{"id":6329,"date":"2024-05-21T14:51:52","date_gmt":"2024-05-21T18:51:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brie.hunter.cuny.edu\/hunterathenian\/?p=6329"},"modified":"2024-05-21T14:51:52","modified_gmt":"2024-05-21T18:51:52","slug":"mexican-student-union-educates-students-about-cinco-de-mayos-cultural-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brie.hunter.cuny.edu\/hunterathenian\/2024\/05\/mexican-student-union-educates-students-about-cinco-de-mayos-cultural-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Mexican Student Union Educates Students About Cinco de Mayo’s Cultural History"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Mexican Student Union with the attendees of the Cinco De Mayo event.\u00a0 Photo: @huntermexsu<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

As the spring semester comes to a close, the Mexican Student Union celebrated the concluding academic year by collaborating with the Undergraduate Student Government to present an informative lesson on the history of Cinco de Mayo.<\/p>\n

Despite the holiday\u2019s importance in the U.S., Cinco de Mayo isn\u2019t celebrated throughout Mexico.<\/p>\n

Every year a spectacle is thrown for the holiday as \u201cAmericans like to portray [it] as an excuse to celebrate or to drink a lot which is what a lot of popularized media makes it seem to be,\u201d said June L. Jaimes Moreno, the co-president of the Mexican Student Union.<\/p>\n

The club decided to fight against this Americanized version of the holiday and teach club members and interested students what Cinco de Mayo is truly about.<\/p>\n

During a slide presentation, the student group explained the May 5 holiday wasn\u2019t Mexico\u2019s Independence Day; in fact, it is September 16.<\/p>\n

The holiday is celebrated to highlight the bravery of Mexican soldiers as they fought against the French during a war in 1862, according to the presentation.<\/p>\n

While the holiday\u2019s history isn\u2019t fully known in the U.S., Moreno assumed that more Mexicans would know its significance.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe fact that we\u2019re able to educate and the fact that other of our members already knew some of the information also leaves us a little bit stress[ed] that it seems to be that a lot of us don\u2019t know a lot of our own culture,\u201d said Moreno.<\/p>\n

When asked about the club’s collaboration, Moreno said USG reached out to him a couple of months ago to discuss arrangements for a possible event around May.<\/p>\n

With Cinco de Mayo occurring in early May, Moreno saw it as the right opportunity to celebrate the holiday but also to educate students about Mexico\u2019s history.<\/p>\n

The event was a major success as about 100 students filled out the Game Room in Thomas Hunter 205.<\/p>\n

Even though the event officially ended at 4 p.m., many students lingered and remained well after the event was over.<\/p>\n

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Students socializing at the Cinco de Mayo event Photo: Carol Bautista<\/figcaption> Photo by Carol Bautista<\/span><\/figure>\n

\u201cI feel like I just made a friend, like two, three friends, and the food was pretty good,\u201d said Maya Villalba, a Media Studies major.<\/p>\n

Diego Garita, a history major, said he would have preferred some more activities and better music, but he appreciated the diversity of the crowd.<\/p>\n

Moreno hoped the club did a good job in educating everyone and that they\u2019ll be \u201cable to take that [information] home and reflect on it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As the spring semester comes to a close, the Mexican Student Union celebrated the concluding academic year by collaborating with the Undergraduate Student Government to present an informative lesson on the history of Cinco de Mayo. Despite the holiday\u2019s importance in the U.S., Cinco de Mayo isn\u2019t celebrated throughout Mexico. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":6330,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,324],"tags":[541,153,625,44],"class_list":["post-6329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","category-student-life","tag-studentclubs","tag-hunter-events","tag-mexican-student-union","tag-usg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brie.hunter.cuny.edu\/hunterathenian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brie.hunter.cuny.edu\/hunterathenian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brie.hunter.cuny.edu\/hunterathenian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brie.hunter.cuny.edu\/hunterathenian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brie.hunter.cuny.edu\/hunterathenian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6329"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/brie.hunter.cuny.edu\/hunterathenian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6329\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6359,"href":"https:\/\/brie.hunter.cuny.edu\/hunterathenian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6329\/revisions\/6359"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brie.hunter.cuny.edu\/hunterathenian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brie.hunter.cuny.edu\/hunterathenian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brie.hunter.cuny.edu\/hunterathenian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brie.hunter.cuny.edu\/hunterathenian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}