Location: CA, USA

I have some neighbors who regularly have a huge bash lasting all night long - it’s happened every Cinco de Mayo for nearly a decade.

This year - nothing.

The whole town is quiet. This used to be one of the noisiest days of the year. Is anyone else noticing this in their community?

  • Nyticus@kbin.melroy.org
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    22 days ago

    I think a lot of people in general are kind of busy worrying about other shit than getting all wrapped up in celebratory practices/traditions. kthx

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      22 days ago

      Yeah I’m sure ICE has absolutely nothing to do with it….

      Also people who say “kthnks” are so lame

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        22 days ago

        You jump to conclusions, just like the idiot that you really are. What a life you must live. Living by such a black and white narrative. “Durrhhhh…I’m incapable of thinking outside of the box, hue hue” Fucking idiot.

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          22 days ago

          You don’t think maybe with what’s going on people might be afraid of celebrating their ethnicity? When ethic people are the target of ICE?

          I mean it’s a fairly logical conclusion to come to.

          Also I never said it’s the only reason, there might be many factors, but to say it’s stupid to think the current situation with ICE has nothing to do with it…. Well that’s just stupid.

  • seathru@lemmy.sdf.org
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    22 days ago

    With ICE being given carte blanche to do whatever they want with no oversight; would you be having a gathering? Even if you were 110% legal, would you risk getting someone who isn’t snatched up?

    I tried to be festive and have been blasting Mexican music for the neighborhood; but it’s like 10pm and I’m old, gotta shut it down.

  • PeteWheeler@lemmy.world
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    21 days ago

    Also California.

    Yeah there wasn’t much. Only thing I heard about was a restaurant with marg deals and giving out small cute sombrero hats.

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    22 days ago

    Yeah, same. Previous years it was cars driving around with flags, posters for events, etc. This year I saw absolutely nothing. Feels a bit glum tbh.

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      22 days ago

      Cinco de Mayo commerates the Battle of Puebla. In the 1860s, the French took advantage of the United States being distracted by the Civil War and invaded México. The French were very pro-Confederate at the time. They planned to use México as a supply line to assist the Confederates. On 5 May, 1863, a rag tag group of Mexican soldiers defeated invading/occupying French troops in an embarrassing defeat. This stopped the French plans to support the Confederacy and fueled a Mexican insurgence to drive out the French and return them to Europe.

      In the early 20th century, a group of Latinos in Texas (Mexicans, Guatamalans, Hondurans, etc) wanted to celebrate a “Latino pride” sort of day. Ironically, they chose Cinco de Mayo since it was an unknown, never celebrated holiday that wasn’t country X’s independence day. And it took off from there.

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        22 days ago

        When my ex studied abroad in Germany, he made a group of Mexican, American and French friends, and they had parties on Cinco de Mayo and on the Seventeenth of May, the former held by the Mexican and American students and the latter by the French after learning about Cinco de Mayo.

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    21 days ago

    Yeah, I live in a hispanic majority city in CA and the most I saw were trucks having enormous Mexican flags, made me smile a bit. If I were to see a big American flag it would make me very cautious driving near it

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    22 days ago

    Yep, people usually go pretty hard in Redwood City but not this year. It is Monday but even for a Monday it’s quiet.

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    22 days ago

    I heard some communities would boycott specific products, common in these celebrations, as they were instrumental in Trump’s campaign. Nevertheless, this is news to me since the celebrations themselves are basically mandatory for Mexicans.

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    22 days ago

    I’m in California too. Every year I forget it’s Cinco and think “Damn, Mexicans are feeling super patriotic! There’s two meter Mexican flags attached to half the vehicles on the road today! Oh… it is the 5th of May isn’t it…” Not one this year.

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      22 days ago

      I was in Mexico for Cinco last year and they didn’t seem to give a shit. I asked if anything special was going on and they just laughed and said no.

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        22 days ago

        Yeah it seems to be more of a Mexican-American thing. Also it has become sort of a Hallmark Holiday in the US, meaning the significance is amplified by marketing.

        I mean the weather is usually beautiful on May 5, so any excuse to have a party.

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        22 days ago

        Mexican here. Cinco de Mayo commerates the Battle of Puebla. It’s widely celebrated in the United States and not celebrated here. It’s really more a Mexican-American thing.

        There are 32 states down here and only one, Puebla itself, has the day off. As a resident of one of the other 31 states, it literally was a normal day at work for me.

  • BoxOfFeet@lemmy.world
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    22 days ago

    Location: MI, USA. My city is insanely white. The second highest demographic being Black, at around 4%. I have never seen or heard any celebrating around here. But you can expect a 2hr wait at any Mexican restaurant.

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    22 days ago

    If the cause for muted celebration persists, for next year I’d suggest reviving International Workers’ Day and/or Beltane, possibly with Cinco de Mayo influences. Nothing like solidarity marches, or bonfires, pagan magic and feasting.