what color he is. You feel gypped because you never met a "real" Santa? Are you serious?
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Have you ever seen how happy a kid gets when they think they are meeting Santa?
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They get happy enough that they deserve a good slapping.
 
Actually, Gautam Buddha was born in what is now Nepal. So yeah, Buddha probably resembled Chinese/Oriental people more than Indians. (The slant eyes etc.)

And Indians themselves have really varied looks depending on what state/region they come from. South Indians look dramatically different from East Indians, who look very, very much different from North Indians.
 
Black people are not native to areas like northern Sweden, Northern Canada, Alaska or Siberia. And don't tell me that some guy from Africa would willingly relocate to the North Pole to spend the rest of his days with a bunch of elves and frozen wasteland as far as the eye can see.

Santa should be white.
 
Originally posted by: JulesMaximus
Black people are not native to areas like northern Sweden, Northern Canada, Alaska or Siberia. And don't tell me that some guy from Africa would willingly relocate to the North Pole to spend the rest of his days with a bunch of elves and frozen wasteland as far as the eye can see.

Santa should be white.
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We'll give you white santa if you give us olive Jesus 😀
 
Originally posted by: NFS4
Originally posted by: JulesMaximus
Black people are not native to areas like northern Sweden, Northern Canada, Alaska or Siberia. And don't tell me that some guy from Africa would willingly relocate to the North Pole to spend the rest of his days with a bunch of elves and frozen wasteland as far as the eye can see.

Santa should be white.
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We'll give you white santa if you give us olive Jesus 😀
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Deal. 😉
 
Originally posted by: djheater


I have told my children that Santa Claus is the spirit of giving and the people dressed as Santa, and the 'magic' that happens on Christmas eve are just physical manifestations of that spirit, therefore I'm well positioned to defend non-white Santas.
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Sure you do.
 
Originally posted by: maziwanka
whatever floats your boat.

but obviously racism has a foothold here
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What's racist about portraying a fictional character in the color that he originally was meant to be?

You don't see white people trying to retell African tales, only replacing the African characters with European ones, do you?
 
I see nothing wrong with a Santa Clause that is not white if most of the kids there were black, or mexican or some other ethnic group like Asian, or Indian. Santa Clause is mimicking this legendary historic figure who was Chris Kringle who was suppose to of been German. I think the original is a German Christmas story. So making him more or less White is keeping true to tradition of the ethnic story or fairy tale. The important part is the spirit of giving which this central figure represents.

Jesus was not exactly a caucasion, but in America we depict the child usually as being white, when in fact maybe someone with a skintone of an arabic, egyptian, or Greek ethnic group might better fit the reality. Paul was suppose to have been from around Turkey, and most of people in Isreal have a different skin-tone than Caucasians. So we make him look like our culture for us speaking for myself as a Caucasian. so if you are some minority, or some other ethnic group other than caucasian, you might want to make Santa look more like you and your children.

 
Originally posted by: yowolabi
I'd just tell my kids that Santa is magic and can look like different people at different times. Part of my overall message to my kids will be that a person's skin color doesn't say who they are, and that would actually be a good teaching opportunity.
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That's actually quite a good idea. :thumbsup:
 
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