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.
Blame capitalism, all they care is about profits, however they get them.
There is no “Corporate America”, they are loyal to no countries.
And you’re WRONG. Cinco de Mayo was a thing in the 80s. Maybe it hadn’t gotten all the way up to CT yet. But that doesn’t mean it wasn’t in plenty of America before then. The funny part with the holiday is that before the marketing campaign most Mexicans didn’t even know about it. It’s just a regional holiday. Like if you’ve ever been in the right county at the right time back east they frequently have little holidays for some Revolution or Civil War battle that took place there. That’s all it was in Mexico, the equivalent “of random battle in Virginia that nobody that doesn’t live there ever heard of”.
Somebody complaining still isn’t the reality.
I’m pointing out that just because it’s your experience doesn’t make it universally true. If you want to say “I never saw this stuff until 20 years ago” fine, that happens. But you keep saying “it didn’t exist until 20 years ago” and that is NOT TRUE.