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On May 5th, Americans across the coun-try will gather to celebrate Cinco de Mayo. Donning sombreros and dancing to mariachi music, revelers will celebrate everything Mexican, and enjoy a shot of tequila—or three. The holiday has be-come ingrained in the American calendar, and in 2005 Congress passed a resolution calling on the president to recognize the historical significance of the holiday. Con-trary to wide-spread popular belief, May 5th is not actually Mex-ican Independ-ence Day, and the holiday is primarily cele-brated in only one of Mexico's 31 states. So, why is Cinco de Mayo more popular in America than in Mexico? The real story of Cinco de Mayo weaves together two concurrent wars—the French intervention in Mexico (also known as The Maximillian Affair) and the American Civil War. On May 5, 1862, de-fending Mexican forces under Ignacio Zaragoza defeated Napoleon III's French army at Puebla, one of the most im-portant Spanish colonial cities in Mexico. At the time, the French army was consid-ered to be the most powerful fighting force in the world, and the unlikely Mexi-can victory resulted in a decree by then-

Mexican President Benito Juárez that a celebration of the battle be held each year on May 5th. Cinco de Mayo was born, but it was about to be kidnapped. As the French were making war with Mex-ico, the American Confederacy was courting Napoleon's help in its conflict with the United States. At the time of the Battle of Puebla, the Confederacy had

strung together impressive vic-tories over the Union forces. According to some historians, the French, who made war with Mexico on the pretext of col-lecting debt, planned to use Mexico as a "base" from which they could help the Confederacy defeat the North, and the Mexi-can victory at Puebla made the French pause long enough for the Union army to grow strong-

er and gain momentum. Had the French won at Puebla, some contend, the out-come of the American Civil War could have been much different, as the French and Confederates together could have taken control of the continent from the Mason Dixon line to Guatemela, installing an oligarchical, slave-holding government.

That didn't happen, of course. In the years that followed, Latinos in California and the U.S. Northwest celebrated Cinco de Mayo with parades of people dressed in Civil War uniforms, giving speeches about how the Battle of Puebla fits into the larger narrative of the struggle for

4 - 1494 - Christopher

Columbus discovered

Jamaica.

5 - 1862 - Cinco de

Mayo is celebrated in

remembrance of the

Battle of Puebla.

5 - 1961 - Alan Shepard

became the first Ameri-

can in space.

17 - 1875 - The first

Kentucky Derby horse

race took place at

Churchill Downs in

Louisville.

21 - 1881 - The Ameri-

can Red Cross was

founded by Clara Bar-

ton.

Why is Cinco de Mayo More Popular in America Than in Mexico?

By: Brian Greene

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Fear of failure is something many of us wrestle with and it often starts when we are children. How many of us have been shut down by someone or an experi-ence that has caused us to avoid some-thing we formerly loved? How many of us have experienced humiliation at the hands of teachers, classmates, family or others because we didn't do something "right" or were judged to be somehow inferior? It only takes a few devastating experiences or derisive comments from people whose opinions we value to make us fear making a fool of ourselves by trying something new or different. Kathleen, a 52-year old accomplished and well-educated woman is a classic example of this. As a young girl she had a keen desire to play tennis, and when she was in the eighth grade she finally persuaded her parents to let her take private lessons from the physical educa-tion teacher at her school. A new shiny tennis racket was subsequently pur-chased and she joyfully went off to her first lesson, during which her teacher said little but frowned a lot. During the second lesson her teacher seemed irri-table and impatient, and at the end of it she said to Kathleen: "You are hopeless with a tennis racket, so do the world a favor and stay away from tennis courts." Thoroughly humiliated and her enthusiasm for tennis forever crushed, Kathleen has never again touched a racket or attempted to play. Today she has overcome this experience but has never again been able to regenerate any enthusiasm or interest in tennis. Even though she now knows she could play if she really wanted to, she doesn't--the "thrill is gone." Fear is our natural response to anything we perceive as a threat or dangerous, but when we perpetually live in fear it limits what we can accomplish or do. We learn to protect ourselves from the possibility of any future humiliation or shame by (1) avoiding a potentially

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Why Is Cinco de Mayo More

Popular in America Than in

Mexico?

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