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To: muir_redwoods

St. Nicholas was a Greek who lived in Asia Minor (present-day Turkey).


8 posted on 12/19/2013 4:03:27 AM PST by ought-six ( Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
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To: ought-six

I imagine you understand that the people of both lands now called Greece and Turkey are well intermarried. It’s not inaccurate to refer to St Nicholas as a Turk since that’s the current name of the area where he lived.


9 posted on 12/19/2013 4:33:33 AM PST by muir_redwoods (When I first read it, " Atlas Shrugged" was fiction)
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