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?
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.
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.
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.