Haven’t been to Dailymotion in a while? Check out the “Big Mexican Punch Up.” It’s a tradition that dates back to feuding neighbors, but the mayor cautions us that participants, by rule, can’t have been involved in a dispute prior to the event. They don’t want them venting frustration as they punch strangers repeatedly in the head.

It’s an odd Mexican tradition. In America — a civil nation by contrast — we gather with family, toss drunken insults, and call our festival “the holidays.”