College cancels Cinco de Mayo amid ONE complaint

I get what you're trying to say but false equivalence.
It was just a way to emulate the already established private institutions created on white campuses. I gotta agree with GL on this. For a institutions of higher learning they couldn't do ones on strong African tribes like the Ashanti

 

When I was a little boy in school, me and my classmates would enter our classroom and discover decorations, showing a theme. Our teachers would explain the decorations and their meaning. It was a way of showing how children celebrated these holidays. These orientated to us kids. And a lot of times it was fun learning about these holidays. We also heard stories and music about these traditions and folklore.

If no one wants anyone else outside of their culture to learn and understand the culture they observe, why is culture and folklore so compelling to us all?
Folklore and legends are the template for storytelling in all forms.

If one takes only one aspect of a holiday, they are missing the point.

Heavy drinking or rowdy activities aren't the best ways to respect the culture.

 

This country shouldn't celebrating that shit in the 1st place.

 

Why not? We celebrate everything else

 

Because he's a racist that's why.



Wonder which "you hate your own race" diatribe will he Vomit forth from his fingertips in response to this post lol

 

What other holidays from foreign countries do we formally celebrate in this country collectively as Americans??

If Hispanics and others privately wanna celebrate cinco de mayo, whatever.

But I don't know why a university is treating it like some important cross cultural, 'American' event.

If I was the provost of that school and some punk kid gave me beef over cinco de mayo, I would have terminated its celebration, permanently.

 

St patricks?

Hell in only kidding I agree with flaming on this one.

 

At least in Ireland, St Paddy's day is a NATIONAL holiday..on topic..imagine one person bitching over leprechauns or boozing it up implications..

Or French Mardi Gras and Lent/Fat Tuesday... Or Germany's St Nicholas as Santa.
How does a Cinco Dr Mayo day of celebration using tradtional Mexican Fare, insult Mexicans? Because one person says so.

 

You sad log cabin republican:smt042

 

Who is "we"???

 

The American collective. We celebrate St. Patrick's day as a nation. We celebrate Christmas even though everyone isn't Christian. It's all meaningless horse shit excuses for people to get drunk and eat anyway

 

On that note, Oktoberfest anyone? :drinkers:

 

Word lol

 

It's really a pagan holiday. The Catholic Church was really slow into adapting this into their beliefs. After all, the whole Dec. 25th bit of Jesus' birth was never mentioned at all in the bible, at all. It was added on much later. You can find out more about this by clicking the links below.

http://www.livescience.com/25779-christmas-traditions-history-paganism.html

http://www.religioustolerance.org/xmas_tree.htm