I read it, but as I pointed out just because you haven’t SEEN them being catered to doesn’t mean they aren’t. I lived in Tucson for years before my aunt moved to the part of town where I could see it. And if she hadn’t moved there I don’t know when I would have seen it.
Problem is your “point” is WRONG. Cinco de Mayo started being a big deal in the 80s. When AB was selling Corona in America, and it wasn’t doing well. So they started combing through the calendar looking for something they could push, like Guinness was already doing with St Patrick’s Day. Low and behold they found this obscure little holiday that 90% of Mexicans didn’t care about, but it had a nice ring to it, short words that rhymed. BOOM Cinco de Mayo was born. Much like the chimichanga it’s really an American creation using Mexican ingredients.
My first exposure to Day of the Dead was on the cover of Oingo Boingo’s 1985 Dead Man’s Party. Big deal. And again up here it’s very Americanized. Just like Halloween, which is really an Irish holiday but not celebrated there at all like it is here.
I’ve pointed you to lots of data. You just don’t like any of it. You are, quite simply, wrong.
Again you are saying I am wrong and you have facts.
I have facts too. MY facts here are that Cinco de Mayo was not a thing until the last 2 decades. You can claim it is merely corporate - which also isn’t good - but as far as I’m concerned in the Northeast (yes, I lived in CT as an adult briefly and spent trips going to Maine in my youth for grandfather), there was never mention of this obscure holiday until then.
And as another point, a Korean woman here who did nails for our Vietnamese hair dresser’s salon was quite irritated that everything is in Spanish, but no official gov or corporate accommodations for them. Again, this is in the last 2 decades she complains whereas we’ve known the Viet owner for 35 years.
This is my experience, period. It’s not “wrong” as this is my indisputable experience, as a highly observational engineer mind, too. My husband, mother (Baltimorean for 80 years), other relatives here around my age.
You can claim your experience, I claim mine. That includes my observation of at-large corporate interests, never mind government.