How Quinceañeras Work

How Stuff Works ^ | October 16, 2017 | Cristen Conger

[2ndDivisionVet]

Three page article.

[ronniesgal]

i just call em Mexican bat mitzvahs.

[2ndDivisionVet]

It’s a good sized industry here in Texas.

[Tax-chick]

My band has played for many of the religious services, but we don’t do parties.

[ronniesgal]

I imagine so in Texas.

[Lurkinanloomin]

We are being colonized.

[2ndDivisionVet]

Better faithful Christians than Muslims, no?

[Blue House Sue]

It’s the celebration of a girl’s 15th birthday and when her second child graduates kindergarten.

[Tax-chick]

Spanish-speaking Americans were in the South and Southwest before English-speaking ones were.

[2ndDivisionVet]

Oh, behave!

[2ndDivisionVet]

Why is that? The chance of violence?

[Reno89519]

Well, Islam marries off the girls at any age, “Hispanic” celebrates this essentially when they bleed with this ceremony.

[HonkyTonkMan]

I think it's a great tradition. Fun time to celebrate with family and friends.

I wish the "how stuff works" webpages would go away. They are typically shallow and do on include details. So tired of these popping up! I routinely avoid these.

[Big Red Badger]

My thoughts Exactly...

When I learned a large percentage of
Patriots at the ALAMO were Spanish,
my attitude changed.

[SamAdams76]

“How Stuff Works” is now basically a clickbait site. I avoid it as well.

[HonkyTonkMan]

You got it! Low info, clickbait, click-through, etc. I rate those sites on par with email spammers.

[Tax-chick]

No, we just don’t have the kind of amplifiers and the instruments it would take. We’re an acoustic band. Families in our church usually get a DJ for their parties. At the higher end of the socioeconomic spectrum, they would get a live dance orchestra.

[discostu]

White people used to do sweet 16s and coming out parties. We stopped, they didn’t. Get over it.

[2ndDivisionVet]

Or a known Quinceañera group, I imagine. We used to shop at the Hispanic Mall in Fort Worth back when we could drive, and much of the advertising there concerned Quinceañeras. There are halls for rent here in D/FW that pretty much only do that.

[Tax-chick]

Real life is always more interesting than two-second slurs toward others.

I have a church friend who is from New Mexico. They consider themselves pure Spanish, and he certainly looks as European as my other friend from Puerto Rico.