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The celebration of the Day of the Dead â which is actually a week of festivities which begin on 28 October and end with a national holiday on 2 November â is an integral part of this embracement of death that is particular to Mexican national identity.
Over the last several years, a growing number of people of Mexican and other Latin American descent have celebrated Day of the Dead throughout the U.S. The Mexican diaspora to the states during the 1990s through the early 2000s largely contributed to that, says Alberto Fierro, executive director at the Mexican Cultural Institute.