All right, this is a serious question Idrather. I know Canada is basically the same thing as the US. However, I don't know anything about like the history of African slaves in Canada.
When I went to Holland and now this was probably like 2014 so a while ago but not that long... They had some parade in Groningen. They were like hot air balloons and stuff. It was like a whole big thing in that little city where my grandmother was from... But anyway, the thing I remember way more than hot air balloons was in that parade. There were a bunch of people in blackface like straight up minstrel show without the white lips black face. And it was shocking to me as an American.
But I think over there it's like not as big a deal because they don't have the same history of enslaving Africans and now living and interacting with their descendants day to day like we do in the US.
So, as far as black face goes, is Canada basically like America and how we think of it because of our history of slavery? Or is it more like Holland?
And I have read articles now where there is like a movement about blackface and Holland and how they're trying to like get rid of it. Especially schwartza Pete in Holland Who is Santa's helper over there and it's always portrayed as just a white dude in black face. That's a whole other crazy story. First of all the name schwartza isn't that a almost exactly the same as the term Jewish people use for blacks? I don't know. I remember growing up that my friend's parents would say that sometimes And we all knew it was a bad word I think it just means black, but I also think it's derogatory. It's like a little variation of that... Anyway, I just looked it up. The Jewish term is Schvartze... Which is pretty similar to the Dutch version But I don't think that Dutch version is derogatory. I think it literally just means black.