Mexicans are not the only ones that have a celebration around death, our latine siblings from the Ecuador have “El día de los difuntos” Day of the Perished the same day, Japanese (Mahayana) Buddhists have the Obon or Bon festival around July or August, and Chinese people have the Qingming festival in April.
However it is the Mexicans’ Día de los Muertos that has more national recognition. Part of that, I believe, is because of our geographical proximity that México has with the United States, and the U.S. (imperial) power that it has around the world. It certainly helped that (Disney) Pixar made a movie around the holiday.
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