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14 November 2020

Speakers and protesters on November 14, 2020. The Dutch celebrate, before Christmas and Santa Clause, also Sinterklaas. It looks similar to Santa Clause but there are differences. One of those are the helpers. The helpers his servants, dresses in Moorish clothes. They also were blackface and an afrowig. There has always been protest from the black community but in the last decade they grew with a group calles Kick Out Zwarte Piet (Black Pete). As a result many cities and the national festivities stopped using blackface but some cities hold on to the old tradion. In the city Breda, in the south of the Netherlands, due to covid there was no real festivitie or parade, but still there was a protest against Zwarte Piet.

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14 November 2020

Protesters at a square in Breda on November 14, 2020. The Dutch celebrate, before Christmas and Santa Clause, also Sinterklaas. It looks similar to Santa Clause but there are differences. One of those are the helpers. The helpers his servants, dresses in Moorish clothes. They also were blackface and an afrowig. There has always been protest from the black community but in the last decade they grew with a group calles Kick Out Zwarte Piet (Black Pete). As a result many cities and the national festivities stopped using blackface but some cities hold on to the old tradion. In the city Breda, in the south of the Netherlands, due to covid there was no real festivitie or parade, but still there was a protest against Zwarte Piet.

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17 November 2018

November 17th, Zaanstad. Like each year the first Saturday after 11 November, the red-and-white-clad Sinterklaas (St. Nicholas) arrives by steamboat to great fanfare. The national arrival of Sinterklaas is in North Holland, Zaanstad, in the Zaanse Schans. Around 25.000 visitors turn out along the canals to greet the tall, bearded saint and his helpers, jolly types called “Zwarte Pieten” or “Black Petes.”

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17 November 2018

November 17th, Zaanstad. Like each year the first Saturday after 11 November, the red-and-white-clad Sinterklaas (St. Nicholas) arrives by steamboat to great fanfare. The national arrival of Sinterklaas is in North Holland, Zaanstad, in the Zaanse Schans. Around 25.000 visitors turn out along the canals to greet the tall, bearded saint and his helpers, jolly types called “Zwarte Pieten” or “Black Petes.”

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17 November 2018

Sinterklaas (St. Nicholas) arrives by steamboat to great fanfare on November 17th, in Zaanstad, Netherlands. Like each year the first Saturday after 11 November, the red-and-white-clad Sinterklaas (St. Nicholas) arrives by steamboat to great fanfare. The national arrival of Sinterklaas is in North Holland, Zaanstad, in the Zaanse Schans. Around 25.000 visitors turn out along the canals to greet the tall, bearded saint and his helpers, jolly types called “Zwarte Pieten” or “Black Petes.”

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17 November 2018

November 17th, Zaanstad. Like each year the first Saturday after 11 November, the red-and-white-clad Sinterklaas (St. Nicholas) arrives by steamboat to great fanfare. The national arrival of Sinterklaas is in North Holland, Zaanstad, in the Zaanse Schans. Around 25.000 visitors turn out along the canals to greet the tall, bearded saint and his helpers, jolly types called “Zwarte Pieten” or “Black Petes.”

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17 November 2018

November 17th, Zaanstad. Like each year the first Saturday after 11 November, the red-and-white-clad Sinterklaas (St. Nicholas) arrives by steamboat to great fanfare. The national arrival of Sinterklaas is in North Holland, Zaanstad, in the Zaanse Schans. Around 25.000 visitors turn out along the canals to greet the tall, bearded saint and his helpers, jolly types called “Zwarte Pieten” or “Black Petes.”

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17 November 2018

November 17th, Zaanstad. Like each year the first Saturday after 11 November, the red-and-white-clad Sinterklaas (St. Nicholas) arrives by steamboat to great fanfare. The national arrival of Sinterklaas is in North Holland, Zaanstad, in the Zaanse Schans. Around 25.000 visitors turn out along the canals to greet the tall, bearded saint and his helpers, jolly types called “Zwarte Pieten” or “Black Petes.”

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17 November 2018

November 17th, Zaanstad. Like each year the first Saturday after 11 November, the red-and-white-clad Sinterklaas (St. Nicholas) arrives by steamboat to great fanfare. The national arrival of Sinterklaas is in North Holland, Zaanstad, in the Zaanse Schans. Around 25.000 visitors turn out along the canals to greet the tall, bearded saint and his helpers, jolly types called “Zwarte Pieten” or “Black Petes.”

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17 November 2018

November 17th, Zaanstad. Like each year the first Saturday after 11 November, the red-and-white-clad Sinterklaas (St. Nicholas) arrives by steamboat to great fanfare. The national arrival of Sinterklaas is in North Holland, Zaanstad, in the Zaanse Schans. Around 25.000 visitors turn out along the canals to greet the tall, bearded saint and his helpers, jolly types called “Zwarte Pieten” or “Black Petes.”

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17 November 2018

November 17th, Zaanstad. Like each year the first Saturday after 11 November, the red-and-white-clad Sinterklaas (St. Nicholas) arrives by steamboat to great fanfare. The national arrival of Sinterklaas is in North Holland, Zaanstad, in the Zaanse Schans. Around 25.000 visitors turn out along the canals to greet the tall, bearded saint and his helpers, jolly types called “Zwarte Pieten” or “Black Petes.”

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17 November 2018

November 17th, Zaanstad. Like each year the first Saturday after 11 November, the red-and-white-clad Sinterklaas (St. Nicholas) arrives by steamboat to great fanfare. The national arrival of Sinterklaas is in North Holland, Zaanstad, in the Zaanse Schans. Around 25.000 visitors turn out along the canals to greet the tall, bearded saint and his helpers, jolly types called “Zwarte Pieten” or “Black Petes.”

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#3440954

17 November 2018

Nijmegen, The Netherlands. November 17th, 2018. This year, Saint Nicholas is coming back to Nijmegen to celebrate his birthday. Saint Nicholas sails into town on his steam boat, together with his loyal helpers Pete's and his white horse Amerigo. It is a big party in the center of the city! Many children came to welcome the white-bearded legend and enjoy the candy that the Petes hand out! Saint Nicholas is welcomed by the mayor Bruls

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17 November 2018

Nijmegen, The Netherlands. November 17th, 2018. This year, Saint Nicholas is coming back to Nijmegen to celebrate his birthday. Saint Nicholas sails into town on his steam boat, together with his loyal helpers Pete's and his white horse Amerigo. It is a big party in the center of the city! Many children came to welcome the white-bearded legend and enjoy the candy that the Petes hand out! Saint Nicholas is welcomed by the mayor Bruls

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17 November 2018

Nijmegen, The Netherlands. November 17th, 2018. This year, Saint Nicholas is coming back to Nijmegen to celebrate his birthday. Saint Nicholas sails into town on his steam boat, together with his loyal helpers Pete's and his white horse Amerigo. It is a big party in the center of the city! Many children came to welcome the white-bearded legend and enjoy the candy that the Petes hand out! Saint Nicholas is welcomed by the mayor Bruls

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17 November 2018

Nijmegen, The Netherlands. November 17th, 2018. This year, Saint Nicholas is coming back to Nijmegen to celebrate his birthday. Saint Nicholas sails into town on his steam boat, together with his loyal helpers Pete's and his white horse Amerigo. It is a big party in the center of the city! Many children came to welcome the white-bearded legend and enjoy the candy that the Petes hand out! Saint Nicholas is welcomed by the mayor Bruls

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