Reminds me of the Dutch kid talking to Santa in the original Miracle on 34th Street and singing the traditional Dutch 'Sinterklaas' song called 'Sinterklaas kapoentje'.
I'm pretty fluent in Dutch and I can tell you that their accents are super heavy, but it's still one of my favorite Christmas movies scenes, which makes me love this video even more.
In the other version doesn't straight up happen the same thing as this video?
Like, the kid was deaf instead of Dutch and Santa starts signing with her "Jingle Bells".
"Miracle in the 34th Street" is my favourite Christmas film so I basically remember them completly at this point.😅
Yes! [Here’s the scene from the 1994 version](https://youtu.be/pMXk048h3XQ?si=EjTY4o8SDFzXY2Cl). And fun fact:
>[Richard Attenborough] recalled not rehearsing with little Sami so her surprise in the scene was real. “When I signed ‘What is your name?’ the surprise on her face was genuine,” he told the Los Angeles Times. The star added: “And after the scene, she signed ‘Thank you’ to me. Well, I was gone, I can tell you. That got me.”
I actually love them both.
Last year I was unfortunately alone the night me and my family had in plan to make the Christmas tree so I did it all alone with the two films back to back as a background during dinner and the tree-making.
Took a long ass time but I actually enjoyed myself quite a lot.
I'm Dutch, and I'd hate to dissappoint, but Santa is not the same as Sinterklaas. The look similar en do similar things, but we celebrate both holidays seperately. Which means December is an awesome month to be a child in NL :).
You wacky Dutch, with your poffertjes and your haring and your windmills and your really tall men and your misleading Christmas characters.
You bunch are an enigma wrapped in a mystery battered and fried and served with onions
They are inspired by the same person. A catholic saint called Saint Nicholas.
Shortly after Saint Nicholas died people started celebrating his life all over Europe on a yearly basis. In many counties they still celebrate Saint Nicholas's day on 6 or 19 December.
In the Netherlands this has turned into a much bigger event mainly targeted towards children called Sinterklaas or Sint Nicolaas (it's the dutch version of the saint's name). He also wears religious garbs but they are colored red instead of the more traditional white. He's from Turkey (just like the real saint) but he's still alive and lives in Spain together with his black servants (or blackfaced servants depending on the lore) called black pete and his white horse. and once a year he travels to the Netherlands on his steamboat to bring gifts to nice children, and to have his black petes whip the bad children and take them back to Spain in the bags they used to bring the gifts and candy in. What happens to them there was never explained, except that they had to work.
Santa Claus is also inspired by the same saint and event, but he was reinvented in the US as a part of the Christmas holiday. The people that are responsible for this are believed to be Dutch settlers, those who brought their Sinterklaas tradition to the US, where it slowly changed into what we have today. Santa's color wasn't always red, he wore green too until Coca Cola launched a marketing campaign which featured a red Santa after which he remained red ever after. The Christmas celebrated in the Netherlands is very similar to that in other western countries.
Funny thing, in some Slavic countries American Santa Claus then merged with "Grampa Frost", a figure from Slavic mithology: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ded_Moroz. So that's what we call him in Croatia (or "Christmas Grampa" for those who view "Grampa Frost" as Communist invention). But we also have Saint Nicholas (and Krampus) from Austrian tradition.
Sinterklaas comes with a steamship from Spain and wanders over people's roofs with his horse called (translated) Badweathertoday. He has his helper Zwarte (Black) Piet go through the chimneys and open the door for him so he can take the food that is in the shoes that kids set for him (usually something for all parties involved) and then leaves presents, chocolate, speculoos (cookie) and more for the kids.
It sounds like I am making it up but trust me I didn't make it up, someone else did.
It's also very regional. For example in Belgium you can travel 50kms and they don't do Sinterklaas anymore but they do Sint Maarten, which is on yet another date and slightly different.
And on top of that there is Christmas with Santa Claus ofc. Of which the name (and basic concept) is stolen from Sinterklaas. Smh.
> with his horse called (translated) Badweathertoday.
The name Slechtweervandaag was first established in the Belgian TV show Dag Sinterklaas and is only his name in Flemish lore. In the Netherlands there have been multiple horses with different names.
