From: Technotranscendence (neptune@mars.superlink.net)
Date: Sun Apr 14 2002 - 06:57:39 MDT
On Sunday, April 14, 2002 1:29 AM Lee Corbin lcorbin@tsoft.com wrote:
> However, Halloween was not associated with any particular
> ethnic group, or at least was not generally perceived to
> be so associated. On the other hand, Cinco de Mayo *is*
> a celebration peculiar to one particular ethnic group,
> (just as is "Oktober Fest"---always spelled with the
> "k", of course, just to make sure that the point is taken).
I thought Halloween came over with the Irish. If so, I'm sure when it
was first imported it was a big deal.
Recall, too, that public [government] education got a big push in
America as a means of assimilating immigrants in the late 19th and early
20th centuries. Now is not the first time some felt there was a culture
war between current immigrants and descendants of earlier immigrants.
Later!
Dan
http://uweb.superlink.net/neptune/
"There is no answer. We do here what we will
And there is no answer. This our liberty
No one has known before, nor could have borne,
For it is rooted in this deepening silence
That is our work and has become our kingdom.
If there were an answer, how could we be free?"
-- from Edwin Muir's "The Usurpers"
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