Thank you all of you for all this information!

I´m currently working on a small article about immigrant kids doing handclapping games in norwegian in Oslo.

Two turkish-norwgian 7-year-olds sing what is a norwegian translation of the english song "A sailor went to sea":

En sjømann dro til ABC
For å lære litt om ABC
Men da han kom til ABC
så var det bare ABC

(A sailor went to ABC/to learn a little about ABC/but when he came to ABC/all there was was ABC)

En sjømann dro til Kina
For å lære litt om Kina
Men da han kom til Kina
Så var det bare Kina

(Same with China)

En sjømann dro til India
For å lære litt om India
Men da han kom til India
Så var det bare India

(Same with India)

En sjømann dro til Island
For å lære litt om Island
Men da han kom til Island
Så var det bare Island

(Same with Iceland)

En sjømann dro til ABC
For å lære litt om Kina
Men da han dro til India
Så var det bare Island

(Then the verses are mixed-up. The girls usually end the game in laughter!)

It is extremely interesting for me to learn that the handclapping games are associated with black girls! In Oslo we seem to have inherited the gender, but not the colour issue. Both immigrant and norwegian girls do these.