How Anglos celebrate Cinco de Mayo

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In the segue between 2 programs this morning on Fox a producer wearing a Halloween type sombrero ( really extra large) staggered across the set supposedly slugging tequila from a pint bottle.

This is obviously NOT the way we celebrate it. No one buys a PINT bottle of tequila.

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Mexicans are not sure how to celebrate it either. They consider it a day they learned about in history class, not a day of celebration. My assistant, who is from Mexico, was very surprised that a big deal is made about it in the US. Its kind of turned into a day to celebrate Mexican culture and cuisine but its a strange "holiday" for sure. Diez y seis de septiembre makes is a much bigger deal but many "mexicans" that were born and raised in the US know nothing about it.
 
Well we know for sure that the Ninth Circuit court of Appeals ruled you can't wear a American flag shirt to school at that Calif school.
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so how can wearing an American Flag shirt offend people who don't even know what happened on Cinco de Mayo?
 
The ruling was ******** but it didnt ban anything. It allowed schools to do it if they thought the people wearing american flag shirts would be victims of racial violence. The courts/schools get all the blame while people ignore the fact that there are racist thugs that were attacking kids on school property. "Kids" like that need to be perma-banned from schools.
 
Cinco de Mayo celebrates the victory of a Mexican Army commanded by Ignacio Zaragoza over a French army at Puebla.

Zaragoza was born in Goliad Texas and was the cousin of Juan Seguin, who fought at the Alamo, went out as a courier and commanded Tejano forces with Houston at San Jacinto.

Zaragoza died during the war with the French but there is a nice statue of him out in front of the Presidio La Bahia in Goliad.

I am going to be driving by there this afternoon and will give him a salute.
 
I leave a Corona all the time. Full ones. On the shelves where some poor retailer is trying to schlep that crap onto unsuspecting victims, errrr customers.
 
Lets say 10-20 guys got together and went to a chinese new year celebration. During the celebration they yelled and chanted "USA" while hanging up American flags. Although I am a very patriotic person, I would consider their actions disrespectful because they were not intending to show of their pride as much as detract from what the others were attempting to celebrate. I think thats what happened in this case. I have not read anything that would suggest that the mexican kids were saying anything negative about the US.

FWIW, I have been in Mexico for the 4th of July and celebrated, shot fireworks, etc with mexicans and americans. Nobody ever had a problem and most just wanted to join in the party.
 
Only the Mexicans would celebrate a victory over the hapless French.
 
They sort of lost the war. France never fully controlled or occupied Mexico. After the American Civil War ended, we provided massive assistance to the Mexicans and began to overtly threaten the French with Monroe Doctrine intervention. The French rather quickly agreed to withdraw (valuing relations with the US more than occupying a portion of Mexico and probably with knowledge that the US military was a very formidable force following the Civil War) and the Mexicans rather quickly defeated the remaining forces (they were mostly Mexicans aligned with the French because the French withdrew).

I am not sure it is really fair or completely accurate to say the Mexicans "lost" so much as the central part Mexico was "conquered" and/or "occupied" for a few years while its protective big brother was otherwise engaged. I think the entire incident lasted from 1862 until 1867. This time span sort of explains why it occurred in the first place. Secretary of State Seward was a bad *** in dealing with the French on this issue just as he threatened Great Britain with an invasion of Canada if Great Britain recognized the South during the Civil War.
 
Cinco de Mayo is barely recognized in Mexico outside of the state of Puebla where the battle took place. It was a pretty improbable victory with 4,000 Mexicans defeating a force of 8,000 French including foreign legion troops. It is usually called the Battle of Puebla.

The "holiday" really is an invention of beer companies and a convenient excuse in the US. I do not know why Cinco de Mayo caught on and 16th of September did not. I had some business dealings with a Mexican lawyer in Juarez several years ago and he started laughing when I asked him why he was working on the 5th of May.
 
From Wiki:

According to a paper published by the UCLA Center for the Study of Latino Health and Culture about the origin of the observance of Cinco de Mayo in the United States, the modern American focus on that day first started in California in the 1860s in response to the resistance to French rule in Mexico. "Far up in the gold country town of Columbia (now Columbia State Park) Mexican miners were so overjoyed at the news that they spontaneously fired off rifles shots and fireworks, sang patriotic songs and made impromptu speeches."[8][40] A 2007 UCLA Newsroom article notes that "The holiday, which has been celebrated in California continuously since 1863, is virtually ignored in Mexico."[40] TIME magazine reports that "Cinco de Mayo started to come into vogue in 1940s America during the rise of the Chicano movement."[26] The holiday crossed over from California into the rest of the United States in the 1950s and 1960s but didn't gain popularity until the 1980s when marketers, especially beer companies, capitalized on the celebratory nature of the day and began to promote it.[41][42]
 
The Emperor dude was executed. I am pretty sure he was Austrian. The French military withdrew, but forces loyal to the Emperor (mostly Mexican) stayed. The alignment of power was somewhat similar to the Spanish Civil War except the Republican side won.
 
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