Second and third-generation Hispanics have embraced the Cinco de Mayo celebration as their own, despite its negative connotation among some Mexican immigrants...
In Mexico, Cinco de Mayo celebrates the victory of the Mexican Army under General Ignacio Zaragoza against Napoleon III’s French Army on May 5, 1862. The episode is known as the Battle of Puebla.
In the United States, the first news of a celebration was in 1862, in Columbia, Calif., later the same year in which the Battle of Puebla took place.
“We are talking about an omnicultural mindset, a curiosity and search to absorb things from other cultures,” Quevedo explained. “Cinco de Mayo went from being the Battle of Puebla, then a marketing thing, to today’s second- or third-generation Latinos, feeling it as their own.”
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