What is Santa Claus' nationality?

Answer 1

Well.... Saint Nicholas was born in Patara in the 3rd century AD. At that time, Patara was a Greek village. Today, it is in Turkey. For the rest of the story, see http://www.stnicholascenter.org/Brix?pageID=35:
"How did the kindly Christian saint, good Bishop Nicholas, become a roly-poly red-suited American symbol for merry holiday festivity and commercial activity?

The first Europeans to arrive in the New World brought St. Nicholas. Vikings dedicated their cathedral to him in Greenland. On his first voyage, Columbus named a Haitian port for St. Nicholas on December 6, 1492. In Florida, Spaniards named an early settlement St. Nicholas Ferry, now known as Jacksonville. " Later, the web site says, Dutch and Germans brought St Nicholas to North America: ""A Visit from St. Nicholas" became a defining American holiday classic. No matter who wrote it, the poem has had enormous influence on the Americanization of St. Nicholas.

Other artists and writers continued the change to an elf-like St. Nicholas, "Sancte Claus," or "Santa Claus," unlike the stately European bishop. In 1863, political cartoonist Thomas Nast began a series of annual black-and-white drawings in Harper's Weekly, were based on the descriptions found in the poem and Washington Irving's work. These drawings established a rotund Santa with flowing beard, fur garments, and an omnipresent clay pipe. As Nast drew Santas until 1886, his work had considerable influence in forming the American Santa Claus. Along with appearance changes, the saint's name shifted to Santa Claus—a natural phonetic alteration from the German Sankt Niklaus and Dutch Sinterklaas."

Answer 2

There is a Santa Claus or likeness in almost every culture. Most European ones are based off of "Father Christmas."

Answer 3

I believe the legend of Santa Claus (St. Nick) began in Norway - hence the Reindeer - they're all over the place up there!

Answer 4

Santa Claus is a variation of a Dutch folk tale based on the historical figure Saint Nicholas, a bishop from Myra in Asia Minor (the greater part of modern-day Turkey), who used his whole inheritance to assist the needy, the sick, and the suffering. His charity became legend when a man lost his fortune and found himself incapable of supporting his three daughters, who would not be able to find husbands as they lacked dowries. This man was going to give them over to a life of prostitution; however, St Nicholas provided them with gold, enabling them to retain their virginal virtues and marry.

So originally Turkish.

Answer 5

Santa Claus is Turkish, I heard. But I also heard that her mother is from Bulgaria. Father, I think he doesnt have one. But he is a Turk, he goes there often.

Answer 6

English.

Answer 7

Santa is every nationality and speaks every language .... what you are he is...thats the beauty of Santa

Answer 8

North polarian

Answer 9

Irish

Answer 10

Everybody knows that the real Santa lives in Lapland. So he's Finnish. I suppose...