My family moved to the US in 1988. Prior to that, we were living in the mountains of Southeast Asia and had little-to-no influence by the West. One day I came home from First Grade and I told my father that a man would be coming over soon to drop off presents for me. At the time, my father was suspicious of my mother cheating on him. So he stayed up all day and night waiting, and I think I helped fuel my parents divorce.
Haven't you realized!? Santa is GOD!!! Put a red and white outfit on God and what do you get? Santa. And how does he know if you've been good or not? And what present you want? Because God knows everything!!! And how can he go to everyone's house in one night? Because God is everywhere!!! Join me in the church of santanism! The milk is his blood and the cookies his body.
As a German I actually had to look this up: CGP refers to "Kris Kringle" as being based on the German tradition. The tradition in question seems to be the "Christkind", which is entirely unrelated to Santa but a more popular alternative character in some parts of Germany (though Coca Cola helped Santa win). Apparently it's a botched pronunciation of the regional dialect diminutive "Christkindl" -- which is confusing as heck as the German word doesn't actually refer to anything anyone would recognize as Santa (who in Germany is simply called "Weihnachtsmann", literally "Christmas man"). To make matters worse, we also have a St. Nicholas ("St Nikolaus") who is related to Sinterklaas but not part of Christmas itself but instead visits in early December.
Alan Plum This goes back to Martin Luther & the Reformation. Luther didn’t like saints as they weren’t biblical, but he still wanted kids to enjoy Christmas, while restoring Jesus as the main Christmas figure. So he retold the legend that it was actually the Christ child who hands out presents at Christmas. Hence, Christkindl. Of course, this only caught on in Protestant areas of Germany, not the Catholic ones, where Luther was PNG.
Thanks for clearing this up. I also was wondering about the 'Kris Kringle' thing. Oh, but if you wanna translate 'Weih-nachts-mann', wouldn't it be more accurate to call him 'Holy Night Man'? ... Now that I read it again, that sounds like some kind of superhero. XD
I discovered early in my life that Santa is actually my father, since each Christmas he conveniently went for a nap right before Santa appeared, and he was not in the room where he took the nap. Also, they had the same voice. There is several years since last time this phenomena happened. It is probably because the rising population of the Earth, so he doesn't have time for the five-minute personal visit to his family. But this is the proof that Santa lives in northern Norway.
I laughed when Sinterklaas said: YOU SHALL NOT PASS. I celebrate Sinterklaas and Christmas. And I was always told that Sinterklaas had a younger brother named the Kerstman (Santa Claus in Dutch) who lived at the North Pole. (While Sinterklaas lives in Spain.) So Sinterklaas did Europe and Santa Claus did the American continents. And I went like: That sounds legit. EDIT: Ok so I am hearing a lot of questions about why Spain? 😂 well cause that's where Sinterklaas lives. Why? I dunno but he has a cool castle there. And if you were naughty they would put you into a sack, kidnap you and take you to Spain.
Oona, queen of the FiremindΦ ja ja. We weten allemaal het verhaal over hoe Sinterklaas met de kracht van het gebed 3 zondaars die in stukken waren gehakt terug tot leven bracht
In Greece we have Agios Vasilis (I guess the best translation is Saint Basil). He was thin and red haired and a Bishop from Cappadocia. He was charitable and built a city, Vasiliada, where orphans, the poor and the old had places to stay. That's why he brings the presents. Also, here, he visits children on New Year's Eve instead of Christmas Eve (because we celebrate him on January 1st)
I live in America, but we are Norwegian, so we get presents from St. Nick. It's funny when our family mentions him to other families, who have no idea who we are talking about.
I lived in Finland but I still get presents three times a year- Birthday, Christmas, and my name day (Finland used to have name days instead of birthdays, now we have both :3)
Well, I don't have the whole piece of history down, but traditionally, every name (every Finnish one at least) had its own day, I don't know what started it or what names correspond to what day or month, I just know that I get presents :3
In China we have Magic Mao instead of Santa Claus. People tell their children that Magic Mao is a spirit of Mao Zedong that gets in their house and gives a Mao's action figure to the good ones, and beats the bad ones with a wooden bat...
As a Dutch person growing up in the 90s this video is really interesting. When I was younger I was told that "Sinterklaas" was real and Santa Klaus was fake. Although many family's told children the reverse. So I often accidentally caught myself mixing these two up. Especially since we have embraced these 2 icons as separate but still sell merchandise for both. Interestingly this obvious similarity is often portrayed as them having a friendly but competitive rivalry to see who can make the most children happy / deliver the most gifts and the reason they're so much alike is because they simply take ideas from each other. "Sinterklaas" has kind of grown out of popularity lately because of some controversy so you don't see him as often anymore but it was everywhere when I was growing up.
The Dutch Sinterklaas is supposed to come from Spain, which I imagine is a nicer place to live than somewhere above the arctic circle. I've been told that this idea arose in his early days, during which "Spain", to Dutch people, was synonymous with "far away". It might as well have been the north pole, though Spain is a little bit more present in the collective memory of the Dutch (f*** you, Philip, we do what we want), and perhaps because of what happened to Willem Barentsz, we don't really think of the north pole as a place where joy comes from that easily. Also, the actual "historical" (quote on quote because I'm not certain wether or not he actually existed) Saint Nicholas was from the Turkish town of Myra, which is more towards Spain than it is towards the north pole. Also, if you come from Myra by steamboat (like Sinterklaas traditionally does), to someone in the Netherlands, it looks very much like you're coming from Spain...
