As a school teacher Hispanic Month is important it teaches the kids about other cultures it helps them realize that white people didn't invent everything. And believe it or not My students feel proud of themselves during this month. I teach in a kind of back woods town...where people of other ethnic backgrounds are misunderstood..people still make the "ching Chong" jokes at all the Asian kids and when it comes to Latinos people think that they are all here illegally, they think that none of them can speak english...and Latinos are Stereotyped alot...its very sad. I'm not from this town but I do teach there and I'm always trying to get students to welcome and learn from everyone. I want them to know that at the end of the day people are just people we need to love each other. The children are our future and they need things like Hispanic Month, Black History month, Asian American month, and Native American month to help them explore other cultures. Grant it although we have these months we don't do them justice. Example, for Black history month all the kids know is MLK and Tubbman and they still can't tell you too much about them. There are even Adults that don't know that we even have an Asian american month or a Native American month. So as a whole we still have some growing to do.
As for not liking the term Hispanic....I agree with you on that..I honestly don't like the word Black or White either. Have you ever seen anyone the shade of Black or white? I haven't =( I wish there was another word...Some people think that we should just be called American but even that doesn't seem right, because people want to hold on to their cultures. But yea I'm starting to rant now lol...