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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Misanthrope Prime" data-source="post: 9420275" data-attributes="member: 6776166">The myth and tradition of Sinterklaas delivering candies to children only became the contemporary Santa Claus myth by coming to New York City via Dutch colonialism and then being used as a as a part of the distinct local Knickerbocker identity to contrast the Father Christmas of the British during the revolutionary war. So implicit in the name Santa Claus is first a political and an ethnic statement.There is of course the development of the American Santa Claus through the 19th century, but The canonical form of the Santa Claus myth owes a lot to a Coca-Cola advertising campaign, and from there, he is mostly used to justify the purchase of gifts around the holiday season.Santa Claus has barely any relationship to the historical Saint Nicholas of Myra. No one thinks about buying children out of a lifetime of prostitution when they put up baubles on the tannenbaum. They are related mythological figures in the same way that Hercules, Herakles and Melqart are related, but Santa Claus is arguably the mascot of American consumerism.</blockquote>