Cinco de Mayo

[Bruce Appelbaum]

It's a good way to sell Corona and Dos Equis beer north of the border.


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Subject: Cinco de Mayo
Author:  Joe Varo <vjvaro at erie.net> at Internet
Date:    5/7/97 11:47 AM


Okay...so now I know what "Cinco de Mayo" is.  But why is it being 
celebrated in the USA? I could perhaps see it being celebrated in the 
southwest, where you have large hispanic communities...but anywhere else, 
I just don't get it.
     
I would think that with the Alamo and all, that Anglo-Texans would be 
rather put-off by the whole thing.
     
Do they now celebrate the 4th of July in Mexico?
     
Are we going to be celebrating Bastille Day here in the US next year?
     
And why all of the use of it as a marketing ploy?
     
I suppose all of the above might make me sound like some sort of 
xenophobic, jingoistic nutcase but, honest, I'm not; I just don't 
understand how one moment you've never heard of the thing and the next 
you're seeing it all over the place.
     
Joe