This American Santa in turn influenced his relations in Northern Europe to become more like him, although not always to the pleasure of the locals. In particular, the British Father Christmas has been completely assimilated into the Santa collective, to the point where many Britons don’t realize they were ever separate. In the Netherlands, however, Saint Nick is still successfully holding his own as a distinct character.
这个美国版圣诞老人反过来影响了他在北欧的亲戚们，让他们变得更像他，虽然当地人并非总是对此感到开心。特别是英国的Father Christmas已完全被圣诞老人系列给同化，以致于到了许多英国人并没有意识到他们曾经是不同的地步。然而，在荷兰，Saint Nick还是成功地坚持住自己与众不同的特色。
The one last detail about modern Santa that’s still up for debate, at least between countries, is exactly where he lives. In the late 1800s, his home was the magnetic North
Pole, centered under the aurora borealis.
有关现代圣诞老人的最后一个细节是仍有争议的，至少是在国家之间仍有争议，就是他到底住在哪里。在十九世纪晚期，他的家在磁北极，以北极光底下为中心。
While this would be the most diplomatic option for Santa, Magnetic North has since moved off the Polar Ice Sheet and into the ocean — a rather inconvenient place to set up a toy factory.
尽管对圣诞老人来说，这是最圆融的选择，但磁北极自此离开了极地冰原，进入海洋之中–一个比较不方便设立玩具工厂的地方。
So Canada claims his workshop is somewhere in Nunavut and has given Santa a post code and — no joke — official Canadian citizenship. The American response is that the North Pole doesn’t refer to the obviously inhospitable sheet of non-domestic ice but rather to the little town of North Pole, Alaska. Denmark claims he lives in their former colony of Greenland. And Greenland, not surprisingly, agrees.
所以加拿大声称他的工作坊是在Nunavut某处，并提供圣诞老人一个邮政编码，还有–没在开玩笑–正式的加拿大公民身分。美方的响应是，北极指的并不是明显荒凉、不适宜居住的冰层，而是阿拉斯加的一个小镇，North Pole镇。丹麦声称他住在他们的前殖民地格陵兰。而格陵兰，不意外的，也同意这说法。