Brazil: How to become Santa Claus in four weeks · Global Voices
Paula Góes

Anton M. Steeman describes one of the many courses in Brazil that leads to qualified Santa Clauses, a welcome Christmas temporary job. “The most difficult part of being a good Santa Claus is the hours and hours sitting in a chair, showing a slight smile, taking punches and pushes, a finger in the eye, in the mouth, pulling the beard, etc, etc, etc … without showing any stress. Because Brazilian children are, as everywhere in the world, bloody nuisances.”