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i know it sounds crazy but i think i wanna raise my kids to believe in santa because it's the last major magical thing that really exists
#speaking as a white american obvs#there's a lot of arguments against santa#(teaching kids to behave for benefit. getting kids accustomed to being surveillanced and judged. teaching kids#to associate gifts with love. etc)#but like. okay growing up very WASP-y#(in the literal white+angelo+saxon+protestant sense not in the rich sense)#we had pretty much nothing in a cultural sense#especially since my parents weren't religious so we never went to church outside of weddings and funerals#so we had NOTHING culturally#we had no folklore no collective beliefs no rituals#unlike our great great grandparents we didn't believe in ghosts or house elves or brownies or sprites--santa was all we had#i feel like that's true of most white americans#and tbh there probably isn't a need for such beliefs anymore which is why they've slipped away#and santa's only been around so long because he's tied to christianity (and marketing)#its probably the folklorist in me but i miss that kind of thing#i wasn't really even a life for when things like fairies were considered real#which is probably for the best because i definitely would've been dubbed a changeling#but idk. i just miss that cultural magic. it wouldn't fix anything really but i want my kids to have a sense of whimsy#mickey.txt#i mean we also ha e the tooth fairy#and out of context children giving the fae bones in exchange for money is very metal#but you know what i mean#//edit also obvs this all depends on if my future partner celebrates christmas and what they want
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