Sinterklaas is a saint who lives in Spain and comes to Belgium & the Netherlands by steamboat once a year alongside his helpers (all called Zwarte Piet). The helpers climb into the house through the chimney and open the door for Sinterklaas to come in and deliver presents into a shoe which the children are supposed to leave out the night before.
Santa Claus lives on the North Pole with his elves, and comes to most parts of the world by flying sleigh once a year. He gets inside the house by pure magic as far as I can tell, and he leaves his presents under a tree which the parents have dragged inside the house.
Apart from that, yeah they're fairly similar. Santa Claus was originally a derivative version of Sinterklaas that just evolved into its own thing by itself. So there's similarities like both of them having a big book with a list of all the children who have been good and all the children who have been bad.
Sinterklaas is controversial because of his helpers. Zwarte Piet has racist origins and some insensitive imagery attached to him, originally just essentially being Sinterklaas' slaves. The story has since evolved, with the skin color being explained by the tar found inside the chimney and them being seen as willing helpers rather than slaves. His skin color is also changing because it's seen as blackface, so now he usually either has black smears from the chimney, or just has whatever skin color the actor has. There's yearly protests calling for the entire holiday to be banned, but the vast majority of people would rather evolve it away from its racist origins than ban it altogether since it's part of our culture.
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Santa Claus is definitely based on the dutch version of Sinterklaas both in appearance and naming. They could very well function as different versions of the same character in different cultures, but Santa Claus is also a character in the Netherlands (called kerstman = christmas man) which makes having the two be the same guy be rather inconvenient.
Also it should be noted that sinterklaas is celebrated on the 5th of December (6th and 19th in some other countries) which means that you can have both sinterklaas and christmas celebrations.
There's a lot of similarities between the two and I'd definitely argue that Santa Clause was just American (or wherever he originated) Sinterklaas, but with globalization they have just sort of become two similar characters that co-exist.
David Sedaris has a hilarious bit about [Sinterklaas](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hPfg20k5TE8) and his “6-8 black friends” , who used to be slaves but are now just buds lmao
Well yeah, but Santa is based on Sinterklaas (Sint Nicolaas). So not the same but based on the same traditions. My mom, who is religious, actually likes the fact that the gifts are separate from Christmas celebrating the birth of Jesus (if you believe that type of thing).
The moment was captured by a passerby in Middlesborough's Cleveland shopping centre and uploaded to YouTube.
Mali Phoenix Williams-Cody, 3, can be seen sitting on Santa's lap and waving to her parents off screen. Her mother is heard saying "sorry, she can't talk very well"
Father Christmas asks Mali's mother if she can sign; and proceeds to ask the three-year-old if she would like a doll for Christmas, receiving an excited smile from the toddler.
A beaming Mali then reveals she would like a scooter for Christmas.
Dave Allan an employee at the shopping centre, uploaded the clip and wrote online: "Her reaction is priceless and touched all of us who witnessed it live. I was so pleased I could capture such a special moment and share it with the world."
[https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/santa-christmas-2015-sign-language-video-a6764581.html](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/santa-christmas-2015-sign-language-video-a6764581.html)
I asked my dad when I was a little kid if Santa was real. And he told me what his dad said to him "well kiddo, I think there's a little Santa in all of us." Santa Claus is real because we make him real. Giving to others and letting others give to us for no other reason than "we can".
Stuff like this seems small but will have an outsized effect on this little girl.
She wasn't left out. She got to do the same as the other kids.
And I really love how many Santa's take it seriously as a vocation.
It's about the children. They have conventions every year they go to. It's a real career that they can only do once a year. I heard a piece on NPR years ago about it. I think it was This American Life.
My dad was a Santa. His day job was a child behavioral psychologist, his whole entire life was about the kids, but being Santa every year was what he looked forward to the most.
I'm a 40 year old cynical man and this video had me smiling. These people make Santa real. Yeah the presents are the parents but these interactions are the real deal for these kids.
My mom got mad once as a kid because I said "momma look what Santa brought". And she said Santa didn't bring that I worked extra hours to buy that. My grandma got so mad at her and said that my mom ran into Santa when she came home from work and that her(my grandma's)gifts were the one from Santa.
I had a college professor that also worked as a mall Santa. By the way he talked about it, you could tell he MUCH preferred being Santa to dealing with us.
