Significantly smaller living quarters, smaller appliances and more spartan furnishings. Also lots of bikes vs personal cars and public transportation. Birthrates below population replacement level for a long time. Much lower tolerance for petty crime, police have been armed with pistols and sub-machine guns for decades, except for the Brits. Their social welfare system isn’t open ended and does not tolerate deadbeats. You are required to work unless actually disabled. My son’s fiance was injured. She didn’t make enough salary to qualify for long term disability. The social safety net was only 4 weeks. She did have her knee surgery paid for, but no money for bills after 4 weeks.
Is someone serious about Polish immigrants in Connecticut sharing the same values as descendants of Irish immigrants in Boston, or Ashkenazi Jews in New York, or German & Swedish descended in places like Iowa & Minnesota?
Well, I questioned why California had special Hispanic culture courses, and Asian culture courses and black culture courses but none for whites and I was informed that everybody knew what white culture was, so it must be something.
To be fair to Coke here. The idea of black Santa has been around for over 100 years now, and inner city malls have been hiring black men to play Santa since the the 50’s.
Plus, Santa is a fictional character, doesn’t matter what race he is. Santa is the representation of the spirit of Christmas, and love, in that sense Santa represents all of us, and can be and look like anyone.