i just call em Mexican bat mitzvahs.
My band has played for many of the religious services, but we don’t do parties.
We are being colonized.
It’s the celebration of a girl’s 15th birthday and when her second child graduates kindergarten.
Well, Islam marries off the girls at any age, “Hispanic” celebrates this essentially when they bleed with this ceremony.
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.
They get pregnant that night, or the day after.
The age at which the girls become fair game for their uncles and their uncle’s friends.
My wife is from Mexico.
She showed her maturity early by telling her parents to not squander their VERY hard-earned money on a meaningless and fleeting event.
Lavish quincineras beyond the means of the parents are just as stupid as lavish weddings beyond the means of their participants.
Taught many years beginning in 82 in Woodside and Astoria Queens. Many of the Latin girls from all the countries , Peru to Puerto Rico ( yeah, not a country) celebrated. It did have great meaning to most, more so than to the girls who celebrated Sweet 16s. However some got so out of hand in terms of money that a few parishes stopped their participation. No different than the extravagance of many Great Neck Bat Mitvahs.
We heard all about this when DD’s little friend had her quince’ parties. Two because the parents were divorced. At one point DD was going to be one of her friends’ attendants but then the parents changed the venues. One party was in Chicago and the other in Indy, so she was not in the party after all.
DD’s other friends around that age were shocked that DD had bought a pair of high heels. “Does your father know? Should we not say anything?”
Before they have their party the girls are not supposed to wear either make up or heels.
Some parts of Hispanic culture, as far as strong family bonds, remind me of how we used to be.
So, does taking my redheaded niece to Texas Roadhouse tomorrow for her 15th birthday count?
The Miami Cubans were big on this when I lived there in the 70’s.
American Girls mark the Landmark 15th Birthday Event by getting an Abortion.