Mexican culture about more than beer commercials (CULTURES CLASH !!!!!)

Chicago Sun-Times | May 4, 2012 | NEIL STEINBERG nsteinberg@suntimes.com

[Chi-townChief]

"Mainstream Americans could use the day as an opportunity to learn a bit about a complex culture that is either unknown or maligned by too many of us."

A fine idea!!!! A better one, though, would be for Mexican-Americans to learn about our American culture - it is, after all, a two-way street.

[JRandomFreeper]

I celebrate Cinco de Mayo because the french got their arse kicked. I don't care who did it. It's worth drinking some beers to celebrate.

/johnny

[A.A. Cunningham]

Where’s the link?

[Chi-townChief]

OOPS ... http://www.suntimes.com/news/steinberg/12289134-452/mexican-culture-about-more-than-beer-commercials.html

[KarlInOhio]

We Americans take everyone's holidays and turn them into drinking fests. There's hardly any reason for special outrage about people drinking cheap Coronas rather than Bud Lights to celebrate 5/5. About the only one we don't is Oktoberfest and that's only because the Germans started it that way.

[Chi-townChief]

I do Oktoberfest at the Chicago Berghoff every year !!!

[JRandomFreeper]

I go to an Oktoberfest here in the US every year. I remember the going part. I never remember being brought home part. ;)

/johnny

[SMARTY]

YUP!

A N D.....

They are HERE in OUR country, not the other way around!

[forgotten man]

I have been in Mexico on Cinco de Mayo. Down there it is a day like any other day. Nobody observes it and nobody takes the day off. However September 16th (Mexican Independace Day) is like New Years Eve and our 4th of July combined. Cinco de Mayo is strictly for us gabauchos. Maybe tomorrow I will drink a Tequila Mint Julip as I watch the Kentucky Derby.

[KarlInOhio]

I have been in Mexico on Cinco de Mayo. Down there it is a day like any other day. Nobody observes it and nobody takes the day off.

I've heard that it is a bigger deal near Puebla where the battle was fought. One winning battle in a losing war which ends with yet another country marching its troops through your capital and putting in a new government isn't exactly a party occasion.

[Psycho_Bunny]

Gads, this guy’s a whiney putz.

[USFRIENDINVICTORIA]

“a lisping snake (“with a hith hith here, and a hith, hith there”) that sounded remarkably like the stereotyped parody of gay men’s speech you’d hear served up as humor in the 1970s.”

Sometimes, a snake is just a snake.

[dfwgator]

When I think of Mexican Culture, I think of the hot actresses on the Mexican soaps they show on the Spanish channel.

[chrisser]

So much for the tolerance and appreciation of the local culture.

If it’s Muslims mutilating their daughter’s genitals - no problem. Southwesterners poking fun at a protected group - oh, the horror.

I’m sure this whiner is equally offended when his leftist friends malign all things southern. Right, Neil?

[evets]

I can't get enough Mexican weather news!

[JoeDetweiler]

If I’m ever in Durango I know where I’m going.....

http://www.bardchuckwagon.com/index.php?wranglers=yes

[Darren McCarty]

The funny part is that most Mexicans or Americans with Mexican ancestry don’t drink Corona. They call it Mexican Budweiser, and not as a compliment.

[dfwgator]

My wife is currently watching this novela, and the actress caught my eye....her name is Ana Brenda Contreras
Submitted for your approval:

[N. Theknow]

The museum is spacious and airy and colorful — no white walls here, but shades of tangerine and fuchsia and robin’s egg blue.

A "guy" writes a description using these colors?!?!?