What do you think about the heritage months, and do you want a heritage month about your group?

Asked by JLeslie (65448) February 19th, 2022 from iPhone

I really enjoy Black history month. Without much effort I learn so much about people in history and get to see many great films and documentaries. Often Black history month is a double learning about women in history too. Black women I often focus on the person being a woman, like in Hidden Figures what stood out to me most was they were women. Maybe that’s because I’m a white woman and I’m taking some things for granted.

I’m not Black, so I’d be interested if most Black people are happy to have the focus on their group; it seems to me they are; but that could be a bad assumption.

I would guess most Jewish people (I’m Jewish) wouldn’t be so keen on Jewish month, but actually it seems there is one in May. It usually happens without much mention, or I’ve just been very unaware of the mention. When I googled I saw it on some university calendars. I really don’t know how most people feel about it, I’m not exactly sure how I feel about it.

Asian American month is another. Latin American, Native American, to name some more.

The list goes on.

What do you think about it all?

Are all minority groups “equal” in needing to be recognized this way?

Do you think there is some possible backfire effect from these type of months?