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RE: Merry Christmas!
Yes, they have that parade of people painted black don't they??? It's sort of on the margins of being a bit racist except it's been around so long no-one's ever stopped to think about it.
I don't know about that; I was somewhat young when I had this experience, so I might have totally missed that part. But that does sound pretty racist to me! Traditions have a way of being very outdated, but still get accepted by people because we've been doing it for such a long time. There are so many traditions that are not in line with the modern views of equality among different races, genders etc.
Here's a story about it, apparently it was a traditional parade they put on in Madrid but now they've stopped it.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/17/madrid-ends-blacking-up-post-christmas-tradition
Thanks for the link! It's nice that they've stopped it; it seemed like such an offensive tradition.
I think no-one had ever stopped to think about it simply!
That might be it :)