Cinco De Mayo

Cinco de Mayo is a big Mexican feast based upon their  political history. Some say the feast began in California in 1862 to celebrate victory over the French in Pueblo.  It is pretty big in the USA because there are so many Mexicans living here or People native to here who are of Mexican American decent.  This Mexican celebration is not the same as if I went to live in France and wanted to celebrate the Fourth of July.  Many Mexicans became Americans simply because the border moved north and there they were! They did not move here.  This is a bit different from a bunch of people who moved to France for economic reasons.  When the Fourth of July came up would they want to make a big deal of it with fireworks, get permits for parades and otherwise make a big deal of non-French heritage?  I suspect no, or maybe France would have none of it.  Nor do the French feel that they need to learn English because immigrants are living in France.  But our history is different when it comes to Mexico and borders.  We can take over vast territories by force of war or treaty, but we cannot force a culture on a people who never moved.