I think though St. Nicholas lived in modern Turkey, at lest some of his remains were taken to Spain, so with the advent of the Ottoman Empire, He became St. Nicholas of Spain (or whatever the actual place is called).
Not really. He is from Myra, then East Roman Empire (Nicholas was ethnically Greek after all), now Turkey. After his death his remains were brought to the Italian city of Bari, by then part of the Kingdom of Napels, itself part of the Crown of Aragon. Aragon in turn was one of the many kingdoms ruled by the Habsburg family, better known as the kings of Spain. So we didn't fought against Spain as a nation, but to get rid of the Habsburg king who simply happened to rule from Spain. Later the family would split into two branches and that's how the name later became associated with the archduke of Austria.
The Finnish version actually has him living at the mountain Korvatunturi. This is just not too easy to access and hence, he put up an office in Santa Claus Village close to Rovaniemi where tourists can combine jumping over the arctic circle and visit Santa ...
You left out an important thing about Sinterklaas/St. Nick. Here in the Netherlands we celebrate Sinterklaas on the 5th of December and Christmas on the 25th (and 26th) of December. So although Santa is a mix of 'our' Sinterklaas and Father Christmas, it are 2 completely different holidays here in the Netherlands. Which not many people know about
Wow, I can't believe people still watch this...! Haha, hi everyone, I'm KitsuneRenaChan, the artist who drew the "Japanese Santa".. ; v ;/ I didn't think the picture would blow up like this, haha, it's kind of embarassing.. Actually, the character in the picture is an OC of mine who, at the time, I just really really wanted to draw in a cute holiday themed pic and well.. yeah. That happened. Wow, I can't believe how long ago I actually posted the original picture.. I'll definitely have to redraw it one day! In the meantime, thank you to everyone who has enjoyed the picture! ♡ Merry [ early ] Christmas! ☆
adolf hitler - I haven't really been active all that much on youtube until recently, and completely forgot this video even existed, haha. EDIT : Not to mention, the maker of the vid actually never even linked me to the vid [ even though I asked him to ], I found out about it through comments by people who found my dA through the credits like a year later or something, ha.
adolf hitler - I'm not sure if the maker of the vid put the link anywhere, but there are credits at the end of the video. Give me a sec and I can link it!
Having worked for USPS, if you address a letter to the North Pole, it will be sent to North Pole, AK where they will send the letter back with a postmark. Since it's all volunteer work, they ask that you send a prepaid envelope with it and before you send it out, write on the back or another paper a reply to the child like it's from Santa because you truly know what Santa knows 😉 I recommend it to everyone who has kids.
Best part about growing up in North America but still retaining some Belgian traditions was celebrating both NA Christmas and Sinterklaas day. It was like two gifts from Santa in the same month.
Obviously Santa's factories are in all of those locations. He has to pick up new shipments of gifts, and it allows him to increase production. Although his house is obviously in Canada. We gave him citizenship. Your move, America.
True, but the Sinterklaas figure is older than his Christian appearance. Before Christmas was ever celebrated in the Netherlands there were pagan feasts which included the character that would be Sinterklaas after the Christian faith spread to the region.
If you’re looking for Erik’s comments you can forget it cause if you read the description in his Christmas video he said he deleted it cause he thought the screen recording failed.
Don't you see? He has embassies in the other northern nations except Russia. He gets around the world in one night by slowing time to a crawl but only for him so its still night time on both sides of the world once he gets there. Haven't you ever read Hogfather.
Mmm, in Belgium when it comes to presents it was "Sinterklaas" on December 6th and for Christmas we got presents with the family because it was Christmas. No fat man needed. I'm sure that last is depending from household to household.
In my household, in the US, my family would have some presents from one person to another while the rest would be from Santa. The night before Christmas everyone would get to open one present each.
Iceland actually has 13 Santa Clauses or Yule-Lads as they are apparently called in English. They used to be bad people, stealing and pranking townsfolk but have since then started giving back to the population by leaving kids small toys or treats every day, starting 13 days before christmas, each day a different Yule-Lad. They each have a special name and a certain behaviour tied to that name, some rather funny and strange like perhaps Window-Peeper (Gluggagægir) They also of course give the bad kids, but instead of coal like is maybe the usual go to "bad present" they get potatoes, originally rotten but i am guessing those may be harder to come by in this day and age.
It's always funny to me, when in movies or something else, they talk like Santa visits every single house in the world. Here in south-east part of Ukraine we never celebrated christmas on the 24th of December. The whole magical-gifting-old-man happens on the New Year's nights, between 31st on December and 1st of January. His name is Ded Moroz (Old Man Frost or Grandpa Frost). Instead of raindeer there are 3 horses who can call blizzards and snowstorms, he leaves presents under the (for the lack of the better word) Christmas Tree. He usually wears red or blue outfit, has a staff and looks a bit more serious, than Santa usually depicted. And he has a wicked hot granddaughter called snegurochka a.k.a. the Snow Maiden. And yes, he's the one (in the folk lore) who freezed Napoleon's army. In such situations he's called General Frost)))
***** Well, another reason is that in main christian confession in our country the Christmass is on January 7th, not in december, and it's after the New Year.
what are you doing aren't you defending your house from Russians? to be honest he probably doesn't go to Ukraine otherwise it will cause tension in Russia and Ireland
Santa wouldn't visit all the homes in the world anyway, as non-Christian children (with the exception of the none religious variation in the US, Japan, and some European countries) don't celebrate Christmas. Therefor forgoing a visit from Santa.