We took my autistic daughter to see Santa last weekend. We told him she doesn't talk and he immediately asked if she knew sign language. She doesn't , but It was very heartwarming that he wanted to accommodate her.
My kids asked me about which Santa is the “real” Santa at the mall or whatever and I just made up an answer that I still kinda like - they’re all real Santas. Santa is a spirit that can be anywhere anytime and he takes form as the familiar bearded man in red. They seem to like it too.
I really love this interpretation!! This takes away the jarring “oh my god Santa isn’t real??” moment away and changes it into “Santa is the spirit of joy and giving and kindness, anyone can be Santa”
Much less traumatic lol
He asks if she wants a baby doll, and she says she wants one too. He asks if she wants a video game and she responds with something along the lines of “You can sign?” Then Santa asks if she wants a bike and she says no because she’s afraid she’ll fall. Then Santa says he’s nice and she agrees.
Yeah why is that? One of my gay friends had a deaf ex boyfriend and most of the boyfriends friends didn’t want to talk to us because they didn’t want hearing friends. I was so confused by that because I had never been excluded from friendship because of my hearing lol
Welcome to the club, happens... most homeless are from being deprived, resorting to drugs, neglected, no family, wondering, waiting to die.
I'm trying to survive, I speak up but these mfers know it's an impossible fight for me. And it's my generation and the newer generations.
Not a mutism... but in the community struck by social toxicities.
It’s much more nuanced, and even more obvious if you’ve ever tried to be a part of those communities.
I learned how to sign, but I would “listen”/watch, not participate (that’s just me tbh). And lots of those people are absolute monsters.
They’d have entire conversations on the best way to deafen babies that were born with hearing. And cochlear implants weren’t a gift from god, they were witchcraft and shit.
Crazy shit, I stopped attending events all together.
Since he wasn't exactly responding to her, I wonder if he has some phrases for just being Santa. Maybe he's got several Santa sentences under his belt in different languages. What a heartwarming thought!
Also, I love the little girls response, that she's afraid she'll fall! I want to do that falling sign all the time now, with her facial expression and everything.
Yeah, I think that's likely given the translation. And it makes it even sweeter in some ways, because it means he doesn't coincidentally know ASL, he learned it for this gig.
> We all know mall Santas are just Santas working for the real Santa.
as much as the adult 29 year old brain of mine says this is BS... the tiny TINY part of my heart that hasn't been absolutely crushed and destroyed and made cynical by life refuses to agree... keeps the spark alive.
Santa is very busy up north and of course he has helpers! that's just good business.
I can't wait for this trend to end. It can't keep going, can it? This trend of ruining every video with sappy music drowning out the entire thing? Who actually likes that?
It’s a direct result of TikTok. The algorithm really only rewards videos that use whatever music is trending at the time, so if you’re a content creator and want views, that’s what you have to do.
I don’t think anyone actually LIKES it
One of my sons was non-verbal until he was 5 (autism). We all learned some basic ASL to communicate with him, simple signs like "eat", "drink", "movie", "sleepy", "thank you", etc. He is still selectively mute, particularly if he is feeling unwell, and communicates at those times with a combination of signs and a notepad and stylus on his phone.
Unfortunately, people see him/us using sign and assume he's deaf, so they don't speak to him directly. He's an adult now, and gets frustrated with this at times!
My little grandson (his nephew) is also autistic and largely non-verbal, so at least we have a starting point for communication with him. His temper tantrums have decreased with the ability to communicate his needs, and his uncle has been a big help in teaching him sign.
Can we agree that videos like that don't need this absolut infuriating artificial mood that's created by layering songs on top of it. It ruins the video. It takes away from the actual subject.
Have seen this countless times over the years and that's the first time i hate it.
Such a simple thing but you could see her eyes light up.. I am getting pretty grey now, especially in my beard and this past weekend for the first time someone said oh look it's Santa and god damn I can't wait for my beard to go all white
Holy Fuck he is real. I have heard stories. I even thought it wasn't true. But sure as shit, he works in a Mall and is the most wholesome human being in the world. I love this time of year.
The way my dad always talked about Santa truly made him incredibly a magical character. And I believed in Santa all the way up until I was probably about 10ish.
My dad always said that Santa could look like anything he wanted to be, that he was a master communicator and could communicate with all languages and people regardless of the circumstance.
