"Sinterklaas & Zwarte Piet"
Today December 5th is the day that most kids in Belgium and the Netherlands (even in the area around Wauwatosa in the US) are going crazy. The reason is that tonight "Sinterklaar & Zwarte Piet" are coming to visit there houses! "Sinterklaas" brings toys to kids that have been good for the last 12 months. It depends on how good you've been if you get a lot and/or expensive toys. The legend says that "Sinterklaas" died in the night of December 5th, year 342. The legend also says that each year he will come back during that night to give toys to the children. Since he is an old man, he gets a lot of help from his co-workers the "Zwarte Pieten". The head "Zwarte Piet" keeps this huge book that tells all the good and the bad things about the children. Children make wish lists weeks in advance of what they really want and place it in the right order cause they never can be sure if he would bring the right toy! He also brings chocolate and fruit. Since "Sinterklaas" lives in Spain he arrives on a ship every year and because of his age he seems to arrive every year a little earlier... A couple of years ago "The Spice Girls" were guests on a television show in Holland when they had also "Sinterklaas & Zwarte Piet" as a guest. Since The Spice Girls are British they got upset over the fact that they had used white people to play "Zwarte Pieten" cause they are black! Mel B. who's also black was very angry! Poor Paul De Leeuw the host of the show didn't know what to do or say! All he said was: it has to be like that! It never were black people playing "Zwarte Piet"! He could have told them more or less the truth which is... that these "Zwarte Pieten" in fact are white but since they have to climb the roofs and go down the chimneys all the time to deliver the toys they turned black and couldn't wash it off anymore. Anyway, tonight is the big night for children of all ages to get excited! We also know that there's only one real "Sinterklaas" and a lot of fake one's. I'm sure you want to know how you can recognize the fake one's...
Just click here and see for yourself!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSvZRq4hDOM
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Just click here and see for yourself!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSvZRq4hDOM
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