When I first started questioning the magic of Santa (but still wasn't ready to stop believing in him) my reasoning as to why he could go around the world in one night was "the difference in time zones." It made a lot of sense to me at the time. XD
Santa Claus lives in Rovaniemi? Yes, that is the spot for tourist to see him, but every Finn knows that he actually lives in Korvatunturi near Russian border in Finnish lapland.
I'll start doing that every December. I wasn't recommend this video in December last year but I'll make a reminder to watch it this time. See you in December. 🎄
He is hone to buy milk, but no store has it anymore because everyone bought some milk for Santa. But your dad is a determined man, and will not stop looking for milk.
+TheKimpula Axis Powers Hetalia. It's a comedy anime where the countries of the world are 20 something mostly male reality show type looking people in an episodic, though not necissisarily sensical depiction of World War 2
You completely forgot to mention the story behind all of these stories. Saint Nicholas was a 4th century Greek Orthodox bishop in what is today Turkey. According to legend, he took pity on a man with three daughters, whose family could not afford a proper dowry for them. In the middle of the night for the next few years, he would leave a bag of coins in their house, and it eventually added up to the amount they needed. There are a few other stories of him helping children and working miracles. As this story spread throughout the Christian world, newly converted Northern Europeans blended Saint Nicholas with the elves and gods in their folklore.
@@Cygerion Just like CGP Grey, Eric is a CZcams educator exploring a wide variety of subjects from politics to death. I highly recommend his channel, Big Money Salvio, if you're looking for informative content.
Well in Sweden we don't open our presents at the christmas morning. Santa comes home to us at the evening of christmas eve, then the presents are opened. Why? well, because long ago, when the sun had set, and the darkness entered, it was seen as the start of the next day. So when santa came, it was dark and then it was the next day (christmas day). An other thing I want to point out is that in the beginning of our christmas celebration, it was a (some kind of) christmas-goat (or goats) that somehow came with the presents and then, they were replaced by santa. So that may be the answer to why we still open the presents on christmas eve.
And in Finnish he is still called Joulupukki (Christmas "goat"). There were different goats around that time and they sometimes were more scary than nice.
Our family don't really leave him anything, he comes in person. This is a Finnish tradition, probably also Swedish. Nordic people must be very unsatisfied with their presents, they need to see Santa as well.
Hi, I am German and what the hell is a Kris Kringle??? Also, we too got Saint Nick here, but by his full name Nikolaus. Btw, he's based on a historic figure, a bishop (or something) from today's Turkey.
Hi, I am Dutch and Sinterklaas is also referred to as Sint Nicolaas, probably the same guy, as he is a bishop as well :P Much weirder is that Dutch children are taught Sinterklaas lives and is originally from Spain while the historical holyman Nicolaas of Myra is said to hail from Antalya, Turkey. So... Not really the North Pole.. at all.
my proposal is that there are 2 santa clauses 1 for the northern hemisphere and 1 for the southern and because of the rotation of the earth each santa get 24 hours of night so in total santa delivers the presents in 48 hours not the 12 hours which most children are told. But the other theory is that Santa Claus is just your parents... I guess we will never know...
I remember the time when I was younger and our teachers got us to mail Santa letters to that address. About a week later we'd all get a letter back from him. It was pretty cool for a 7 year old.
My mom was born in Rovaniemi, and I've been to the Santa Claus village before. But in Finnish lore, he lives in korvatunturi (which pretty much means "ear mountain").
I honestly think that it would make more sense if the Doctor was Santa. 1) It's canon in the show. A quote: Rose: "Look at you, prancing around like you're Father Christmas!" Doctor: "Who says I'm not? Red bicycle when you were twelve." 2) The TARDIS would definitely help out with getting everywhere in one night. 3) The sleigh could have been the pre-chameleon-circuit-broken TARDIS (the doctor could've been santa for every christmas ever in a relatively short period of time before the CC broke)
My family moved to the US in 1988. Prior to that, we were living in the mountains of Southeast Asia and had little-to-no influence by the West. One day I came home from First Grade and I told my father that a man would be coming over soon to drop off presents for me. At the time, my father was suspicious of my mother cheating on him. So he stayed up all day and night waiting, and I think I helped fuel my parents divorce.
1. did your mother actually cheat 2. sorry about our culture being so screwed up that it fuels a divorce
+Su Saetern Holy shit... that story took a hell of a dowward spiral.
Which country in Southeast Asia? LOLOL
North Korea maybe?
If you mentioning Santa made your dad stay up all night suspicious of infidelity then I'm afraid it was going to happen regardless.
In Canada that postal code actually accepts letters from children and each and every one is responded to by Santa himself, it's wonderful
Canadian Military = Snowmen with guns.
In case anyone wants to do that, the Postal code is H0H 0H0
In Finland too. In Finland there's Santa Clauses home
What if it's nude?
Flamarz if you think 5-year old kids are gonna be sending nudes to Santa you’re a bit... how should I phrase this?... odd.
That Japan Santa tho.
Yeah... the crud was that about?
