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Originally Posted by willravel
Santa Clause is based on Saint Nicholas. Saint Nicholas, though born in Turkey, was caucasian. I have no problem with the man in the suit being portreyed as a different race, but he originally was white (with a tan).
It probably was a pc choice based on complaints and threatened lawsuits by not-so-colorblind people.
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Indeed. Kids don't care, but they do notice the race of Santa. No reason to change something thats centuries old for being PC imo.