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.
Are you knit-picking on the existence of a holiday?
Of course “CDM” “existed”. The point is it was NOT a general “American thing” that was mentioned and pushed everywhere. I lived these decades, too.
Incidentally, few Marylanders know about “Defender’s Day”, Sept. 14. For the defense of Baltimore 1814. So yes, it exists, has existed for a century or more, but even locally few know it and it is not promoted except at Ft. McHenry. The point is not that it exists, but that anyone knows about it or cares. There are few I’m aware of anywhere else and I’m pretty familiar with AmRevWar as that is my passion. Probably LexConcord but never heard of any else and I belonged to NJ and PA preservation groups for it.
Again, the point is how much is it pushed. My experience is not much at all until 2000 or so, when the real push by illegals started and libs started feeling sorry for them. All those protests really started and Bush was about to cave then 9/11 put it off a while. Suddenly in my world, things start popping up all over.