Bizarre Dutch Santa Claus helper. Like an elf, except canonically a black person with curly hair, silly mannerisms, bright clothing, big red lips and played by a white person wearing blackface.

It’s almost over the top how racist it is, and there’s controversy around if they should keep doing it.

https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2020/12/4/the-netherlands-black-pete

Turns out if you have a history selling slaves, you’ll pick up some stuff.

Point being less about pivoting this to the Dutch, and more that not hearing much about a culture also means you don’t hear as much about their awful stuff, and when you hear a lot about a culture you tend to mostly hear about the parts that people want to share in public.

No one’s gonna make a movie that just casually drops the wide variety of ethnic slurs for the Italians or Irish that have existed.