Small thoughts about a small holiday turned large The fact that it started as "an important historical military victory in another country" and has become effectively the most prominent celebration of Mexican culture in the United States over the course of my lifetime is just WILD. And this is kinda in stark contrast since I moved away from California to a majority white state in the northeast (that's on me!!) - no one seems to give a shit about it here but growing up in San José in particular and being chicano, there was this overwhelming sense of cultural explosion. You can understand why white people would think (incorrectly) "Oh it's like Mexican independence day!" based on how fucking massive the celebrations were. And I'm purely grasping at straws here but it's expansion in the culture feels directly lined up in the wake of things like Bush-era immigration crackdowns, immigrant driver's license bans and generalized 90's / early 2000's store-brand anti-Mexican racism. Hell, it…
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