Posted on 04/26/2018 10:47:18 AM PDT by cll
Around this time every year, Cinco de Mayo promotions start popping up around the United States, and regrettably now, in many parts of the world. Except the Spanish-heritage world, of course.
What? Isn't Cinco de Mayo THE top, all-Hispanic-culture-encompassing "holiday"? Why, it is also around this time that my Spanish-heritage brethren (aka, Hispanics, or the loathsome label, Latinos) start getting Cinco de Mayo greetings from Anglos and others, and start posting their absurd and often hilarious experiences on social media for the enjoyment of us spiks. A Puerto Rican U.S. Air Force Major being designated as the base's Cinco de Mayo celebrations coordinator. A Cuban doctor being brought Mexican-themed gifts by his Anglo patients. Bars promoting Chihuahua dog races. In all, a total hispandering fest.
When this started to become a thing, back in the 90s, I guess, I asked my Puerto Rican wife - who had lived in Mexico for five years - what was the big deal with Cinco de Mayo, wasn't Mexican Independence Day on some other date? She had no clue, so she started calling friends in Mexico who told her that it was something they observed in Puebla, something to do with a French invasion.
So it turns out, that Cinco de Mayo is a minor observance in Mexico, not even a real holiday, commemorating the Battle of Puebla which virtually no one outside of that city had heard about.
How did this footnote in Mexican history became a symbol for all Spanish-heritage peoples in the U.S.? The hell do we know. I think it has to do in part due to the idiocy of pigeon-holing all "Hispanics" within a Mexican framework, in the false narrative that all of us of Spanish heritage are a homogeneous demography. In part also due to how gullible the general public is to marketing campaigns who cleverly invent gimmicks such as these to sell lousy beer.
What's more incredible, though, is how governments and other public institutions fall for these ploys also, to the extent of making this day an official holiday or celebration, and wasting taxpayer dollars in observing this, the other made-up holiday.
So, a word to the wise for my Anglo, African, Far Eastern, Irish, German, Scandinavian, Italian, and other hyphenated American friends: do us a favor and if you encounter a Hispanic/Latino/Puerto Rican/Cuban and other non-Mexican, Spanish-heritage person, DO NOT wish him a Happy Cinco de Mayo if you don't want him to give you a puzzled look, as a minimum, or even laugh at your face.
And yes, no self-respecting Mexican that I know would even drink Corona. At all.
An ‘’invented’’ holiday. Yeah. That say’s it all about you.
No it’s called prejudice. You can excuse monger it until your keyboard melts down, but once you’re into “I hate all of...” territory you’re prejudiced. That’s all there is to it. I’m not self righteous, just using the correct definition of a simple word.
All holidays are invented. We humans decide we want to commemorate some event on some day, which might or might not actually relate to the event, and thus a holiday is invented.
Nothing self righteous here. And all the BS is coming from you. You’re prejudice. That is a fact. Sorry you can’t handle the truth, but that’s on you. Keep shouting if you must, but the more vehement you get the more you prove me right.
You’re a moral idiot.
You’ve reduced yourself to insults. You ARE prejudice. Period. Every insult proves you KNOW it. You have lost the issue. The only question now is are you man enough to admit it. Man up or shutup. Or keep embarrassing yourself with posts that prove my point. I don’t care. Just understand that every single posts makes me fall out of my chair laughing at you. To be that prejudice and that much of a coward about admitting it is pathetic. Really, if you’re going to put that much effort into prejudice be proud of it and stop whining.
Nope:
“You’re damn right I hate Mexico and it’s people”
You’re prejudiced.
You don’t have to call for genocide to be prejudiced. You just have to hate based on a demographic checkbox.
What Mexico does is not actually a part of this discussion. The discussion is that you HATE them ALL because you ARE prejudiced.
Your excuse doesn’t matter. Once you write off an entire demographic, assuming they are all one, you are prejudiced.
One must be prejudiced to call for genocide, but one does not have to call for genocide to be prejudiced. It’s a Venn diagram with one circle inside a bigger circle.
You haven’t made a point. All you’ve done is excuse monger your prejudice pretending that makes it not prejudice.
You’re not done. You’re not smart enough to be done. You’re gonna keep coming back whining and throwing insults.
“Most of our modern culture was invented to sell things.”
Not Sweetest Day. Gotcha there! Just kidding.
This would be the first I heard of it. Clearly it needs better marketing ;)
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