And the funny part is that the original zwarte piet doesn’t even have blackface, they just had some soot stains on their face like they do now. But apparently it’s “tradition”
The original is the Krampus. But I really don’t care, if you scratch of the veneer of any tradition, most of the time you’ll find that it isn’t really that old, and has changed quite a lot in the years. At least in my area there are a lot of these “traditions” that weren’t around when I was a kid in the 1970’s an 80’s, and they all amount to some degree to people wanting to be antisocial.
And the funny part is that the original zwarte piet doesn’t even have blackface, they just had some soot stains on their face like they do now. But apparently it’s “tradition”
The original is the Krampus. But I really don’t care, if you scratch of the veneer of any tradition, most of the time you’ll find that it isn’t really that old, and has changed quite a lot in the years. At least in my area there are a lot of these “traditions” that weren’t around when I was a kid in the 1970’s an 80’s, and they all amount to some degree to people wanting to be antisocial.