While many Americans were celebrating Cinco de Mayo yesterday, I would bet that if you ask most Mexicans about this week’s holiday, they would tell you it’s Mother’s Day.
Mother’s Day is celebrated May 10th here, regardless of what day it is (as opposed to how in the USA Mother’s Day is always celebrated on a Sunday.) It happens to fall on the same day this year as it does in the United States.
But it’s a much bigger deal here than there. It has something to do with Mexicans’ view of motherhood. I read an article in Vivir Mexico last September (El Culto de La Madre), and I posted some of a translation of that article on my family’s blog (Motherhood in Mexico).
Mothers’ Day is practically a national holiday…
To be a bad mother is the worst possible thing in Mexican society. Bad mothers are the villains of every story…
The child who abandons his mother deserves less than the devil himself, especially if the mother is elderly…
So, forget Cinco de Mayo, Mother’s Day is the REAL holiday this week in Mexico.
(Image by: Big Grey Mare on flickr)
