[napscoordinator]

I was in Mexico in 2000 when I thought how cool to be here for Cinco de Mayo. Well they don’t even celebrate this day. I was bummed out. This is pretty much an American celebration. Basically a chance to party with Coronas and Mexican food.

[PUGACHEV]

You're right, they do not celebrate Cinco de Mayo in Mexico. Although, they do have plenty of other good holidays. I am not sure, but I think they did make a big deal of it of it in the past, and the tradition lived on in California, even though, oddly, the event that the holiday celebrates occurred after California became part of the U.S. On May 5, 1862, the outnumbered Mexicans defeated a French army at the battle of Puebla, which was the only, single, time to my knowledge that a Mexican force has defeated a foreighn invader, even going back to the time of Hernando Cortez.