+DylanDude120 - The Thrower of Shells hilarious
She wants your milk and cookies if you know what I mean
One of these things is not like the others.
+C Smithson the creeper Santa in Sweden?
Santa is a quantum entity, he exists as all of these things at the same time.
Also he gets around using quantum-physics, basically Santa is a genius.
Haven't you realized!? Santa is GOD!!! Put a red and white outfit on God and what do you get? Santa. And how does he know if you've been good or not? And what present you want? Because God knows everything!!! And how can he go to everyone's house in one night? Because God is everywhere!!! Join me in the church of santanism! The milk is his blood and the cookies his body.
+Zacc and on the off season you cover up the first "n" and have some real fun
oops because no cloning theorem
@@Nen_niN No cloning, yes superposition
The Japanese Santa is my Santa of choice.
same
I concur
Likewise 😂
I don’t know why that makes me so happy
kawaii desu~
As a German I actually had to look this up: CGP refers to "Kris Kringle" as being based on the German tradition. The tradition in question seems to be the "Christkind", which is entirely unrelated to Santa but a more popular alternative character in some parts of Germany (though Coca Cola helped Santa win). Apparently it's a botched pronunciation of the regional dialect diminutive "Christkindl" -- which is confusing as heck as the German word doesn't actually refer to anything anyone would recognize as Santa (who in Germany is simply called "Weihnachtsmann", literally "Christmas man"). To make matters worse, we also have a St. Nicholas ("St Nikolaus") who is related to Sinterklaas but not part of Christmas itself but instead visits in early December.
Alan Plum This goes back to Martin Luther & the Reformation. Luther didn’t like saints as they weren’t biblical, but he still wanted kids to enjoy Christmas, while restoring Jesus as the main Christmas figure. So he retold the legend that it was actually the Christ child who hands out presents at Christmas. Hence, Christkindl. Of course, this only caught on in Protestant areas of Germany, not the Catholic ones, where Luther was PNG.
Sinterklaas also visits in early December in the Netherlands and Belgium. (dec. 5-6)
@@UncleDumu Baby Jesus seems to be more popular in catholic areas. Especially in the areas of the former Austro-Hungarian empire.
Thanks for clearing this up. I also was wondering about the 'Kris Kringle' thing.
Oh, but if you wanna translate 'Weih-nachts-mann', wouldn't it be more accurate to call him 'Holy Night Man'?
...
Now that I read it again, that sounds like some kind of superhero. XD
@@7shinta7 it actually doesn't, since the German word for Holy Night is "Heiligabend"
Literally every comment: Japanese anime santa
Me: Swedish creeper santa
Also people looking for some "Erick" guy's comment
I just now noticed this 😂
Yea
Bom you have presents now (((((((:
2:20
The Japanese Santa killed me. I lost it.
Yea I saw that! I'm going to go watch a good anime after this vid now.
It's the best kind xD
please we all know what kind of anime you'll be watching.
got me fucking good
Aku true
I discovered early in my life that Santa is actually my father, since each Christmas he conveniently went for a nap right before Santa appeared, and he was not in the room where he took the nap. Also, they had the same voice. There is several years since last time this phenomena happened. It is probably because the rising population of the Earth, so he doesn't have time for the five-minute personal visit to his family. But this is the proof that Santa lives in northern Norway.
Cant argue with that
d
Does Santa touch you too?
+Zuko Darkborn
By that logic, others can make the argument that Santa's Puerto Rican.
88Keyz102 Why would my father be Puerto Rican?
I laughed when Sinterklaas said: YOU SHALL NOT PASS.
I celebrate Sinterklaas and Christmas. And I was always told that Sinterklaas had a younger brother named the Kerstman (Santa Claus in Dutch) who lived at the North Pole. (While Sinterklaas lives in Spain.)
So Sinterklaas did Europe and Santa Claus did the American continents.
And I went like: That sounds legit.
EDIT: Ok so I am hearing a lot of questions about why Spain? 😂 well cause that's where Sinterklaas lives. Why? I dunno but he has a cool castle there. And if you were naughty they would put you into a sack, kidnap you and take you to Spain.
Haha I l lachte ook
Sinter klaas is eigenlijk turks
Grieks, de Turken leefden toen nog in Centraal Azië (Turkmenistan).
Oona, queen of the FiremindΦ ja ja. We weten allemaal het verhaal over hoe Sinterklaas met de kracht van het gebed 3 zondaars die in stukken waren gehakt terug tot leven bracht
Suus-Arido mij was ook altijd verteld dat sinterklaas en de kerstman broers zijn
Being a Finnish person with friends from Rovaniemi, I enjoyed and applaud this.
Internet Comment Etiquette brought me here
+Arctorius Tyrilian
Who’s video were you originally watching?
that japanese santa XD
shelvacu ikr
Yup
HOttTT
i would like to get a present from that Santa if you know what I mean
It is SANS-ta claus
Wait, since when do us Americans say Santa lives in Alaska?!?!?!
I've always just said North Pole
we dont
@@disturbedgames4177 maybe you guys dont but there are people who do say that
the gov siad not the ppl
Tell you what Santa needs all those Calories from the milk and cookies if he is gonna have to circumnavigate the World within 24 hours
He doesn't seem to burn all of them though, seeing as he's so fat.
But he is not getting any fatter.
So clearly he is burning all those calories.
DuckSwagington Milk and cookies? Mince pies and whisky surely?!
