2007-04-24 06:53:48 · 21 answers · asked by bucky77015 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Holidays ➔ Other - Holidays
Just an excuse to eat Mexican food and drink beer. It's not even a big holiday in Mexico unless you live in Pueblo. It was to celebrate the defeat of the French in Pueblo, which was short lived. Their real independence day is September 16, which isn't as widely celebrated in the US.
Just eat, drink, and be merry! I celebrate St. Patrick's Day, and I'm not Irish!
2007-04-24 07:06:02 · answer #1 · answered by salsera 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Several reasons, most of them due to economics. Mexican immigrants are probably our largest "minority" presence in the US, especially in the nearby Southwestern states, including Nevada where they have public fiestas where Mexican crafts and beers can be sold. Brings a lot of tourists to our gambling state where we also have a yearly Celtic festival, Chinese New Year when we are lucky enough to get the Dragon Dancers from San Francisco up here Have you seen the latest Corona ad on tv? Shows a pub supposedly in Ireland and when you get inside the door after being told "this is how we celebrate our favorite holiday," the patrons are all wearing sombreros and serapes and guess what is being served. It aint Bushmill's, baby and you can bet Corona paid a lot of Irish actors and one clever writer for that one. If you like or aren't familiar with Mexican music and dance, these things can be a source of cultural exchange. It's a party, dude!
By the way, Reno also celebrates Canada Day and Canadian Thanksgiving for the same reasons as we welcome our Canadian visitors as well.
2007-04-24 07:24:18 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
"Cinco De Mayo" is a "cultural holiday" in The United States celebrated primarily by those of Hispanic (Mexican) ancestry, much the same way as "Saint Patrick's Day" is celebrated in The United States culturally by those of European (Irish) ancestry. "Cinco De Mayo" is a "national holiday" in Mexico -and- "Saint Patrick's Day" is a "national holiday" in Ireland. I am not sure about the holidays celebrated in Canada as I have not lived there and it has been more than 20 years since I have been there.
2007-04-24 07:08:39 · answer #3 · answered by ? 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You'd think this was a big holiday in Mexico, but it isn't. Dies es Sez (or some such) is their Independence Day in September. It's big there, like our 4th of July. No one knows why the beer companies latched onto cinco de mayo.
2007-04-24 07:05:12 · answer #4 · answered by Luey 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
People in Ohio Celebrate Canadian Independance day. Not.
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2007-04-24 07:02:03 · answer #5 · answered by Wilhelm 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
all and sundry who truly follows the Halacha ought to inform you it truly is forbidden for a Jew to celebrate christmas in any vogue by any potential! The Torah is clean, a Jew is forbidden from practise the rituals & rites of the different faith. the actual undeniable actuality that for some is a mundane competition does no longer regulate the actual undeniable actuality that that's the competition of yet another faith and practiced as such via many. Orthodox Jews international huge do no longer celebrate christmas and in some communities it truly is seen as an afternoon of morning by its association with pogroms- even with the actuality that easter replaced right into a a techniques worse time for those. There are those who chorus from all Atorah learn on christmas, interpreting secular topics somewhat so as no longer to have any Torah learn affiliate with as we talk. Is it idolatry to celebrate it as a mundane day? Nope is it forbidden? definite
2016-12-04 19:17:13 · answer #6 · answered by quartermon 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Cause it's fun! Yaaay, fun! I can just see you at a fiesta on that particular Saturday, everyone playing horseshoes, eating tacos, and drinking Dos Equis. Then you start quiz showing people. "Stop it! Why are you doing this!? This isn't American!! Your not Mexican! Put that taco down!" Party pooper.
Canadian Day? That would be cool too!! We could play air hockey and drink Molson all day! Ohh, or pin the tail on the moose! Ya!
2007-04-24 07:02:34 · answer #7 · answered by Tim 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It' not a legal US holiday (not recognized by the gov't I mean, like some holidays), so we don't technically celebrate it. It's just another really good excuse to party and for restaurants and bars to part you from your money. Just because advertisers throw it in your face doesn't mean you have to buy into it.
2007-04-24 07:04:03 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
what about St. Patties day?
it's irish, and actually quite a religiouse holiday that we slaughtered.
At least Cinco De Mayo still has it's culture
2007-04-24 06:57:16 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
It's an excuse to drink, plain and simple. If there was a national day of drinking in Canada, we would celebrate that, too.
2007-04-24 06:58:29 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