{"id":43644,"date":"2013-12-20T09:00:11","date_gmt":"2013-12-20T14:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=43644"},"modified":"2013-12-20T12:26:15","modified_gmt":"2013-12-20T17:26:15","slug":"a-short-history-of-santa-claus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2013\/12\/20\/a-short-history-of-santa-claus\/","title":{"rendered":"A Short History of Santa Claus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Posted last year, but I love it, so here it is again!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In this fun four minute history of Santa Claus, <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.cgpgrey.com\/\">CGP Gray<\/a>\u00a0explains how the character evolved, the role of Coca Cola, his conquest of the globe (i.e., Santa&#8217;s cultural imperialism), and the ongoing debates about where, exactly, he lives.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><object width=\"560\" height=\"315\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/RbUVKXdu4lQ?version=3&amp;hl=en_US\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Also from CGP Gray:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2012\/05\/05\/a-case-against-the-penny\/\">A Case Against the Penny<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2011\/07\/08\/what-the-bleep-is-the-united-kingdom\/\">What the Bleep is the United Kingdom?!<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2011\/04\/29\/the-economics-of-royalty\/\">The Economics of Royalty<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2012\/02\/03\/the-social-construction-of-the-continents\/\">The Social Construction of the Continents<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2012\/03\/11\/a-history-and-account-of-daylight-savings\/\">A History and Account of Daylight Savings<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2012\/11\/01\/the-mathematics-of-electoral-politics\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Mathematics of Electoral Politics<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2012\/11\/26\/an-overview-of-the-electoral-college\/\">An Overview of the Electoral College<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blameitonthevoices.com\/2011\/12\/brief-history-of-santa.html\" target=\"_blank\">Blame It On The Voices<\/a>.<\/p>\n<span class=\"ft_signature\"><em><a href=\"http:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/\">Lisa Wade, PhD<\/a> is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. She is the author of <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/American-Hookup-New-Culture-Campus\/dp\/039328509X?ie=UTF8&amp;*Version*=1&amp;*entries*=0\">American Hookup<\/a><em>, a book about college sexual culture; a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Gender-Interactions-Institutions-Lisa-Wade\/dp\/0393931072?ie=UTF8&amp;*Version*=1&amp;*entries*=0\">textbook about gender<\/a>; and a forthcoming introductory text: <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/intro\/\">Terrible Magnificent Sociology<\/a><em>.\u00a0You can follow her on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lisawade\">Twitter<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/lisawadephd\/\">Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Posted last year, but I love it, so here it is again! 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Also from CGP Gray: A [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":60681,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[232,15,98,253,254,23703,1811,1770,2026,1777,1779,1789,3920,23622],"class_list":["post-43644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-cultural-imperialismneocolonialism","tag-culture","tag-capitalism","tag-history","tag-holidays","tag-marketing","tag-nation-britainthe-u-k","tag-nation-canada","tag-nation-finland","tag-nation-germany","tag-nation-greenland","tag-nation-the-netherlands","tag-nation-united-states","tag-social-construction-symbols"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2013\/12\/114.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43644"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43644\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60682,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43644\/revisions\/60682"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}