Why do people think it's weird that I celebrate my Mexican heritage because my Abuela(Grandmother in Spanish) is from Mexico and not me?

Lots of Americans celebrate the culture of their ancestors. Where I live there are often cultural festivals, such as Irish, Italian, Polish, Puerto Rican, Greek, Japanese, etc. The people who try to deny your right to celebrate your cultural heritage are being narrow-minded.

“People” (whoever they are) should be kicked to the curb.

Find new peeps.

Not true at all. One quarter of your genes are Mexican. It’s absolutely part of your heritage. Do you celebrate your other parts as well?

Yeah I celebrate St Patrick’s day by cooking Irish food for dinner.

You can celebrate any percentage of your heritage.

I can’t comment on the psychology behind what you’ve been told, but I can tell you that I think it’s absurd. I’m not 100% anything. Does that mean I don’t have a culture or can’t celebrate any part of my heritage? What nonsense that would be.

It’s the people who “say” you’re weird who are weird. Celebrate yourself and your heritage as you wish and good riddance to them.

Ignore those people. Who cares why they say that to you. It’s clear they are dimwits. Feel free to totally disregard their meddling.

Celebrate whatever you want to! I celebrate Cinco de Mayo and as far as I know I have no Mexican blood in my background. I also celebrate Guy Fawkes day, St. Patricks day, Independence day and Samhain. And if one of my friends is celebrating some other holiday, well, I celebrate that right along with them.

I have no idea why they are telling you that. The only think I can think of is they are trying to make you feel bad and aren’t very nice. Or, I guess it is possible they are just ignorant and don’t have any mal intentions.

You can celebrate whatever part of your heritage you want as others have said, and in America we celebrate each others holidays, we even sort of make up and put our own twist on holidays. Mexicans don’t even celebrate Cinco de Mayo in Mexico (and my MiL is from Puebla where the actual battle that Cinco de Mayo was faught, I think the state of Puebla does have schools closed that day, maybe also people take the day off from work). Many Americans think it is like July 4th, Independence Day, and it isn’t.

Do they really think it is “weird” which is a pretty strong word, or do they simply not understand it because you are two generations removed.

Not sure where you are, but we in Southern California, tend to celebrate every holiday that comes down the pike, whether or not our ancestors were part of that “culture” or whether or not we even know why the holiday exists. We like Cinco de Mayo, Oktoberfest, St. Patrick’s Day, Chinese New Year, Bastille day, etc. It seems completely reasonable to celebrate your own heritage, why wouldn’t you?

@RockerChick14 Celebrate ALL of you. If they think it is weird, tell them do do without one fourth of themselves for a day and see how that works for them. Let them choose a leg or an arm to not use for a whole day. It sounds like any would say this is ‘weird’ might be more comfortable choosing their head as the one fourth they would not use for a day because it sounds like it doesn’t get much use anyway.