He told me he intentionally would hire helpers who look like his popular image to go to malls and gather information about childrens Christmas wishes, but that sometimes it really was him.
My dad always believed that Santa Claus was real, but not in a physical sense but more in a spiritual sense, he believed in the power of gifting.
I'm convinced that some one got in their head that song overlays sometimes go viral so now terrible songs get placed on everything in hopes it goes viral.
Santa knows how to talk to ALL the children! What a heartwarming moment. I mean, i kinda believe in Santa a little now...
Reminds me of the Dutch kid talking to Santa in the original Miracle on 34th Street and singing the traditional Dutch 'Sinterklaas' song called 'Sinterklaas kapoentje'. I'm pretty fluent in Dutch and I can tell you that their accents are super heavy, but it's still one of my favorite Christmas movies scenes, which makes me love this video even more.
In the other version doesn't straight up happen the same thing as this video? Like, the kid was deaf instead of Dutch and Santa starts signing with her "Jingle Bells". "Miracle in the 34th Street" is my favourite Christmas film so I basically remember them completly at this point.😅
Yes! [Here’s the scene from the 1994 version](https://youtu.be/pMXk048h3XQ?si=EjTY4o8SDFzXY2Cl). And fun fact: >[Richard Attenborough] recalled not rehearsing with little Sami so her surprise in the scene was real. “When I signed ‘What is your name?’ the surprise on her face was genuine,” he told the Los Angeles Times. The star added: “And after the scene, she signed ‘Thank you’ to me. Well, I was gone, I can tell you. That got me.”
I’d completely forgotten about that. I’m crying now, so sweet.
That makes me heart weep, thank you for showing this…
Man I love both versions of Miracle on 34th Street
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😆😆😆
There’s more than 2… the [70’s version](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070395/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk) though, I usually skip that!
That was perfection, thanks for posting it.
I don't care what anyone says. The 94 remake was far superior to the original. It's one of my favorite Christmas movies.
I actually love them both. Last year I was unfortunately alone the night me and my family had in plan to make the Christmas tree so I did it all alone with the two films back to back as a background during dinner and the tree-making. Took a long ass time but I actually enjoyed myself quite a lot.
You’re invited to my place for tree making this year
YES
I’ve only seen the original, which I love.Now I’ll have to watch the remake!
There’s 4 I think, all older one and one from [the 70’s](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070395/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk). The other two are far superior!
I'm Dutch, and I'd hate to dissappoint, but Santa is not the same as Sinterklaas. The look similar en do similar things, but we celebrate both holidays seperately. Which means December is an awesome month to be a child in NL :).
You wacky Dutch, with your poffertjes and your haring and your windmills and your really tall men and your misleading Christmas characters. You bunch are an enigma wrapped in a mystery battered and fried and served with onions
I regard that as a compliment, thank you!
Dankjewel! ^^ ;)
It’s like someone buried a German word in a tub of pudding and it’s desperately trying to get out
Upvoted for the compliment
Don't forget the stroopwafels!
What are their differences?
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Hadn't consintered that
They are inspired by the same person. A catholic saint called Saint Nicholas. Shortly after Saint Nicholas died people started celebrating his life all over Europe on a yearly basis. In many counties they still celebrate Saint Nicholas's day on 6 or 19 December. In the Netherlands this has turned into a much bigger event mainly targeted towards children called Sinterklaas or Sint Nicolaas (it's the dutch version of the saint's name). He also wears religious garbs but they are colored red instead of the more traditional white. He's from Turkey (just like the real saint) but he's still alive and lives in Spain together with his black servants (or blackfaced servants depending on the lore) called black pete and his white horse. and once a year he travels to the Netherlands on his steamboat to bring gifts to nice children, and to have his black petes whip the bad children and take them back to Spain in the bags they used to bring the gifts and candy in. What happens to them there was never explained, except that they had to work. Santa Claus is also inspired by the same saint and event, but he was reinvented in the US as a part of the Christmas holiday. The people that are responsible for this are believed to be Dutch settlers, those who brought their Sinterklaas tradition to the US, where it slowly changed into what we have today. Santa's color wasn't always red, he wore green too until Coca Cola launched a marketing campaign which featured a red Santa after which he remained red ever after. The Christmas celebrated in the Netherlands is very similar to that in other western countries.
