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This notorious Christmas character is dividing a country Neo-Nazis in the Netherlands have responded violently to calls to get rid of Santa's blackface holiday assistant. By Becky Little Published.
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Brin Andrews Updated: November 16, 2023 Many in the Netherlands view Zwarte Piet (Black Pete) as an innocent addition to the Dutch holiday season. But for others, the figure is deeply offensive and represents a system of inherent racism that parades under "tradition."
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A Turning Point. 2020 has seen significant changes following the Black Lives Matter protests around the world. Public attitudes in the Netherlands in support of traditional blackface Zwarte Piet have shifted from 89% in 2013 to just 47% in June, 2020. Changes in policy for images on social media sites, more retailers banning blackface goods.
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Features | Racism Zwarte Piet: Black Pete is 'Dutch racism in full display' Protesters have rallied against the Dutch blackface tradition, but many still refuse to see how it is deeply.
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Like Sinterklaas, Pete became an approachable friendly figure..to Roetveegpiet. From the 1980s onwards, Zwarte Piet was seen as the intelligent, capable assistant of an old, bumbling Sinterklaas. His afro was less frizzy and more curly, and the red lips weren't as prominent anymore. Still, he was the Black lackey of a white master type.
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The controversy around Zwarte Piet resurfaces every year in Belgium and the Netherlands around the holiday period, with opponents saying it is a racist and out-of-date practice that has no place in the 21st century. Proponents point out that it is not meant as a racist practice and that it is simply tradition.
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Zwarte Piet is described as a bumbling Moor from Spain who carries Sinterklaas' heavy load of presents, wraps gifts, and kidnaps naughty children to punish them. Nacho Calonge/Getty Images Thousands of white Dutch people don blackface and dress up as Zwarte Piet during the Sinterklaas parades in the Netherlands.
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GENEVA (21 November 2013) - As Dutch celebrations of the arrival of Saint Nicholas or Sinterklaas began across the Netherlands last weekend, the debate over whether the portrayal of his servant, Zwarte Piet (Black Pete), perpetuates a negative stereotype of Africans and people of African descent has heightened significantly. A group of United Nations independent human rights experts, who.
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At the Sinterklaas festivities I attended, green, yellow and white-faced Piet's also featured and the caricatured nature of his gold earring and red lips seemed to be downplayed. People want change regarding Zwarte Piet but I guess, akin to the creation of old traditions, it will take time to evolve and make new ones.
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An Amsterdam Public Library employee with a book about Sinterklaas and Zwarte Piet (Black Pete) in Amsterdam, on Nov. 12, 2020. Ramon Van Flymen—ANP/AFP/Getty Images
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Significance to the Dutch People For the Dutch, Sinterklaas isn't just a holiday figure — he's the heartbeat of Dutch cultural heritage and traditions. In the Netherlands, the general rule is Sinterklaas first, then Christmas. As a result, there are two distinct and separate holiday celebrations.
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Een Moor is een moslim die in Spanje woonde tijdens de Middeleeuwen. Deze helper heeft nog geen naam. Soms wordt hij "Moor" genoemd en soms "knecht". Op dat moment heeft hij ook nog geen roe of zak. Na verloop van tijd wordt hij "Zwarte Piet" genoemd. De eerste decennia van de 20ste eeuw ondergaat Zwarte Piet een tal van veranderingen.
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Contesting 'Zwarte Piet' The present debate started with the apprehension of the activists Quinsy Gario and Jerry Afriyie, who demonstrated against the figure of Zwarte Piet during the national entry of Sinterklaas in the town of Dordrecht in 2011.
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Zwarte Piet Sinterklaas is assisted by Zwarte Piet ("Black Pete"), a helper dressed in Moorish attire and in blackface.
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Background and Development. The Dutch character Zwarte Piet has developed and changed over time. Here is a look at some of those changes and the current controversy over this figure. Jan Schenkman's book, Sint Nicolaas en Zijn Knecht [Saint Nicholas and his Servant], (1850), has been credited with establishing and bringing uniformity to Dutch.
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Zwarte Piet is nearly always a blacked-up white man or woman with big, rouged lips, a tight curly wig and dressed in bright pantaloons, a big ruff and gold earrings. A very old-fashioned and, to many, offensive caricature of a black man. We all know the original Santa Claus, or St Nicholas, was a bishop from Myra in what is now Turkey.