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In reply to the discussion: Maybe this is what Bill Maher was talking about ,we have become too politically correct [View all]muriel_volestrangler
(101,295 posts)and cancelled the event. But you criticise that as "taking their ball home". I think you need to be consistent on this - don't say that, and then say "you cannot dictate how you want people to feel". Negotiating would have been telling her to not be offended.
I also think it would help if you stopped assuming there would also be all kinds of things like "Pancho Villa and Zorro/Sgt Garcia costumes", "speedy Gonzalez", "drinking contests to the tune of "La Cucaracha"", "dressing up as border crossers or drug dealers", or "someone in a fake mustache and poncho and sombrero slamming back shots and "Ay-ay-ay-aying"". What we know about is the food and drink. You are stereotyping students, in fact.
I am telling you that comparing a tired stereotype of large moustaches to calling the French cowards is not a reasonable comparison. You could compare it to French styles of hair (stereotype: moustaches again, but not so large).