Re: [sudo-discuss] Dia de los Muertos fundraiser: is happening?

I'm from the east coast, Philadelphia. Philadelphia is 45,45,10 black, white, Hispanic (mostly Puerto Rican) + Asian (Cambodian, Vietnamese, Filipino, Korean and Chinese). As you can maybe imagine, day of the dead is really not a thing in Philadlephia. When I lived there, I never went to a DD party, or even really had heard of it. Here, in the bay, the racial/ethnic distribution is way different. I never meet Puerto Ricans any more, and there are way fewer blacks. There are more Asians and Hispanics. Not only is the current Hispanic population here bigger, this area was settled by Spanish soldiers (unlike Philadelphia, settled by Dutch and English mostly. Also some Germans). The Spanish settler influence is all over - in names, in the types of old buildings. The white people I meet here are Way more likely to speak Spanish than the people I grew up with. the white people I meet here know more about Mexico and Central America than the ppl back east. The point is, California is a way more Hispanic part of the US overall than anywhere I lived before. Therefore, it is not surprising at all to see way more DD. Moreover, it doesn't seem strange to me that people who live near each other would celebrate the same holidays. The thing that makes many Hispanics celebrate day of the dead (seeing Hispanics celebrate day of the dead) also makes white people celebrate day of the dead. Put another way, is it weird to you how many atheists and non-Christians in America celebrate Christmas? Probably not - you can see that at on December 25th, Christmas is just the thing to do. When you see white people celebrating DD here, it's not because they want to steal your holiday, it's because your culture is pervasive here. Does that make sense? On Friday, October 24, 2014, Hep Svadja <hepkitten(a)gmail.com> wrote: