What is Santa Claus's ethnicity?

The historical individual upon whom the later northern/northwestern European "Santa Claus" mythology was at least loosely based (for some reason; I'm not sure exactly how the association occurred), was born in what was then mostly Greek(-speaking) Anatolia, or 'Asia Minor', and is today part of Turkey. read more

There is a narrow, legend-based, tenative connection between the Santa Claus character who lives at the North Pole and oversees a factory-full of elves and the Christian saint and bishop Nicholas of Myra. read more

Santa Claus is the modern name for St. Nicholas, a bishop from the fourth century. He was from a devout Christian family in Patara, a village in Greece, now part of Turkey. read more

Santa Claus is supposed to live in the North Pole with his wife, some reindeer and elves. There is no such nationality or ethnic group as ‘North Polish’, but there is however, the nationality, Polish, as in, the people from Poland. read more