Posted on 09/17/2022 8:46:47 AM PDT by Salman
Cultural background: Cinco de Mayo celebrates beating the French and is a favorite of Mexican Americans especially in Texas, and white knuckleheads in California. It is not a public holiday in Mexico. Mexican Independence Day celebrates independence for Spain. Not a big deal among Mexican Americans. The celebrants in Chicago are almost certainly recent arrivals.
Most Gringos do think Cinco de Mayo is Mexican Independence Day. Go figure!
All cultures are equal however!
A holiday invented by beer companies.
What the hell is this Mexican Independence Day all about? Septemberteenth? Don’t anyone tell the demented one about this one. He’ll want to put it on the calendar.
“ Most Gringos do think Cinco de Mayo is Mexican Independence Day.”
This gringo knows cinco de mayo was when the mexicans beat the french at puebla. Local folklore refers to that day as “ batalla de la bandera blanca”
It certainly got picked up by beer companies. The Holiday itself was there before it got usurped for drinking celebrations.
Like Saint Patrick’s Day.
“A holiday invented by beer companies”
Also tequila and margarita mix producers
Good Christian folk coming here to work hard to provide for their families.
You sir know your history!
Spain looks back at Mexican Independence Day with relief!
“They’re not sending their best.”
“A holiday invented by beer companies.”
So true.
Another interesting aspect of that: The French “emperor” was Maximillian (executed in 1867), the younger brother of Emperor Franz Joseph of Austria - who reigned from 1848 (nearly twenty years before his brother’s death) until he died in 1916 in the midst of WWI (nearly fifty years AFTER his brother’s death).
The Battle of Camerone in 1863 (aka the Battle of the Wooden Hand) was where vastly outnumbered French Legionnaires fought an overwhelming force of Mexican troops in what is regarded as one of the most heroic Last Stands in history. Not quite up there with Thermopylae, but akin to the British last stand at Gandamak (the Brits lost), or the British defense at Rorke’s Drift (which the Brits won).
In the process the French Foreign Legion got battle honors for their desperate stand at Camerone. The French got thrown out of Mexico anyway, but what if they had won?
We have enough problems with recalled cheese from Mexico. Can you imagine the problems if all sorts of French cheeses were added to the mix?
Newcaster: "There is another recall of Brie and Camembert cheeses made in the French territory of La Mexique, according to FDA sources. Napoleon VI brand cheeses were recalled due to potential E. Coli contamination. The company decided not to fight the recall and just surrendered."
They would hate us with a more "élégance et sophistication Européennes?"
No Zimmerman Note?
The best of these folks are already here working, now we are getting future dependent Democrats: criminals, thugs, drug dealers, terrorist sleeper cells and other Schiff head undesirables.
A lot of Texans know this. Probably people in other border states too.
The Germans might have been ham-handed enough to try that anyway.
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