Mexico got MAS too: Dia De Los Muertos!!!

Señor Gonzales:
When you say that Brazil thinks it is mas, do you say that simply because the Brazilians have brought out a band or a "section" portraying the theme of "Dia De Los Muertos"?

Because if so, and if this Mexican festival is akin to All Saints (Nov 1) and/or All Souls (Nov 2) where the dead are honoured and prayers are said on their behalf, some can certainly (rightly or wrongly) deem this Brazilian portrayal as being politically incorrect. Would you not concur? Not that you or I would take offence, or that, dem Brazilians should apologize and pull dey 'mas'.

Growing up in Trinidad, I was taught to honour and absorb both feasts, and I still do. As I remember, that was the time around which some people would go to the cemeteries (think Lapeyrouse) and "white-wash" the walls/headstones of their cemetery plots and remove all the unwelcome weeds and grass. In other words, this was the time to 'pretty-up' the grave sites. Why they did that? I don't know. It was the custom then, I guess. Your Dead dead. Gone. But not forgotten. Still respected. Simple.

BTW, Señor Gonzales you can't be much older than I am, but do you know, in this context, what 'white-wash' is? If you do know, do you recall the manner in which it was applied then? As per my great uncle, he did it with "a quick lick, a dab, and a promise." You get a mental picture? To me still funny when I think about it.

As an aside, I believe also that's where the term 'white-wash' came from. I'm not sure, but it seems quite plausible. Perhaps the older and MUCH wiser gentleman on these forums could clarify, if not substantiate my idle digression for which I beg your pardon. Nevertheless, I would surely be interested to hear his bit.

Now, from the picture you initially posted, it does not appear that music accompanies this Mexican festival (or mas). Or, ... could it be that there is usually music, but not this year, because the people who supplied the music (musicians nah) weren't paid last year?
If it is the latter, then this is surely bachannal just like our carnival/panorama, and from that perspective Dia De Los Muertos has to be mas dey playing.
Whey yuh say?

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Claude Gonzales October 30, 2016 at 11:10am

Brazil thinks it's MAS: CARNAVAL DE LOS MUERTOS
- Peter deLight > Claude Gonzales October 31, 2016 at 5:01pm
  
  Señor Gonzales:
  When you say that Brazil thinks it is mas, do you say that simply because the Brazilians have brought out a band or a "section" portraying the theme of "Dia De Los Muertos"?
  
  Because if so, and if this Mexican festival is akin to All Saints (Nov 1) and/or All Souls (Nov 2) where the dead are honoured and prayers are said on their behalf, some can certainly (rightly or wrongly) deem this Brazilian portrayal as being politically incorrect. Would you not concur? Not that you or I would take offence, or that, dem Brazilians should apologize and pull dey 'mas'.
  
  Growing up in Trinidad, I was taught to honour and absorb both feasts, and I still do. As I remember, that was the time around which some people would go to the cemeteries (think Lapeyrouse) and "white-wash" the walls/headstones of their cemetery plots and remove all the unwelcome weeds and grass. In other words, this was the time to 'pretty-up' the grave sites. Why they did that? I don't know. It was the custom then, I guess. Your Dead dead. Gone. But not forgotten. Still respected. Simple.
  
  BTW, Señor Gonzales you can't be much older than I am, but do you know, in this context, what 'white-wash' is? If you do know, do you recall the manner in which it was applied then? As per my great uncle, he did it with "a quick lick, a dab, and a promise." You get a mental picture? To me still funny when I think about it.
  
  As an aside, I believe also that's where the term 'white-wash' came from. I'm not sure, but it seems quite plausible. Perhaps the older and MUCH wiser gentleman on these forums could clarify, if not substantiate my idle digression for which I beg your pardon. Nevertheless, I would surely be interested to hear his bit.
  
  Now, from the picture you initially posted, it does not appear that music accompanies this Mexican festival (or mas). Or, ... could it be that there is usually music, but not this year, because the people who supplied the music (musicians nah) weren't paid last year?
  If it is the latter, then this is surely bachannal just like our carnival/panorama, and from that perspective Dia De Los Muertos has to be mas dey playing.
  Whey yuh say?
Glenroy R Joseph October 30, 2016 at 10:31am

I've always thought that "Dia De Los Muertos ", (Day of the dead") was a more colorful , Mexican version of our "La Too-Say" ((La Toussaint -All Saints) and All Souls that we've always observed as Christians in Trinidad , not Carnival....
merrytonestothebone October 30, 2016 at 8:16am

Maybe I should eh?...Yuh know how many died for the sun to rise every day in the time them fellas portraying?...At any rate I'm certain that Dia De Los Muertos is not a baccahanal like our Carnival is...so yes I object to the assumption that is "mas" dey playin...

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