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did you just recently learned the word 'circumnavigation' and were exited and looking for any opportunity to use it in a sentence? pathetic........
Christmas in japan is more about romantic dating on the snow, so they just need to cosplay about sexy Santa.
Sati Zakito they also buy KFC for Christmas.
who's searching for erik
CosmicScam me
I searched on the other two videos aswell but nothing, did Erik deleted the comments?
Ya where he at?
Me
ive never been successful spotting Eriks comments, it truly is a sad day
That santa from japan though.....
It's hentai.
***** I thought the same thing lol
***** I thought the same thing lol
Christmas plays in Japanese schools must be more hilarious then traditional plays
+Nathan Chen Hentai is technically anime porn. So she'd be anime instead.
In Greece we have Agios Vasilis (I guess the best translation is Saint Basil). He was thin and red haired and a Bishop from Cappadocia. He was charitable and built a city, Vasiliada, where orphans, the poor and the old had places to stay. That's why he brings the presents. Also, here, he visits children on New Year's Eve instead of Christmas Eve (because we celebrate him on January 1st)
And so, the search for Erik's comment begins...
at 2:16 I laughed out loud so hard when I saw your depiction of Santa in Japan!
Fapped.
B10NIC PIZZA *facepalm*
On the internet, that is the one true Santa.
marscaleb Somehow, I did not notice that!
*fap* Don't mind me.
Living in The Netherlands, I get presents three times a year; on my birthday, on St. Nick's and on Christmas Eve. Isn't that awesome?
I live in America, but we are Norwegian, so we get presents from St. Nick. It's funny when our family mentions him to other families, who have no idea who we are talking about.
I lived in Finland but I still get presents three times a year- Birthday, Christmas, and my name day (Finland used to have name days instead of birthdays, now we have both :3)
Benign Gamer Name Day, really? Explain what the heck that means, would ya?
Well, I don't have the whole piece of history down, but traditionally, every name (every Finnish one at least) had its own day, I don't know what started it or what names correspond to what day or month, I just know that I get presents :3
RandomFan many names have a saint associated to them. On the saints feast day, is your name day.
Where's my boy big money?
czcams.com/video/j210gCAUdXQ/video.html
Erik deleted the comment check his description.
The japanese santa killed me.
Weeb
+The7Raven Weeb
+MibMab Weeb
me too
Hotdoggu that's a pretty strange statement out of context
Fun fact: Canadians sent the most Christmas letters to Santa in 2012 in the world. gotta love us eh :)
H0H 0H0 is actually a real postal code
***** Canada
Richard Yi you said emails?
Eh?
True santa lives in finland.. Have visited and holy shit is it great
2:18 I think I prefer that japanese santa.
+Jack Robnson Funny enough that image was drawn by a USA Citizen
lesslighter woah slow down there bucko
Shane Snyder DaNinja27 - Yes, hello, that would be me, haha... ; v ;/
+lesslighter Sen's Brown Santa is pretty good, thanks mate.
@@lesslighter what's 36
I love how he kept in mind kids possibly watchimg this video
1:54 kinky Santa likes to choke
In China we have Magic Mao instead of Santa Claus. People tell their children that Magic Mao is a spirit of Mao Zedong that gets in their house and gives a Mao's action figure to the good ones, and beats the bad ones with a wooden bat...
Does he give them a little red package with a little red star that is the packaging of a little read book?
Teargas Muffinz And a official communist uniform for kids?
CharlesMasterI .....What about a visit from Uncle Joe? (Joseph Stalin)
But... China doesn't have access to CZcams.. .0_o
***** ahhh.. But it won't in 50 years sadly D':
LOL, the Japanese Santa.....
where did it appear I didn't see it
02:17
That's not even drawn well
Krystabella Quiroz Still fucking hot tho.
As a Dutch person growing up in the 90s this video is really interesting. When I was younger I was told that
"Sinterklaas" was real and Santa Klaus was fake. Although many family's told children the reverse. So I often accidentally caught
myself mixing these two up. Especially since we have embraced these 2 icons as separate but still sell merchandise for both.
Interestingly this obvious similarity is often portrayed as them having a friendly but competitive rivalry to see who can make the most children happy / deliver the most gifts and the reason they're so much alike is because they simply take ideas from each other.
"Sinterklaas" has kind of grown out of popularity lately because of some controversy so you don't see him as often anymore but it was everywhere when I was growing up.
The Dutch Sinterklaas is supposed to come from Spain, which I imagine is a nicer place to live than somewhere above the arctic circle. I've been told that this idea arose in his early days, during which "Spain", to Dutch people, was synonymous with "far away". It might as well have been the north pole, though Spain is a little bit more present in the collective memory of the Dutch (f*** you, Philip, we do what we want), and perhaps because of what happened to Willem Barentsz, we don't really think of the north pole as a place where joy comes from that easily. Also, the actual "historical" (quote on quote because I'm not certain wether or not he actually existed) Saint Nicholas was from the Turkish town of Myra, which is more towards Spain than it is towards the north pole. Also, if you come from Myra by steamboat (like Sinterklaas traditionally does), to someone in the Netherlands, it looks very much like you're coming from Spain...
I think though St. Nicholas lived in modern Turkey, at lest some of his remains were taken to Spain, so with the advent of the Ottoman Empire, He became St. Nicholas of Spain (or whatever the actual place is called).
Quintinohthree I did not know that... interesting...