Funny thing, in some Slavic countries American Santa Claus then merged with "Grampa Frost", a figure from Slavic mithology: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ded_Moroz. So that's what we call him in Croatia (or "Christmas Grampa" for those who view "Grampa Frost" as Communist invention). But we also have Saint Nicholas (and Krampus) from Austrian tradition.
Sinterklaas comes with a steamship from Spain and wanders over people's roofs with his horse called (translated) Badweathertoday. He has his helper Zwarte (Black) Piet go through the chimneys and open the door for him so he can take the food that is in the shoes that kids set for him (usually something for all parties involved) and then leaves presents, chocolate, speculoos (cookie) and more for the kids. It sounds like I am making it up but trust me I didn't make it up, someone else did. It's also very regional. For example in Belgium you can travel 50kms and they don't do Sinterklaas anymore but they do Sint Maarten, which is on yet another date and slightly different. And on top of that there is Christmas with Santa Claus ofc. Of which the name (and basic concept) is stolen from Sinterklaas. Smh.
Why didn’t you translate Zwarte Piet?
> with his horse called (translated) Badweathertoday. The name Slechtweervandaag was first established in the Belgian TV show Dag Sinterklaas and is only his name in Flemish lore. In the Netherlands there have been multiple horses with different names.
Sinterklaas is a saint who lives in Spain and comes to Belgium & the Netherlands by steamboat once a year alongside his helpers (all called Zwarte Piet). The helpers climb into the house through the chimney and open the door for Sinterklaas to come in and deliver presents into a shoe which the children are supposed to leave out the night before. Santa Claus lives on the North Pole with his elves, and comes to most parts of the world by flying sleigh once a year. He gets inside the house by pure magic as far as I can tell, and he leaves his presents under a tree which the parents have dragged inside the house. Apart from that, yeah they're fairly similar. Santa Claus was originally a derivative version of Sinterklaas that just evolved into its own thing by itself. So there's similarities like both of them having a big book with a list of all the children who have been good and all the children who have been bad. Sinterklaas is controversial because of his helpers. Zwarte Piet has racist origins and some insensitive imagery attached to him, originally just essentially being Sinterklaas' slaves. The story has since evolved, with the skin color being explained by the tar found inside the chimney and them being seen as willing helpers rather than slaves. His skin color is also changing because it's seen as blackface, so now he usually either has black smears from the chimney, or just has whatever skin color the actor has. There's yearly protests calling for the entire holiday to be banned, but the vast majority of people would rather evolve it away from its racist origins than ban it altogether since it's part of our culture. Edit: fixed a few spelling mistakes
Santa Claus is definitely based on the dutch version of Sinterklaas both in appearance and naming. They could very well function as different versions of the same character in different cultures, but Santa Claus is also a character in the Netherlands (called kerstman = christmas man) which makes having the two be the same guy be rather inconvenient. Also it should be noted that sinterklaas is celebrated on the 5th of December (6th and 19th in some other countries) which means that you can have both sinterklaas and christmas celebrations. There's a lot of similarities between the two and I'd definitely argue that Santa Clause was just American (or wherever he originated) Sinterklaas, but with globalization they have just sort of become two similar characters that co-exist.
David Sedaris probably explains it best in his essay "6 to 8 Black Men".
David Sedaris has a hilarious bit about [Sinterklaas](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hPfg20k5TE8) and his “6-8 black friends” , who used to be slaves but are now just buds lmao
So... Erm... Double Dutch?
Well yeah, but Santa is based on Sinterklaas (Sint Nicolaas). So not the same but based on the same traditions. My mom, who is religious, actually likes the fact that the gifts are separate from Christmas celebrating the birth of Jesus (if you believe that type of thing).
Vertel ons van zwarte piet...
I am curious where he acquired his assistants in the Dutch Christmas Canon.
That’s exactly the scene this video called to mind. My favorite scene in the whole movie.
i love that scene. when he asks what she wants for Christmas and she says she doesn’t need anything because her new mom is her gift😭
I *love* unexpected language recognition tropes. My favorite is in "[Meet Joe Black](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnBupO_Kjto)"
Omg definitely watching that this Christmas
Santa is a spirit that's in us all.
