Outsourcing Santa
China built the world’s largest ice Santa.
Why does China love Santa? Because all the plastic toys purchased for Christmas are made in China. If you want to inject a little realism into your children’s life, tell them Santa’s elves are Chinese and live in Guangzhou (AKA Canton).
Fun facts – Guangzhou is larger (population-wise) than the entire Chicagoland region, and nearly twice the size of the entire Philly/Delaware Valley region. Harbin, where that Santa was made, is larger than the entire Minneapolis/St. Paul metropolitan area, and Harbin’s metropolitan area is almost double Toronto’s. But American geography classes have yet to figure out how to teach students that there are any cities in China besides Beijing and Shanghai.
