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WTF is Cinco de Mayo? 5th of May?

 

Besides, May Day doesn't have any kind of political innuendo out here. It only means huge carnevals and drunken students filling the streets in every city.

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May Day means polling day for us in the UK (I think), it's a riot stepping into one of those porta-cabins and voting for your favourite local candidate (I'll bet).

 

May Day means people dancing around the May Poler on Blue Peter, brandishing some cloth of some kind and waving it about. And they all have dresses on, and they skip around it, not dance. I think.

 

I've never heard of Cinco de Mayo though.

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sanspoof, branik;

until you've had a few naked

wiccan priestess' dancing round your

poll, you don't know what your missing.:D

 

well I saw on the tele(quaint brit phrase)

a bunch of euro trash soccer holligans

going all out with law enforcement.

I mean whats up with that?

 

as for Cinco de Mayo

next to

Dia de los Muertos

it is a great day to celebrate.

yes it translates 5th of May

and not entirely sure whats up with it,

Jofa would know.

anyhow it is a great day for

Nachos, Fahitas, Tacos, Guacamole,

and Tequila! you also play loads of

Santana, Los Lobos, Gypsy Kings,

Los Fabuloso Cadillacs,etc

and you get totally out of control

singing hey! Macarena!

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May Day could be called Labour Day also, but since nearly all the communists are gone, it has lost it's meaning (in a political way).

 

As for the hooligans, I think that's generalization. The Ice Hockey World Championships are now being played here in Helsinki and as far as I've seen, everybody's behaved good. Which reminds me of the great success of the U.S. Team...LOL. The most (soccer) hooligans in Europe come from Great Britain.

 

From what you've told, the hippie parties sound...interesting. Except that there aren't any Wicca here. Or hippies. What a shame...:(

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Originally posted by Darth Eggplant

as for Cinco de Mayo

next to

Dia de los Muertos

it is a great day to celebrate.

yes it translates 5th of May

and not entirely sure whats up with it,

Jofa would know.

Cinco de Mayo is a commemoration of the anniversary of la Batalla de Puebla (May 5, 1982), where a small local militia was able to keep the invading French army (under Napolean III) from taking the town of Puebla (somewhere around Veracruz, I'm not exactly sure). The French ultimately won the war and controlled Mexico until Benito Juarez's forces captured Mexico City a few years later, but the battle remains a symbol of Mexican nationalism and pride.

 

The only thing about this is that it seems like today more people in the United States recognize and celebrate it than do Mexicans (in Mexico). It's often mistaken for Mexican Independence Day, but that's on September 16, of course :).

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