This comment is underrated, lol
*fuck you philip*
MacJustin100 - Van alles en nog wat! Goed om te zien dat iemand 'm snapt!
Not really. He is from Myra, then East Roman Empire (Nicholas was ethnically Greek after all), now Turkey. After his death his remains were brought to the Italian city of Bari, by then part of the Kingdom of Napels, itself part of the Crown of Aragon. Aragon in turn was one of the many kingdoms ruled by the Habsburg family, better known as the kings of Spain. So we didn't fought against Spain as a nation, but to get rid of the Habsburg king who simply happened to rule from Spain. Later the family would split into two branches and that's how the name later became associated with the archduke of Austria.
2:18 XD JAPAN
JAPAN FTW XD
The Finnish version actually has him living at the mountain Korvatunturi. This is just not too easy to access and hence, he put up an office in Santa Claus Village close to Rovaniemi where tourists can combine jumping over the arctic circle and visit Santa ...
WHERE'S ERIK'S COMMENT?!
Josuke Higashikata Probably deleted
Im looking too.
CZcams doesn't allow such long comments.
in his description it says he deleted it due to laziness and not software malfunctions meaning he may have needed to type it all again
Grey deleted it cos Grey is a mainstream teacher IRL so he has to censor lessons about the truth from Dad.
"In the hopes of luring a MAGIC FATMAN into their home"
That line cracks me up every time! XD
same
I like the japan santa xD
Agreed
Who needs presents when you have 2 meter boobs to look at !
You left out an important thing about Sinterklaas/St. Nick. Here in the Netherlands we celebrate Sinterklaas on the 5th of December and Christmas on the 25th (and 26th) of December. So although Santa is a mix of 'our' Sinterklaas and Father Christmas, it are 2 completely different holidays here in the Netherlands. Which not many people know about
Wow, I can't believe people still watch this...! Haha, hi everyone, I'm KitsuneRenaChan, the artist who drew the "Japanese Santa".. ; v ;/ I didn't think the picture would blow up like this, haha, it's kind of embarassing.. Actually, the character in the picture is an OC of mine who, at the time, I just really really wanted to draw in a cute holiday themed pic and well.. yeah. That happened. Wow, I can't believe how long ago I actually posted the original picture.. I'll definitely have to redraw it one day! In the meantime, thank you to everyone who has enjoyed the picture! ♡ Merry [ early ] Christmas! ☆
adolf hitler - I haven't really been active all that much on youtube until recently, and completely forgot this video even existed, haha. EDIT : Not to mention, the maker of the vid actually never even linked me to the vid [ even though I asked him to ], I found out about it through comments by people who found my dA through the credits like a year later or something, ha.
adolf hitler - I'm not sure if the maker of the vid put the link anywhere, but there are credits at the end of the video. Give me a sec and I can link it!
kitsunerenachan.deviantart.com/art/Santa-Baby-146823728
I haven't been on dA in a couple years for personal reasons, but I'm hoping to make a comeback hopefully next month because I miss digital art..
Yeah no one believed this. Ha ha
2:17 I see what you did there...
how about 2:29 ?
Alex Stefanov you mean the anime santa?
ahahahahahahaha
LMAO!!! I like how at 2:14 instead of the jolly santa face over japan, it's a sexy anime girl in a skimpy santa claus outfit XD
Can't wait till I'm a parent and I get cookies...
Me too
+Alec Lipscomb Cookies that you bought yourself...
+lennygel666 Exactly what I was thinking.. Woohoo I'm a parent and now I get to spend shitloads on stupid presents and food!!!
+Alec Lipscomb You'll be mostly making them.
***** No. Santa isn't real. Trust me.
Having worked for USPS, if you address a letter to the North Pole, it will be sent to North Pole, AK where they will send the letter back with a postmark. Since it's all volunteer work, they ask that you send a prepaid envelope with it and before you send it out, write on the back or another paper a reply to the child like it's from Santa because you truly know what Santa knows 😉 I recommend it to everyone who has kids.
Best part about growing up in North America but still retaining some Belgian traditions was celebrating both NA Christmas and Sinterklaas day. It was like two gifts from Santa in the same month.
lol the Japanese and Sweetish Santa
Santa-kun!
CyberDork34 Don't you mean Swedish?
CyberDork34 that was Finland
Obviously Santa's factories are in all of those locations. He has to pick up new shipments of gifts, and it allows him to increase production.
Although his house is obviously in Canada.
We gave him citizenship.
Your move, America.
I think I speak for all Americans in saying "touche".
Where's Erik?
Yeah seriously WTF Erik you phony fuck.
Pav Phone The creator probably deleted it tbh
Erik's Twitter said he deleted his comments for that video due to a complication with his recording software.
Did Big Money Salvia ever really post a comment here?
People are saying CGP Gray removed daddy's comment
Nah, Erik's Twitter said that he deleted the comments for that video due to a complication with the recording software.
Duude what the heck nice profile pic I had to do a double take!
eh, actually Sinterklaas is a different holiday than christmas. us dutch people celebrate both holidays
True, but the Sinterklaas figure is older than his Christian appearance. Before Christmas was ever celebrated in the Netherlands there were pagan feasts which included the character that would be Sinterklaas after the Christian faith spread to the region.
If you’re looking for Erik’s comments you can forget it cause if you read the description in his Christmas video he said he deleted it cause he thought the screen recording failed.
