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Originally Posted by PSM
We have some friends that bought property bordering a cemetery in the Palos Verde Peninsula (L.A.) because they thought it would be quiet. Nope. On the weekends families visiting their lost relatives show up with mariachi bands and have fiestas.
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That’s so funny you mention that. Recently I took my family down to South Padre Island for an end of summer getaway. While driving along the US border towards McAllen, I was asking my wife and son what the cultural differences are between Mexican (and Thai) and American cemeteries?
My wife commented that they were more colorful like Thailand. My son didn’t have an opinion which is fair because he hasn’t been to too many American cemeteries but we pass them all the time in big cities and rural towns.
I told them that the Mexicans much like Thai’s pay a lot more respect to their dead and visit often with colorful tributes, song and sometimes dance. Most American cemeteries are full of dead bodies long forgotten by their families after being dumped in the ground and are often dreary places (except veteran cemeteries a few times a year on Memorial Day, Veterans Day and Flag Day if someone bothers to stick flags in the ground.)
American cemeteries are large wastes of space IMO so if the locals want to open them up as “green space” I’d have to support that. Have rules and enforce them, teach people to respect the place and the people who are buried there. Might have a positive effect - who knows?