Dutch actually
We have Santa and his elves, the Dutch have the Bishop of Istanbul (Saint Nicholas) and his "Black Pete" Slave (Zwarte Piet)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1gmO5D4hwc
Similarly, Spain has a Black(ed up) King with two others who come out on Jan 6th to give the children sweets - you know like from the Bible.
Less racism, more morality tale.
In Germany, on the night of December 5th-6th, St. Nicholas Day, children leave their shoes or boots outside the front door. Then either Santa Claus, (i.e Saint Nicolas), visits and fills them with chocolates, oranges and nuts if they’ve been good. Or if they've been bad his servant Rupert (knecht Ruprecht) leaves bundles of twigs in the shoes and writes their name in his ‘black book’.
And not at all racist, look: concordiagrevenbrueck.files.wordpress.com/2009/11/st-nikolaus-und-knecht-ruprecht2.jpg
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