Cinco De Mayo Research Paper

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Cinco de Mayo is a holiday that many Americans are familiar with, to many American’s it is as easy to buy Cinco de Mayo decorations as it is to buy apple pie. This was not always the case as Cinco de Mayo was not originally just a day for friends to get together and party. Cinco de Mayo was originally a holiday to celebrate the victory of the Mexican militia over the French army at The Battle of Puebla in 1862 (mexonline.com). Sadly as the popularity of this holiday grew so did the commercial profits that American companies could gain from it, thus was the start of the appropriation of something important from another smaller culture by a much larger one. As a tie in music is another thing that has been appropriated multiple times in the