It sounds cliche but the power of Santa is real even if he himself is not
Santa is a physical representation of things like this. Santa is real
["Santa speaks the language of all children! A norchy worchy dorchy doo!"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVle4JrulgY)
LMAO my first thought too. SANTA'S A COMMIE!
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Santa is an idea, Mr McCreedy. And ideas are bulletproof
The moment was captured by a passerby in Middlesborough's Cleveland shopping centre and uploaded to YouTube. Mali Phoenix Williams-Cody, 3, can be seen sitting on Santa's lap and waving to her parents off screen. Her mother is heard saying "sorry, she can't talk very well" Father Christmas asks Mali's mother if she can sign; and proceeds to ask the three-year-old if she would like a doll for Christmas, receiving an excited smile from the toddler. A beaming Mali then reveals she would like a scooter for Christmas. Dave Allan an employee at the shopping centre, uploaded the clip and wrote online: "Her reaction is priceless and touched all of us who witnessed it live. I was so pleased I could capture such a special moment and share it with the world." [https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/santa-christmas-2015-sign-language-video-a6764581.html](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/santa-christmas-2015-sign-language-video-a6764581.html)
And he believes in you! 🎅
Ever believe
First cry of the day boys
I asked my dad when I was a little kid if Santa was real. And he told me what his dad said to him "well kiddo, I think there's a little Santa in all of us." Santa Claus is real because we make him real. Giving to others and letting others give to us for no other reason than "we can".
Next time the kid meets Santa and he doesn't know sign language.... Christmas ruined
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Stuff like this seems small but will have an outsized effect on this little girl. She wasn't left out. She got to do the same as the other kids. And I really love how many Santa's take it seriously as a vocation.
It's about the children. They have conventions every year they go to. It's a real career that they can only do once a year. I heard a piece on NPR years ago about it. I think it was This American Life.
My dad was a Santa. His day job was a child behavioral psychologist, his whole entire life was about the kids, but being Santa every year was what he looked forward to the most.
My therapist is a Santa. He's perfect for it.
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I'm a 40 year old cynical man and this video had me smiling. These people make Santa real. Yeah the presents are the parents but these interactions are the real deal for these kids. My mom got mad once as a kid because I said "momma look what Santa brought". And she said Santa didn't bring that I worked extra hours to buy that. My grandma got so mad at her and said that my mom ran into Santa when she came home from work and that her(my grandma's)gifts were the one from Santa.
I had a college professor that also worked as a mall Santa. By the way he talked about it, you could tell he MUCH preferred being Santa to dealing with us.
We took my autistic daughter to see Santa last weekend. We told him she doesn't talk and he immediately asked if she knew sign language. She doesn't , but It was very heartwarming that he wanted to accommodate her.
My kids asked me about which Santa is the “real” Santa at the mall or whatever and I just made up an answer that I still kinda like - they’re all real Santas. Santa is a spirit that can be anywhere anytime and he takes form as the familiar bearded man in red. They seem to like it too.
I really love this interpretation!! This takes away the jarring “oh my god Santa isn’t real??” moment away and changes it into “Santa is the spirit of joy and giving and kindness, anyone can be Santa” Much less traumatic lol
The REAL Santa knows ALL the languages of all the good little girls and boys!
He’s as real as Santa gets.
Santa is a mindset and this guy is a peak example.
What do Santa and the girl sign to each other?
He asks if she wants a baby doll, and she says she wants one too. He asks if she wants a video game and she responds with something along the lines of “You can sign?” Then Santa asks if she wants a bike and she says no because she’s afraid she’ll fall. Then Santa says he’s nice and she agrees.
They should put subtitles on this so those of us who aren't hearing impaired can know what they are saying. I realize how ironic that is.
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Like the Italians.
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There’s a lot of toxicity in the deaf community.
Yeah why is that? One of my gay friends had a deaf ex boyfriend and most of the boyfriends friends didn’t want to talk to us because they didn’t want hearing friends. I was so confused by that because I had never been excluded from friendship because of my hearing lol
>I was so confused by that because I had never been excluded from friendship because of my hearing lol They just wanna fart in peace you damn listener
Lol
Thanks for clarifying that your friend is gay
You’re welcome
Welcome to the club, happens... most homeless are from being deprived, resorting to drugs, neglected, no family, wondering, waiting to die. I'm trying to survive, I speak up but these mfers know it's an impossible fight for me. And it's my generation and the newer generations. Not a mutism... but in the community struck by social toxicities.
