Cinco De Mayo, a day a good majority of the state of Puebla in Mexico celebrates with military parades, recreations of the battle of Puebla and other festive events. But Mexico is not the only place in the world that celebrates Cinco De Mayo. Ten major US cities celebrate include the holiday like Denver,Colorado; New York city; and Los Angeles Its is also celebrated in households and classrooms across America to teach students the culture and meaning of Cinco De mayo in a fun and creative way normal by having things like potlucks with Mexican

food and showing videos and the importance of Cinco De Mayo.

Cinco De Mayo is even celebrated by students in our school and around the community it isn’t just for margaritas and going out with the boys.There is actually a historic event behind Cinco De Mayo. Cinco De Mayo is celebrated to honor the victory over France in the battle of Puebla during the Franco Mexican war(1861-1867). Despite having a small band of fighters, the Mexicans were able to defeat the massive French army on may 5th, 1862. A lot of family don’t just take it as a time to party they take it as a chance to educate their children.

Michael Rodriguez a senior at Central Kitsap High School  has mixed feeling on Cinco De Mayo “ My thoughts on Cinco De Mayo are mixed in a way I like it because we still celebrate it even after 150 years but the downside of it is because it is so westernized people don’t even know the actual story behind Cinco De Mayo and just use it as a excuse to get drunk and go out and party.If Hispanics wanna celebrate it then they should but if they don’t wanna I don’t think it should be forced on them. As of right now it’s celebrated a lot even amongst people who aren’t Hispanic.”

With Cinco De mayo becoming more popular more students around the school have a say on the topic. When senior Jose Rivera thinks about Cinco De Mayo he tends to think about the positive in it and not just the side of adults getting drunk. Jose thinks of the gathering of his family and the celebration of his birthday and Cinco De Mayo but his family only thinks it’s fair to put his birthday first.

Rivera told the Cougar Chronicle what it’s like to have a birthday on a holiday “My family is Hispanic and my parents take pride in being Hispanic but since Cinco De Mayo falls on my birthday, we choose to celebrate my birthday first and incorporate a little bit of the holiday into my birthday. They think it would be unfair if we leaned more towards celebrating that then my birthday.”

Nowadays kids who aren’t even Hispanic still wanna show that they support their Hispanics peers and they celebrate Cinco De Mayo. Students show their support inside the classrooms and out with Spanish class they all try to contribute in a way like making salsa and paying attention to the movies the teachers show them.

Senior Logan Field Celebrates outside of school with his family and friends, field told the Cougar Chronicle how he celebrates it. “ On Cinco De Mayo normally either my family or friends go out and get Mexican food at the Azteca or other Mexican restaurants like we may not be Hispanic but we can still celebrate with our Hispanic peers.”

Celebrating Cinco De Mayo it doesn’t matter what race you are to show that you care about the holiday. Just by going out to eat at a Mexican restaurant in Silverdale shows that you can support your Hispanic peers or any Hispanic that takes this holiday seriously without going all out and it who knows you might learn a thing or two.