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Originally Posted by breathesgelatin
THANK YOU! Also it bears mention that Cinco de Mayo *in some cases* involves those of non-Mexican heritage dressing like "Mexicans" in s disparaging way.
Not to mention that there were numerous such holidays and saint days in the medieval Catholic church that had a "carnivalesque" element to them. Because you didn't have to work on these days, peasants and city people had parades/masquerades/all kinds of parties on these days. It was one thing that early Protestants critiqued and that the Catholic Church cut back on during the counter-Reformation (or Catholic Reformation if you prefer)--they reduced the number of religious holidays by over half I think. Don't remember if that was at the Council of Trent or not. Mardi Gras as we know it was a far more common style of holiday before say, the late 16th-century.
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You're right about some people dressing up on Cinco de Mayo, that'd be where the offense lies IMO, not in the fact that the local bars have a special on Corona.
I don't know if they officially reduced the holidays or just the days of obligation. It seems as most of the days of obligation were turned into festivals of some sort, Michaelmas for example was a harvest festival.
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