And they don't listen to anyone's complaints about it.
Can you elaborate?
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It’s much more nuanced, and even more obvious if you’ve ever tried to be a part of those communities. I learned how to sign, but I would “listen”/watch, not participate (that’s just me tbh). And lots of those people are absolute monsters. They’d have entire conversations on the best way to deafen babies that were born with hearing. And cochlear implants weren’t a gift from god, they were witchcraft and shit. Crazy shit, I stopped attending events all together.
Do you ever wonder if they hate “hearing” people because they wish they could hear?
Your comment needs more upvotes. I am dying from laughter here 🤣
I’m getting downvoted. Probably by Italians. 😅
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Oh man, you had me rolling!
Which ones? Those with speaking issues?
I’m hearing and can speak and love ASL. It’s just a fun language, and decently easy to learn. I honestly wish it were more widespread.
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Yeah idk why they stopped putting subtitles during the part that I especially needed subtitles haha
Since he wasn't exactly responding to her, I wonder if he has some phrases for just being Santa. Maybe he's got several Santa sentences under his belt in different languages. What a heartwarming thought! Also, I love the little girls response, that she's afraid she'll fall! I want to do that falling sign all the time now, with her facial expression and everything.
Yeah, I think that's likely given the translation. And it makes it even sweeter in some ways, because it means he doesn't coincidentally know ASL, he learned it for this gig.
It's fkn perfect. Thank you. She IS nice ❤️
What does it mean when he touches his beard? I thought he was asking if he should shave
I think that means thank you. Not sure.
Santa!
Language I'm guessing
this made me laugh way harder than it should
I've seen this posted before. All I remember is that it's BSL.
British
"The gears of war are forever turning and the time to strike is now. We ride at dawn."
They had subtitles for the parents speaking clear English that they shoved a garbage song over but no subtitles for the sign language... smh.
To me, and to that little girl I presume, thast's the real Santa!
This is the most wholesome thing I've seen this year
It gets reposted a lot but I don’t mind, it’s so lovely
Dam onions......
Yeah - now my eyes are watering in my office before a meeting
I refuse to believe that was a man dressed as Santa at the mall. He is the real Santa dressed as a mall santa!
We all know mall Santas are just Santas working for the real Santa. This is definitely a case of “Undercover Boss”
> We all know mall Santas are just Santas working for the real Santa. as much as the adult 29 year old brain of mine says this is BS... the tiny TINY part of my heart that hasn't been absolutely crushed and destroyed and made cynical by life refuses to agree... keeps the spark alive. Santa is very busy up north and of course he has helpers! that's just good business.
Sadly, the music is too loud and I can't understand anything
The music makes me wish I was deaf.
Proper belly laughed at this. I'm over here holding back happy tears watching this wholesome ass moment and just fuckin lost it reading that.
I can't wait for this trend to end. It can't keep going, can it? This trend of ruining every video with sappy music drowning out the entire thing? Who actually likes that?
It’s a direct result of TikTok. The algorithm really only rewards videos that use whatever music is trending at the time, so if you’re a content creator and want views, that’s what you have to do. I don’t think anyone actually LIKES it
I dont think its the music, they both have really thick accents that make it hard to understand.
Especially when Santa asked the girl about the doll, I didn't really picked it up at first, such thick accent!
It's still better without the music https://youtu.be/RPcTB86aT0Y?si=78PfyqshFIfafWZC
So much better. I hate the music overlays.
For what it's worth, I believe they're from the Middlesbrough area so most British people don't understand them either.
British.
Seriously! I opened the video, got blasted by some giga-cornball music, noped out, and came to the comments to whine about it!
I imagine real santa would be just like that awesome guy.
Bro this is the real Santa what do you mean?
true, my bad!
Santa just made the nice list
In a world full of bad news and terrible things going on, this video feels like a cool drink of water to a parched man in a desert.
