Saturday, November 14, 2009

Zwarte Pieten...

"It's pretty much the Dutch versus the world on this one..."
Apparently even within some circles in the Netherlands this is now a controversial event. I saw how much the kids were enjoying this; to what extent does their innocent enjoyment of the day need to be tarnished by a proper historical contextualization?






Yes, those really are camels. Somehow Sinterklaas - coming from Myra, Turkey, by way of Spain and then the Scheveningen harbor - managed to bring some fuzzy friends along for the ride.




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