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I should have thought of reading Erik's video description, too. Thanks!
Don't you see? He has embassies in the other northern nations except Russia. He gets around the world in one night by slowing time to a crawl but only for him so its still night time on both sides of the world once he gets there. Haven't you ever read Hogfather.
Mmm, in Belgium when it comes to presents it was "Sinterklaas" on December 6th and for Christmas we got presents with the family because it was Christmas. No fat man needed.
I'm sure that last is depending from household to household.
In my household, in the US, my family would have some presents from one person to another while the rest would be from Santa. The night before Christmas everyone would get to open one present each.
Iceland actually has 13 Santa Clauses or Yule-Lads as they are apparently called in English.
They used to be bad people, stealing and pranking townsfolk but have since then started giving back to the population by leaving kids small toys or treats every day, starting 13 days before christmas, each day a different Yule-Lad.
They each have a special name and a certain behaviour tied to that name, some rather funny and strange like perhaps Window-Peeper (Gluggagægir)
They also of course give the bad kids, but instead of coal like is maybe the usual go to "bad present" they get potatoes, originally rotten but i am guessing those may be harder to come by in this day and age.
It's always funny to me, when in movies or something else, they talk like Santa visits every single house in the world. Here in south-east part of Ukraine we never celebrated christmas on the 24th of December. The whole magical-gifting-old-man happens on the New Year's nights, between 31st on December and 1st of January. His name is Ded Moroz (Old Man Frost or Grandpa Frost). Instead of raindeer there are 3 horses who can call blizzards and snowstorms, he leaves presents under the (for the lack of the better word) Christmas Tree. He usually wears red or blue outfit, has a staff and looks a bit more serious, than Santa usually depicted. And he has a wicked hot granddaughter called snegurochka a.k.a. the Snow Maiden. And yes, he's the one (in the folk lore) who freezed Napoleon's army. In such situations he's called General Frost)))
***** Well, another reason is that in main christian confession in our country the Christmass is on January 7th, not in december, and it's after the New Year.
what are you doing aren't you defending your house from Russians?
to be honest he probably doesn't go to Ukraine otherwise it will cause tension in Russia and Ireland
Santa wouldn't visit all the homes in the world anyway, as non-Christian children (with the exception of the none religious variation in the US, Japan, and some European countries) don't celebrate Christmas. Therefor forgoing a visit from Santa.
When I first started questioning the magic of Santa (but still wasn't ready to stop believing in him) my reasoning as to why he could go around the world in one night was "the difference in time zones." It made a lot of sense to me at the time. XD
PaddySnuffles You were more alert than I, my reasoning was "He's Santa, magic!" or "Most kids are naughty."
Admitted, came here for big money salvia
Let's go have another world war over where Santa lives
Good idea, and then the children will celebrate a rabbit pooping out eggs, a baby in wings, the new president, and China!
Santa Claus lives in Rovaniemi? Yes, that is the spot for tourist to see him, but every Finn knows that he actually lives in Korvatunturi near Russian border in Finnish lapland.
true words
As a Norwegian I've grown up with stories of Santa being "located" at the north pole and I will choose to believe that it in the future as well.
Ooooooo I like Japan's Santa...
Don't worry, all of us do ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
2:15
Other Countries: Happy fat classic Santa
Japan: *ANIME SANTA*
torilla tavataan
Veikko Launonen I like tortillas to
I love how you added hidden details like: The creeper, and the... uhh... anime person?
Every single December since 2011, I come back to this video and for some reason it just gives me such a festive nostalgic feeling
I'll start doing that every December. I wasn't recommend this video in December last year but I'll make a reminder to watch it this time. See you in December. 🎄
The day has come! It's December! Time to come back to the video. 🎄
I came back! It's December 1st, time to watch this video again. 🎄
@@drabberfrog 🎅
2:17 anime Santa lmao
Suomi mainittu perkele, torilla tavataan!
HELL YEA
Mie tuon kaljat
+TKWeckroth Read lots of Scandanavia and teh World and the only word I recognise is the f-word.
Jep
Oispa kalja
0:06 OMG SANTA'S AN ENDERMAN?!? look at the particles around him xD
No wonder he can reach every place on earth at high speeds, he just teleports!
Where is dad is he gone
He is hone to buy milk, but no store has it anymore because everyone bought some milk for Santa.
But your dad is a determined man, and will not stop looking for milk.
Trying to search for Internet Comment Etiquette with Eric’s comment in this video..
2:17 Only Japan would do something like that
And I, for one, am perfectly okay with that. wooo! :D
+Rented Mule (\
Of course Finland wins the debate on where Santa lives.
-APH Finland IS Santa-
Netherlands FTW!
He lives in Indonesia it's obvious. Jk no I think he lives in skalvbard
I hate Hetalia.
APH?
+TheKimpula Axis Powers Hetalia. It's a comedy anime where the countries of the world are 20 something mostly male reality show type looking people in an episodic, though not necissisarily sensical depiction of World War 2
You completely forgot to mention the story behind all of these stories. Saint Nicholas was a 4th century Greek Orthodox bishop in what is today Turkey.
According to legend, he took pity on a man with three daughters, whose family could not afford a proper dowry for them. In the middle of the night for the next few years, he would leave a bag of coins in their house, and it eventually added up to the amount they needed. There are a few other stories of him helping children and working miracles.
