Re: Cinco de Mayo have a good one.
| May 06, 2015 11:08AM |
rehunn Wrote:
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> Especially considering that it's not a National
> Holiday in Mexico and is
> little celebrated outside of Puebla. Now if the
> line was still narrow
> gauge and the passenger train still running it
> would be a whole other thing!
'Twas brought North in the late 19th/early 20th century when it was more of a thing in Mexico. It has been declining down there ever since the start of the Mexican Revolution (1910) until now, as you note, it is of almost unknown outside of the Puebla area.
Part of it's longevity North of the border has to do with the way immigrants hold on to scraps of the old ways long gone in the Old Country. Example: Quebecois French is actually an older form of the language than the Parisian version.
Another part is the way holidays get changed and taken up by the popular culture is this country. For example, compare St Patricks day as it exists in the US vs Ireland. Although some of our idiocy has been imported there to make tourists happy. I suppose Mexico might wind up doing that too someday!
We United Statesians seem, at least judging by casual conversation and political polemics, to know almost nothing of the history of the countries we share a continent with (Canada, Mexico & the Central American countries) even in comparison to how much(little) we know about Europe or Asia. I'd say it was a national disgrace if we didn't have so many knowledge related entries in that catagory.
hank
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> Especially considering that it's not a National
> Holiday in Mexico and is
> little celebrated outside of Puebla. Now if the
> line was still narrow
> gauge and the passenger train still running it
> would be a whole other thing!
'Twas brought North in the late 19th/early 20th century when it was more of a thing in Mexico. It has been declining down there ever since the start of the Mexican Revolution (1910) until now, as you note, it is of almost unknown outside of the Puebla area.
Part of it's longevity North of the border has to do with the way immigrants hold on to scraps of the old ways long gone in the Old Country. Example: Quebecois French is actually an older form of the language than the Parisian version.
Another part is the way holidays get changed and taken up by the popular culture is this country. For example, compare St Patricks day as it exists in the US vs Ireland. Although some of our idiocy has been imported there to make tourists happy. I suppose Mexico might wind up doing that too someday!
We United Statesians seem, at least judging by casual conversation and political polemics, to know almost nothing of the history of the countries we share a continent with (Canada, Mexico & the Central American countries) even in comparison to how much(little) we know about Europe or Asia. I'd say it was a national disgrace if we didn't have so many knowledge related entries in that catagory.
hank
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