Of course, we’re assimilating into this country – no matter what the nativist-inspired ideologues want to believe about the growing Latino population.
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| Will this become a common sight? |
I couldn’t help but notice a story published in the Michigan-based Jackson Citizen Patriot newspaper. A local resident did such an elaborate job of decorating his front lawn for Halloween that he got written up by the local paper.
BECAUSE HE IS a Mexican-American, he included Day of the Dead imagery in with the more traditional Halloween stuff. Although it really is a mixture of the two. One can’t really tell where one culture ends and the other begins.
Day of the Dead skeletons dressed up like Elvis or Michael Jackson? That’s a cross-cultural mix, if ever I have saw or heard of one. And probably one that everybody can see the humor in – regardless of one’s ethnic origins.
So check out the story for yourself. It is worth a read. And my thanks to “G Thompson,” the reader who originally saw this and thought I might be interested. I was.
Now, I’m going to give myself the day off from publishing here to relax. Fresh commentary will return Monday.
BY THEN, I hope to have recovered from the end of the World Series and the realization that professional baseball for the year is over.
Unless I want to scour around for the next couple of months for box scores of Liga del Pacifico ballgames out of Mexico, or action from any of the other professional leagues in Latin American places that play ball during the winter months.
Maybe, just maybe, the Hermosillo Naranjeros (one of Fernando Valenzuela’s former ballclubs) will have snapped out of their early-season funk that has left then as of Friday with a record of 5-9 and tied for last place in the Mexican Pacific League.
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