As this story spread throughout the Christian world, newly converted Northern Europeans blended Saint Nicholas with the elves and gods in their folklore.
Who came to see the "who came to see Erik's comment" comments
Most of us
Tom P me
someone please explain to me who tf erik is
@@Cygerion Just like CGP Grey, Eric is a CZcams educator exploring a wide variety of subjects from politics to death. I highly recommend his channel, Big Money Salvio, if you're looking for informative content.
@@Cygerion god
How the fuck is there a CGP Grey video I've never seen?
I know right?
Well in Sweden we don't open our presents at the christmas morning. Santa comes home to us at the evening of christmas eve, then the presents are opened.
Why?
well, because long ago, when the sun had set, and the darkness entered, it was seen as the start of the next day. So when santa came, it was dark and then it was the next day (christmas day).
An other thing I want to point out is that in the beginning of our christmas celebration, it was a (some kind of) christmas-goat (or goats) that somehow came with the presents and then, they were replaced by santa. So that may be the answer to why we still open the presents on christmas eve.
And in Finnish he is still called Joulupukki (Christmas "goat"). There were different goats around that time and they sometimes were more scary than nice.
No vuohipukiksi minä olen sen aina ajatellut, vuohen sarvet ovat ehkä olleet yleisempiäkin kuin poron.
I came to the comments before seeing the entire video, and now I’m waiting in anticipation for Japanese Santa
I love how he talks as if Santa is both real and fake
The Japanese Santa made me laugh
I prefer the Japanese Santa in that picture.
Thename123J This Santa ''punishes'' you in a unique way that makes you want to do naughty things.
Love that Japanese santa is a bit different 2:16
UwU
I'm a Total Tim, but I actually came back here to see Erik's comment.
2:18 Oh japan, you so cool.
People all around the world doesn't give cookies to Santa. You said something wrong. Lol.
In Norway we use porridge instead of cookies.
Erling Kristiansen same in Sweden! :)
Hi, neighbor =).
Erling Kristiansen I the UK I always left him carrots
Our family don't really leave him anything, he comes in person.
This is a Finnish tradition, probably also Swedish. Nordic people must be very unsatisfied with their presents, they need to see Santa as well.
Erling Kristiansen Seasonally appropriate. If I was traveling on a long winter night I'd want porridge more than cookies. I'd accept both though.
I wish I could eat several tons of pure sugar worth of cookies in a matter of 12 hours and not die immediately
2:16 love the anime santa
This video should be called " A Brief Modern History of Santa", More about the origins of Saturnalia would have been fun.
Sinterklaas lives in spain if you wanted to know that
3:00 we (The netherlands) think he lives in spain and you cant change our mind
Hi, I am German and what the hell is a Kris Kringle???
Also, we too got Saint Nick here, but by his full name Nikolaus.
Btw, he's based on a historic figure, a bishop (or something) from today's Turkey.
Yeah you're right i heard that hes from Turkey my teacher told me
It's the americanized spelling of the Christkindl.
Whaaaaat, MIND BLOWN! This makes sense!
Hi, I am Dutch and Sinterklaas is also referred to as Sint Nicolaas, probably the same guy, as he is a bishop as well :P Much weirder is that Dutch children are taught Sinterklaas lives and is originally from Spain while the historical holyman Nicolaas of Myra is said to hail from Antalya, Turkey. So... Not really the North Pole.. at all.
saint Nicholas is a real personen.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Nicholas
my proposal is that there are 2 santa clauses 1 for the northern hemisphere and 1 for the southern and because of the rotation of the earth each santa get 24 hours of night so in total santa delivers the presents in 48 hours not the 12 hours which most children are told. But the other theory is that Santa Claus is just your parents... I guess we will never know...
what if there's a third santa based underwater
genderswap again Japan?
rule 63 no exceptions
dudditsaa
what's rule 63
i only heard of rule 34
rule 63 all things that exist with a gender have a genderswap
I don't think its so much gender swap as Mrs. Claus taking over in Japan. Or Japanese Santa is a woman to begin with in this context.
Maybe a daughter?
⅓ of comments:The Japanese Santa!!
⅔ of comments: everything else
I remember the time when I was younger and our teachers got us to mail Santa letters to that address. About a week later we'd all get a letter back from him. It was pretty cool for a 7 year old.
My mom was born in Rovaniemi, and I've been to the Santa Claus village before. But in Finnish lore, he lives in korvatunturi (which pretty much means "ear mountain").
I honestly think that it would make more sense if the Doctor was Santa. 1) It's canon in the show. A quote: Rose: "Look at you, prancing around like you're Father Christmas!" Doctor: "Who says I'm not? Red bicycle when you were twelve." 2) The TARDIS would definitely help out with getting everywhere in one night. 3) The sleigh could have been the pre-chameleon-circuit-broken TARDIS (the doctor could've been santa for every christmas ever in a relatively short period of time before the CC broke)
Update from the Netherlands. Sinterklaas' horse Amerigo has retired and can spend his days relaxing. His new horse is called Ozosnel.
2:17 hmmmmm..... I wonder what's going on in Japan
And there's Uncle Frost from Russia, where he wears BLUE. :)
Where is internetcommentetiquette’s comment?
yeah Im looking for that too
I take it neither of you found it?
This was in my recommendations so I think that proves that now is the correct time to start putting up decorations
I'm 54 and live alone, Santa does not come by anymore!