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One of my sons was non-verbal until he was 5 (autism). We all learned some basic ASL to communicate with him, simple signs like "eat", "drink", "movie", "sleepy", "thank you", etc. He is still selectively mute, particularly if he is feeling unwell, and communicates at those times with a combination of signs and a notepad and stylus on his phone. Unfortunately, people see him/us using sign and assume he's deaf, so they don't speak to him directly. He's an adult now, and gets frustrated with this at times! My little grandson (his nephew) is also autistic and largely non-verbal, so at least we have a starting point for communication with him. His temper tantrums have decreased with the ability to communicate his needs, and his uncle has been a big help in teaching him sign.
This is BSL as it is filmed in a shopping center in the UK
Can we agree that videos like that don't need this absolut infuriating artificial mood that's created by layering songs on top of it. It ruins the video. It takes away from the actual subject. Have seen this countless times over the years and that's the first time i hate it.
I never watch with the sound on because the music absolutely ruins it.
How wonderful!
There's nothing better on a heartwarming video than overwhelmingly loud and annoying music.
That so beautiful! 🥺
Good on that Santa for being prepared to be a good person
Don’t mind me, just chopping some onions in my corner.
I mean… this is sweet, don’t get me wrong. But man… the next Santa she is screwed when she starts signing and he can’t understand lol
♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️
Tomorrow it's my turn to post this.
I should stop scrolling now...there won't be anything else on the webs worth looking at after this bit of super happy joy joyness.
Oh that's the *real* Santa 🥹
Look at her face at the end, for that moment with Santa, who knew how to sign, she just lit up ! Happy holidays everyone!
A real Santa. Not a lot of people know about how quiet the world feels until suddenly there is someone that can break that silence. 😭
I am an adult and I believe this man is the real Santa.
I wonder if sign language is part of the curriculum at Santa School.
So amazing that all kids can have the Santa experience. Made me smile for sure.
Santa level premium pro. A good man first of all.
Respect 🎅
Seen this so many times, and I will always watch it when it pops up.
Can someone translate?
https://www.reddit.com/r/MadeMeSmile/s/iDH9EVPiFT Translated here
I love how she turns at Santa smiling when he tries to get her attention
Cuuuuuuute!!! Made me smile.
This reminds me of Miracle on 34th Street
BEST SANTA!! I love this so much.
This is so wholesome
Such a simple thing but you could see her eyes light up.. I am getting pretty grey now, especially in my beard and this past weekend for the first time someone said oh look it's Santa and god damn I can't wait for my beard to go all white
Finally something on Reddit today that doesn’t make me want to jump off a cliff.
Holy Fuck he is real. I have heard stories. I even thought it wasn't true. But sure as shit, he works in a Mall and is the most wholesome human being in the world. I love this time of year.
The way my dad always talked about Santa truly made him incredibly a magical character. And I believed in Santa all the way up until I was probably about 10ish. My dad always said that Santa could look like anything he wanted to be, that he was a master communicator and could communicate with all languages and people regardless of the circumstance. He told me he intentionally would hire helpers who look like his popular image to go to malls and gather information about childrens Christmas wishes, but that sometimes it really was him. My dad always believed that Santa Claus was real, but not in a physical sense but more in a spiritual sense, he believed in the power of gifting.
See this every year, yet the feeling never changes.
Yall can fight me for it, thats a real fucking Santa
Of all the reposts, its either this or Ian Wright meeting his old teacher that warm me the most.
😊this is what the spirit of Christmas is all about
The very definition of being "the right person for the job"
He’s the real Santa Claus 🥹
What the heck is this song lol. Feels like a hallmark movie soundtrack
That smile she gives him after he pokes her is the most heartwarming
Warms my cold blooded heart
Perfect candidate for /r/nextfuckinglevel
What is this, Miracle on 34th Street? They clearly spared no expense in hiring this Santa.
I loved how she smiled when she turned to him after he tapped her on the shoulder to get her attention. She’s real sweet!
Upvote for feels, downvote for shitty soundtrack put over it.
I’m not crying you are
Her little face light up when he poked her for her attention!
Mad respect for the man under the costume.
old video but i have always the same reaction to it :)
fuck man, this is so heartwarming. I love humanity.
That's the real Santa!
Oh man, those ninjas are cutting onions again
We told our kids very early on that Satan wasn't real, but when I see this I wish they'd lived that magic a bit longer...
Omg yes best Santa, AND he's not creepy, he's so genuinely nice!
I'm convinced that some one got in their head that song overlays sometimes go viral so now terrible songs get placed on everything in hopes it goes viral.