No, we don’t have a similar day like Columbus Day or Indigenous Day. We have however a very bitter national dispute going on over Sinterklaas, celebrated on December 5 as a child’s fun day with the old white bearded Sinterklaas and his black helpers, called Pete’s are gifting gifts through the chimney. A sort of a thin Santa Claus. The dispute is about his black helpers. Some say this is racist because it is a white Sinterklaas and always black Pete’s. It reminds people of the slavery period. I don’t agree on that one, I think it’s just a child’s game and very much folklore in our country. But if everyone wants colored Pete’s instead of black ones, that’s fine by me. The dispute has gotten very ugly for some reason, with a lot of hate mails to both camps and demonstrations with people being picked up by the police.