{"id":107751,"date":"2023-11-13T09:11:43","date_gmt":"2023-11-13T08:11:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.travmagazine.nl\/column-black-pete-is-back\/"},"modified":"2024-09-18T14:10:57","modified_gmt":"2024-09-18T13:10:57","slug":"column-black-pete-is-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.travmagazine.nl\/en\/column-black-pete-is-back\/","title":{"rendered":"Column: Black Pete is back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Saint Nicholas, born Nicholas of Myra, was a Greek of good birth, born in the Turkish province of Antalya in the third century AD. Fast forward to 1850 when Dutch educator Jan Schenkman published the booklet &#8220;<em>Saint Nicholas and His Servant<\/em>,&#8221; which included the invented origin Spain, the arrival by steamboat and a dark servant, who did not yet have a set name. Indeed, regionally it was given various names over time, such as Jan de Knecht, Trappadoeli, Nicodemus, Assiepan, Sabbas, Hans Moef, Pikkie, Robbert, Krik-krak, Micheltje, Hansje van Vese (or Hansje van Kese) and Jacques Jour (or Sjaak Sjoor). (Source: Wikipedia) <strong>Including<\/strong> I live for this kind of information. Trappadoelie, Krik-krak &#8230; delicious! But why am I coming up with this? Well it bothers me: exactly how inclusive is this St. Nicholas party? Did we just liquidate black Pete, he has to go back, right? If St. Nicholas were a Netflix movie, St. Nicholas would be a bisexual Muslim woman and the puppets would be the precise cocktail of a gender doubter, a funny Asian type, a dark and two white characters, just always one more. For years I have been calling out that the whole miserable discussion could have been avoided by giving all the Pieten whiskers. Then they wouldn&#8217;t have been black Petes but black cats, and that&#8217;s also much more fun for the children! <strong>Surf<\/strong> And in that setting I sometimes think of Saint Nicholas. Not out of affection &#8211; I think it&#8217;s a shitty party, even as a kid, with that quickly irritated old man &#8211; but as an example of how we have descended in the last decade to a gagging but murmuring level of complaining in which the perception of it is more important than reality itself. Branding so to speak. Also in the travel world. <strong>All Inclusive?<\/strong> Because suddenly thought: what do we do with the term &#8216;<em>All Inclusive<\/em>&#8216;? This can no longer be! Way too confusing. No millennial understands that. Thought you were a stick-in-the-mud vegan hipfluencer with your man-bun stepping off to an All Inclusive resort for a week, turns out that the only people working there are hotel employees who are sec chosen for their talent for hospitality. Then you feel quite a bit of an Assiepan, or a Pikkie. They hadn&#8217;t said that at the travel agency. You then order a stiff drink to cry it out. Johnnie Walker Black, why not. Turns out that too is already not inclusive in the yet clearly defined term &#8220;<em>All<\/em>&#8221; Inclusive. &#8216;No Se\u00f1or, only <em>Ultra<\/em> All Inclusive Se\u00f1or, no All Inclusive&#8217;&#8230;  &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saint Nicholas, born Nicholas of Myra, was a Greek of good birth, born in the Turkish province of Antalya in the third century AD. Fast forward to 1850 when Dutch educator Jan Schenkman published the booklet &#8220;Saint Nicholas and His Servant,&#8221; which included the invented origin Spain, the arrival by steamboat and a dark servant, &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.travmagazine.nl\/en\/column-black-pete-is-back\/\">Lees verder<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14025,"featured_media":99673,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[48444],"tags":[],"ppma_author":[48298],"class_list":{"0":"post-107751","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"entry"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- 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